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Uncertainty Propagation for the Slope of a Line of Best Fit
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Can the Rapid Depressurization of a Soda Can Cause Significant Cooling?
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Why Can't We Hear: Sound Traveling in Solids
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Two scenarios different energy requirement?
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Who can explain the temp drop in a sauna?
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Where Does Light from a Burning Stick Come From?
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Theory of Energy Output: An Overview
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How can we determine phase information using Window Fourier Transform?
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Propagation of uncertainties with calculus
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How Do Grains Gravitate Toward Each Other in Zero-G?
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Man-Made Elements: What Are They?
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Soot Mystery: Uncovering the Puzzling Phenomenon in a Wood-Burning Stove Room
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Questions about results of time traveling
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Can You Conduct Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics Experiments at Home?
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Which is denser: a rhino or a rock?
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Problem in understanding model for rigid body
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What is of an atom and how common it is?
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X-Ray Photography Safety: Risks, Precautions, and Resources
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Interesting topics about physics for teens?
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Guitar feedback INFINITE sustain? Does it really have an infinite sustain?
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Think of a device that can transfer a payload to a tether
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Confused with the Archimedes' Principle
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Is Ek0-Ek1 Greater Than Zero?
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What are the properties of transverse waves?
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Where does the energy come from in a canal lock?
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What is the general formula for gravity acting on an aircraft?
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Biggest Physics Discoveries 1980-2012
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Need help, my text books explanation on de broglies hypothesis is very confusing
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Why Does Half-Life Exist in Radioactive Decay?
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How Can Understanding Physics Enhance Martial Arts Techniques?
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Electric Dipole in B Field: No Torque
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I dont understand how to calculate percentage uncertainty?
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Force & B Field: Net Force when Test Charge Moves Relative to Current
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Looking for the best books to increase my knowledge
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Unfletched Arrow Spin: A Mystery of Bow Mechanics
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Generating Electricity with HHO Gas: What Fuel Cell?
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Calculate Power Produced by Cycle Dynamo
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I'm curious Why do we feel cooler when wind hits us?
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Development of Magentic force equation to include angle
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Can light be affected by other masses in deep space?
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Differential form of distances and some other doubts
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Dimensional Analysis and the mathematical steps throughout a process.
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Cutting metal pipe to make different pitches
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Leakage rate between two pipes & gasses
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Consequences of large-scale mass redistribution on Earth's surface
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Bragg's Law: Find Equation 2dsinθ=nλ
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Nernst effect and statistical physics
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Historical misunderstandings and the names of physics phenomena
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Unity means just plain regular 1 ?
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Free Diving: Lung Volume at Different Depths
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Archimedes and golden crown 2 part question
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Why does a warm weighing cup weigh less?
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Chimney Falls: Why & Where? What's the Mystery of Gravity?
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How long does an explosion's boom last?
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How Does a Balloon Experiment Demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion?
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Eugene Wigner's take on math's role in natural science
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Seeing Is Believing: Is It Possible?
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Thought experiment: Rising bubble in rigid container
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Can a One Inch Equation Truly Explain Everything in Physics?
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How quickly does a star's supernova become apparent to the naked eye?
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Is My Book Wrong? Explaining Lens in Interference & Diffraction
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Mathematical Definition of Energy
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Conceptual Question about Buoyancy
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Clarifications regarding frame of reference.
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Is a perfect vacuum truly achievable in reality?
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Can a yoyo spin like spintop while flying around the air?
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What is meant by 'decay constant'?
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Emailanmol's discussion on angular displacement
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Geo Stationary Orbit: 83.0°E Satellite Location
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Physics Project help What relationships should there be?
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Can You Tell Difference in Wheels Spinning/Not in a Box?
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Energy Balance Equation for Diffusion of Specimens Across a Membrane
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Why is asking 'why' in physics frowned upon?
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Name of this instrument? similar to vernier calliper
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Maglev Conveyor Help - Control Airgap and Linear Motion
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How Do You Write a Physics Formula?
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How to Calculate Induced EMF Using Graphical Analysis?
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Connection between emissivity and albedo
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Resistivity of Nichrome experiment
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Is order a natural occurrence or a result of chaos?
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Is the sun a passive or active blackbody?
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Think of an interesting physics problem
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Faster the object from a certain height?
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What is the Law of Cosines and how can it be used to solve vector sums?
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Why would glass shatter spontaneously?
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What is the role of complex numbers in physics?
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Linear metal expansion - For an Old timer
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What If Lenz Law Worked in Reverse: What Would Happen?
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Dark matter and gravitational pull of energy
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Mysterious Glass Shatter: What Caused It?
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Building a Physics Machine: 6 Concepts, 12 Units
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How to round off percentage uncertainties?
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Can I become a physicist without good grades?
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Buoyant force of air negligible?
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Check 2 waave displacement equations please
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Explaining an experimental oddity
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How Does Mass Relate to Time in Relativity Theory?
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If a spinning top is is spinning in place is the spinning top moving?
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Riding a bicycle-What happens when u pedal?
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Is Permittivity Equivalent to EM Conductivity?
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