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Undergrad Does a Big Defensive Bark Drain a Dog's Energy?
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High School Why Do Waves Oscillate Like a Pendulum?
  • Einstein's Cat
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Undergrad Gravitational Effect of Uniform Mass on Earth's Surface
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High School Do We Ever Truly Touch Anything?
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Graduate Unable to understand vector derivative
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Graduate Is Cold Fusion Making a Comeback with Serious Investment?
  • CWatters
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Undergrad Way of producing 600kHz longitudinal waves - Piezo or siren
  • AlgoryThm
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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Atoms in High and Low Fields?
  • SUN Qian
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High School Creating a Home-made Vacuum Chamber
  • Conservation
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High School Are Mass and Energy the same thing?
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High School The Sun's Fire: Low O2 and Carbon Emissions
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High School Make a Toy Piston: Find Solution to Inner Can Size Issue
  • Althepump
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Stellerator Status: Updates on Data Collection and Press Releases
  • houlahound
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High School Calculating Batteries to Power a PC - A Curious Question
  • Dougieman1001
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Undergrad Does cacao powder form another "state of matter"?
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Undergrad Do Both Carbon Atoms in Ethane Rotate During Conformation Changes?
  • Karan Punjabi
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Graduate Real-Life Signals: Are They Infinitely Continuous & Differentiable?
  • RaduAndrei
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Do Quantum Theories Support the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life?
  • vin300
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Undergrad Deriving the Equation for Area of a Ring
  • Calpalned
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High School Molecule Size VS Occupied Volume of Gases
  • Karan Punjabi
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News 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement
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Graduate Are nodes on a string perfect nulls?
  • musichascolors
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High School Does Gravity Master Accurately Represent Real-Life Physics in Gaming?
  • motleycat
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High School Cathode ray tube- thermionic emission
  • Nemika
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Undergrad Surface Water Adsorption: How Does It Balance Forces?
  • Karan Punjabi
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Graduate Cutting force (large astronomical body)
  • nicholas0211510
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Undergrad Any examples of disagreements leading to new knowledge?
  • cmkluza
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Graduate What we mean when we talk of foundations of physics?
  • Telemachus
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High School What is the Definition of Dimension in Mathematics?
  • Dimitri655
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High School Can I replace 2.5A plug with 5A plug?
  • sach963
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Bohemian Gravity String Theory: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Can someone help me to find some data?
  • Earthland
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My new dosimeter from a nuclear plant
  • JGHarbour
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High School Do Incandescent Bulbs Flicker at 100Hz or 50Hz?
  • houlahound
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Undergrad What are some open problems in physics that undergraduates can tackle?
  • skeer
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High School The number of lines making equal angles with Co-ordinate axes is ?
  • mr_bineet
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Graduate Understanding the physical meaning of multiplication, etc
  • Steve Drake
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Undergrad How is the attraction of a small mass to a bigger mass
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High School Time and matter, is there a smallest unit?
  • mrhoneycinnamo
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Undergrad Analyzing Data for Correlation for Academic Research
  • 24forChromium
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Who are the top 10 Nobel Prize-winning physicists?
  • Ernest S Walton
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Undergrad Is it possible for cavitation to occur in air?
  • Hatrack
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Undergrad How to find emission peak of emission spectrum
  • Yinxiao Li
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Undergrad Transverse waves moving (a string)
  • pyctz
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery of Mass: What is it?
  • yhPscis
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Undergrad Can a Metal Prince Rupert's Drop Have Similar Properties to Glass?
  • 1832vin
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High School What is the differences between vibration and oscillation
  • abi.ayan
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Graduate Can We Predict Damping Coefficient of a String Using Mathematical Simulation?
  • Chrono G. Xay
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Undergrad Does this equation have the correct units of measurement?
  • gracy
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Undergrad Effect of noise cancelling audio equipment
  • CookieSalesman
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Undergrad The Nernst Equation- I apologize in advance for my ignorance
  • Aisling25
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Graduate How to find the density of states from IV plot.
  • Anoop MD
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Undergrad Selecting Variables for Equation Building - Fastest Observed Velocity of Matter
  • samisbored
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Graduate What instruments can measure electron density in the ionosphere?
  • Tone L
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Undergrad Distance measurements with two cameras
  • tiphaine
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Undergrad Why c is divided while converting cgs into SI system?
  • RAFIQ MULLA
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Undergrad Can a solid sympathetically resonate at a harmonic?
  • MauriceWaves
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Undergrad Why is one significant figure the norm in uncertainties?
  • TheCanadian
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Graduate How Did Bubble Physics Inspire Research on Higher-Dimensional Bubbles?
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Undergrad Are a vector and its derivative perpendicular at all times?
  • TheCanadian
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High School I heard a spin-top in a perfect vacuum would stay spinning
  • SciencePerson
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Graduate 'If You Can't Explain It to Your Grandmother…'
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Did Stephen Hawking Disprove His PhD Thesis?
  • Abishek Balaji
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Non-Separable Couples: Bell's Theorem Unites
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Need help in replacing flame with something else, along with
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Undergrad Rad./sec. * kg*m^2 = kg*m^2/sec. Right?
  • 24forChromium
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High School Help finding an article for my physics class.
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Undergrad Can two stationary masses repel each other through gravitational forces alone?
  • Bob not Alice
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Undergrad Starburst seen from points of light in night photographs
  • MotoMike
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Undergrad Is Physics the "Liberal Arts of Science?"
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High School Physical Interpretation of Integration
  • Hamza Abbasi
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Graduate Vibration Based Energy Harvesting
  • HYPETRAIN
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Undergrad Mercury Vapor Lamp: Why 20-30 Minute Delay?
  • gkiverm
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High School Can You Really Grasp the Concept of the Fourth Dimension?
  • Imran Makhdoom
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High School Why are we allowed to cancel units?
  • Mr Davis 97
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Undergrad Calculating straight-line distance between cities
  • Nathanael
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High School What would we percieve ions as in our eyes?
  • Cash Fulton
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Graduate Decay time of waves in a swimming pool
  • avenged*7
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Undergrad What is Stochastic Overflow? | Carl Sagan
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Graduate Melting Nickel Ball: Temperature & Radius Effects
  • Borek
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High School Is the Multiverse So Vast That Anything Can Happen?
  • Simtrad
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High School Place with all components of all formulas explained?
  • LeHotDoge
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Undergrad How inverse square law is derived from area of sphere
  • Ebenshap
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High School What is time? How can we see it?
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High School Structures: dynamic, complexity, organisation
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Graduate Quantifying the complexity of a system
  • BWV
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Undergrad Can Soda Going Flat Affect Its Mass?
  • ukdiveboy
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Undergrad What does divergence tell us about vector fields?
  • Isaac0427
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Undergrad Calculating 1/4 Earth Arc with Trig
  • marciokoko
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Graduate Phased directed energy beam emission
  • acron
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Graduate Understanding Normal Modes and Standing Waves in Vibrating Systems
  • Raman Choudhary
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High School What would happen if you went back in time and prevented you
  • Jupiter60
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Insights Plus/minus What? How to Interpret Error Bars - Comments
  • Orodruin
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Why Was Galvani Placed on the Magnetism Branch of the 1932 Physics Map?
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High School Difference Between Shm & Oscillation
  • Aishik Rakshit
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Undergrad What Are the Odds of a Perfect Machine? Perpetual Motion Possibilities
  • Ethan_Tab
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Undergrad Desired properties for a solar cell
  • Shivansh Mathur
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Undergrad Vector Calculus: Understanding Divergence & Curl
  • Isaac0427
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Graduate Who is Jess Brewer and What is Her Fascinating Field of Study?
  • Jess H. Brewer
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High School Compressible fluid other than air.
  • arpit.v
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