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Graduate What Are the Classic Problems of Physics?
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Graduate Errors and Numerical Integration
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High School How many square centimeters are in 3.39ft^2?
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High School Understanding High Tides: The Role of the Moon and Earth's Rigid Crust
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Graduate Formulating Ripple Equation for 2D Symmetry
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Undergrad Difference between raman-spectroscopy and usual spectroscopy?
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Kitt Peak Nightly Observing Program - First Time in a Dark Sky!
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Graduate Physics and discrete mathematics
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Someone explain what this is actually saying?
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High School Questions About Wind: Get Answers Here
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Why Do Glasses and Lightbulbs Spontaneously Explode on My Desk?
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Graduate Was the second originally defined in terms of the size of the Earth and c?
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High School How to use trigonometry on calculator
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Graduate Investigating the Magnus Effect on Solar Wind
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What Is Time and Why Do We Misunderstand It?
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Undergrad Learn About Sine Wave Separation and Sound Processing
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Graduate Who Can Achieve Landau's Theoretical Minimum in Physics?
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Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?
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High School Do some scientists create equation that arent based on si units.
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High School How did Eratosthenes calculate the tilt of the Earth?
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Undergrad What is the ideal degree for gas exit in a rifle barrel?
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Where Is Voyager 1 Now on Its 35th Anniversary?
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High School So what units should i use with E=mc^2?
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High School Leaves have formed the circumference of the circle
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Undergrad Affect of elevation on bicycle suspension
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High School What would happen if you could blow up a planet for real?
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Move to Tucson Completed: New Astronomy Adventures Ahead!
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Graduate Modal Analysis of AC Unit: Refrigerant Considerations?
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Undergrad Making CO2 Gas Concentrations: 50ppm, 100ppm, 1000ppm
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High School Basic trigonometry question regarding knee angle
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Undergrad What Are Michio Kaku's Contributions to Physics?
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Graduate Solving Surface Tension w/Eötvös Rule: Obtaining Abnormal Results
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Kilogram in France: Double-Bell or Triple-Bell Jar?
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I would like to congratulate myself for no reason
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Undergrad Maximizing Success in College Physics to Tackling a Daunting Textbook
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Undergrad Calculating Air Flow in 8mm Pipe at 15psi
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MHB Question about anti-matter colliding with matter
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Undergrad Failure to understand a basic integral application
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Searching for a particular quotation by a renowned physicist
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What could 100 grams of tnt destroy?
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Undergrad Why does the professor derive the equation?
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Undergrad How Accurate Is Calorie Counting Through Physical Activity?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of e=mc2: How Much Mater is Needed?
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Escape Boredom with Science: What Are Some Intriguing Questions to Ponder?
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Undergrad Can Mass be Converted to Volume without Gravity?
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Undergrad Can Standing Waves Form with Different Amplitudes or Frequencies?
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High School Doppler Effect Explained: What Is It?
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Undergrad Theoretical Aspects of Measurements
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Undergrad Creating an Artificial Cloud: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Cash prize offered for solving Mpemba effect
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High School Why storms interfere with telecommunications?
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Graduate Unperceivable Properties Of Physics
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What is the best physics magazine or journal?
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Undergrad What is non-Modern physics called?
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Graduate What is the meaning behind the Casi.Voy equation?
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High School How are units combined/cancelled in this simple equation?
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High School Learn How to Project an Image on a CRT Monitor with a Small Projector
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Assessment of JETP (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics)
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High School What Resources Can Help a High School Junior Explore Physics?
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Dispose of Compressed Air Can Safely on Hot Day
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High School Blimps & Radar: Do They Show Up on Radar?
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Graduate Can Noble Gases Be Used to Create Plasma for Engines?
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Graduate Plasma Reactor creating gravitational fields
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Time machine/time travel device construction ideas
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High School What is Energy? Seeking Clarity on a Confusing Topic
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Undergrad Why is WR for 4x100m relay less than 4 times WR for 100m sprint.
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High School High School physics science project
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High School Holding Water in glass upside down
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Undergrad Is it possible to screw off the cap of an Argon/Oxygen-bottle?
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Help with Identifying Image: 3K7P0W0
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Reading Speed with Scientific Texts
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High School What causes a glass of water to move on its own on a glass surface?
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About the scientific thinking and aliens
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Undergrad Wind turbine efficiency question
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Undergrad Measuring SI Units on a Desert Island
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Graduate Is Emergence the Key to Understanding the Mind and its Connection to Matter?
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Undergrad Michelson Morley experiment and heliocentrism
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I want to make friend with who love physics
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Undergrad Can mass be compressed indefinitely?
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Graduate What Are the Negligible Aspects of Physics We Overlook?
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High School Mars Rover "Curiosity" Camera Specs
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Answering Multiple Questions on One Topic: Vital Steps
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Undergrad Physics Student Struggling to Explain Conservation of Linear Momentum
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Most difficult to comprehend concept
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Undergrad How is oil naturally pushed to the top of reservoirs?
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Graduate What causes metals to cold weld in a vacuum?
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High School How Can Everyday Observations Reveal Scientific Phenomena?
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High School Need Help Explaining a Physics Video? Let Us Help! | Expert Tips
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High School IPhO experimental exam preparation
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Graduate Inorganic life now likely? (Its life, Jim, but not as we know it)
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Undergrad Guitar fret decreasing down a guitar
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Graduate Fluorescent Lamps: Why Phosphor Drops Off in Efficiency & Mechanisms
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Is Chaos Truly Nonexistent in a Digital World?
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Undergrad Did a Clock Error Make Neutrinos Appear Faster Than Light?
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High School Trouble due to incomplete knowledge
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Undergrad Inside a container with non-pure helium
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