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What force makes fluid flow faster in a smaller pipe?
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Solving Catapult Project: Finding Spring Constant
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Plastic or glass that can block one colour/ wavelength?
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The Young Double-Slit Experiment
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Overunity Questions: Is Energy Added in Space?
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How should doped silicon wafers be handled?
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Question on the Inherent Instability of Lagrangian points
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Where does energy go during phase transitions?
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Quick question about liquid crystals
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Graph of gravitational quantities against distance
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Explain Derivatives in Physics: Gauss Law
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Why Does a Bomb Blast Create a Mushroom Cloud and Then a Ring of Smoke?
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How much force is needed to bend a fixed beam channel by 4mm at 'F'?
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The coriolis effect and air travel
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Why nobel prize is awarded for blue led invention .?
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Is My 3D Simulation Thesis Title Appropriate for a Free Falling Bodies Project?
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How can I calculate the volume of leaked gas in a leak testing project?
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How can I quickly and efficiently demoisturize air?
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What is causing the copper wire to not conduct in my inductor coil?
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Meaning of the Partition function
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Driving an Oil Tanker Truck on Curvy Roads
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Conceptual question about (GEM forces)
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Do We Use Charge Sign in Electric Field Intensity Formula?
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Double slit - why vertical strips?
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Would it be possible to hold electrified liquids in the air?
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How to tell the difference between randomness and chaos?
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Why Isn't There More Current in Reverse Diode?
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Why do electrons flow against their nature in a battery?
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How to calculate error propagation for several measurements?
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Constructing a Hollow Glass Prism for Science Experiment
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Understanding Data Storage in SSD: Comparing to HDD and the Role of Atoms
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How Does Conductivity Increase in N-Type Semiconductors?
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Math used in this equation rearrangement?
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N00b question about understanding what formulas are
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Which Movies Best Illustrate Science Concepts for Your Classroom Project?
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Rate of loss of mass of a meteorite
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What happens when 2 shock waves collide?
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Hydraulic Energy: Understand w=0 & w>0
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Difference between Auto- and Cross-correlation function
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How does theoretical physics advance?
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Need Help Understanding Mechanical Advantage of Chain Mechanism
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How much of a rip-off are varifocals?
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Why is the buoyant force equation different in accelerating vessels?
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Can Negative Temperatures Bring Us Closer to Fusion as a Viable Power Source?
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What Textbook Covers Hooke's Law in Tensor Form and Shear Stress?
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How Does Bandwidth Relate to Radio Transmission?
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Learn Problem Solving Through Drawings & Sketches
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Can time be modeled by an asymptote?
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Does experiencing a static shock mean that you are grounded?
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What Are Forced Oscillations and How Do They Work?
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What Are the Essential Concepts Every Physicist Should Know?
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Finding out what are the recent problems
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Flywheel -- Why does it reverse direction after spinning to a stop?
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Kink solution of 2-dimensional equation, how to be stable?
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Passing mercury through a copper tube
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Deciding Miller Index when building a transistor?
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Is this known as the center of mass, or something else?
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Did I understand the double slit experiment correctly?
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Gravitational Binding Energy vs total mass energy
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Universe Tick Rate: Planck Time?
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What happens if a P-type wafer touches an N-type?
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Analysis of the physics in Interstellar
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Understanding the Difference Between Pitch & Volume
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Facing problem in analysing Taylor series expansion
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How does the train scene in The Wolverine break physics?
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How does heating a gas in a vessel with a piston affect the pressure inside?
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How many ways can you determine density?
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What does Wavelength/degree mean?
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What MIT OCW courses can help clarify tensor concepts in physics?
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What Are the Complexities of Buoyancy and Common Misconceptions?
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ΔAmplitude of wave on rope with a change in linear density
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Boston Molasses Disaster: Eyewitness Accounts & Impact
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Have you ever wondered about the connection between airbag physics and Calculus?
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The Secrets of Achieving Greater Swing Height in a Playground
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Estimating irradiance on a square planar surface
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How Far Up Do You Need to Go to Escape Earth's Gravity?
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Negligible terms and Lagrangians
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What does the |-sign mean in this text?
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Can Physics Explain the Thrilling Feat of Tightrope Walking?
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Why Do Electrons Jump into the Conduction Band in Semiconductors?
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Einsteins field equations us what type of index notation?
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Using gravity to suck matter from a star (Lexx)?
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Is Impedance Solely Dependent on Lenz's Law?
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Graphene Nobel winners discover new property of graphene
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Can two objects ever be exactly the same?
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What Would Happen to Humanoid Bone Structure If the Moon Crashed Into Earth?
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Absorbed energy from the sun, where does it end up?
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Poynting theorem for harmonic em plane waves
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A force of attraction between any two objects with mass?
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What elements of physics are involved in cup stacking?
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What Units are Used for Hansen Solubility Parameter?
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Shiny black nail polish to matte black
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Intro & What does it mean to normalize a function/an image?
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Matter Alignment: Magnatism Effects on Salt Water Flow
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Photometric and Radiometric measurement concepts
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A question of "Time" and pre-determination and has everything already happened?
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Earth's Gravitational Force On Me
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What Happens If We Change Just One Physical Constant?
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Determining Young's Modulus by Bending a Piece of Wood
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Will an unbalanced wave be able to induce resonance?
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