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Understanding Forces: Bird Wings, Air Displacement, and Conservation of Momentum
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Finding the recoil energy of an excited atom when it de-excites
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The forces exerted upon surface areas
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What Are the Key Historical Milestones of the Harmonic Oscillator?
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The Absurdity of 1 Mol as an SI Unit - What's the Real Explanation?
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Plotting Force-Area Graphs: Answers Unveiled
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Calculating Horse Power of Water in Hose
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Understanding the Joule: Defining and Applying Energy in Physics
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How would a beamed core antimatter drive appear from Earth?
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Mass-energy equivalence where's the arbitrary constant?
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What actually happens when two masses touch each other?
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The Paradox of Torque Along the Y-Axis for a Gyrocompass
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Can time be a function in any parameter?
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Diffusion Constant: Increase/Decrease in Time & Length?
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Schottky diodes and the Shockley-Haynes experiment
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Inverse-Square Law: Isotropic vs Anisotropic Radiation
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Decibel Question: How Many dB with 3 Identical Fans?
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What can be done with bigger diamonds?
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Understanding why an angle is the same as another one?
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Thought experiment: The 'perfect eye' (and a finite set of colours)
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How Can We Accurately Predict the Moon's Position Despite Quantum Uncertainty?
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Does the Prism Effect Influence the Color of Sunsets?
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View from the Earth-Moon L5 point?
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Understanding Centripital Force for New Physics Learners
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How Does Kinetic Energy Affect Body Armor Performance?
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Can a 17-Year-Old Pioneer Cold Fusion Breakthroughs?
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What is a Second? - Definition & Explanation
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Can an egg be balanced on its end?
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Objects Moving Apart Under Gravity?
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How much energy do i produce with my dynamo while cycling ?
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Build a Glider for Physics Project
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Viper vs Veyron: 0-200 mph Race Analysis
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Po-210 in cigarettes, is it dangerous?
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Spectral Content of Plane Wave Train
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Do Objects Ever Truly Stop Moving?
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How Does Mass Relate to Time in Physics?
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Green Planet (My project for energy)
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How do you calculate the buoyancy force of a cuboid submerged in water?
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Can Bicycle Pedal Forces Be Modeled by a Sine Function?
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Is Microwave-Based Jet Propulsion Viable for Marine Vehicles?
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Why is the amplitude maximum at the open end of a closed and open end tube?
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Transverse Wave Polarization States - Ask a Question
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After watching a terrifying documentaryQuestions
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Analyzing E=MC2: What Does Energy Have to Do with Distance?
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How does work relate to energy in physics?
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How could vary the Helium emission spectrum?
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Universal constants changing into new ones?
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When does the formula for radioactive decay become invalid?
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Why does a black body never turn green when heated?
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How Much Power to Generate 400,000 Gauss EMF?
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Is Infinite Energy Achievable Through Infinite Regress?
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Tide in an enormous hypothetical canal
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Setting Up Basic Circuits with a Multimeter
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Why Does Pi Appear in Various Mathematical Solutions?
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Table of all physics integrations
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Static n-Body Problem: Definition and Explanation
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Is E Proportional to 1/r for a Ring and Central Electrode Setup?
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Question about rf signals(yes i think this does relate to physics)
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Does the Klein-Gordon Lagrange Density Determine the Solution of the Equation?
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How a Good Conductor is always a good Conductor
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A fast fly hits a train and then ?
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N-Body - Moon won't stay in orbit
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Communication with no time boundaries?
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Entropy & Time Reversal Symmetry: Breaking Symmetry?
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What kind of physics game can I make for a software competition in Visual Basic?
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How does sound localization vary with distance and frequency?
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What's the difference between gamma rays and x rays?
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How to deal with slowly varying errors?
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Is Reynold's number really matter?
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Radioactivity: Alpha, Beta & Gamma Radiation Effects
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Is the Anti-Gravity Propulsion System in the Video Legit?
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Beer + Liquid Nitrogen: Why Does It Foam & Popcorn?
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Can Powerful Magnets Pull an Electron Apart?
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External gravity field independent of mass distribution?
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Reverse Gravity: Is It Possible?
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What's a good beginner's Physics book
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Juggling Across a Bridge: Will It Work?
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Physics riddle (relocate if necessary)
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Organ Pipe Research: Is 16ft Open-Top Flue Open at Bottom?
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How Does a Grenade's Shockwave Cause Fatal Injuries?
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Can something have negative acceleration and still move faster?
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How do you explain thein laymen words (i.e. in the unit N.s)?
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Finding Buoyant Force of Air: Calculating Volume Displaced
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Is the 'Equal Transit' Theory Really True? A Closer Look at Airplane Flight
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Time to Vacuum Fill a Rigid Building
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What Is the Definition of Net Force?
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Internal energy does or does not depend on volume of molecules?
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Can Time, Mass, and Matter Exist Separately?
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Question related to fill in boundary conditions in comsol
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Bicycle Dynamo Light Circuit: Understanding the Wiring and Functionality
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Does a Tuning Fork Sound Different in Helium?
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Use of σ in quoting measurement accuracy
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Affect of gravity instant or not?
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Difference between differentiation and partial differentiation
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Atomic Separation: Is It Possible?
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Comments on Double Slit Experiment for Accurately measuring distances?
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Explaining the Bubble Ring Phenomenon
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What is Quench Management for Magnetism?
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Science education video's at Youtube
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Why do objects follow curved paths in spacetime without the presence of gravity?
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