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The Big Bang & What's Not: 2016 Edge Essays
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Help to form questions regarding wind flow/convection
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Can Metals Evaporate? Boiling Point Explained
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Visual Fire: An Analysis of the Greek Belief in Eye Emission and Its Flaws
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Whats so amazing about the wave equation?
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Meaning of "equatorial radius in an orbital plane"
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Understanding Back EMF: What is it & What Does it Do?
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Question about the wave function of a travelling wave
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Differences in grounding and returning a circuit?
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Normal reaction force on banked track
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Confusion in Doppler shift equation?
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What dimensions of (time)−2 mean ?
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Question about the game of "Half Life" -- Resonances....
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Why is Pi so occurring in physics
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Drum Resonance Physics: Understanding How Tunings Affect Frequency
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B How Can Time Dilation Be Explained Without Math?
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What is the best way to measure the sensitivity of photosensors?
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Why does my class ring flip up when I spin it?
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Why Does My Calculated Molar Mass of Arsenic Differ from the Standard Value?
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I Is Mathematics Truly Limited by Physics?
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Help My Extraterrestrial Friend Arrive to Madrid's New Year's Eve Party
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Green's Function for Spherical Problem(Jackson)
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Vibrations of a Violin (Physics)?
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Solving the Mystery of the Missing Term in the Compton Effect Formula
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Confusion with the divergence of E fields
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Understanding Mainstream Physics
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Gravity Simulator 2D: Calculating Trajectories
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Wind turbines turning in no wind?
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Ionising Particles Quickly: What's the Best Way?
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Michelson Interferometer ring contraction
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What is the direction of hinge force?
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Why don't we run out of gravitational force?
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Time needed for ice in an ocean to melt
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Why is there a hole in airplane windows?
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How does temperature affect distillation in a fractionating column?
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Designing a Mars-Ready RC Plane: What Factors Must Be Considered?
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Shock Wave Questions: Calculating Speed & Intensity
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How can we create an image at infinity using a converging lens?
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What causes the green penumbra in this picture?
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B What Determines the Speed of Light Limit?
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Is dn = dS = 0 when two phases are equilibrium?
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Understanding RC Planes: Scaling Down & Performance
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Natural units and dimensional analysis
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Statistics and Data Science applied to Physics
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Time as a dimension, can spatial length be applied to it?
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Why does breathing out have more effect on surroundings?
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Possible violation of the Kelvin statement (2nd law)?
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Name of The inventor of the first rocket?
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Electrostatic Fields: Proton Attracts Electrons
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Lenz's Law applied to a non-circuit conductor?
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The Truth About Half-Life and Interest Rates
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Why is Specific Gravity Important?
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Material Inflation: Analysis of Intermolecular Forces
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Effect of Temperature on Chemical Equilibrium
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Seeing Around Corners - Daniele Faccio & Heriot-Watt Univ.
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Why Do Nails Change Color with Temperature?
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How is effective distance calculated for charges in a dielectric medium?
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Efficient Switch Synchronization for Remote Switches
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Identify this piece of equipment?
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Connecting two circuits with a single conductor
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Do Paper Contracts When Burnt?
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Dealiasing in 2D: How to Effectively Use the 2/3 Padding Rule
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Is there a good book on only observational evidence
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B Are Fields Real or Just Ad Hoc in Science?
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Is disorder required to store information?
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Meaning of zero/infinite impedance
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Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Stokes Shift
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Deduction of the equation of frequencies of a piano
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Insulated metal, immersed in an ionic fluid
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Detect Window/Door opening closing using sensors
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Doubt about the behavior of a string of a piano
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Why is gravitational force always attractive in nature?
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Why does a cylinder of cooking gas feel heavier?
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What is Lenz's Law and how can I demonstrate it?
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I To create a new model on physics what do i need to have?
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Kinetic Energy & E=mc^2: A Physics Query
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Converting PV Diagrams to TS Diagrams in Thermodynamics
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Understanding Symmetry Breaking to Everyday Examples
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Wind Turbine Effectiveness Project
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How is a Push Solenoid Constructed Differently from a Pull Solenoid?
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What is the purpose of the term 'Matter'?
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I Vector field:one aspect that everyone knows but nobody shown
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What is the meaning of the term 'object'?
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Optimizing Gas Flow in Capillaries: Calculating Flow Rates in Gas Chromatography
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Does an object slow down when it enters water?
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Why Do Tiny Objects Appear Brighter When Backlit?
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Uncovering the History of Photographic Plates in Radioactivity Experiments
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Trouble Remembering Physics Equation with x + 5 = y + 2 and x + 3 = y
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Lamp tips over and hits the top of the head
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What is the difference between Boost and Translation?
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How to Trace Particle Trajectories in a Cartesian Box Structure?
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Connection between Planck's Constant and Action?
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Approximations behind Clausius-Clapeyron....
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What Flexible Opaque Black Material is Best for Light Shrouding?
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Bullet Velocity Experiment: Does a Fired or Dropped Bullet Hit the Ground First?
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Difficulty understanding vector transformation law
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What is the driving force behind siphon behavior?
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Static Cling - why is its effect permanent ?
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Why do Jet fighter pilots experience a greater G-force?
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Four Waves Formalism - Course & Paper Info
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