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Question about Significant Figures
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Is the force that keeps the Earth spinning
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Can Quantum Eigenvalues Define the Exact Values of Nature's 26 Basic Constants?
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Fission of Uranium: Why U-235 is Better than U-238
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Gauss Law in a plane sheet, and thick sheet (Infinite)
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From black holes to superconductors: Stanford video
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Neutral isotopes of atom, state possible value for A & Z?
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Optimize Apple Juice Coldness w/ Minimal Added Water
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What is the true nature of neutrinos and their role in the universe?
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Why Can't We See Diffraction from Metal Surfaces?
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Surface Barrier in Type 2 Superconductors
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Why is the Number 3 So Prevalent in our Universe?
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An Explanation of the Effective Area of Isotropic Antenna
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Derivative of displacement with respect to time
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Equation of Continuity: Leaking Bucket & Minus Sign
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What Would Happen if Earth's Core Suddenly Disappeared?
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How Much Energy is Dissipated When Braking from 75 to 55 mph?
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Should You Leave Water in Your Vacation Home to Raise RH?
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Why Does the Reduced Mass Concept Yield a Positive Total Energy?
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Left/Right Communication with Alien Race by Richard Feynman
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Is it common for physicists to trash data?
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GAMSAT Strong Force Question: What Happens to Energy?
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Creating Matter from Photons: Proton-Antiproton Bias?
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Creation of Time: Understanding the Universe Through Perspective
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Error propagation - partial derivative?
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Does Force Direction Always Decrease the Potential Energy?
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Prove u= u_f + xu_g and h= h_f + xh_fg
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Is there such thing as one bit of information?
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Why do negative energy solutions cause issues in Padmanabhan's Gravitation?
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Spin mass in a vacuum, efficiency?
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Proton Rest Mass: Is c^2 a Variable or a Unit?
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Is the SAANI Software Available for Public Download?
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Experimental determination of Mean free path.
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Spectroscopic linelist question
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LHC Dangers (really *only* stuff that's already happening?)
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What Forces Bind Quarks Within Particles?
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