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What is the energy stored in a taser? Can you se 0.5*C*V^2?
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Can Planetary Gravity Flatten an Egg-Shaped Planet?
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Simplified theories for gravity?
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What is happning with phase changes and intermolecular forces
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Can Adding a Potentiometer Adjust LED Brightness?
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Flamethrowers: Why Do They Need Compressed Gas?
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Divergence of inverse square field and Dirac delta
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Is there any way to predict if a substance is flammable or not?
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Could the LHC potentially form a black hole?
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Do gravity and density have a direct relationship?
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How to Calculate the Restraining Force of Intersecting Bands?
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Will Submerging a Person in Mercury Harm Them?
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How Does Varying a Function Lead to a Change in Its Integral Form?
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Could someone explain this image to me?
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Building A noise cancelling program.
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What is most likely to be the actual explanation of gravity?
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Question about brightness temperatur​e
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How do transverse waves propagate through a string?
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Sign Convention Linkage: Metric Tensor & Dirac Equation
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Understanding Physics with a Rank 4 Tensor Example
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Gravitational Force Units Question
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Measuring CO2 Solubility in Various Liquids: Experimental Setup Suggestions
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Discover the Best Resources for Understanding Ocean Bathymetry Technology
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How to calculate orbitals of celestial bodies using calculus?
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Emission spectra and energy levels in atoms
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Why the laws of physics will eventually decay Moore's Law
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Where Did the Concept of Predicting the Universe's Future Originate?
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What prevents mass-less gauge bosons and gravity going faster than c?
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Circuit schematics: Equivalent Representations of circuits
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What Are the Units of Resistivity?
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Can the air disruptive field (about 3*10^6 V/m) be calculated?
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Doubts in Epitaph of Stevinus .
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Force & Energy: How Does it Affect Object Motion?
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Is coupling G actually a constant of nature or it can vary?
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Basic questions about signal processing and fourier analysis
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Can F=ma and e=mc² Be Combined Through Their Common Variable m?
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Need Suggestions for Problems Regarding Strings in Physics
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Confusion regarding SI base units
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Reaching Mach 1: Detecting Sonic Velocity in a Convergent Nozzle
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Resolution and Rayleigh's Criteria
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Question on why metal ions are remain stationary in the metal body
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Egg Drop Design Challenge: Straws, Index Cards and Hot Glue
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Resistors in seris and in parallel
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Kepler's 3rd law - which object in numerator?
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Learn about the proof of Lamb-Chaplygin dipole
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Does Gauss's Law hold true for a point charge near a sphere?
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Converting CFM on an Anemometer help? 4.5 inch orifice on vacuum
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Preparing for Your First Physics Olympiad: Tips and Strategies for Success
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Ultra Low Cooling Methods: HE3 vs Nuclear Diamagnetisation
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Gauss's Law: Understanding kQ/r^2 in Point Charge Surroundings
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Calculating Amplitude in Simple Harmonic Motion
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What is the cause of the slow movement of a large ice floe on a lake?
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Can Negative Energy Be Produced in Small Amounts Through the Casimir Effect?
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The h in mgh Can you change it?
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A lot of questions to ask about E
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What if there were no atmosphere
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Ideas Wanted: World's Simplest Physics Demos
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My dilemma with protons/antiprotons and neutrons/antineutrons
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Explaining the Phenomenon of Electric Charge in Straws
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Simple circuits and the direction of batteries
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Kinetic Energy Transfer in Relativity: A Puzzler
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Transistor activated by finger on base
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Air Consumption Rate of Cylinder Actuators on SKG200 Valves
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Application of force in different directions
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How to deduce the bond energy/distance relation (with grah)?
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Why Does a Positive Charge q Seem to Lose Kinetic Energy in the Diagram?
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Does EM Radiation Dissipate at a 1/r^5 Ratio for Circularly Polarized Waves?
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The Secrets of Time Travel to the Past: A Comprehensive Guide
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Understanding Moles From Ideal Gas Law
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I don't understand why -1/2 is the higher energy level and +1/2 is the
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Where Should I Place the Gaussian Surface When Applying Gauss's Law?
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What Does the Equation K(q,q;T)=Ae(q,q;T/π) Mean?
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Energy Use, Storage & Expenditure: All You Need To Know
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Hookes law, the representaion of K
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Understanding Condensation & Vacuum in Steam Engines
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Dryness Fraction - Do All Steam Have It?
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Is the UK's electrical system safer due to its grounding configuration?
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Can Teleportation and 3D Printing Change Civilization and Trade?
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I am doing a science experience prooving giant ships can float
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Any energy generation process means mass loss?
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Sonic Boom, Red Bull Stratos (possible?)
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Is it accurate to refer to invisible radiation as light?
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Air absorbing moisture by blowing across pond
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How related is Number Theory to Physics?
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Is directional gas flow possible in a circular closed pipe system?
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Lagrangian aproach.Learning materials.
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What Factors Influence a Boat's Trajectory Under a Bridge?
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Does a Conical End Affect the Magnetic Field Strength of a Solenoid?
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Evaporation of h202 in a h20 solution
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Why won't the lightbulb light up in this circuit?
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Time taken by gas to fill empty vessel
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Trouble explaining Gauge Symmetry
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Imperial measurements just feel better
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Bosons are the glue that hold fermions together
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Why Do Wave Equations Use Sinθ and Cosθ Interchangeably?
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Physics Project ( College/University )
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What Causes Counter EMF in Electric Motors?
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Solve Harmonic Wave Equation: Manish from Germany
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Gravity Acceleration: Is it Proportional to the Strength of Gravity?
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Can an electromagnet effectively trap metal particles in a cube?
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