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Undergrad Parts per million of vapor above a liquor in a sealed jar
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Undergrad Can different forces cancel themselves?
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Undergrad Divergence Theorem not equaling 0
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Undergrad 4 vector upper and lower indices
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Undergrad Understanding Fourier Transforms
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Undergrad Where does the energy come from?
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Undergrad How does a floor mat dissipate noise/vibration?
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Undergrad How Do You Convert 250 Degrees to Radians for Resultant Forces?
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Undergrad Kepler 3rd law for circular orbits
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Undergrad Hurricane Mathew: Force of Wind & Its Impact on People
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Undergrad Understanding Lyapunov Exponent: Why Do We Use an Exponential Function?
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Undergrad Why do some but not all derivatives have physical meaning?
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Undergrad Does a humam body movement generate a vacumm trail? and more
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Undergrad Non-reversibility of '2nd Law' processes
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Undergrad Is Fermat’s principle appicable to a plane wave?
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Undergrad How do I determine the proper ratio of CO2 and N for my tank?
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Undergrad Where do the missing minutes in a live feed from a spaceship to Mars go?
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Amplitude and Speed in SHM?
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Undergrad Phonon energy in absorption of indirect band gap
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Undergrad Isn't the force calculated twice?
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Undergrad Invalidating a patent directed to physical laws
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Undergrad Chernobyl Dose Model & Estimates
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Undergrad Can internal energy be calculated from equation of state?
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Undergrad Quarter-wave plates and Half-wave plates
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Undergrad Why does water care about the density of objects on top of it?
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Undergrad DIY Heavy Bag Base Calculation: How Much Weight Do You Need to Prevent Toppling?
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Undergrad Huygen's principle in practical sense
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Undergrad Why Does Light Reflect Differently on Leaves in Certain Areas?
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Undergrad Why Is Gravity Always Attractive?
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Undergrad How does gauge pressure affect the buoyant force on a submerged object?
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Undergrad Time travel thought experiment
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Undergrad How to Fold Data Points to a Period
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Undergrad Can plotting corrected values help determine a more precise E_g?
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Undergrad Traveling the Universe at the Speed of Light: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad When natural language fails to explain
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Undergrad Force Applied to Chain at Max Length
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Undergrad What is a Tensor? - Get Help Here
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Undergrad Verify a Formula for Poynting Vector?
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Undergrad Frequencies of standing waves in a straw
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Undergrad How Does the Biot-Savart Law Apply to Angles in an Infinite Wire Calculation?
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Undergrad What happens to energy when it has nowhere to transfer?
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Undergrad Is the Universe Deterministic Despite Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Storing Kinetic & Mechanical Energy
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Undergrad Pascal´s Principle in Compresssible Fluids
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Undergrad On liquid oscillation excitation
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Undergrad The influence of humidity when creating a vacuum
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Undergrad Proportion in 2D and 3D static equilibrium?
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Undergrad Can an object dropped from a moving plane achieve purely vertical motion?
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Undergrad Does the incompleteness theorem apply to physics at all?
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Undergrad In which case coffee will cool faster?
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Undergrad Capacitive Reactance: Opposing Voltage Changes & Impedance
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Undergrad Why time in formula accelarion has exponent two
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Undergrad Energy differences in different directions: the grid
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Undergrad Moment and the Larmor precession
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Undergrad Can C60 Fullerenes Create a Freeze Ray?
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Undergrad Bike going downhill brakes front wheel
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Undergrad Energy Conversion With Supercritical Fluids
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Undergrad What happens to the mass of a muon when it decays
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Undergrad Debunking implausible gravity claims in pianism/boxing
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Undergrad Is there a name for this fact in physics? is it a theorem?
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Undergrad How do you find Z when the temperature line ends on the compressibility chart?
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Undergrad What is the gas composition in a tank with a SF6 leak?
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Undergrad Equal or Not? Comparing km/h/s & km/s/h Acceleration
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Undergrad Converting Milligauss to Hertz: Explained
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Undergrad Why things do not stop immediately?
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Undergrad Understanding the Beer-Lambert Law and Its Derivation
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Undergrad Background required for Noether's Theorem?
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Undergrad Analog vs Digital: How Digital Representations Reflect the Analog Universe
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Undergrad What is physicial interpretation of deviatoric strain rate
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Undergrad Connection Between Calculus and Physics
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Undergrad Understanding Resistivity: Series or Parallel Circuit with an Inductor?
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Undergrad Solving a Second-Order Wave Equation
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Undergrad How realistic is the term "ground"
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Undergrad Understanding the Color Effect of Sharpie Ink on Different Surfaces
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Undergrad Time lag before application of force
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Undergrad Difference between vectors in physics and abstract vectors
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Undergrad Horizontal Noise Stripes in an Image
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Undergrad Physical Significance of Eccentricity & Semi-Latus Rectum of Orbital Ellipse
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Undergrad Are Pagers More Reliable Compared to Phones?
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Undergrad Guaranteeing turbulent flow in a gas pipe
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Undergrad Energy to turn a shifting mass wheel?
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Undergrad Multichannel analyzer to computer
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Undergrad Understanding Point Masses: Key Concepts and Limitations for A Level Physics
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Undergrad Pinwheels for Wind turbines? In class, pinwheels proved most
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Undergrad Forces that keep a free vortex turning
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Undergrad Are There Always Conditions for Writing Q=CΔT in Heat Transfer Processes?
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Undergrad Marine Propeller Thrust: How Do I Calculate It?
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Undergrad Does a Conductor Inside Another Conductor Have a Constant Potential?
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Undergrad How much wind force does a moving vehicle generate?
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Undergrad Why equal volumes of diferent gases have the same number of molecules @ STP?
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Undergrad Did the Michelson Morley Experiment Prove the Existence of Ether?
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Undergrad Does anything ever repel gravity?
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Undergrad Computer exploration of fundemental constants
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Undergrad What is a free vector and how does it relate to vectors in spacetime?
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Undergrad Comparison of solid and hollow cylinder
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Undergrad Pressurization rate vs. Mass Flow rate
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Undergrad How Does Acceleration Affect the Doppler Effect in Moving Sound Emitters?
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