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Are there any new states of matter yet?
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Difference between volume displaced fluid and volume of the object
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Help my dad and I settle a argument
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What Does Pure Energy Mean in Fusion and Fission?
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What happen to a metal bar near a Van de Graaff?
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Is Electromagnetic Energy Linked to Atomic Charges?
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Here is an excerpt i found on the web. Ernest Rutherford, born on
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Are there any books describing only experiments?
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Finding the E field with a changing p?
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What is (physical) information?
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What Is the Opposite of Dense?
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A point mass inside a spherical shell
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Device that blocks waves of one phase, but transmits wave of opposite phase?
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Use Kirchoff's rules to determine I1, I2 and I3 for the following circuit:
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How does density affect pressure in longitudinal waves?
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Does Ether Exist? 19th Century Evidence
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Cnoidal Waves vs Solitons: Understanding the Differences
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Help Guide my Fundamental Understanding, getting to the core
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Determining Counter EMF in Magnetic Fields
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Why No Noise is Added to Sound Travel Through a Wall?
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Relativ strength of all 4 forces
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Troubleshooting Tube Bending Natural Frequency Equation
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Why Does Balloon Volume Decrease with Liquid Nitrogen?
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Force components between two bodies
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If an atom was scaled up to the size of a sports oval with a diameter of 150m ?
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Radial Breathing Mode for hollow cylinder - formula needed
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Dangerous Wavelengths In Glassblowing
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Force resulting from a pressurized departing gas
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Is Dark Matter the Result of the Big Bang?
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Help I need to find out whether activation energy can be calculated this way ?
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What are the fundamental physical units of measure ?
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What Letter is the Circled One? - Bob
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Home applications that use a solenoid?
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Energy Diagrams Schottky Barrier Book
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Can gravity be destroyed explain
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Travel Instantly: Is Distance Still a Factor?
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Question about the arrow of time?
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Why photodiode is operated in reverse bias?
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How Does Resonance Occur with Wavelength and Layer Thickness?
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Creating Vacuums: Moving Through Any Space?
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Why is 4 ∏ in so many physics formulas?
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Sanity check for earth launched moon pod
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Special Cases for Gravity Force Inside Solid Objects
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Kepler Exoplanet findings and galactic plane question
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Unequal force at uneven attachment heights?
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Distance of the moon, accoring to Ptolemy
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A Revolutionary Invention: The "Owie Stick
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Did Blaise Pascal Experiment with a Barrel?
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Is a Fractal Dimension of 0.65 Possible in Nonlinear Oscillator Systems?
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Building a flat rectangular vacuum chamber
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