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    High School Is radioactivity decay reversible or irreversible?

    Excellent analogy Gonzolo
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    Conservation of Momentum of a uniform thin rod

    Did you first break the bullet's velocity into component vectors parallel and pendicular to the rod?
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    High School Is Work and Energy the Same Thing?

    That is correct. But don't forget the units of the answer,,otherwise it has no meaning.
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    Undergrad Discover the Truth About Speed and Direction in Classical Physics

    A magnitude does not need a line. For example,,temperature can increase and decrease in magnitude but has no defined direction ,, it is a chacteristic at a given point. When you are traveling in a circle at a constant speed, there is no "line" involved as your direction is constantly changing...
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    Can You Stump the Science Teacher with This Simple Coffee and Milk Experiment?

    Here are a couple of simple problems that when people overthink them they are easily stumped. 1. If you have a room that is 100% thermally insulated at a comfortable temperature of say about 70 deg F, then you introduce a refrigerator into the room and it is running with the door open...
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    Undergrad Steam vs water at the same temperature

    At standard atmospheric pressure, usually accepted as 14.7 psi, at 100 deg C. water boils and steam condenses simultaneously, 100 C is the max temperature water can reach at this pressure and it is the minimum temperature that steam can exist at this pressure. Therefore it is possible for steam...