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Insights How to Avoid Breaking Physics With Your “What If” Question
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List of credible physics journals
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Insights How to Better Define Information in Physics - Comments
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Physics FAQs: All Your Questions Answered
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B Analog power supply output question
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I How do I stretch a laser from a beam into a sheet?
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Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box
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I Question about the absorption of heat based on color
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B Opposite law propose
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B Why would an atmosphere without greenhouse gasses be colder than with them?
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I Why is the speed of light the same everywhere in the Universe?
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B Is space stretching or is new space being created?
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B How do walk-in freezers not give people hypothermia? [they do]
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I Ramjet effect on drone
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B Generator shaft rotation through spring and magnet (Is this feasible in Physics?)
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I Bilateral and unilateral constraints
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I Mechanism of Energy Conservation in Zero-Amplitude Sum of EM Waveforms
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B Fusion breakthrough using 3-D magnetic coils
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I Linear generator prototype
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B Is Gravity an entropic property like Surface Tension
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B Is there a white hole inside every black hole?
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I Are There Two Suns? Exploring the Phenomenon of Sun Dogs
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B Need help understanding particle physics and quantum physics
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I Raman Spectroscopy help
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B Does a Probabilistic Multiverse Invalidate the Value of Scientific Inquiry?
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B Why Does Titan Have an Atmosphere While Other Large Moons Don't?
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I The Physics of unloading sand from a barge
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B Why can't Solar panels be hemispherical, or a curved strip type?
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B A Time Crystal Visible to the Human Eye
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I I need to simulate clothing meshes for hanging garments
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I How can quantum physics contribute to medical physics?
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B Conservation of kinetic energy in expanding space
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B Warp drive research of Prof David Pares
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B Development of computer chips cooling
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B Energy production that converts Hydrogen to Iron?
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A Problem while simulating spin polarized interacting SSH model
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I "Best" software for emotor simulation?
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A Bending Salt Crystals (xray monochromator)
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B What Factors Influence the Survival and Growth of Accreting Bodies in Space?
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I 'Set of pearls' mathematics / physics help
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I Why are we looking for a graviton?
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B Trying to understand orbiting objects in space
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I Why wouldn't two inductors provide a lag of 180 degrees?
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I Meaning of average pressure in statistical mechanics
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B Why do objects break? (in the case of a body at rest on a surface)
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I Solving for Orbital Mechanics
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I Electric field in two dimensions in an electromagnetic wave
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B Easier to pedal with physics
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B Help with refraction of light
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B Can conservation laws take time to obey?
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B MIRV vs very high-yield bomb effectiveness
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I How can magnetic fields contain energy?
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I Units analysis for this phase shift problem using a differential equation
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I Fresnel Zone Equation Problem
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I Do curl/time dependent Maxwell's equations imply divergence equations?
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I What can be used as a Frequency generator to make Chladni patterns?
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B Rubber band force-extension graph
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B How much rubidium-88 is there in nature?
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B Generating Electricity in E bike under seat (No pedal)
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I How Can I Build a DIY High Vacuum System Using Copper Instead of Glass?
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B Looking for info on old, unlabeled Geissler tubes
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B Can all the laws of nature always can be written in simple single equations alone?
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I Landau golden list
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A Why does the principle of stationary action work?
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B How would light work on a mirror very far away?
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I Why not use dichroic filters in modern solid state cameras?
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I Using primary color light filters
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B Interference in Thin Films
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A Trying to understand the meaning of "Sum Rules"
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I The "problem" of Induction and conservation laws
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B Analogue Black Holes: Disposal?
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B Could you build a container to isolate cosmic radiation?
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I How did the theory of quantum gravity begin?
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B Is time travel... travelling from one 3 dimensional space time to another 3 dimensional space time?
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I What affects light near black holes and stars?
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A A question about Vanadium dioxide smart window heating
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I Cloud seeding and firefighting
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B Can I have $5 Million for my Knowledge
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B Is mathematics incapable of describing physics in its entirety?
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What is fine tuning in physics/science?
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I Questions About Reciprocal Lattice Edge Length
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B What's the fastest the temperature of something can change?
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B Concrete formwork pressure
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Can 3D Holograms Be Created by Exciting Nitrogen Molecules in Air?
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B Explanations about Kardashev type 1 civilizations
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I AI Predicting Physics Research Results
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I Airflow through an air extraction grill
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B How do I keep my room cool when my housemate wants the heating on?
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B Liquid Flow Calculation out of a pressurized tank
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I Phase Transition in a Pure Water System
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B "Accelerations" as higher order derivatives
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I Should the Unit of Momentum Be Named After Emmy Noether?
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I CP violation, Tunnelling effect, and Cherenkov radiation
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I Does the use of microwave communication heat water particles?
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I Universal Gravity without Shell Theorem
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A Frequency Domain and pixel size
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I Volume of momentum space of an ideal gas
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I Besides magnetic monopoles, what else doesn’t exist?
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I Vibration in jack: up and down movement
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B Is it possible to calculate how much force is exerted on the ground and shoe midsole by your body while you run?
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I Is Geometrical Optics Essential for a Deeper Understanding of Light?
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B Quasistatic condition for a process involving a piston in a cylinder
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B Why are the relative fluctuations of intensive properties so small?
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B How does output voltage of an electric guitar work?
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