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Van De Graaf: Why Do Bubbles Repel?
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Looking for a Comprehensive Physics Encyclopedia?
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Which Theoretical Physics Field Should I Research?
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Black Holes & Stars - What Do We Know?
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Early Cosmic Inflation: Questions & Answers
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Doppler Effect Formula Question
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Multi-Species Ideal Gas Law and Mean Molecular Mass
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Involute curve in bevel gear teeth
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Questions about a Transient Luminous Event
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Can matter be defined strictly in terms of mass and energy?
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How Does Collision Type Affect Energy Transfer in Toy Car Experiments?
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Increase in length directly proportional to the origin length
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Understanding Transformers: The Relationship Between Voltage and Amperage
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Learning Resources - Semiconductor Physics
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How do you actually ground an object?
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What is the Shear Modulus of This Screw?
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Detection of a Specific Fluorescent Wavelength via iPhone camera
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Could Teleportation Be Achieved Through Matter-Photon Conversion?
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Discover the Speed of Our Movement in Relation to the Center of the Universe
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Calculate Balance Point Distance: A, B, C & D
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Blacksmith needs counterbalance help.
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Gravity adding energy in an isolated system?
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Why is in the middle of a cyclone the air going up?
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Can Closed Timelike Curves Make Time Travel Possible?
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Question on Chapter 7 : Penrose Road to Reality
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Ionizing solids- effects and materials
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Can a 4D hyper-alien perceive depth with just two hyperspherical eyes?
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Cyclotron: Why Electric Field Inside Dees is Zero
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Is it possible to build atoms?
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School bus crash resulting in death
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What Happens to Momentum in a Collision Involving Negative Mass?
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Could a spy satellite spot a nickel on the ground?
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Had an, oh, that's how moment - Slingshot manuever
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Applying Chaos Theory to history
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Type of curvature of gradient force from edge to center of a sphere
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If two units have the same dimensions are they always inequivalent?
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Atom distance and repulsive energy
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Do non-Abelian gauge fields takes the same value in the Lie subalgebra
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How Do Bicycle Wheels Interact with Earth's Rotation at the North Pole?
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Why are two different conductors needed for the Seebeck-Peltier effect
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Directly Downwind Faster Than The Wind
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Scalar Definition: Transformations & Frames
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I need the definition of a few basic physics terms. Can anyone help?
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Can Smell Be Captured and Transferred Electronically?
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Area Under Graphs: Finding Work Done
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Calculating EMF of a cell using Potentiometer.
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Glass is Solid, Not Liquid: Urban Legend Debunked
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Why is exit wound in a rifle gun shot injury bigger than entry wound?
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Gravity Q: Acceleration w/o Terminal Velocity?
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Finding amplitude from a diagram
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Fermi energy approximation for white dwarfs
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Force, accleration vectors or not
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Where does potential energy come from?
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X and y components in force problem
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The possibility of IEC and Earnshaw's theorem
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Physical intrepretation of contra-variant and covariant vectors?
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Something different; Tobacco and Polonium.
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Can one derive all of physics from the 5 fundamental force equations?
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Gravity at Earth's Center: Does Weightlessness Follow?
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How Does Physics Unlock the Secrets of Everyday Phenomena?
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Need Help With a Physics Phenomenon (Quick Question)
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Physics problems related to green function ?
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How do Wavelength, Intensity, and HSV/RGB Interact in Image Processing?
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Why does math describe physics so perfectly?
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Can a Decay Constant be bigger than 1?
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Question in determing the direction of induced emf?
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Beginners books for a curious kid
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Comparing Coffee Maker Circuits | Are They the Same?
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Calculating the appropriate cable strength.
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A single atom in a cold, closed, vacuum system.
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Lenz's Rule - Doubts, Force, and Magnetic Field
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How to spot conserved quantities from Lagrangians
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The effects of diameter changes to a manometer.
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What is the difference between conservative and nonconservative force?
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Resolution of F vs t measurement
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Is it possible that nature laws constants changed over time
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Definition of Force confused about how it includes direction
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Linearization and energy equation
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Physical meaning of a Metre-Second? [or (Kg · s) or (N · s) ]
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How Does Heat Affect the Size of a Hole in a Metal Plate?
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Cooling below 1 K: How long can it stay cool?
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Alternative to making antimatter
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What is the important dimension in this brain teasing system?
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Calculating Sugar Poured in Tea: A Fun High School Math Problem
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Why always like poles repel and unlike poles attract
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Energy thought experiment (oldschool very)
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Does the Dip Angle Change on a Rollercoaster with a Rotating Compass?
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In what proton MRI is focusing ?
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Question about the formula of wave used and plane wave.
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Comparing Atmospheric Pressure to Explosion Force
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Why self focusing at high densities?
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How to Safely Dispose of a Frozen Soda Can
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Negative Rod and Negative Conductors
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Photographing Atoms: Closest and Best Photos of Molecules
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Why do we have two tides due to moon?
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Energy is neither created nor destroyed
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What is the relationship between mass and energy according to E=MC^2?
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Can a Passive Device Mimic V = (const.) d3I/dt3 in a Circuit?
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Im not sure if this s the right category but
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Fourier Transform : Analysis of 2 different signals
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