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Impact Force: Does Energy Absorption Affect Driver?
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Conditions for a E field to be possible
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How does acceleration= final velocity - initial velocity divided by time work?
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What is the significance of curl of of a vector field.
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Reducing Force: Understanding Energy Absorption in Crashes
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What can I consider 'fundamental definitions'?
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Can We Spin Air? Spherical Centrifugal Force
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Energy to move an object along a conveyor belt
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Falling: How Our Body Absorbs Force & Reducing Impact
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How Do Angles Affect Load in Rope Rescue Systems?
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If i have a=exp x, and i know that my uncertainty in a is 3% ( at all
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Complex Conjugation in the Continuous Time
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Can a magnetic shaft generate current flow in a rotating magnetic field?
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What Are the Energy Differences in Compressing a Spring by Hand vs Using a Clip?
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Matter and energy short question
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What is the Surface Area of a 60W Incandescent Bulb Filament?
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Difference between these equations?
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Why topological invariants instead of topological invariances?
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How Many Images Does a Zone Plate Produce with an Object in Front?
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Shaken, then opened, soda fizzing?
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Dropping items from an airplane.
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Is True Randomness a Fundamental Aspect of the Universe?
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Is the Connection Between Energy and Time Overlooked in Physics?
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Fourier transform of RF signal with a prism ?
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How can type-I superconductors have a critical field value?
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Why Are Octahedral Complexes the Most Common in Crystal Field Theory?
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Can you explain the fugacity of boson gas in Bose-Einstein Condensation?
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Why Does the Continuous Emission Spectrum Depend Only on Temperature?
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Wall Adapter Question: How is 1A Output Possible?
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E^(i[itex]\omega[/itex]t) question
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Trying to calcualte the uncertainty
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Can the Big Bang Theory Be Experimentally Verified in Modern Physics?
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What is the Difference Between ∫X.dY and ∫Y.dX in Physical Applications?
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The Influence of Low Energy Limits on Physical Matter, Space, and Time in Nature
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Raman Amplification: Understanding its Role in Optical Fibers
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Difference between temporal and spatial coherence
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Is it less damaging to go faster?
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Level surface of a contained liquid
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Irradiance measurement procedure
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How Does Torque in a Wheel and Axle System Create Forward Motion?
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Are Moments Treated Differently than Forces in Beam Analysis?
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My expansion cloud chamber movie
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Using energy to scrub the atmosphere of greenhouse gases
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Parachute Equations: Calculate Rate of Descent
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Strategies for solving Hamilton's equations
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Number of Dimensions + Laws of Physics
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Conceptual Normal Force Question
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Two bodies with rope moving apart
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What Is the Newest Generation of Solar Cells?
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Planck's Constant/Uncertainty Principle
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Will a 100% Reflective Interior Box Explode if a Light Source is Placed Inside?
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Is hv/kt Dimensionless in Planck's Radiation Law?
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Where Can I Find Texas Tower Data for Physics Experiments?
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What is happening in my circuit?
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Are There Natural Dimensionless Numbers in the Standard Model?
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Path of a block suspended by two parallel cords
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Why Does Nature Seek Stability?
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Is Scope of Classical Physics decreasing?
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What is Triboluminescence and How Does it Work?
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Why do we conjugate operators in QFT?
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A 0.18m long metal rod is places on some metal rollers in a megnetic
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Gibbs phenomenon and ringing in square waves: causality?
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Permeability/permissivity from G, hbar, c
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Curious inquiry about exotic matter
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Answer Physics Question: Is a Bullet Exerting Force? Advice for Studying Physics
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General Question on scales at grocery stores
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How Did Gordon Grant Combine Music and Fly Fishing in His Innovative Rod Design?
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Infinity -just maths or any physical existence?
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Question on the error of the estimated mean.
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Communicating vessels(experiement)
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Decoding the Definition of Physics Codes
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Unbreakable pole moved in an infinite vacuum
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Solving the Mystery of Vacuum in a Cylinder with a Piston
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Formula for gravity path of two objects
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Enhancing a Catapult Project: Ideas for Angle Adjustment and Trigger Mechanism
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Evaluating Metal's Effect on RF: Wi-Fi in the 2.4 GHz Range
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Cavitation detection in machinery
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Meaning of E=mc^2: Are Mass and Energy the Same?
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Could element 137 electrons become superluminal in a retrocausal atom?
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Mass can turn into Energy, or is it Matter which can turn into energy?
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Which came into existance first: Energy or Mass?
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What is the point of Fourier Series and what is it used for?
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The way helicopters are able to operate
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Question about exothermic/endothermic reactions
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Understanding the Impact of Static and Sudden Forces on Pain Perception
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Gas, vapor, clouds any difference?
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Question about information change as gas expands and contracts
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Why is Energy a Scalar? A Simple Explanation
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Relationship between Principle of Least Action and Continuity Equation
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Hamiltonian function vs. operator
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Why can't we lift objects while sitting?
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Why do blue and yellow pigments create green when mixed?
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What will happen when a body is equally dense as the liquid?
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Does energy of the signal lose after going through the filter?
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Dimensions and Dimensional analysis question
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Simulated astrophysics equations
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Finding the Centroid of a Coke Bottle
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The Effects of Water on EM Waveforms
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How do I record the occurrence of waves?
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Fourier Transform - how to increment in time?
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