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Does Gauss' Law use line integrals or surface integrals?
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Can Loop Variables Transform Photons into Closed Flux Lines?
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What is the Spark From an Oil Burner Igniter Coil?
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Distance from source to observe Doppler effect?
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Back:EMF and energy conversion in a PMSM
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Is There a Commercially Available Filter for Collimation by Filtering?
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Why Do Pepper Particles Stick Only Behind the Print on a Glass Shaker?
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What allow matter wave propagation?
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What is the significance of Max Q in rocket launches and disasters?
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B Is the Earth Flat? Rapper vs. Astrophysicist Battle on SoundCloud
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Why do shower curtains blow inwards?
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What is the definition of phase lag and phase difference?
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Insights Rainbows are not Vampires - Comments
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Non-linear properties in linear systems
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How to calculate phase difference for spherical waves?
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Will this rope break due to the tidal forces or not?
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Why do railguns produce an "explosion"?
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Insights The Need of Infinity in Physics - Comments
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What is phase difference and how to visualize it?
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Calculating the volume in closed container?
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Double slit experiment detection
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Why did my glass bottle explode?
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What is the conversion factor for hydraulic conductivity units?
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Can a Supercapacitor be Charged with Only One Wire and a Grounded Battery?
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Help with graph units and interpretation
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Fluid Statics and Dynamics: P Equation
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What is the role of focal lengths in ray diagrams for telescopes?
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How Do Orbits Work?
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Difference between running up and walking up?
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Discretizing a Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem
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Ramjet/Scramjet Propulsion on a Vertical Rocket?
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Difference between direction and dimension
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Paper Plane Distance Experiment: Power & Energy Calculation
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Transverse and longitudinal waves
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Why is the concept of dipole moment significant in physics?
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Why does a snowflake have six sides?
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How do I estimate how tall this building is?
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Building a Vacuum Kiln: The Challenge of Applying Heat to Wood
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Why Don't Unit Vectors in Cartesian Coordinates Change with Time?
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Examples of units with non-integer exponents
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How to prove V=-(GM)/r without applying calculus?
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Question about how we see materials and absorption
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Ambiguity in dimensional analysis
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Nonconservative Force: Understanding Force of Friction
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Impedance matching and tuning of RF coil
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Can Volume Moments Be Converted to Mass Moments for Non-Uniform Density Objects?
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Calculating Density/Specific Body Mass: Need Help?
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Component of Force downward on Loppers (the kind for trimming bushes)
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What's this website about? ("nucleus layered view")
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How to measure mass for an object of changing mass?
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Why do gases become more soluble at lower temperatures?
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Could a Meson Beam Weapon from Sword of the Stars Ever Be Realistic?
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Why Does a Single Polarizer Reduce Light Intensity by Half?
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Translation of handwriting into readable form
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Wikipedia.org -- Protons captured by neutral gas atoms?
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Understanding Jones Matrixes for Linear Polarization
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Observing wavelength at an angle
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Understanding Force Formula: ρ AV1 (V1 - V2 cos θ) vs ρ A(V1 - V2 cos θ)
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Intermolecular forces and boiling point
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Can gravatational force only influence objects with energy?
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How Does Atmospheric Pressure Affect Measurements in a Torricelli Barometer?
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What do they mean that energy is quantized?
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Break Strength of Net: Falconer's Question
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Is it there or not (when we are not looking at it)?
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P28 of phase transitions and the renormalization group
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Catapult: Rotating Throwing Arm to Reduce Air Resistance?
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FTL: Is Faster-than-Light Information Relocation Theoretically Possible?
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Resonance vs Flutter: Explaining the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
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Uncovering the Mystery of VIBGYOR: The True Colors of the Rainbow Revealed!
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Physics of Dropping Bombs from Stationary Aircraft
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Can Fire Exist Without Being Hot?
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B Is the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics credible?
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What is the Meaning of Harmonic Content in Sound Waves?
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Lagrange's Equations: Know When to Use Each
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Archimedes principle and passing gas
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Non-Zero Potential Energy in SHM: Is Spring Stretched in Mean Position?
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What is the mathematics that took us to the moon?
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Hooke's Law and plastic materials
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PSI required to minimize air mattress displacement
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Notation for generalized coordinates
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Calculating Galaxy Distance for Light Speed using Hubble's Law
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Third Law of Motion: Elevator Question
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Understanding the Propagation of Spherical Waves in Complex Quantities
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DC Bias on Capacitors: Will It Work?
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Does an airfoil moving at 350m/s create a sonic crack?
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States of Matter That Aren't Fluids
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Circulation of a Mag field around a wire, what is the angle?
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How can a volume integral yield a vector field?
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Stimulated Emission: Is this how we see images?
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Archimedes' Buoyancy: Which Ball Will Experience a Greater Buoyant Force?
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How Does a Michelson Interferometer Measure the Thickness of a Piece of Plastic?
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Earthing of a System of Parallel Metal Plates
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Understanding the Fundamental Frequency f1 and Its Role in Sound Waves
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Hear Things: Frequency, Vibration & Audibility
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Can Gauss Be Converted to A/m?
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How does a vacuum pump push gas out of a container?
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Understanding Electric Fields and Work Done to Move Charges
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2D - What is the next point given this info.
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Phase of Time Varying E-M Fields
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