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What is the Correct Pressure of CO2 Gas Required to Carbonate 5 Gallons of Beer?
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How Do Lithium Batteries Power Our Devices?
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Is Time Measurement Unidirectional and Irreversible?
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How to shift a focal point af an objective
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Fast fourier transform on exponential decay function
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What happen if everything in earth becomes steady?
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My knowledge of superconductors is limited to the fact that they are
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Is 100 Nm Equal to 100 Joules of Energy?
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Windtunnel Experiment: Calculating Drag Force on Airplane Body
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How Do Magnetic and Gravitational Fields Interact with Matter?
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Will ionized particulates mimic ionized oxygen atoms?
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Can the Time Constant Explain the Behavior of RL Circuits?
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Sublimation of Dry Ice in a Closed System
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Uncertainty of room mode frequencies
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What causes ice to stick together
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I have a couple questions on gravity
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Different types of Forces (Gravitational and Normal forces)
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Harmonic Motion of a Ball in a Hole at Earth's Centre
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Can you actually turn if you are travelling at c?
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Can Matter Really Have Negative Energy?
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What Happens When You Lick a Frozen Aluminum Ice Cream Scraper?
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Equilibrium in pent up energy during decompression.
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Gravity question, very small distances
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Iisc interview for integrated Phd(physics)
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Is Mutual Ball Friction Causing Unexpected Ball Movement on a Tilted Plane?
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What stops the earth from colliding w/ moon?
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Stress-strain graph explaination?
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What happens when you drop magnets in aluminum and glass tubes simultaneously?
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Can ice go below zero degrees C?
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If the moon suddenly vanished, what would people on earth experience?
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If a soda can could contain a vacuum, could it float?
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Can a solid sphere only be considered a point for inverse-square forces?
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What is the Reason Behind Beta Decay Not Creating an Ion?
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Sharpening knife edges, what is actually going on?
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What is the relationship between space-time density and gravity?
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Does oily soup cool faster or slower?
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Are Helmets Really Effective in Preventing Head Injuries from Bike Accidents?
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Evaporation/Condensation question
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Gravity & Mass: Question about Affecting Something with No Mass
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Radiative Cooling: Insulated Box & Optical Cable Experiment
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What Are the Consequences of Damage to the Ionosphere?
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Is my theoretical research testable by experiment?
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Lagrangians: the obvious questions
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Identifying Proper Photocathode Material
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Gravity Question: Acceleration of Ball After Release?
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Find EMF Induced When Converting 2-Turn Coil to 1-Turn
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Vacuum Energy: Gravitational Attraction or Repulsion?
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Can Cell Phones Communicate Directly Without Towers?
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What is the purpose/significance of doing a FFT on a signal?
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Dropping a mass directly over the north pole
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SHM: Frequency & Period Unaffected by Amplitude
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What is the concept of gauge theory?
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What's the Difference Between Monochromatic and Coherent Waves?
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Would a Deimos/Phobos orbital resonance affect Mars?
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Relative Humidity more than 100%
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Is Gravity Really a Fundamental Force?
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What Is Perspective Beyond Optics?
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What do dimensions physically signifies?how does they affect the
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Why is a half-wave antenna length considered optimal for efficiency?
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How Do Steel and Wood Creep Under Constant Stress and Torque?
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Time travel not possilbe anymore?
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What will be the Combined value of solar absorptivity?
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Universal Gravitational Constant
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Is Radioactive Decay Really Random?
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Is Ds/dt ≥0? Understanding the Concept of Positive Entropy per Time
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How Does the Coefficient of Restitution Affect Velocity in Collisions?
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Steam vs Fuly saturated air: Separation
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Thoughts travelling faster than c
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Seeking the simplest analogy possible please :-)
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Calculating Net PE in Ions: A & B Constants
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Does taking the derivative of time really make sense?
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Why my friends wheel system won't reinforce itself
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Pixel pitch, Airy disk diameter and maximum aperture
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Where Does the Energy Go in an EM Field When a Charged Particle Stops?
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Gravity: A Matter of Spacetime Compression?
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Infinitely divisible vs finitely divisible time
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Industrial grade positron formation
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Type of waves used in cell phone comm?
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Troublesome infinities in physics
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Gas equation of state and shape of container
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Moving Phobos to join Deimos for single moon.
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Understanding Doppler Shift Equations for Calculating Object Velocity
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Why Isn't Gravity Infinite at the Center of the Earth?
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How Do I Calculate the Force of a Punch in Ft/lbs?
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Would a Conveyor Belt from Earth to Mars Have a Time Delay?
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What Are the Units of the Green's Function in the Wave Equation?
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What is the relationship between force and distance in an inverse square law?
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Physics of a Slap: Rigidity & Momentum
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Understanding Coherent Waves: Frequency and Phase Differences Explained
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What are the 6th and 7th states of matter?
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What's Wrong with my Experiment?
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Can we truly know the fate of objects in black holes?
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MRI Safety: Question on Potential Burns
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Understanding Shock-Wave Propagation in Air: Impact and Observations Explained
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What Happens to the Bee When a Jar Falls?
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Plate Bending Analysis: Point Load Distribution
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Center of Mass: Definition & Formulas
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Projecting 3-Sphere onto a Plane | Stereographic Projection
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Calculating Pond Evaporation: Is Floating Glass a Good Idea?
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Is mass a scalar or a vector in physics?
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