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A Flame In Free Fall? - Question of the Week 5/11 - 5-/15
A Puzzle Of Combustion: Candles Low and High - Question of the Week 5/4 - 5/8
A Look At The Trajectory Of A Falling Ball - Question of the Week 4/27 - 5/1
How Do These Rods Cross? Question of the Week 4/20 -4/24
A Puzzle Of Parallel and Series Circuits - Question of the Week 4/13 - 4/17
Tick-Tock-Torque: A Question Of An Unusual Lever Arm - Question of the Week 4/6 - 4/10
A Paradox of Tuning Rods - Question of the Week 3/30 - 4/3
What Happens To Steam When It Condenses? - Question of the Week 3/23 - 3/27
The Laser Mirage - Question of the Week 3/16 - 3/20
The Puzzling Behaviour Of Water Near Freezing - Question of the Week 3/9 - 3/13
The Coyote Should Have Studied Physics: An Experiment With The Fan Cart - Question of the Week 3/2 - 3/6
Watch Your Fingers! Inertia Of A Hanging Mass - Question of the Week 2/23 - 2/27
The Wobbly Duck: An Equilibrium Puzzle - Question of the Week 2/16 - 2/20
In Hot Water? - Question of the Week 2/9 - 2/13
Coming To Equilibrium: Pulleys And Heavy Weights - Question of the Week 2/2 - 2/6
A Look At Volume Judgments - Question of the Week 1/26 - 1/30
The Pinned Pendulum - Question of the Week 1/19-1/23
What Is Greener Than Green? - Question of the Week 1/12-1/16
Why Does My Signal Go Away In The Elevator? - Question of the Week 1/5-1/9
Does The Air Pressure In A Tire Change When It's Loaded? - Question of the Week 12/29-1/2
Which Is Lighter, Coke or Diet Coke? - Question of the Week 12/22-12/26
What Happens To Icewater When You Salt It? - Question of the Week 12/8-12/12
Looking at Angular Momentum: Magnets On (And Off) A Disk - Question of the Week 12/1 - 12/5
The Bicycle Wheel Pendulum - Question of the Week 11/17 - 11/21
Paired Scales: A Question of Equilibrium - Question of the Week 11/10 - 11/14
The Hanging Picture: Fun With Loops Of String - Question of the Week 11/3-11/7
The Slow Drip: A Model Of Exponential Decay - Question of the Week 10/27-10/31
Relativity In The Classroom: The Free-Falling Reference Frame - Question of the Week 10/13-10/17
How Does Light Intensity Change With Distance? - Question of the Week 9/29-10/3
A Brief Look At Refraction - Question of the Week 9/22-9/26
A Puzzle of Angular Momentum - Question of the Week 9/15-9/19
Another Look At Resonant Tubes - Question of the Week 9/8-9/12
If Heat Is A Light Wave, Can You Focus It With A Mirror? What About Cold? - Question of the Week 9/1-9/5
What Happens To A Compass Needle In A Coil Of Wire? - Question of the Week 2014 Summer Girls Special Part 4
An Interesting Puzzle On The Expansion Of Heated Metal - Question of the Week 2014 Summer Girls Special Part 3
The Return of the Resonant Tube: What If We Cut It In Half? - Question of the Week 2014 Summer Girls Special Part 2
How Does a Candle Flame Respond to a Sound Wave? - Question of the Week 2014 Summer Girls Special Part 1
A Look At Spring Tension in Free Fall - Question of the Week 5/12-5/16
A Challenging Puzzle of Buoyancy, Friction, and Gravity: The Dangling Rod - Question of the Week 5/5-5/9
Can An Object Roll Uphill? - Question of the Week 4/28-5/02
A Difference in Diffraction - Question of the Week 4/21-4/25
A Series of Tubes: A Look at Resonance - Question of the Week 4/14-4/18
A Look at a Lens in Water and Air - Question of the Week 4/07-4/11
Watching a Frictionless Fall - Question of the Week 3/31-4/04
One Mass Dropped, One Mass Flung, a Question of Kinematics - Question of the Week 3/24-3/28
Buoyancy in the Tub: Rightside-up and Upside-Down - Question of the Week 3/17-3/21
Will a Bulb be Brighter in Series or Parallel? - Question of the Week 3/10-3/14
A Look at Tension in Parallel Springs - Question of the Week 3/3-3/7
A Potential Problem Of Shorting a Circuit - Question of the Week 2/24-2/28
A Fun Trick With Adding Capacitors - Question of the Week 2/17-2/21
Another Puzzle: Reversed Text? - Question of the Week 2/10-2/14
A Puzzle of Inverted Text - Question of the Week 2/3-2/7
Does Displacing A Source Change The Focal Point Of a Lens? - Question of the Week 1/27-1/31
The Displacement Problem Of the Rock in the Boat - Question of the Week 1/20-1/24
When You Push Down On Water, Does It Weigh Anything? - Question of the Week 1/13-1/17
A Kinematics Problem of Balls On Different Tracks - Question of the Week 12/9-12/13