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Undergrad Bilateral and unilateral constraints
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High School Fusion breakthrough using 3-D magnetic coils
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Undergrad Linear generator prototype
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High School Is Gravity an entropic property like Surface Tension
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High School Is there a white hole inside every black hole?
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Undergrad Are There Two Suns? Exploring the Phenomenon of Sun Dogs
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High School Does a Probabilistic Multiverse Invalidate the Value of Scientific Inquiry?
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High School Why Does Titan Have an Atmosphere While Other Large Moons Don't?
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Undergrad The Physics of unloading sand from a barge
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High School Why can't Solar panels be hemispherical, or a curved strip type?
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High School A Time Crystal Visible to the Human Eye
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Undergrad How can quantum physics contribute to medical physics?
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High School Conservation of kinetic energy in expanding space
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Undergrad Why are we looking for a graviton?
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Undergrad Meaning of average pressure in statistical mechanics
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Undergrad Electric field in two dimensions in an electromagnetic wave
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High School Help with refraction of light
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Undergrad How can magnetic fields contain energy?
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Undergrad Phase Transition in a Pure Water System
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Undergrad Does the use of microwave communication heat water particles?
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Graduate Frequency Domain and pixel size
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