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Undergrad What's Going on with the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant?
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High School What will be the reading of this vernier calliper?
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Undergrad Increasing tone while mixing sugar in water
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Undergrad Can Physics Explain the Phenomenon of Love?
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Publishing books on arXiv, a new trend?
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Undergrad Discussion about least squares method
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High School Does Energy Exist as a Physical Entity or Merely a Mathematical Concept?
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Undergrad Replacing the Measurement standards (SI units)
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Tommy Lee Jones Contemplates Plank's Constant
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Undergrad What drives osmosis? (Statistics or Dynamics?)
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What would you memorize if you could?
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Cut lemon moved by itself
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NASA Black Hole Visualisation
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Graduate Relation between Rosenbluth Potentials and Spitzer Resistivity
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Undergrad Does a shaking hammer blow cause less damage than a stiff blow?
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Graduate How does phase of merging sines affect overall periodic tones?
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Undergrad Any alternatives to Tracker from physlets?
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Please explain this mirror
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High School Interstellar Spacecraft Voyager 1
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Undergrad Does an aerial punch or kick transfer more power than a standing one?
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Undergrad Is a thrusting motion more powerful/deadly than a swinging one?
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Undergrad NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth
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My glass beer bottle survived a fall from the 10th floor, how, & why?
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Undergrad Commercials with a Science Pitch
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Peter Higgs - 1929 - 2024
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Graduate Is Relativity Denial Still Prevalent in Science Forums?
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News Sonic Weapon in Cuba: Mystery of Health Attacks Deepens
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Graduate Is it Valid to Average Two Metrics in Spacetime?
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Graduate From Nyquist plot to real conductivity spectra (sigma)
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Why Does the US Space Force Reference the Dark Side of the Moon?
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Undergrad What is the Equivalent Strength of the Chicxulub Impact in Atomic Bombs?
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Undergrad Is "scalar wave" a legitimate term?
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High School Speed of light and Euler's constant
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High School Are there any unsolved physics problems?
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Graduate Dynamics and convergence of a general flow network
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Undergrad Why is not possible to store electric energy from a Lightning?
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RIP physicist Arno Penzias, 1978 Nobel Laureate in physics
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What is your favorite technical physics blog?
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High School Information sources and physics teaching
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News Plot of Parton distribution function
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Is N. David Mermin's Autobiography Relevant for Today's STEM Scholars?
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High School Quanta Magazine Video on Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics in 2023
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What ONE Physics topic would you choose to study and why?
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Where to find nonprofessional collaborators/science friends?
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News Why do so many people not believe in the Big Bang?
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Undergrad Forces Required For Steeling A Blade?
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What Are the Best Science Periodicals for New Discoveries and Ideas?
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Graduate Correcting units from this physics paper?
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Is it possible to break this baseball bat with the heel of the foot?
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Undergrad Confused about unit conversion involving natural units
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Undergrad Data collected from different devices: how to combine for analysis?
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High School Why Do Some Toxins Persist Despite Chemical Reactions?
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High School What hand tools do physicists commonly use in the laboratory?
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Undergrad What can we scientifically measure directly?
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Undergrad The Problem With Science Communication (Veritasium)
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Double Sunrise Phenomenon Explanation?
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Graduate "Big Bang" according to the 19th century poet ("Science-v-Poetry")
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High School Which science communicator do you find to maintain the most accuracy?
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What is the newest installment of 'Random Thoughts' on Physics Forums?
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High School What is Causing the Zig Zagging of Stars in the Night Sky?
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News Death of astrophysicist Hubert Reeves at 91
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Undergrad How was electronics propagation delay measured historically?
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Graduate Nobel Prize 2023: Attosecond pulses
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Graduate How Many People Can Perform Quantum Mechanical Calculations?
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Graduate My modernization of Definition I in Newton's Principia
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Graduate Room temperature superconductor paper published
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Undergrad Flow rate calculation for laser cutting nozzles
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Undergrad How much impact mass does a boxing strike need to compensate for slower speed?
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Graduate Is There a Dark Side to Studying Statistical Mechanics?
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Undergrad How can tomographic image resolution be obtained using wifi sensing and imaging?
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Where Can I Find The Ballad of Maxwell's Equations Sung to Take On Me?
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Undergrad The best way to keep an office cool in the hot summer
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Graduate What can AI do and not do in physics currently?
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Undergrad What's the trick to this "perpetual" marble device?
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High School Is a Brain Wave Actually a Wave?
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Undergrad Where can I find explanations about physics applications in real life?
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High School Meaning of Multiplication and Division in Physics
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Graduate What Do These Famous Quotes Reveal About the Minds of Great Scientists?
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Undergrad How much of an approximation are power measuring tools for martial arts?
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Undergrad The multimeter is not displaying mv of strain gauge in circuit
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Tattoos & Physics: Will Visible Ink Affect My Career?
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Undergrad A simple way to vizualize non-linear waves with a star Slinky toy
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Undergrad Solving Rotary Friction Problem at Ye Olde Swinging Door
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Undergrad Titan implosion: underwater shockwave?
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Undergrad Is the position vector a real vector?
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Graduate On Porch Lights, Optical Geometry and the Ignition Point of Eyebrows
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Graduate Fourier coefficients relation to Power Spectral Density
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High School Why Does the Bathroom Have the Highest WiFi Signal Attenuation?
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High School Is Ice-Nine a Real Substance or Just a Fictional Creation?
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Undergrad Right handed co-ordinates and Left handed co-ordinates
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Undergrad Should I have studied E&M before learning Optics, Waves & Oscillations
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High School Questions about climate and physics
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How Was Einstein Really As a Student?
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Graduate Focus all of your ire on me, if you would
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High School Could solar sails be used as turbines for power generation?
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Graduate Why globular clusters don't collapse.
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Graduate What was the impact of Stanley Deser's work on the field of relativity?
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High School How did fundamental charge thinking develop?
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Graduate Can ChatGPT Handle Complex Physics Questions Accurately?
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Manned (or Staffed) space exploration
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