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Calculating Peak Amplitude of Water Wave Motion
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Can a Neutron Star Become a Black Hole Due to Relativistic Effects?
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J.J. Thomson's cathode ray experiment
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Why Doesn't Gravity Act as a Restoring Force in Wave Pulses?
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Why is the moon's gravity differential field pointing away from the
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What does my physics book mean? What values do these represent?
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How can I accurately calculate damage in melee combat using physics principles?
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What generate the Gravity force from mass?
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Explaining Hookes Law to a GCSE Physics Student
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Taking a proton out of the atom.
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If the earth started spinning clockwise
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What is the reason for grounding a circuit ?
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Is the product of P actually wug and what about
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Why the K.E. Increases in a 10-Stage Linac Accelerator with 200 kV Supply
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Which diameter of two core cable?
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Colder with increasing altitude.
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How is G = R / R^2 + X^2 derived?
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Energy exchange between a bell and a hammer
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Will level of liquid increase if ice melts in it?
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Understanding Cell Circuits and the Direction of EMF
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Energy released from heavy atoms?
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Is the Past Uniquely Defined in Quantum Mechanics?
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Why Isn't the Moon's Shadow Line Perpendicular to the Sun-Moon Line?
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Beam Curvature Measurement with a Capacitive Sensor
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Atoms at Absolute 0: Subatomic Kinetic Energy
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Why Can't There Be a Critical Angle When nB/nA Is Greater Than 1?
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Why Does an Apple Fall to Earth, But Earth Doesn't Fall to the Apple?
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Can Cargo Planes Carry Extra Weight: A Dark Knight Rises Analysis
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Would someone explain me superconductivity?
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Effects on earth from a heavier moon
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Is a 100% Efficient Machine Considered a Perpetual Motion Machine?
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Is a Perfect Vacuum Achievable?
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ED-XRF spectra - recurrant artifact below 0 keV?
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Converting Joules to MeV: Understanding Energy Conversion
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Semiconductors + p-n junction doubt
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Numerical on adiabatic expansion
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Impossible Question: Maritime Freight
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What Do Hamiltonians and Hamilton's Equations Tell Us About Dimensions?
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Self Leveling Seesaw. Is It Possible?
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Average Energy of Grand Canonical Ensemble
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Is it possible to create a completely sealed room where a door can't be opened?
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Gravitational elongation formula conversion from SI
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Can a dimension exist that is neither temporal nor spatial?
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A scale challenge for your brilliant minds.
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Why does foam form on orange squash?
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What experiements were done to figure out law of gravitation
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Max Angle for Ladder Leaning on Wall
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Why do lots of people think time isn't real?
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Flow in a pipe with a tank on its top, and a nozzle on its bottom
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Does a 2 Light-Year Long Steel Bar Move Instantly When Pushed?
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How to find damping ratio from a graph ?
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Calculate De Broglie Wavelength of Electron | Help for Final Exam
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Mechanism of Bond Energy Absorption
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Gravitational force at midpoint between 2 equal massive bodies
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Misunderstanding in Fundamental Concept
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Why Does Stopping Distance Increase with Speed?
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Why does the Gyro Effect cause increased resistance with faster spin motion?
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Digital Signals on Analog lines?
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Whats fire made of? What element atoms are it.?
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Solving H_{s,\theta} and H_{i,\theta} Relationship on Planar Surface
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Can energy be perceived directly?
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Solving Kirchoff's Law Questions: Finding Current Direction
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N-Body Problem Help: Finding Chaos
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Screws Shaking Loose: Vibrations Explained
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How is Taylor expansion used in physics?
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Most accurate way to visualise an atom.
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Why is a neutral axis necessary in beam theory?
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Why does damping affect the time period of SHM oscillators?
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Can Moving Masses Create a New Field Similar to Magnetic Fields?
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Explaining Gouy Phase Shift: Simple Explanation
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Tendency to drop down to a lower energy state.
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Trip to Saturn: Constant Acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2 - Is It Possible?
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Does Multiverse theory disprove Freewill?
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How does the two-slit experiment challenge our understanding of particle motion?
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Compton Effect: Electron Ejection & Potential Energy
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Visualizing the hyperspheres (only the hyperspheres, no tesseracts etc. please)
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God Equation: Is It Real? What Does it Mean?
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Forced Vibration: Can Objects Adjust Shape?
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Gravity & Energy: Questions on Object Acceleration & Hydrogen Cloud Collapse
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The spiral obtained when tape wound on a spool.
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Physics professor beats $400 ticket using physics
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Confused about autocorrelation and PSD
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Finding force using moments problem
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Can somebody give me a practice complex circcuit?
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Identifying the various forms of Energy
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Is activity in radioactive decay a differential?
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Why are Some Constants Dimensionless?
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Capillary Action and Paper Towel Physics
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Time Distortion and Time Dilation
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Running a vehicle by burning aluminium?
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Ellipsometric data analysis software?
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Relative Density of metal powder
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The 'nothingness' of the vacuum.
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Physical Interpretation of Reynolds Number
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Can anyone define anti-matter in concrete terms?
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Differential Steering to steer a tank
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What would happen if a weapon fired a rod at 1/3 the speed of light?
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Applications of Topology in Physics
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Bourmoulli's Principle: Explaining a Hypothetical Scenario
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Controlling Strength of Electromagnets: Risks & Effects
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