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David Elm
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  • California, United States
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Currently, I'm teaching astronomy at Reedley College.

My degrees are in physics.

I'm interested in physics education, dark matter and octonions.

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Can Newton's laws of motion be proved (mathematically or analytically) or are they just axioms?
Nov 12, 2016
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Water and Ice with a Barrier
Nov 30, 2016
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Why can electric cars recoup energy from braking, but a spaceship cannot?
Mar 8, 2017
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Where does the electron come from when a free neutron transforms?
Mar 18, 2020
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If a planet's core is heated by its gravitational pressure, where does that energy come from?
Nov 30, 2016
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What is a phonon?
Nov 20, 2016
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Uses of the Angular Momentum 4-Tensor
Dec 7, 2016
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Neutrino oscillations in their rest frame
Nov 20, 2017
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How can a photon collide with an electron?
Apr 12, 2020
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Can a magnet bend light?
Oct 9, 2019
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When did people first measure that the Earth was closest to the Sun during January?
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The unreasonable effectiveness of Padé approximation
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Is there research to back up the claim that math classes help develop analytical skills?
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Is there a name for paths that follow gridlines?
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Movie where an adventurer and trickster go into a foggy tunnel to find treasure, traps tempt them off the path

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