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Graduate Understanding Negative Energy in Earth-Satellite Systems

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Undergrad Are Oblique Coordinate Systems More Useful Than Orthogonal Systems in 2-D Space?

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High School Why Does Ice Float in Water at 9°C?

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High School How can I calibrate my Ohaus cent-o-gram model 311 balance scale?

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Graduate Fair and unfair N-sided dice in principle.

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Undergrad Is the Conservation of Energy a Law or a Fact?

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Graduate Drawing a gravitational field inside a planet

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Graduate Where Do Sections 3.45 and 3.46 in Goldstein's 3rd Edition Originate?

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Graduate What is the physical difference between compression waves and longitud

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Graduate Why this solution to the 3D periodic Navier-Stokes?

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High School Why are ice cubes not really cubes, but trapezes?

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Graduate Vortices, Resonators, and Foam sleeving

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Undergrad Is there an algorithmic way of drawing phase portraits by hand?

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Graduate Complex Fourier series of sin (t)

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Graduate Solving 1D wave equation for a flag (not attatched at both ends)

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Graduate Predict timbre from First Principles?

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Undergrad Fourier Transform of this function

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Graduate Can we write icap-jcap=pi/2 ? why or why not?

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Undergrad Is a Sine Wave Defined by Its Physical Shape or Graph Representation?

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Undergrad Doppler Shift as Function of MUSIC

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Fictitious forces in classical mechanics

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High School Lower energy level more stable why?

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Undergrad Constraint-prof V balakrishnan video

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Undergrad What are the Recommended Texts for Understanding Kepler's Laws?

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Graduate How Much Mechanical Stress Can an Antimatter Drive's Loop Handle?

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Graduate Choosing hue for colormap with linear perceived luminance

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Undergrad Normal modes of a string thought experiment

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High School Name of the formula phi cos²θ + phi sin²θ

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High School Roughly, how many kg of fuel do we need to get x lbs into space?

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High School What is the meaning of interaction in science?

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Undergrad Why does resistance change in fluid flow from laminar to turbulent conditions?

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Graduate Why can k in the Delta Function equation be both positive and negative?

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Graduate What do you think of the terms used in this article?

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High School Doppler Effect: Speed Relative to Ground, Source, or Listener?

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High School Finding north with copper wire

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Graduate Functions dependent on a greater number of parameters

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Undergrad Relative to What? An Energy Conundrum

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Undergrad What is the relationship between intensity and amplitude in a wave source?

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Graduate How does radius of point spread function affect reconstruction errors?

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Undergrad Do batting gloves reduce slipping and energy loss when hitting?

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Undergrad How does a two open ended pipe resonate?

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Undergrad Relationships between frequency, amplitude and acceleration

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High School How can 2 signals go thru copper wire?

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Undergrad Time for gas to flow from pressurized chamber to vacuum

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Graduate Why is V=fl a dispersion relationship ?

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Undergrad What Causes Conductive Film on the Surface of Glass?

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High School What psi can be achieved from a 60mph wind

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Graduate Unity hypotenuse model with worldline and Pythagorean treatment

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Graduate How does the Eötvös experiment achieve such high precision

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Sensitive barometer indicating altitude

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Graduate On the nature of vacuum and questions thereof

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Undergrad Explanation of the discrete fourier transform

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Undergrad Why Do Bounded Mediums Have Specific Eigenfrequencies?

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Graduate Tracing seismic rays - possible intersection

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Undergrad Why does perspective skew some lines and not others?

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Undergrad How does air temperature affect wind turbine noise levels?

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Undergrad Basic physics understanding. Could someone explain?

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Undergrad Why does summing three Fourier components not equal the square wave amplitude?

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Undergrad Assignment problem applications in physics or chemistry

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Undergrad Sphygmomonometers energy storage?

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High School Why is one mole of oxygen 16 grams and how does Avogadro's number fit in?

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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 Designing a rope-climbing robot for a 2-meter climb

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Graduate Modal energy distribution in closed pipe resonance

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Graduate Standing wave equation phase shift and boundary conditions

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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 How many significant figures in 110 km/h?

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Graduate Standing waves - Wave Equation

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Undergrad Why does a harmonic plane wave have that mathematical form?

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High School Pole vibrations without obvious wind or external cause

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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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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 Mathematical model for hookah air flow

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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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