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Why does the humidifier make a stove's flame orange?

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Why is the sky uniformly blue?

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What does the "true" visible light spectrum look like?

answered Feb 11, 2021 at 7:20

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What is a standing wave?

answered Jul 17, 2016 at 4:19

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What do individual rainbow-forming droplets look like?

answered May 27, 2018 at 21:52

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When will a wave function collapse if the observer was only a camera and the video was watched later in time?

answered Jun 18, 2021 at 9:19

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What wavelengths of light does a banana reflect?

answered Jun 20, 2021 at 18:57

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Eigenfunctions of the Runge-Lenz vector

answered Dec 13, 2018 at 16:35

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How is Alpha Radiation possible?

answered Apr 8, 2022 at 12:44

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Given two vectors (with no common point), is a dot product between them possible?

answered Apr 3, 2020 at 16:23

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Feynman couldn't explain how the photon becomes instantaneously aware of the glass thickness. Do we have a better understanding now?

answered Sep 3, 2020 at 12:03

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Can a quasiclassical electron wave packet in elliptic orbit be formed from bound hydrogen-like eigenstates?

answered Dec 14, 2017 at 7:35

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Is everything a resistor?

answered Jul 11, 2018 at 9:32

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Will table sugar twist polarized light?

answered Aug 25, 2020 at 9:17

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Why must traveling waves have the same amplitude to form a standing wave?

answered Mar 14, 2019 at 5:43

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Why are the units of angular acceleration the same as that of angular velocity squared?

answered Dec 5, 2018 at 16:10

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Why does a laser beam diverge?

answered Oct 3, 2013 at 9:35

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What happens when the amplitudes of interfering waves is different in the phenomenon of beats?

answered Jan 27, 2020 at 20:56

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Why does an image seem smaller through a pinhole when viewing with human eye

answered Jan 31, 2020 at 6:00

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What enables protons to give new properties to an atom every time one is added?

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 6:51

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Ionizing radiation in thermal radiation

answered Feb 26, 2020 at 11:26

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How do you visualize a quantized electromagnetic field?

answered Apr 19, 2021 at 21:26

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Why is the sunset not bluer

answered Jan 4, 2020 at 21:23

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How can the centripetal force lead to objects flying apart?

answered Jul 25, 2017 at 9:48

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How could 19th century people know light is electromagnetic waves?

answered Aug 15, 2022 at 16:19

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Why does the Stern–Gerlach quantum spin experiment conflict with classical mechanics?

answered Jan 24, 2015 at 6:33

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1D Infinite Square Well: Box Suddenly Increases in Size. How treat this?

answered Oct 2, 2014 at 10:32

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When is the principle of stationary action not the principle of least action?

answered Nov 2, 2014 at 10:49

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Equivalent resistance in ladder circuit

answered Aug 9, 2013 at 23:05

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Why are phonons quantized?

answered Oct 17, 2022 at 10:02

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Why does the humidifier make a stove's flame orange?

Why is the sky uniformly blue?

What does the "true" visible light spectrum look like?

What is a standing wave?

What do individual rainbow-forming droplets look like?

When will a wave function collapse if the observer was only a camera and the video was watched later in time?

What wavelengths of light does a banana reflect?

Eigenfunctions of the Runge-Lenz vector

How is Alpha Radiation possible?

Given two vectors (with no common point), is a dot product between them possible?

Feynman couldn't explain how the photon becomes instantaneously aware of the glass thickness. Do we have a better understanding now?

Can a quasiclassical electron wave packet in elliptic orbit be formed from bound hydrogen-like eigenstates?

Is everything a resistor?

Will table sugar twist polarized light?

Why must traveling waves have the same amplitude to form a standing wave?

Why are the units of angular acceleration the same as that of angular velocity squared?

Why does a laser beam diverge?

What happens when the amplitudes of interfering waves is different in the phenomenon of beats?

Why does an image seem smaller through a pinhole when viewing with human eye

What enables protons to give new properties to an atom every time one is added?

Ionizing radiation in thermal radiation

How do you visualize a quantized electromagnetic field?

Why is the sunset not bluer

How can the centripetal force lead to objects flying apart?

How could 19th century people know light is electromagnetic waves?

Why does the Stern–Gerlach quantum spin experiment conflict with classical mechanics?

1D Infinite Square Well: Box Suddenly Increases in Size. How treat this?

When is the principle of stationary action not the principle of least action?

Equivalent resistance in ladder circuit

Why are phonons quantized?