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Undergrad Mechanism of Energy Conservation in Zero-Amplitude Sum of EM Waveforms
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light the same everywhere in the Universe?
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Undergrad Ramjet effect on drone
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Undergrad Bilateral and unilateral constraints
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Undergrad Linear generator prototype
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Undergrad Are There Two Suns? Exploring the Phenomenon of Sun Dogs
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Undergrad Raman Spectroscopy help
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Undergrad The Physics of unloading sand from a barge
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Undergrad I need to simulate clothing meshes for hanging garments
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Undergrad How can quantum physics contribute to medical physics?
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Undergrad "Best" software for emotor simulation?
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Undergrad 'Set of pearls' mathematics / physics help
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Undergrad Why are we looking for a graviton?
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Undergrad Why wouldn't two inductors provide a lag of 180 degrees?
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Undergrad Meaning of average pressure in statistical mechanics
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Undergrad Solving for Orbital Mechanics
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Undergrad Electric field in two dimensions in an electromagnetic wave
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Undergrad How can magnetic fields contain energy?
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Undergrad Units analysis for this phase shift problem using a differential equation
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Undergrad Fresnel Zone Equation Problem
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Undergrad Do curl/time dependent Maxwell's equations imply divergence equations?
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Undergrad What can be used as a Frequency generator to make Chladni patterns?
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Undergrad How Can I Build a DIY High Vacuum System Using Copper Instead of Glass?
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Undergrad Landau golden list
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Undergrad Why not use dichroic filters in modern solid state cameras?
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Undergrad Using primary color light filters
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Undergrad The "problem" of Induction and conservation laws
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Undergrad How did the theory of quantum gravity begin?
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Undergrad What affects light near black holes and stars?
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Undergrad Cloud seeding and firefighting
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Undergrad Questions About Reciprocal Lattice Edge Length
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Undergrad AI Predicting Physics Research Results
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Undergrad Airflow through an air extraction grill
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Undergrad Phase Transition in a Pure Water System
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Undergrad Should the Unit of Momentum Be Named After Emmy Noether?
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Undergrad CP violation, Tunnelling effect, and Cherenkov radiation
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Undergrad Does the use of microwave communication heat water particles?
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Undergrad Universal Gravity without Shell Theorem
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Undergrad Volume of momentum space of an ideal gas
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Undergrad Besides magnetic monopoles, what else doesn’t exist?
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Undergrad Vibration in jack: up and down movement
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Undergrad Is Geometrical Optics Essential for a Deeper Understanding of Light?
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Undergrad Why does my ceiling glow in the dark?
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Undergrad What Materials Can Shield Electronics from a 3-Tesla MRI Magnetic Field?
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Undergrad Hysteresis of a Compressed Solid
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Undergrad Magnetic Resonance physics question: RF pulse role and 'in-phase'
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Undergrad Popular future physics beliefs that are completely wrong?
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Undergrad Decorrelation steps in Wolff algorithm
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Undergrad Pressure builds on its own inside this water tank?
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Undergrad Fiction Writer with question for research physicists - Looking for opinions and experiences with peer-reviewed publishing
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Undergrad Need to identify a physicist from a documentary on TV some years ago
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Undergrad Stable solutions to simplified 2- and 3-body problems?
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Undergrad Why can't we photograph magnetic lines of force emitted by planetary and beyond objects (like we can for the Sun)?
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Undergrad Can anyone tell me what these formulas in electromagnetism are called?
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Undergrad How can concentration gradient field come into existence immediately?
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Undergrad Increasing tone while mixing sugar in water
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Undergrad Gravitational analog of electromagnetic force
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Undergrad Does Organic Matter Experience Gravity on the Moon?
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Undergrad Researchers find experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle
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Undergrad How to Calculate electron temperature of Arc Plasma?
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Undergrad Discussion about least squares method
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Undergrad Replacing the Measurement standards (SI units)
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Undergrad What drives osmosis? (Statistics or Dynamics?)
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Undergrad Planck's Constant times the speed of light
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Undergrad Density fluctuations and the color of the sky
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Undergrad Any alternatives to Tracker from physlets?
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Undergrad Why was a HAM radio license required to operate early lasers?
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Undergrad NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth
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Undergrad Biot Savart law gives us magnetic field strength or magnetic flux density?
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Undergrad Why charge density of moving dipole is dependent on time?
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Undergrad What Causes the Einstein - de Haas Effect in Iron Rods?
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Undergrad Effects of the centre of gravity on aircraft's stability
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Undergrad Understanding Ewald's sphere in the context of X-Ray diffraction
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Undergrad How long would a tuning fork vibrate in vacuum?
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Undergrad Gravitation In Higher Dimensions
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Undergrad Single-Slit Diffraction -- Deriving the relation for the minima
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Undergrad Is "scalar wave" a legitimate term?
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Undergrad What happens when an explosion occurs on the surface of the moon?
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Undergrad Why is not possible to store electric energy from a Lightning?
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Undergrad Superconductivity energy saved v Cooling/Heating energy loss
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Undergrad Maxwell's equations and the momentum of charge
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Undergrad Would aluminium foil increase copper tubing insulation?
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Undergrad Lost Energy from a Reciprocating Piston
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Undergrad What is the Uncertainty in the Total Weight of a Collection of Similar Items?
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Undergrad Confused about unit conversion involving natural units
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Undergrad How to calculate incident light on surface with multiple orientations?
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Undergrad A question with regard to Hooke's and Kepler's laws
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Undergrad Coherent two-photon lidar...does this mean lidar range is greater?
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Undergrad Integrity of matter / space and time
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Undergrad Data collected from different devices: how to combine for analysis?
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Undergrad How Do ICBMs Accurately Reach Their Targets?
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Undergrad Making LED bulbs safer: Health and LEDs
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Undergrad Trying to understand the inner workings of a solar cell
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Undergrad Radiant Intensity from Radiant Power and Intensity Distribution
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Undergrad What can we scientifically measure directly?
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Undergrad How Does Linkage Motion Affect Rotation and Yaw in 3D Space?
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Undergrad Restoring S.I. units to a Lagrangian in natural units
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Undergrad De Broglie Wavelength at rest: λ = h/p = h/0 when v=0?
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