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175 Which is stronger, a rope without knots or a rope with knots? Sep 6 '16
40 The water analogy seems to imply that power = current. Why is this incorrect? Dec 16 '18
37 What is a “decade” as a unit of measure (ex. a decade of the EM spectrum)? Mar 15 '18
15 Why do ice crystals form from the top to the bottom of a bottle filled with supercooled water? Jan 29
14 Why does thermal radiation only occur at infrared and visible frequencies? Dec 9 '16
14 Why does hot air rise in a column instead of cold air pressing down? Feb 11 '16
12 Why does water have no color? Apr 4 '17
11 Tree vs lightning rod: why does one burn and the other not? Nov 16 '17
10 Is it possible that an electric field exists like $E=kx$? Mar 11
10 Is “The curl of the gradient of any scalar field is identically zero” contradictory to Faraday's Law? Feb 15 '17
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