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Undergrad Wind Turbine Noise Dependence on Temperature & Pressure
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Undergrad Basic physics understanding. Could someone explain?
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Undergrad I understanding the Fourier components of a square wave
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Undergrad Find a link between physics and assignment problems
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Undergrad Sphygmomonometers energy storage?
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High School What is the Mole? Answers Here
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Undergrad What Are the Uses of RC Filters in Advanced Circuits?
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Undergrad Longitudinal Wave Equation meaning and derivation
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High School Rope Climbing Device: Design, Speed & Overall Tips
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Graduate Modal energy distribution in closed pipe resonance
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Graduate Wave equation for a standing wave - clarification needed
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Undergrad Trying to understand granular physics (includes fluid physics)
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Undergrad Guitar oscillations? How do they look?
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Undergrad Are the Frequencies of a Plucked String and the Corresponding Sound Wave Equal?
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High School Is a Car's Speed of 110km/h Accurate to 3 or 4 Significant Figures?
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Graduate Standing waves - Wave Equation
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Undergrad Harmonic Plane Wave: Form & Explanation
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High School Help solving the vibrating pole mystery.
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Graduate Equation - Wave Equation Derivation Question
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Undergrad Is gravity strongest in center?
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Undergrad What are the potential uses for ferrofluids in interactive museum displays?
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Undergrad Equal probability principle
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Graduate Dispersion Relation: Beads and String
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High School Science Fair Ideas - High School Level Ideas Needed
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Undergrad Where to find sample fluid stirring data?
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Graduate 2D Doppler Shift / Relative Velocities
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Graduate Oxygen Flow Through a Concentration Gradient
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Undergrad How to find the phase shift and amplitude ratio
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Oliver Sacks & pushing the shuttle off course
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Undergrad A Few Questions about Resonance
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Undergrad Purpose of natural log in gibbs free energy equation
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Graduate Studying Longitudinal Oscillations of a Stick
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Undergrad What do you know about ion thrusters?
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Graduate What is the correct way to calculate streamlines of a vector field
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Undergrad Can someone verify a computational result for me?
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Undergrad Vacuum chamber for filling bee comb
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Graduate Transverse Wave equation for a string of changing length?
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Undergrad Classical spin system. Ising model.
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Undergrad Hookah Principles: Understand the Math Behind it
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High School Downloadable incandescent spectrum
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High School Why does air density decrease as we go higher in altitude?
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High School What sort of experiments can be doen with Graphite ?
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Undergrad What is a simple rule of thumb for determining beat patterns of multiple waves?
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Undergrad Contact angle of liquid drop on solid surface.
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Undergrad Chemitrails/Contrail and factors
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Undergrad Understanding the Phase Constant in y(x,t) Equation
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Undergrad Why does Neon gas sometimes glow brilliant white ?
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High School Can metal skewers help bake the perfect cake?
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Undergrad What is the significance of phase constant in the wave equation?
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Undergrad Desciribing intensity of human scream?
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Undergrad Questions About Motorcycle Speed, Short Circuit & Resistance
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High School Need help on basic fluid volume calculation
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Undergrad Conductivity of metals at 0 kelvin?
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High School Is the US Prepared for an EMP Attack?
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High School What is the volume of these round pipes?
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Graduate Solving the 3-Body Problem: Resources for Learning
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Undergrad What is the equation for a transverse wave with periodic boundary conditions?
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Graduate Are There Real-World Examples of Asymptotically Stable Nodes?
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Graduate How is earth resonance,EM stationary wave and ELF related to transmit energy?
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Undergrad Is g affected by other sources of gravity?
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Undergrad Finding the air cavity resonance of a propane tank for a drum.
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Undergrad Simple sinusoidal wave can't convey information?
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Graduate Standing waves on arbitrary membrane
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Graduate Why the core spin faster than the manlte
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High School If everything has energy Which thing can be an energy source?
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Undergrad Open End of Tube: Resonance & Antinodes/Nodes
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High School Why do physics exist? objects interacting ect?
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Which Is Correct: Equilibrant or Equilibriant?
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High School Can Quartz Crystals Convert Heat to AC Electricity?
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High School Why Do Elements Behave Differently as Gas or Liquid?”
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Resonance in action: Russian Bridge
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Undergrad Zero gravitation is it possible
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Graduate What is a space/spatail harmonic?
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Undergrad Confused about definition of wavelength
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Undergrad The meaning of vector/cross product
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Graduate Boundary condition problem for diffusion equation
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Undergrad Is Energy Scalar or Vector, and How Does Dimensionality Affect It?
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High School Why Do We Experience Two Tides on Earth Simultaneously?
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Graduate Gravitational Constant Measurement ?
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High School What is s for length derived from?
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Graduate The Rayleigh-Plesset Equation for Sonoluminescence
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Undergrad Reduced Mass: Origin & Significance
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Graduate What are the equations for whistling in a convoluted tube?
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High School What happens to cohesive forces when things break?
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High School Gyroscope Principles: Explaining How it Works Without Math
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Undergrad Losing the Units: Explaining Why Exponentials are Dimensionless
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram for Pure Methanol?
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High School Solve SAT Physics Test: Problem-Solving Help
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High School Understanding the Significance of 0.0 and 0.0000 in Numbers - Expert Advice
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Graduate Markov property and chemical oscillators
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Undergrad Plastics to tolerate -300F for liquid nitrogen generation
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High School Ion Thrusters - How much do they cost?
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Undergrad Algae producing oxygen in diving cylinder?
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Undergrad Understanding the Significance of the Linear Wave Equation in Wave Mechanics
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Undergrad What does the Centroid of area under Rate vs Time plot represent?
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Undergrad Fluid Flow Questions: Gas Flow Direction
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Undergrad How was a unit of energy first defined?
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Download Physics Symbols & Fonts: Free Resources
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Graduate A quick poll on a semantic matter
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Graduate Noise term η(t) in Langevin equation
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