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Undergrad Units of Brinkman's Equation Parameters

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Undergrad What Happens to an Object in a Vacuum Filled Jar?

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Graduate EMBLA 2000 Mission in Hessdalen: Massimo Teodorani Ph.D.

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Undergrad Japan Nuclear Plant: World's Biggest May Be on Fault

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Undergrad Will there be a capillary rise of liquid in vaccume with gravitation present?

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High School Get Free Electricity in Physics 2 | Physics Forums

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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics and Art Coexist?

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Undergrad Low Frequency Wave Transmission Through Barriers

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Graduate Is Cold Fusion Making a Comeback?

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High School Does temperature affect the sinking rate of objects at different latitudes?

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I miss physics, accouting is so dull

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High School What is Mass? Understanding the Concept of Matter and Mass

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Real Physics (and my last post) is lost

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Graduate Synthetic, exotic particles as a sign of extraterrestrial life

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Graduate How do I find the Ion potential in a chamber using Geant4?

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Graduate Is Time Truly Infinite or Does It Have a Natural Limit?

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High School Deriving input-output relationship

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Whiteboards on Online Forums - Info Requested

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High School White Noise vs Black Noise | Difference Explained

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Undergrad Did simplicity win in our school's technical drawing competition?

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High School What is a 100% incline in Tour de France?

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Lab Lovers - ACRONYMS ALERT ALL (NYM)

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Watch Sun TV's Science Games Show - Tuesdays 8am

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High School Significant Figures: Questions & Answers

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Undergrad How Do Springs A, B, and C Reach Equilibrium on the 4th and 5th Intervals?

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Undergrad Studying Swarm Behaviour Using Physical Methods

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Graduate Levitation is a well documented phenomenon

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High School What is the driving force behind osmosis in biology?

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High School Why do airplanes pressurize their cabins?

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Welcome Back Belle! Physics Student Results Next Week

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Undergrad Glow of emission lines vs. hot objects

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Discover the Fascinating Effects of a Reverse Sun in a Fantasy World

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High School Copper Iridium Metal: Non-Metallic Attraction Explained

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Graduate John Hagelin's Research: M-Effect and DC/MD

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Ijust want to ask example of DPImJustNewHereand

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Help with Physics related project (non school related)

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High School What Does Per Unit Volume Mean in Physics?

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Understanding Electrostatic Waves: A Personal Experience

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High School Another simple question: Derivation of the formula for temp. conversion

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Graduate I have lots of questions on physics

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High School What Is Fire and How Does It Fit into the States of Matter?

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The Mystery of Cold Air Travel: Light vs. Heat

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Undergrad What Is the Unfamiliar Symbol in the Reynolds Number Equation?

  • picklefeet
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Graduate Loan me money today and I will gladly pay you back yesterday

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is Access to Physics Education Improving in Nepal?

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High School Physics Classes Should be Experimentally-Based

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What happened to my physics thread?

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Graduate Is There a "Center of Force" for the Other Three Fundamental Forces?

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High School Does a rock's gravity indicate potential energy and atomic bonds?

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Undergrad Understanding Solar Cell Efficiency and Production: What You Need to Know

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High School Okay, what is the official reason planes fly?

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Clay Court vs. Other Tennis Courts - What's the Difference?

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Undergrad Mirror on the Wall: Light & Reflections

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High School Preparing for a Physics Exam: Two Weeks and Counting

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Undergrad Altitude's effect on pitch of human voice

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Did h-bar change? What happened to h-bar?

  • Chi Meson
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High School Why isn't the world flat ? (Are you sure )

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Physics PhD Without a Bachelor's Degree - Does this Person Seem Familiar?

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Graduate Normalisation constants in physics?

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High School How Does Powder React When Squeezed Inside a Cube?

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General advantages/Disadvantages of going into physics

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Can two loudspeakers one next to other, damage them self?

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Undergrad Sodium acetate trihydrate - initiation of crystallization.

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How Does Dark Energy Fit into Einstein's Theory of General Relativity?

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So I just had my first day of work at Fermilab

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Undergrad Speaker Equations: Amplitude & Frequency Explained

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Graduate Introductory Course in Computational Physics/Engineering

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Undergrad Applying physics against a noise problem

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High School Integrating Calculus withing a Physics Project

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Undergrad Understanding Numerical Physics: Get Intuition & Memorize Constants?

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Undergrad Stationary regime in time series.

  • Horaci Castellini
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Graduate Non-local effects and information

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Undergrad Is the transfer of energy in hydraulics truly instant?

  • Helios223
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High School Definition of Candela: Learn its Meaning

  • Milind_shyani
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High School Why Won't Plastic Pots Melt When Filled with Water?

  • szubaidi
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High School Balinese instrument called an angklung

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C.N. Yang's 85th Birthday Conference

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Graduate ZExploring the Observer Effect: A Look at Schrödinger's Cat and More

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Undergrad Finding Household Items for Ferrofluid Synhesis

  • Neohaven
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Undergrad Earth's Velocity without the Moon: Formula & Answers

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High School Why do we capitalize certain words in physics?

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High School Understanding Ear Pain in Car Tunnels: Causes and Solutions

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What are the top 10 physics journals besides Physical Review?

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Why Does Physics Exist if It Can't Solve All Practical Problems?

  • sancho2007
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High School What is the Meaning of General Physics?

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Man Proposes in Zero Gravity: Freefalling in Love

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High School Is 2+2=5 Possible in Physics?

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High School I got a question about the Freedom ship.

  • tivaelydoc
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High School Was Galileo Galilei the first real physicist?

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High School Understanding the Meaning of 'Time' in Simple Terms: A Quick Explanation

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I Just Had an Interview at Fermilab

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Undergrad The Physics of Origami: Can It Be Applied to Playing Cards?

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The museum of unworkable devices.

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Undergrad Impact factor of physics journals

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Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel - OH REALLY?

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High School Discover the Latest Alternative Fuel Beyond Biodiesel and Ethanol

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High School What keeps clouds afloat in the air

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