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What Causes the Color Shifts and Spherical Aberration in Eyeglasses?
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Stopping a Flywheel: Calculating Time and Torque | 10ft, 20000lbs, 2rpm - dpjkw
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A new point of view on freezing point.
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Can Airfoils Attached to a Bike Create Enough Lift for Flight?
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How Do You Calculate Downforce of an Upwards Curved Spoiler?
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How Are Atoms Compressed in Black Holes?
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Superluminal transfer of information via gravity
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What is Touching: Examining the Microscopic Level
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Air vibrating in a cylindrical cavity
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What Is the General Equation of a Parabola and Its Derivation?
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Why Does the Gravity Field Exist?
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How Can Energy Be Turned Into Matter?
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The Mystery of Anti-Matter at Fermi Lab
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Understand Velocity & Acceleration: Questions Answered
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What is the formula for calculating radiant intensity from an LED onto a body?
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Continuity Equation - Why do the flow rates have to be equal?
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Can Photons and Inertial Mass Unlock Time Travel Possibilities?
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Can a hilly out and back course be faster than a flat course
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Simple Atwood apparatus question
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Something about a fly and a train though experiment
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What Causes Fast Winds in Hurricanes?
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What is the fact of constant of proportionality?
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Parker 61 Fountain Pen: Understand Its Capillary Action
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How do I make a saturated vapor vessel?
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Does the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Lead to a Steady State or Oscillations?
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Is There a Way to Convert Mass into Charge?
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Gravitational pull at the center of the Earth
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Experimenting with Magnet Drop: Feasibility of Using PVC vs. Iron Tube
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Color of Clouds: Dark Pink at Night, White in Morning?
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If someone says something about a fourth-order approximation, does that mean ?
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Interesting comment about medical research vs. physics research
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My Theory of Gravity: Mass Causes Time Dilation & Attraction
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Material for a high transmittance Prism and where to Buy
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What does it mean to say that two things are coupled or not decoupled ?
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Longitude and Latitude angle at 12M
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Wolf Chasing Chicken: Brain Teaser Puzzle Analysis
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Convert km/s to kpc/Gyr: 0.964275 Factor?
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Increase FOV of Camera: Simple Tips & Tricks
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[Ray Tracing] Wavefronts & Reception Sphere
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Mad About Physics: Examining Braintwister No. 90 - The Three Hole Can
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Calculating Flow Separation Point
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Conceptual problem with gravity
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Klystrons which are used as amplifiers
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Do Car Crash Velocities Really Add Together in a Collision?
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Noises from MRI Imaging: Sources Explained
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Explaining E=M C^2 to 14 year olds ?
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Is the Otto Cycle Reversible with Ideal Gas Assumptions?
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Question on calculating load on tidal movement
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How does increasing voltage lower current in a transformer?
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Gravitational Force: Why Don't Planets Collide?”
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Antenna Gain: Dependence on Ray Direction?
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What is Mersenne's Law and its connection to Pythagoras?
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Incredible Power of Oil: Stick Diamonds to Windows!
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How can I determine the necessary magnetic force to accelerate a metal bar?
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Uncovering the Truth: Is Wind Energy Really Free or Does it Have Hidden Costs?
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Calculating Force from Constant Velocity Collision
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Can Circuit Component Order Affect Electrical Outcomes?
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Why is force so confusing?Is Force Really That Confusing?
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How Does Earth's Curvature Affect the Ratio of Gravity?
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Understanding Ansatz in Quantum Mechanics: Types and Applications
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Why Does Wind Make a Cold Day Feel Even Colder?
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What Defines East & West if Earth Stops Rotating?
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Finding energy of gamma ray with spectoscopy
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Energy and Matter and Everything else
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Time as Dimension: Before & After Einstein's G.T.R.
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Throwing the Ball on the Moon: Forcing the Confusion
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Is this a reliable way to determine the alcohol %?
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How Do Moments and Lines of Action Relate to Equilibrium?
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Is Gravity Truly a 3D Phenomenon?
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How Do Newton's Laws Explain the Impact of Bird Strikes on Aircraft?
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Graphing Problem: Rearrange to a Straight Line Graph
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Why Does Paper Stick to Hot Bowls?
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What is the angle liquid will pour out of a glass?
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Home-Made Energy: Exercise Bike for TV?
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Questions about deriving the naviers stokes equations
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Highest Resolution Modern Microscope - Info & Resources
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What Causes Fire to Produce Heat and Light?
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Is flame matter or energy?
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Can Negating Inertia Grant Special Abilities?
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Is Sixty Symbols Effective for Physics Outreach?
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Man on a Raft: Analyzing the Movement on a Frictionless Surface
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How Do You Convert Mmscmd to Mmbtu?
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What is the potential for using a conductive flame in audio technology?
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How to write uncertainities on different measurement
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Formula and Methodology Request re: Shannon, Thorp et al.
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EM Shielding Dilemma: Understanding Transverse Wavelengths
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Helium Inhalation: Mythbusters Video Explained
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Radio Waves: What Can & Can't They Pass Through?
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Absolute Zero and Absolute Accuracy
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A simple practical answer needed
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Measuring Force Exerted by Dropped Objects on a Surface
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Calculating Fluid Density: Beyond the Formula
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Does Gravitational Force Decrease When Used to Move a Mass?
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What do Rayleigh and Nusselt numbers tell us about heat transfer?
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How does a dose rate meter determine dose with only a GM tool?
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How do you find the degree of freedom for energy
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