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Undergrad Particular configuration of a system and grand partition fn.
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Undergrad 1s orbital overlaps with the nucleus, why don't they interact?
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Undergrad Penning Trap questions -- capacity, manufacturers, leakiness....
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Undergrad Trouble with Humboldt H12090 aspirator vacuum pump
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Undergrad Effects of Ultrasonic Transducer in contact with glass
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Undergrad Fitting Curve by Exponential Growth Function - Rajini
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Undergrad What if everyone on Earth starts bursting crackers for one day?
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Undergrad Is Consuming Wild Boar in Sweden Risky Due to High Radioactivity Levels?
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Undergrad Why is binding energy called binding energy?
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Undergrad Why am I getting two different results in emu and SI unit?
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Undergrad Why isn't path integral of H-field 0?
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Undergrad [Stat Phy] What does exhausting the states of a system mean?
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Undergrad Is Negative Kelvin a Real Concept?
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Undergrad Mimicking Gravity with Magnetism and Angular Momentum
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Undergrad Understanding DC Load Line and its Relationship with VCE & IC
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Undergrad DU = TdS - p dV is valid for irreversible process -- Proof
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Undergrad How to Relate Densities, Height, and Time for a Sinking Solid?
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Undergrad Why evaporative cooling is a constant wet bulb temp process?
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Undergrad Will a solenoid inside another solenoid increase its strength?
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Undergrad Can someone explain this equation for Reynolds' number?
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Undergrad Angle of projection for maximum range
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Undergrad An aluminum cylinder with a steel wire attached
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Undergrad Vector Triple Product - Physcial Significance
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Undergrad If force is done in an instant, how is it calculated?
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Undergrad Maximum size a mammal could grow to?
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Undergrad How does ΔU relate to Cv in an adiabatic process?
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Undergrad Irreversible Process: Heat Transfer Dynamics
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Undergrad Stopping forces in an emergency stop
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Undergrad Reversible Process: Why is it Important?
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Undergrad Microstate, Macrostate, Probability
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Undergrad Internal energy of any ideal gas
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Undergrad Vehicle tire load vs stopping distance
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Undergrad Determine the force exerted by the seat on the child at the bottom of the ride
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Undergrad Physics term for discussed example and calculations
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Undergrad Uncertainty Analysis: Understanding Errors in Quantity Measurements
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Undergrad Force Needed to Push a Manual Treadmill
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Undergrad Design diameter of transmission shaft
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Undergrad How to Design a 110kg APCP Sounding Rocket?
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Undergrad Is sand a better conductor than clay? And why?
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Undergrad Can an air-only refrigerant system effectively cool a freezer?
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Undergrad Twin paradox in SR and its applicability to radioactive decay
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Undergrad Can My Growth Spurt Make Me Faster Than Usain Bolt?
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Undergrad Depth of field phenomena -- distant objects visible through close objects
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Undergrad What are the fundamental principles of physics that apply universally?
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Undergrad How much would time pass between watching the sun set ....?
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Undergrad Optimizing Evaporative Cooling via Sweat in Dry Desert?
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Undergrad Size of links and loads in the hydraulic system
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Undergrad Calculating expected number of measurements
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Undergrad Can reflected light be used to create an accurate spectrometer?
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Undergrad Negative values for Gaussian Distribution
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Undergrad Could Gravity Ever Be Negative?
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Undergrad Controversy about the nature of finite angular displacement
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Undergrad RL vs LR Circuits: Low-Pass/High-Pass Filters Explained
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Undergrad Why could we represent the addition of two vectors like this?
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Undergrad What if the mystery of unified theory is solved?
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Undergrad Solving the differential equations involving SHM
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Undergrad What Materials Absorb IR The Best?
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Undergrad Amount of nitrogen needed to flush a pipe
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Undergrad What's the physics description of "existence" ?
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Undergrad Why do waves need to match object size for interaction?
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Undergrad What properties allow me to see past Earth's curvature?
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Undergrad Emission spectra of different materials
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Undergrad Question about finding resonant box dimensions
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Undergrad Comparison of tidal forces acting on the Moon vs Enceladus
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Undergrad Will a Dense Green Object Sink in a Sealed Water-Filled Pipe?
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Undergrad Does moisture escaping from powders decrease chamber vacuum?
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Undergrad Michelson Morley experiment: relativistic explanation
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Undergrad Gravity as geometry vs gravity traveling at c
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery: Which Tank Fills First?
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Undergrad If AI could replace physicists why should we still research?
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Undergrad Distinctions among the concepts: mass, matter, energy
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Undergrad Does Reflecting Light Through a Birefringent Crystal Compensate Walkoff?
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Undergrad Why does red food coloring look green when it dries?
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Undergrad F-ratio Calculation for Telescope Cover Modification
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Undergrad How Does a Clockwise Spinning Gyroscope Stay Upright?
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Undergrad Can 2 spheres orbit each other say inside ISS?
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Undergrad Understanding the transmission of an etalon
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Undergrad Different versions of Falkner-Skan equation
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Undergrad Atom as a harmonic oscillator of radition
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Undergrad Fluid transfer low flow to high without a pump
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Undergrad Does the normal force really equal mg on earth? I think not....
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Undergrad Physics of legwrestling and Mas wrestling
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Undergrad Theorem behind Archimedes principle of buoyancy?
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Undergrad How does a magnetic field affect the aggregation of nonpolar molecules in water?
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Undergrad Gauss's law of sphere using integral
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Undergrad Will Increasing Tension of a Two Loop Standing Wave Change its Frequency?
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Undergrad Drone Gun: A Revolutionary Weapon Against Rogue Drones
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Undergrad What is the General Form of a Wave Equation in a Medium?
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Undergrad No Slip condition in an Inviscid Fluid
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Undergrad Spectrometer: bandpass and resolution
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Undergrad Does chaos exist in circuits with linear elements?
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Undergrad Given a fixed volume of pressurized air, calculate the flow rate
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Undergrad Why Is There No SI Unit For Information?
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Undergrad Order Maxima under the Fraunhofer Envelope
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Undergrad Another 'Gravity Battery' Question
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Undergrad Can a 63mm Bore Pneumatic Ram handle the required weight at an angled position?
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Undergrad Why is this balancing technique easier for some cultures than others?
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Undergrad Possible to Store Energy in Ionized Gas?
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Undergrad Fans with 3 blades vs. 6 blades (noise, efficiency)?
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Undergrad The length of the visible horizon
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