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niels nielsen

physics enthusiast and electric bassist, recovering ex-engineer (there's a 12-step program for that but it's notoriously ineffective). Tries to answer questions on the stack exchange in order to help people and improve his game. Website full of weirdly cool stuff he's done at www.nielsenkillowatt.com

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154 Why do spaceships heat up when entering earth but not when exiting? Dec 31 '17
71 Why does the humidifier make a stove's flame orange? Nov 18 '18
70 Why can we distinguish different pitches in a chord but not different hues of light? Dec 1 '18
60 Why do fusion and fission both release energy? Jan 30
57 Emissitivity of copper - Why are copper heatsinks all shiny? May 14 '18
47 What explanations are there for a rug steadily creeping at about a millimeter/day rate across a room? Nov 3 '17
41 Why do we use capacitors and not batteries in defibrillator? Jan 2 '18
37 Why does an egg boiler require more water to cook fewer eggs? Sep 18 '18
37 Simple check for the global shape of the Earth Oct 15 '18
28 How does Brownian motion prove the existence of atoms? Dec 3 '18
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