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Designing an Airtrack for Mechanical Experiments: How to Get Started
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Wind load needed to topple a storm shelter
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Understanding the Meaning of \oplus in Special Relativity
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Hooke's Law should be exponential.
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How do I find the minumum/maximum acceptable slope?
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What is the definition of EMF?
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Does antimatter go back in time?
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I have just started into to physics I am no good at math what so
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Energy when Force is perpendiclar to direction of movement
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Solving Discrepancy in Course: Free Body Diagrams and Tension
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Does the buoyant force change in different fluids?
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Having a really hard time understanding Lenz's Law
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Negative distance? Can it be real?
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Local Conservation of Charge: Feynman's Thought Experiment Explained
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Are Beat Signals in Phase Modulation Really Zero Without Absorption?
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Is division by zero a logical error in this proof?
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Help find the force of compression
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Ponderings on Reflected Sunlight in a Race Track
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Field inside conductor-is it zero every where?
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HELP Calculating forces in truss/bridge
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Does Galileo's Challenge Hold Up with Modern Physics Insights?
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Navier-Stokes equations for unique flow through a rectangular diverging pipe
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How Is Displacement Derived from Velocity-Time Graphs?
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Why do we see a spectrum after Swimming?
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A perpetual machine model that sets me thinking
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Online Website suggestions - First Year Uni Student NEED HELP
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Detection of Earth's radio broadcasts at interstellar distances
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How close is a 2D Gaussian to an Airy disk?
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What Are the Forces Acting on a Gyroscope and How Can They Be Calculated?
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Accuracy, Precision and Sensitivity for measurement instruments
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Is 3500 lb/in Referring to Force per Inch of Width?
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What Is the Maximum Speed a Car Can Travel Without Skidding on a Circular Track?
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Is the ADA's Sample Physics Problem Incorrect?
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What is the meaning of the imaginary part of the plane wave function
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How does Nyquist's theory apply to digital recording of opera music?
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Get shocked when wearing the shoes
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Gauss' Law Conclusion in Gravitational Fields
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Why do SUVs see fewer MPG on the Highway?
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Can Someone Explain the Ac Stark Shift in Layman's Terms
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Capillary Tube Rise: Does Water Reach Max Height & Stop?
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What are some recommended intuitive physics books for self-study?
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Please help me compile a list of phenomenal dualities?
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Why are ice cubes grey in the middle?
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Time Travel Paradox: Can It Happen?
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Physics of Automobile Drifting Question?
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Recommend some great physics books?
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Is Michelson Describing Earth Tides or Ocean Tides?
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Permittivity values in conductors
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Try to make a vapor fuel supply system
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Change in temprature is zero. what about change in internal energy?
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