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I am a moderately successful television actor who once pursued graduate studies in theoretical physics.


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At what fraction of the speed of light have people traveled?
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If you run an electric current through a wire loop, do the accelerated charges radiate?
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Why is the angle of the wake of a duck constant?
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Conservation of angular momentum in propeller planes and helicopters
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Why is it that when driving in a car, and a lightning bolt strikes, my AM radio gets cut off for a while, but FM stays on
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Why don't waves with different wavelengths interfere with each other in white-light?
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Is there a named unit that, when divided by 32, gives meters per second?
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How fast can toy helicopters change the turning direction of their propellers?
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Is visible light and radio waves made of the same thing?
6
Physical Explanation for “Kolmogorov -5/3 spectrum” in Fluid Mechanics
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Why is current not 0 in a regular resistor - battery circuit immediately after you closed a circuit?
5
Turning an Airplane. What actually causes the circular motion in a banked (roll) turn?
5
Where does the excess energy emitted by a microwave go?
5
Are there convective movements similar to those in clouds everywhere in the atmosphere?
5
How does a hole's size affect the distance that water will squirt
5
The “binding energy” of bonded particles adds mass?
5
Polarization and mirrors
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total noise power of a resistor (all frequencies)
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Why don't massive water-borne animals crush under their own weight when they're in water?
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How long do reflections take?
4
What is escape velocity? In reality, how can something no longer be under the gravitational influence of something else?
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What is the source of Earth's magnetic field?
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In dimensional analysis, why the dimensionless constant is usually of order 1?
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What's the definition of the time ordering operator for more than two particles?
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Why aren't there compression waves in electromagnetic fields?
4
Direct exposure to the vacuum of space
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Why is visible light used in Optical fibers (instead of other EM waves)?
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Why do physicists think that the electron is an elementary particle?
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How to choose a suitable topic for PhD in Physics?
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Non-Newtonian Fluid Stop a Bullet?
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