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How to treat differentials and infinitesimals?

asked Jan 9, 2014 at 0:27

30 votes

3 answers

25k views

How do grandfather clocks keep going?

asked Jun 3, 2015 at 2:00

30 votes

5 answers

14k views

Why is the Sun called an "average star"?

asked Jun 15, 2016 at 9:46

19 votes

3 answers

3k views

Can we tell when an established theory is wrong?

asked Jan 25, 2016 at 19:16

17 votes

2 answers

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Did Luboš Motl really disprove the "Many Worlds Interpretation"? [closed]

asked Jan 27, 2017 at 3:43

10 votes

2 answers

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Why don't electric workers get electrocuted when only touching one wire? [duplicate]

asked May 9, 2013 at 20:18

9 votes

1 answer

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What are the limits of applicability of Coulomb's Law?

asked May 13, 2013 at 1:04

8 votes

6 answers

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Why is potential energy negative when orbiting in a gravitational field?

asked May 11, 2013 at 20:31

7 votes

0 answers

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What would it look like if we broke the speed of sound underwater? [duplicate]

asked Aug 3, 2016 at 0:37

7 votes

4 answers

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First law of thermodynamics applied to mechanical and gravitational systems

asked May 13, 2013 at 13:31

6 votes

1 answer

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How does the speed of a DC motor depend on the size of the coil?

asked May 17, 2013 at 2:20

5 votes

2 answers

663 views

What happens to this potential energy?

asked Mar 12, 2013 at 20:45

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Do black holes have charges?

asked May 13, 2013 at 2:29

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3 answers

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Angular momentum in a rod rotating around one end?

asked Feb 17, 2014 at 1:11

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2 answers

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How is it possible to survive more than a few cm submerged underwater?

asked Nov 17, 2018 at 15:39

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2 answers

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Correct interpretation of the Borde Guth Vilenkin (BGV) theorem?

asked Jan 29, 2017 at 8:08

2 votes

1 answer

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What does the electric field caused by a charged cylinder look like?

asked Mar 9, 2014 at 0:32

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1 answer

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Do cold objects emit radio waves? [duplicate]

asked Jan 24, 2017 at 22:51

2 votes

1 answer

804 views

Thermodynamics, PV diagrams?

asked May 13, 2013 at 14:01

2 votes

3 answers

2k views

How you feel in outer space vs. orbit?

asked May 29, 2013 at 19:19

2 votes

1 answer

118 views

Energy in a wind instrument?

asked Jun 17, 2013 at 1:28

2 votes

2 answers

351 views

Is it possible for a photon to be at rest? [duplicate]

asked Jul 19, 2013 at 21:46

2 votes

1 answer

120 views

What happens to this energy of the capacitor?

asked Mar 21, 2013 at 20:31

2 votes

2 answers

358 views

Why isn't this capacitor charging?

asked Apr 9, 2013 at 0:14

1 vote

1 answer

111 views

A simple electromotor?

asked May 9, 2013 at 21:33

1 vote

1 answer

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Why doesn't intensity of light affect the emission of electrons?

asked May 9, 2013 at 22:12

1 vote

1 answer

125 views

Can someone explain this intuitively please?

asked Apr 4, 2013 at 8:00

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2 answers

2k views

Why don't you see multiple images of an object?

asked Apr 9, 2013 at 0:08

1 vote

3 answers

428 views

Does the thickness of earth's crust accurately correspond with the current proposed age of the earth?

asked Feb 22, 2016 at 9:34

1 vote

1 answer

200 views

Understanding elastic collisions of objects with the same velocities

asked Oct 22, 2015 at 0:50

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44 Questions

How to treat differentials and infinitesimals?

How do grandfather clocks keep going?

Why is the Sun called an "average star"?

Can we tell when an established theory is wrong?

Did Luboš Motl really disprove the "Many Worlds Interpretation"? [closed]

Why don't electric workers get electrocuted when only touching one wire? [duplicate]

What are the limits of applicability of Coulomb's Law?

Why is potential energy negative when orbiting in a gravitational field?

What would it look like if we broke the speed of sound underwater? [duplicate]

First law of thermodynamics applied to mechanical and gravitational systems

How does the speed of a DC motor depend on the size of the coil?

What happens to this potential energy?

Do black holes have charges?

Angular momentum in a rod rotating around one end?

How is it possible to survive more than a few cm submerged underwater?

Correct interpretation of the Borde Guth Vilenkin (BGV) theorem?

What does the electric field caused by a charged cylinder look like?

Do cold objects emit radio waves? [duplicate]

Thermodynamics, PV diagrams?

How you feel in outer space vs. orbit?

Energy in a wind instrument?

Is it possible for a photon to be at rest? [duplicate]

What happens to this energy of the capacitor?

Why isn't this capacitor charging?

A simple electromotor?

Why doesn't intensity of light affect the emission of electrons?

Can someone explain this intuitively please?

Why don't you see multiple images of an object?

Does the thickness of earth's crust accurately correspond with the current proposed age of the earth?

Understanding elastic collisions of objects with the same velocities