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Undergrad How to calculate the calories burnt during walking
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Undergrad How are physics theories discovered?
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Undergrad The Normal Distribution - Random Errors
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Undergrad What causes alternator waveform shape?
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Undergrad How do initial conditions affect the symmetry of wave equations?
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Undergrad Center of Mass of Quarter-Circle Wire
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Undergrad How many 400KB files will fit on 1mm^2 surface of hard drive
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Undergrad General Question about Dissipation of Energy
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Undergrad How does a physicist view mental phenomenons?
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Undergrad How to do the Dark Frame Subtraction? (camera imaging)
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Undergrad Inhibit repulsion between two like poles
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Undergrad Trust me I'm a Photographer -- I have a question
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Undergrad Do laws of physics apply below the event horizon?
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Undergrad Are There Other Massless Objects Besides Gluons and Photons?
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Undergrad Buoyant Force and what densities to consider?
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Undergrad Switchable glass question (from transparent to a pure white)
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Undergrad EPQ Project: Build a Slingshot for 780g Projectile 100m Range
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Undergrad Help Understanding Energy in General
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Undergrad Instrument Line Function of a Spectrometer
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Undergrad Energy: What is it? Can Objects Be Made of It?
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Undergrad What is the Direct Solution of the Wave Equation?
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Undergrad The Trade-Off Between Simplicity and Intuition in Scientific Theories
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Undergrad Understanding the Amplitude of sin2x
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Undergrad How Does Temperature Affect the Drying Speed of Dishes?
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Undergrad Why not find mass increase in a simple way?
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Undergrad Creating a way to protect a peep inside a vacuum chamber for a demonstration
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Undergrad Mass Flow Rate Problem: Easy Unite Conversion Tricks
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Undergrad Q: What Subscript Should I Use for Physics Quantity?
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Undergrad Is the Indicatrix a Volume Chart or an Ellipsoid for Crystal Optical Properties?
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Undergrad Force required to indent a volume of material
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Undergrad Odd use of terms (“stationary stochastic process”., etc.)
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Vertical Displacement from Experimental Data with Noise?
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Undergrad Most fundamental quantity in physics
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Undergrad Is It Safe to Connect Batteries in Parallel?
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Undergrad Ideal Gas Equation: Pressure not Proportional to Moles
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Undergrad Steam punk, Field of view including the eye
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Undergrad Can Temperature Changes Alter Humidity in a Completely Filled Closed System?
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Undergrad Spinning a penny is not a 50/50 chance event (but flipping it still is....)
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Undergrad Determining the total energy released by a compost pile
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Undergrad Simple suction air filter: items and preventing implosion
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Undergrad Determining the energy released by a flame
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Undergrad Derivation of the Fokker-Planck Equation by Continuity
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Undergrad Two sheets of glass stick together. Why?
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Undergrad Been out of the loop -- Progress on Unifying Equation?
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Undergrad Rocket-Powered Dragsters: Faster than Wheel-Driven?
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Undergrad Most Ridiculous Papers You've Ever Read
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Undergrad What caused a rainbow near the setting sun?
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Undergrad Physics of Heat Transfer in Glass Windows
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Undergrad Solve Boom Crane Position with Lagrangian Equation | Wind Loading Included
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Undergrad Where do we use infinity in physics, and why?
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Undergrad Air flow from atmosphere into a tank
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Undergrad Origin Point in Chaotic Motion: Conventional vs Relative
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Undergrad Partition Function and Degeneracy
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Undergrad Applying physics to economics/finance
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Undergrad Is Hot Ice Possible Under High Pressure?
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Undergrad Remembering Lenz's Law: An Easier Way?
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Undergrad Viscosity, two immicible phase flow, wettabilility
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Undergrad Antimatter opposite parity to its matter partner?
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Undergrad What would the world be like if c→∞ and h=0?
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Undergrad Question on convention - R vs r using universal law of grav.
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Undergrad What will happen in this case -- 2 chambers connected by a tube....
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Undergrad The manufacture of ionization smoke detectors
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Undergrad Calculate force needed to move an object during a turn
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Undergrad As close as possible, without touching
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Undergrad Units of Amplitude & Frequency in Coding (n=0 to 52920)
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Undergrad What Blower Specifications Are Needed for an Effective Linear Air Track?
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Undergrad Who first developed the Rossby number and how was it derived?
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Undergrad How Do Osmotic Membranes Function and Prevent Solute Leakage?
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Undergrad Find CM of a Rod w/ Length & Mass Attached | 3L/4
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Undergrad Black Hole Formation: Fermion Pressure & Neutron Stars
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Undergrad Mastering Simple and Physical Pendulum Motion with Newton's Laws and Hooke's Law
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Undergrad Surface roughness and Magnus force of a cylinder
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Undergrad How Does Gravity Affect Swimming?
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Undergrad Meaning of "c number equations"?
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Undergrad Standing wave in cylindar vs cone
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Undergrad Who wrote the law: Wc = - delta U ?
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Undergrad Why Are There Only Three Basic Units in Physics?
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Undergrad Correlation functions and correlation length
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Undergrad Fundamental Forces: Electromagnetic, Gravity, Strong & Weak Interactions
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Undergrad What happens if the angle < Brewster's angle?
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Undergrad Where to Buy Meta Materials for Scientific Research?
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Undergrad How Has Mathematics Predicted Major Scientific Discoveries?
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Undergrad Why Does an RL Circuit Use a Negative Sign in the Inductor Term?
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Undergrad Uncertainty Principle: Energy of Unstable Particle?
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Undergrad Explaining Music Notes Consonance with Wave Functions
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Undergrad Angle of repose - Trying to understand the formula
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Undergrad EMFs, what energy comes off items? How to explain?
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Undergrad Calculating LED Efficiency with Radiant Power and Temperature
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Undergrad Is the Dot Product of Unit Vectors Related to Magnitudes and Angle Between Them?
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Undergrad About comparison to experimental reference values
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Undergrad Can viewing distance be used to measure eye strain?
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Undergrad What is the standard unit of mass and why is it defined in terms of an artifact?
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Undergrad The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
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Undergrad Is the Drake Equation a Reliable Tool for Estimating Extraterrestrial Life?
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Undergrad Help please -- Seeking clear definition of fundamental terms
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Undergrad The ##1s^2## configuration of helium can't be triplet state?
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Undergrad Is Artificial Gravity Created on the ISS Due to Tidal Locking?
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Undergrad Contact Patch and Friction: The Impact on Stopping Distance
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Undergrad Measuring advancing contact angle
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