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A Ques. From Irreversible Process
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Can We Overcome Mars' Harsh Conditions for Human Habitation?
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Why does symmetry lead to a restoring force in precessional rotation?
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Can Enough Windwills Cause Climate Change?
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Where Can I Find Additional Material on the 1957 Eshelby Inclusion Problem?
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Does a piano string slowly stretch (creep) over time?
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What Is String Theory and Can It Be Understood at a Basic Level?
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Horn Antenna Radio Interferometer
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Comics can be educational. somewhat
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Are Physics Equations Always Exact?
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How Long Will it Take to Drain a 600 Gallon Tank Down a Hill with a 4 Pipe?
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Calculate Calories Burned from Climbing Stairs
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Can You Manually Create a Vacuum with a Plunger in a Water-Filled Tube?
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Regaining Balance: How Does It Work?
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Braking calculations while going down a slope pullling a load
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Defining the True Value of an Experiment
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Black Hole Evaporation: Charged Particle Energy Effects
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Understanding Absorption and Transmission in Spectroscopy
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Orbital Frequencies: Single Atomic & Covalent Electron Determination
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How can objects move if every action has an equal and opposite reaction?
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Exploding C4 Sphere: Understanding the Dynamics of an Explosive Event
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Generating a Secondary Gravitational Force Field - US Patent 3,626,605
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Uncovering the Mystery of Thompson's Flying Ring
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Anti-gravity calculation for fun
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Phase, Phase Difference and Phase Shift
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Shear Stress of a particular length rod
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Unit cancellation in integration with natural logarithm?
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Bridge tester design (for competition)
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: Guass's Law and surface integrals
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Can Portable Air Conditioners Defy the Laws of Thermodynamics?
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Please explain the cause of the laser speckle pattern
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Gravity around the Earth (or other large spherical object)
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How to Calculate Distance Traveled by a Discus Using Wind Tunnel Data?
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What is the maximum time to reach the apex involving pi?
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Discover the Science Behind the Noises of Clapping Hands | Explained by Mayday
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Newtonian Physics & Relativity: Work & Energy
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Why cant we obtain a virtual image on a screen?
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Why Are Sine Waves a Function of (t-(x/v))?
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Discover the Most Stable Structure and Learn Why It Stands Strong
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Understanding the Kilogram: Definition, History, and Future Implications
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Can an Infinite Hose Really Stop Water Flow?
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How Can You Measure the Speed of Light with Chocolate?
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How Much Anti-Matter Would it Take to Move Venus?
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Maximizing Flight Time: Tips for Adjusting Flaps on a Balsa Wood Glider
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Generating Artificial Gravity: Is E=mc2 the Key?
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Where does resonance fundamentally come from?
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Okay, here is my hypothetical situation. Lets say there is a cylinder
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Will Both Bags Fill at the Same Rate? Thoughts and Answers Needed
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Help regarding 'Interferogram Phase Correction'
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Travel Faster Than Light: Going Back in Time?
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Antenna Frequency & Wavelength: Explained
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Experiments - ideas for young students
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What are some ideas for an Advance Higher Physics investigation?
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What does this word mean in physics language?
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Distinguishing random from chaotic data
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Difference between GPR from seismic
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How is stacking accomplished and Why do we stack data?
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Ground Roll Identification and Fresnel zone
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CO2 Pressure Formula: Determine Pressure at Any Temperature
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Dirac Delta Function question(s)
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How is the wave equation derived?
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How Does D'Alembert's Solution Explain Physical Phenomena?
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What is a Closed Path Integral in Thermodynamics?
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Physics & Music: Finding Conversion Formula
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Noob Asks: Can Spinning Cheat or Delay Gravity?
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Conducting the Double Slit Experiment
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How Can a Computer Engineering Student Start Learning Rocket Design?
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Can Inert Gases Be Made Visible?
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Ferrofluids: do they produce a force?
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Create a Stage-Ready Lantern: Step-by-Step Guide with Available Parts
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Arches or Beams: Why Arches Hold More Weight on Pasta Bridges
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How Dense Can You Get? Science Behind Creating a Gravity Bomb
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Grade 12 Physics Student Seeking Experiment Ideas
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Centroids of various triangles.
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What is an overtone and how does it relate to resonance?
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Conversion Device: Mechanical to Heat Energy
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Filling petrol in the day or night
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How can we explaine the adhesion force?
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Fossil Fuels: Is Nature Still Producing
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CG of Rectangular Frame with Offset Weight: Need Counterweight?
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Resonant frequincy of capped cylinders
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Path difference and phase difference.
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What is the Force of Gravity Outside a Cylinder?
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Air Displacement: Is It Possible?
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Look at Ice Through a Microscope - Charlie
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Significace of i*sin(wt) in SHM [cos(wt)+i*sin(wt)]
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Total Energy Dilemma: Cruiser vs Battleship
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Can someone help me explain these two problems better?
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Quality Factor in damped oscillation
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Gravitational attraction of bodies
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How do you convert vibrating silicon atom frequencies to energy in meV?
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The Force of Gravity: Instantaneous or with a Delay?
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Mass & Electric/Magnetic Field Relationship
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Parallel-Axis Theorem Clarification
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What are the limitations of the Ideal Gas Law?
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The Earth and its orbit around the sun
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Why Does Gravity Make My Feet Stay on the Ground?
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Do you use set theory in Physics?
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Why farther objects appears smaller?
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How Cooulomb's law follows from Gauss' law?
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