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Undergrad What would happen if you brought a deodorant can to 0 Kelvin
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Need help on this question for a project i'm making
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How many equations does a physicist write in his lifetime?
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High School A question about the significance of 3
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High School How does polyphonic singing affect our perception of beat frequency?
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Undergrad Abbreviations with mutliple meanings
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For an event to occur is a location required?
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Undergrad How to move cool air down through a house?
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Undergrad Are there hidden phenomena under the moon that only the naked eye can see?
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News Who was Cecile DeWitt-Morette and what was her impact on physics?
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Graduate Condensed Matter Physics Explained to a Lay Audience
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High School What's the Rule for Possessives in Physics Terms?
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High School How does acoustic levitation use sound waves to make objects float?
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High School What is the Physical Meaning of Multiplication in Physics?
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Graduate How would Cherenkov radiation play into GR, the dolphins' version?
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Cool ball and feather drop experiment
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Undergrad Can a Spectrometer be used to detect material type?
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Undergrad How to Control Basement Humidity Without Warming Air
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High School Is it possible to harvest energy from fluid buoyancy?
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High School What does the levitating frog feel?
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Graduate Measurement and error (error estimation and propagation)
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Undergrad Final year project/ dissertation ideas
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Undergrad How many ticks would an instantaneous clock have in a minute?
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Undergrad Vibrating String: Blue & Red Line Resonance
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Undergrad Why are pollutant emissions measured in g/km?
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Why Did My Window Shatter During Nearby Construction?
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Undergrad What are the limits on resolution of STORM/PALM?
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Undergrad How do standing waves continue propagating?
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High School What Are the Most Accurate Smoke Detectors and How Do They Work?
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Undergrad Modal frequencies of a vibrating circular membrane? (DRUM)
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High School Closed surface bounding a volume V
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Undergrad Transfer of Kinetic Energy Through House Walls?
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High School Radiometric Term: Power Emitted/Vol/Angle
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High School Maximizing Wind Turbine Efficiency: Is Redirecting Wind Worth the Cost?
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Undergrad Physics Undergrad Struggles to Retain Knowledge
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Undergrad Basic discussion about the ionosphere
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Graduate Most misunderstood physics concept
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High School What is a good film that has examples of the Bernoulli Principle
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Undergrad Measuring Wave Speed: Reference Frame Considerations
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Graduate Calculate Third Octave Band Response from Narrowband Data
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What does the capital W stand for?
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High School What is the real life utility of the dot product and cross product
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March For Science, April 22, 2017
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Mom's Guide to Supporting a Physics-Loving Kid
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High School Do We Cross Infinity When Moving from A to B?
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Ask Einstein: What Would You Like to Know?
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Graduate Wooden vs iron sword causing bone fracture
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Undergrad Application of resonance in one end closed pipe in real life
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High School Solving SI Units with ln(n): A High School Puzzler
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What Creates the Giant Whirlpool at Dam Overflows?
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High School Is It Possible to Remove Mass from Matter While Retaining Its Form?
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High School Can %age uncertainty in value ever be greater than 100?
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High School Need a Physics Simulator for Engineering Project?
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Graduate NMR Experiments: Why Do I Need a Broadband Probe Head?
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High School What is the difference between PLC and PCL?
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Undergrad Calculate the Dipole Moment of an object
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High School Do Different Types of Leaves Burn Effectively?
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Undergrad Question about the Scientific process
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High School Doppler effect formula confusion
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How many people can you recognise in this photo?
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Undergrad What are the causes and effects of contrails in the upper Mississippi valley?
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Undergrad How to obtain the resonance frequencies of a given material?
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Undergrad Why incompressible flow does not satisfy energy equation?
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High School Peer Review Process: A Scientific Check and Balance System?
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Undergrad Are We Becoming More Mathematical in Physics?
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Kitchen Counter Moisture Mystery
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High School Air Horn Physics: Calculating Size, Length & More for Musical Chords
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Undergrad Alternatively, if you want a more concise title: What causes bubbles to merge?
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High School Noob with some questions on Modeling Earth
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Undergrad How does relative humidity drop below 100%
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Undergrad Please share your chaotic systems....
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High School The fundamental units in Physics
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Graduate Single molecule fluorescence microscopy and limits
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Undergrad How would weather differ on a planet with a longer day?
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News Ancient particle accelerator discovered on Mars
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High School The Mystery of Natural Violet: How Does Our Brain Perceive This Color?
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News RIP condensed matter theorist Alexei Abrikosov
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Undergrad Why is it that the fundamental harmonic is louder than rest?
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Undergrad How are these symbols pronounced ?
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Graduate Measuring Air Leakage: Test for Watertight Seal
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Are You Ready to Witness Declassified Nuclear Bomb Tests on YouTube?
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High School Related to - Thermionic emission
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Undergrad Similarities / diffs between diffusion & wave propagation
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Graduate Is the scientific method in physics substantially different?
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High School Physics Nobel Prize Info-Graphic
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High School Hearing/Seeing Waves: Communicating Without Sight
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Graduate Oh, I'm finally getting the crackpot thing
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Graduate Is there a semipermeable membrane for oxygen enrichment?
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Graduate Reducing Gaussian Noise in Antenna Impedance Measurements
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Undergrad Why are fractions sometimes written as such: (A/B)/C?
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Graduate Huge and complex experiments -- validity
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Undergrad Does amplitude require spatial or temporal parameters?
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Undergrad How to protect liquid filled pods from leaking on a plane
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Undergrad Energy consumption for n times x/n mass function?
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High School Has anyone ever studied the physics of DNA
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Graduate The mouse and the cherry blossom, not random change
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Gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever dies
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High School What Does ± 5° Scatter from a Straight Line Mean in Graph Analysis?
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High School Comparing Calculated Models to Real-Life Situations
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High School How does charging and depleting a battery makes it last longer?
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