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101
How are water vapors not visible?
Jan 8 '17 at 19:54
64
Why does wet hair keep its shape when it dries?
Jun 25 '16 at 23:51
44
How did my candle wax crawl up the sides of the jar?
May 18 '16 at 22:00
42
How does defrosting your freezer save energy?
Aug 18 '16 at 20:26
32
Why doesn't a spinning object in the air fall?
Nov 5 '15 at 0:08
30
Why does water feel cooler than air?
Apr 1 '16 at 14:32
26
Will something accelerate forever if a constant force is applied to it on a frictionless surface? If so how?
Oct 10 '16 at 17:21
24
Does fluid speed affect liquid cooling?
Jul 25 '16 at 20:25
22
How can fast moving particles gain energy from slow moving ones?
Sep 13 '15 at 17:39
21
Why is the simple harmonic motion idealization inaccurate?
May 29 '16 at 14:57
18
Why not dilute radioactive waste?
Nov 6 '15 at 21:38
16
Why does a metal block make a shrill sound but not a wooden block upon hammering?
Mar 1 at 15:34
15
Is there experimental verification of the s, p, d, f orbital shapes?
Aug 13 '15 at 13:55
14
What happens to the units when squaring a variable?
Aug 26 '15 at 17:19
13
Why are the harmonics of a piano tone not multiples of the base frequency?
Jul 18 '16 at 18:46
12
Burning Fuels and Producing Water
Nov 28 '17 at 17:31
10
Shape of water in rotating bucket
Nov 16 '16 at 23:47
10
Can an object move without physical contact?
Nov 28 '17 at 21:34
10
How does a heatsink on top of a CPU, which is hot, cool down your CPU?
Aug 22 '16 at 0:37
8
What is wrong with my setup of cloud chamber?
Sep 20 '16 at 13:01
7
What gives covalent bond its strength?
Dec 3 '17 at 20:12
7
Why do thin films need to be thin?
Jun 22 '16 at 13:49
7
Why is pyrite so explosive when heated?
Apr 3 '16 at 0:39
7
Are chemical bonds matter?
Oct 27 '15 at 21:05
7
Speed of sound in vacuum
Sep 18 '15 at 13:49
6
How do we calculate energy of food?
2 days ago
6
Can radio waves be harmful to us?
Mar 4 at 3:13
6
Bernoulli's principle: Why an increase in the section area in a hose makes the pressure increase?
Feb 7 '17 at 16:46
6
How long will it take for rotating spherical container full of viscous liquid to stop rotating when there is no gravity?
Jan 20 '17 at 12:43
6
Why is the damping force proportional to $v$ and not $v^2$?
Nov 20 '16 at 20:52
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