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Graduate Maxwell's Equations: Integral or Differential Form?
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Undergrad Why Does the Fourier Transform Show Magnitude Around 3Hz?
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Undergrad How to convert length units to inverse cm
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Undergrad Strange: Earth's center of gravity
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High School How is a spark created from scraping metal to start a fire?
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Atoms Everywhere: Unseeing Them Again?
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High School Integration in Physics: Applications & Area Under Curve
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Graduate Could a Theory of Everything Unlock New Technological Marvels?
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Graduate Reading an old physics book and
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Undergrad Why do people say that mass is too fundamental to know exactly what it is?
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Graduate Is Copenhagen the pragmatic or actual interpretation of quantum theory?
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High School Gravity Map of Earth: Have You Seen It?
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Undergrad Understanding HVAC Dampers and Flow Rates
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In your opinion what are the most elegant physical processes?
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Undergrad What are the different names for mass and their translations in Italian?
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High School How is hail formed in thunderclouds?
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Undergrad Turning a conductor into an insulator
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Undergrad Maths needed for voice simulation
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High School Wave Encyclopedia: Examples of Transverse & Longitudinal Waves
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Age of Atoms: How Old Am I Really?
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The Greatness of Physics - Express Your Love!
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Undergrad Proton Oscillations: Utilizing Charge for Efficient Space Communication
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High School Is the gravitation source of energy? And yes then can we use this
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High School What was the conclusion of the Milikan oil drop experiment?
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Who Was Albert Messiah and What Impact Did He Have on Quantum Mechanics?
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Undergrad Final Year Computer Science Project
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High School Are CT Scans More Dangerous Than We Thought?
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Graduate Solar Energy Without Solar Cells?
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High School Is Ablimation the Same as Sublimation?
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Graduate Future Civilizations and Energy Production
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Graduate Is it energy, energy change, or action?
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Graduate Shortest Time Frame: Limit, Measurability, Planck's Constant
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High School Sources Of Error: closed air column
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Graduate Intuition for information theory
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Graduate Correspondence Principle vs Emergence
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Undergrad Image processing - convolution & fourier
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Graduate Will Future Civilizations Really Harness the Energy of Stars?
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Undergrad Air Flow Formula Help: Calculating % of Volume Lost in 2.8 Seconds
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If You Were Superman, Which Scientific Mysteries Would You Solve?
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Undergrad So, is the frequency of the wave affected by the change in velocity?If so, how?
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Graduate How do you understand Non-Locality ?
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Graduate Can we really observe the average trajectories of single photons?
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Undergrad What would happen if Earth's core where moved? (Gravity)
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High School Flag Waving Physics at Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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Undergrad What is a Valvular Conduit and Its Applications?
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Undergrad Redox and other unique battery solutions
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High School Physics Final Project-YouTube Video-Advice Please
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I smoke. I like to lite cigarets with matches. It was long time since
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Invisible paint? is it possible?
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High School Youtube Video for AP physics project-Advice/Opinions Wanted
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High School Uncertainty Formulas for High-School Level
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Introducing Myself: Hiya Physics Student
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Undergrad Wondering the Science of Extraterrestrial Species
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Graduate Observations that broke the rules?
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Graduate Fictional Application of Ring-Vortex
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Graduate When was Podkletnov effect definitely discarded as not existent?
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Physics bases future technologies
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Undergrad Vibration of a Circular Membrane Equation
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Undergrad How to come up with research questions?
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High School Gravity Simulator - Try it Out & Learn Physics!
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Graduate How can a digital to analogue converter be designed to produce a squared output?
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Reminiscences: 1976 interview with J.A.Wheeler (friend of Bohr and Einstein)
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Undergrad How is sound and electrical energy created during thunderstorms?
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I apologize, but I am not sure what you are asking. Can you please clarify?
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High School Physics of a Syringe: Surface Tension & Water Retention
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Graduate Molecular Opposites: Can We Determine Exact Opposite?
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Undergrad Can someone explain the following logic used to define the meter?
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High School Informal experiment in IR detection
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Graduate Time travel and the 2nd law of thermodynamics
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Seeing Michio Kaku today. Any questions you'd like me to ask?
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TED Video: Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
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Undergrad My Amazon Prime expires soon, recommend me something
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How to pronoucne Mie in Mie Scattering?
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High School What is the 5th State of Matter? Understanding the Fifth State of Matter
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High School Building a Storage Loft: Joist Hangers for Concrete and Drywall
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Graduate Could a Voitenko Compressor be Used in a Missile for Armor-Piercing Attacks?
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Poll: Greatest physicist of the 20th century?
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Motivation for time travel into the past
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High School How Do You Tell Time at the North Pole?
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Undergrad Uncertainty Calculation for Lab Report: Methods & Comparison
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We need a Physics Calendar anyone?
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Undergrad Hi,I'm having difficulty trying to figure out the following
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High School Do You Need a Website for Problem Solving?
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Undergrad How Can I Make Clear Ice for Multiple Glasses Without Circulating Water?
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Graduate Can a Vector Be Expanded into a Field in Physics?
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High School Is buoyancy possible without gravity?
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Undergrad When did statistical studies become important for the study of physics?
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Advice for a 'Murrican going to CERN
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I was browsing over my physics course work before going to bed,
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Graduate Is Rossi's Cold Fusion the Real Deal?
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High School What is a Warm Hole? Understanding the Basics in Simple Terms
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Graduate Behavior of foam: floating vs. submerged
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Graduate Questions About Physics: Perspectives from Macro & Quantum Levels
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How my 10 year old cousin learned of the speed of light
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Create an Edible Musical Instrument: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in G Major
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Undergrad Why does the atmosphere move with the earth?
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High School Zeno's paradoxes don't understand.
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Whiteboards vs. Blackboards: What's the Difference?
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Mystery Object: S-Shaped & Rotating
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High School Explain the physics joke Don't be a d^3x/dt^3
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