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Why did the salt solution evaporate and leave deposits on the beaker?
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Question about Conserved Quantity Transfer from Train Track to Train
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Idea to intercept alien communications
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G-force of wind on a persons body.
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Is the Helmholez or Gibbs free energy every used outside of reactions?
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What is between the erath and the moon?
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Wetness of object after submerging in fluid
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How do I combine relative errors in particle energy measurements?
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A question about terminology of phase state & criticality
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Mass or attractive force responsible for not flying away
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How can I model an agent's movement in a liquid using 2D physics?
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Scientific principles involved in Pan flute
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What is Radii of Gyration? Application
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How accurate is this video about higher dimensions?
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Why is the range of gravity considered infinite?
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Behavior of Liquid Nitrogen at 3000psi & 6000psi
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Can Destructive Interference Completely Silence Music?
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How do you calculate BTU of expanding compressed air
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Are Larmor Orbits Created by a Charged Gas in a Uniform B Field?
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2nd law and energy flows question.
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Lagrangian and Eulerian Specifications
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Does T and P effect the mass flow rate of air through a pipe?
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Total energy of system along axis
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Flywheel Energy Storage: Powering Common Products with Kinetic Energy
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How Do Gravitational Fields Affect Photon Energy Levels?
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Circuit Resonance: Understanding Natural Frequency
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Would the delay cause the box to move?
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Understanding "c.c." in Screened Potential Notation
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Pascal Principle: Calculating Acceleration & Velocity for Hydraulic Lever
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Understanding ensembles, micro/macrostates, equilibrium, reversibility and more
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Topological Insulators Explained: Quantum Hall Effect & More
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Is There a Software for Simulating Capillarity Action in Various Shaped Tubes?
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Why Does Board Breaking Hurt More When It Fails?
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How Much Energy to Move a Moon-Sized Planetoid from Earth's Orbit?
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Distance time travels per second
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Understanding Angular Velocity in Circular Motion
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Understanding dE = d slash Q + d slash W Notation: Explained by Experts
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Centre of Mass: Hammer, Ruler, Balance
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Calculating the volume of gas in the same canister from 2 locations.
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Understanding Wave Phase: A0cosϕ = ℜa0eiϕ
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Why Does Moving Medium Not Change Detected Frequency?
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Where Do Optics and Photonics Fit in the Classification of Physics?
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How to calculate the bonding force due to wringing effect in slip guages
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Can Branching Capillary Increase Water Height?
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Why does higher derivatives of displacement not concentrated?
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Getting Help with Patent Funding for Climate Research
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A thought experiment on gravitation
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What is the Effect of Ferrofluid Surfactant on Particle Repulsion?
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What effects can occur when a body moves in a circular motion?
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Is the table-cloth trick driven more by inertia or friction?
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Can matter be perceived directly?
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Answer: What is Atom Spin: Physical or Property?
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Perpendicular components of the perpendicular plane
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How did scientists prove that quarks exist?
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Shape of a planet spinning very quikly
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What causes the bursting of a spherical air bubble?
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What Does 8.9876e+3 Joules Mean?
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Can We Identify Precise Margins Between Phases in Biphase Material Imaging?
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What is the True Nature of Mass and Its Origins?
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Flow of gas into a vacuum system through an orifice
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What are some nice modern physics experiment that I can do?
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What Is The Sky - Gazing Into Space?
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Calculating Decay Constant Without Initial Value
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Explaining Determinism: A Layman's Guide to Quantum Mechanics
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Youngs double slit experiment.
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Does anybody know what this apparatus is for?
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Why is Air Invisible to the Naked Eye?
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Evaporation of a mostly sealed erlenmeyer flask
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Is Our Current Existence Already Predestined by Time Travel?
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What is the name for a curve similar to a blackbody radiation curve?
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Portal Physics Scenario: A or B? Input from Physics Forum Community
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Forum Etiquette inquiryIs it rude to ask how to design a home project?
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What is energy's role in natural forces like gravity and magnetism?
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Is an Ideal Black Body Visible?
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2 slit experiment, what happen with 3,4,5 ?
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Maximum displacement covered by a body in time half of its own time period?
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Arrow of time in copenhagen interpretation.
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Air brake over hydraulic brakes
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What Does Nothingness Really Mean?
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What Are Some Recommended Review Articles in Physics?
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Which Fields of Physics Utilize Topology and Geometry in Modern Research?
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How Long Is the Piano String for the 3rd Harmonic?
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Normal reaction, is this a concept we really understand?
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Area under graph of 'energy versus time' graph
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Maximum precision of deterministic measurements
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Why do planes cause vibrations on the ground as they fly pass?
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Is there a Young-Laplace equation for solids and gases?
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Is the allotropy of nitrogen tetranitrogen,
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Is Relying on Integral Tables Over Manual Calculation Common in Physics Careers?
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Metropolis Algorithm and integration volume
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A very simple question about antimatter and E=mcc
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Write physics extended essay (IB)
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A couple questions about gravity
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Hockey helmet physics: me keep my damage from being brained.
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Join two broke pieces of the same material
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What is the Nature of Matter: Electron & Fundamental Particles
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What is the relationship between a comet's velocity and the shape of its orbit?
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Spherical Aberation & Barrel Distortion
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What happens to a fan inside a system without air?
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Should the Rear Wheel Be Larger on Cars?
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