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Train goes through a tunnel your ears pop a little?

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High School Can you give a couple of examples of chemical energy?

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Undergrad Goodbye Polaroid Film: Physics Labs Say Farewell

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High School Does a flag always have to be attached to a pole to wave?

  • lax1113
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Undergrad Why does Earth have a tide on the side opposite the moon?

  • tgt
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High School Understanding Food as Chemical Energy

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Undergrad Is inertia a fundamental principle or can it be derived from deeper physics?

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High School Why do noodles make the soup boil?

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Passed my physics final

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Undergrad Bullets from a Jet Fighter Mach 3.2

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Graduate Is There a New Theory for Ball Lightning?

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High School A sonic boom sound vs explosion sound

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Undergrad How will Lightness do in December?

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High School Do you think Dumbo could actually fly?

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Graduate What actually collapses a wave function and does everything have one?

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Undergrad Where does liquid helium get energy to climb its container

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High School Why does my faux-shearling jacket generate so much static electricity?

  • mattmns
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High School More atoms in a cup of water, than cups in an ocean?

  • bchandler
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Hawking Moving to Waterloo (Perimeter Institute)?

  • George Jones
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Graduate How Does Physics in the 21st Century Address Its Sociopolitical Challenges?

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Undergrad Diffusion of flavour in a fishing bait

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Is Stephen Hawking Moving to Canada for a New Position?

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High School Why Do All Three Faucets Turn On When I Operate Just One?

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Graduate 'Photons only exist at the moment they are emitted or absorbed' ()

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Anti matter (alternate dimensions)

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Undergrad Finding the Frequency of a Point in Space

  • Fron-Tech
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High School Why do low frequencies produce low pitch and why are only longitudinal waves in fluids?

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Undergrad Examples of accepted theories once rejected?

  • thenewmans
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High School Weighing the Box with Bees Inside - Who's Right?

  • Westtexas
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High School How do pads reduce the force that causes concussions?

  • bkl4life
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What types of academic papers are available on this site?

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Graduate The physics concept most indicative of reality

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Did Weber's Electrodynamics Challenge Traditional Physics Theories?

  • Prune
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High School Why is there a twist in safety wire between fasteners?

  • AME2
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Graduate Should Life Be Considered a Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature?

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Graduate Can a unified field theory predict outcomes in any system?

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Undergrad Is hell exothermic or endothermic interesting find

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Graduate Is There Observational Evidence of Chaos in the Three-Body Problem?

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Graduate French Press Finally Calls it. E = MC²

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High School Frequencies of the normal mode in standing waves in a string fixed

  • noobie!
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Graduate A re-conception of energy as the set of rules for how matter moves

  • Tam Hunt
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Undergrad What is the potential of Perendev Magnetic Motors?

  • K.J.Healey
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Strange Ice Formation: Unusual Sundial-Shaped Ice Formed in Cat Bowl

  • PhysCou
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High School Group IV Experiment: Last-Minute Help & Suggestions Needed

  • matadorqk
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Graduate What Are the Real Objectives of Particle Acceleration?

  • munadi
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Bedside Lamp with a mind of it's own

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Graduate Ontological status of extra dimensions

  • Tam Hunt
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ZapperZ's Disney Physics Q&A Room

  • Evo
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High School Struggling with Newton's second law problems

  • ruby92
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Undergrad Robert Wilson: Physics is Worth Defending for Its Own Sake

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Undergrad Best Science Magazines for College Students

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Undergrad Which Fan Design Maximizes CFM Through a 6 Hole?

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Phoenix Mars lander landing coverage and mission details

  • B. Elliott
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Undergrad Can an omnidirectional treadmill be designed without a lot of moving parts?

  • potato991
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Undergrad Does a flag flutter in water or vacuum when moved quickly?

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High School Where should a beginner start learning physics

  • laymanhobbist
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I can name that physicist in 5 notes.

  • tribdog
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High School Cool resonant mode demonstration

  • waht
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Toy given to Einstein with a ball and string on a rod

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Graduate Wilczek's nonstring unification vision for LHC and beyond

  • marcus
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Resources on the history of the harmonic oscillator and vibrating systems

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Graduate Do you ever get the feeling that you really dont understand anything at all?

  • jnorman
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Undergrad The Absurdity of 1 Mol as an SI Unit - What's the Real Explanation?

  • ManDay
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Undergrad What actually happens when two masses touch each other?

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Graduate Can time be a function in any parameter?

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Undergrad Does the diffusion constant change with time or capillary length?

  • retroscience
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Search engine INSPEC to find some physics papers

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Why are weather forecasts so unreliable despite modern computing?

  • Hanfonius
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High School Decibel Question: How Many dB with 3 Identical Fans?

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Undergrad What can be done with bigger diamonds?

  • OAQfirst
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Graduate God does not play dice referred to what exactly?

  • dimensionless
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Welcome Tony! A 13-Year-Old Physics and Astronomy Enthusiast

  • Tony.K
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Undergrad Does the Atom Have to Be U238 in Schrödinger's Cat Experiment?

  • Andre
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High School What is a second?

  • Epsillon
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Undergrad Can Scotch Tape Really Produce X-Rays?

  • edward
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Graduate Could energy exist without the laws of physics?

  • WaveJumper
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High School Green Planet (My project for energy)

  • matttan
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Undergrad Why is the amplitude maximum at the open end of a closed and open end tube?

  • cks
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Graduate Guess physics Nobel (to be awarded 7 Oct 2008)

  • marcus
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High School After watching a terrifying documentaryQuestions

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Ring Around the Moon on 13th - Central NJ

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Undergrad Table of all physics integrations

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Graduate Static n-Body Problem: Definition and Explanation

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Graduate You guys don't actually believe any of this stuff, do you?

  • Bible Thumper
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High School What kind of physics game can I make for a software competition in Visual Basic?

  • Sakha
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Graduate How does sound localization vary with distance and frequency?

  • 04shaikj
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Graduate How to deal with slowly varying errors?

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Is the Anti-Gravity Propulsion System in the Video Legit?

  • lpbug
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High School Can magnets be a cheap and eco-friendly source of energy?

  • lax1113
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Graduate External gravity field independent of mass distribution?

  • JP O'Donnell
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Undergrad Reverse Gravity: Is It Possible?

  • lpbug
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High School Physics book recommendations for an 8th grader

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Undergrad Organ Pipe Research: Is 16ft Open-Top Flue Open at Bottom?

  • curlyman
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High School Why does adding 1 meter to a rope around the Earth create slack?

  • LAF
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Undergrad Time to Vacuum Fill a Rigid Building

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Graduate How will Trouble do in September?

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Time, Mass, and Matter Exist Separately?

  • kamonra
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Graduate Question related to fill in boundary conditions in comsol

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Undergrad Does a Tuning Fork Sound Different in Helium?

  • louise82
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Undergrad Use of σ in quoting measurement accuracy

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