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High School Where Can I Find Piezo Discs for My Project on Piezoelectricity in Canada?

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Undergrad What is the purpose of the exp[-(t^2)/2] term in Fourier transforms?

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Graduate Capillary Action and Young-Laplace

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High School Can I wire a piezo disk with detectors?

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Undergrad What is the Significance of Constraints in Relationships Between Variables?

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Graduate How has lithography evolved over the past 20 years in relation to Moore's laws?

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Graduate Resonant Frequencies from Fourier Analysis

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Undergrad Movitation For Definitions In Physics

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Graduate Could an Atmospheric Siphon Create a Self-Sustaining Effect?

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Undergrad Why do people associate red with hot and blue with cold

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High School How Can Moisture Be Introduced into the Air?

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High School How do load values affect piezo crystal current output?

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Undergrad Why can't glycerine be used in hydraulic brakes if it has higher viscosity than oil?

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High School What the heck is measured in m2 / s2?

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Undergrad Effect of wind shear on noise propagation

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Undergrad Sensitivity and Uncertainty in measurements

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Looking for a quote about strange physics for a film

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Graduate What is the minimum energy required to escape a gravitational field?

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High School Who better revolutionized physics, Einstein or Newton?

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Graduate What is the Fascination with Physics Beyond the Standard Model?

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High School What is the de Broglie wavelength?

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Suggestion needed for 3rd grade physics demonstation

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Popular physics books for bedside reading

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Graduate Does resonance have limit?+Fluid

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High School How is glass made and what are its properties?

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High School New member introducing myself and my physics questions

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Undergrad How does resonance affect frequency choice in sonar and echolocation?

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High School Would time be measurable if Earth were completely static?

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Undergrad Considering the -ve sign in Gravitational Potentail Energy

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Graduate Is Determinism the Only Logical Explanation for the Past?

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High School Compressor - one-stage versus two-stage?

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Undergrad Nitrogen molecules in air question

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High School Anti Science friends and trying to enlighten them. (possibly funny)

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Welcome! Third Year Physics Student Here.

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High School What is a Paradox? Understanding its Role in Physics and Astronomy

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Undergrad Things People Learn Wrong in School?

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Undergrad Why Are the Feynman Lectures so Good?

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Graduate Appeal for the realization of an astronomic observatory on the moon

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Undergrad Integrating a concentration profile

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High School What is a syphon breaker and how does it work?

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Graduate Physical meaning of autocorrelation

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Undergrad Whats the diff between calc based and algerbra

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Undergrad James' giant peach would actually need 2,425,907 seagulls

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Undergrad A tedious debate just need some backup.

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High School Can Lightning Be Harnessed for Energy?

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High School How Did Early Navigators Use Time to Determine Their Location?

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Undergrad Waves on a string fixed at both ends

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Graduate Macroscopic properties of matter

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Undergrad What do the graphical representations of waves actually represent?

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Undergrad Heterogeneous nucleation - Mentos and coke

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High School Why are standing waves called standing waves?

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Graduate Material/Fluid derivative operator questions

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What was it like to be a physicist/physics student in X?

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Graduate What is this scientific principle called?

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Undergrad Volume of a football with triple integration

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Graduate I am not a teacher or even student of physics but I am translating a

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Who is your favorite living physicist?

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Undergrad How does fixed line level attenuation work?

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High School How many waves can exist at the same location

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Undergrad Vaccum physics JJ Thomson's experiment

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Undergrad Density and Viscosity: Causes and Effects

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Undergrad Challenging Hypotheses: The Role of Disproving in Scientific Research

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Help building a physics education website

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High School But I'm sure Speed and velocity are the same thing

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High School Practical Problem re melting points

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High School Why use psi instead of just pound?

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Components of Darkness: What Forms the Dark?

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Undergrad The depth at which physics was discovered

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Undergrad Material transparent to UV but reflective to visible light?

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High School Is a Mechanical Wave Just a Sinusoidal Graph of Particle Motion?

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High School How can I develop intuition for physics concepts?

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High School Are Electrons Not Part of an Atom?

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Graduate How Do You Derive u=p/ρ₀c₀ and ρ=p/c₀² from 1D Wave Equations?

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Undergrad Using Formulas in Sentences for Physics Paper

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High School Kitchen Chemistry. Cooking pasta

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She Doesn't Appreciate Science (Ideas?)

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Top 3 living theoretical physicists

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High School Want to know effect of differnet material on capillary action

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High School What is the tuning fork jig with the metal prong?

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Where can you post physics theorys

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Undergrad What happens to a shear wave at a solid/fluid boarder

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Graduate Do one-dimensional signals truly exist?

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Weired Ice Cube - How'd it happen?

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High School Why can't we see wind if it's moving air particles around us?

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High School Vibration Experiment. Equipment and Setup

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Possible announcement of proof Higgs Boson exists

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Identifying old Stansi Chicago lab equipment

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Graduate What are the effects of overblowing on wind instruments?

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Need More of This Crazy Physics Idea? Let Me Explain!

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Undergrad Ionized Air Propulsion: Is it Possible?

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Graduate If you had a possible explanation on dark energy.

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I would like to know where to go to find particle physics on this site

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High School What Are the Prerequisites for Beginning a Self-Taught Education in Physics?

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Graduate Applying MGD for Racing - Practical Use with Physics and Math

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Doubling Computing Power Every Year: Where Will We Be in 50 Years?

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High School Where to find a document with all physics laws and definitions

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Intera: Understanding This Revolutionary Technology

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High School Why can't you drive through a rainbow?

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Undergrad Phase Shift vs Phase Shift Keying

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