Participate in expert physics discussion. Discussion on the nature and properties of matter and energy. This area is for topics that don't fit the other categories. Mainstream physics only.
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High School What is the difference between a law and a theory?
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High School What is an intuitive definition of Hertz?
- Inventor man
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Phys graduates, do people assume you know more than you actually do?
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Undergrad Relation between energy of traveling wave with displacement curve
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Can I do this? I am 5'2", 120 lbs.
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Graduate Can Noble Gases Be Manipulated to Produce Specific Emission Spectrum Lines?
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Undergrad How Can NO2 Be Separated from Car Exhaust for Nitric Acid Production?
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Undergrad There is little molecule bond between gas molecules, then why we have
- Jackson Lee
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Undergrad Quality/timbre of identical guitars
- Fiona Rozario
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Graduate Using graphite as a catalyst to break down Ozone
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High School Significant Figures in long physics calculations?
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Graduate What materials would produce an impedance mismatch?
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Undergrad Structural Differences Between Red, Blue and Green Xenon Lamps
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Found this on 9gag and would like to know the answer
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High School Waves that can pass through the body
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Undergrad Longer conduit Impedes flow? What?
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Undergrad Does plucking one point on the string really can cause standing wave?
- Jackson Lee
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Graduate Can someone explain what Michio Kaku is talking about in this video?
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Graduate Capillary action with respect to "wicking beds"
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Think about it - Airplane on a treadmill
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Undergrad Calculating Waves on a String: Answer Justification and Confusion Dispelled"
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High School Good physics research project for high schooler?
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Undergrad Audio for Wikipedia math articles
- Stephen Tashi
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Undergrad Will I float about 100 km above earth surface?
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Graduate Social Physics: A New Theory of Human Social Interaction
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Undergrad Removing Gas Bubbles from Liquid Without Contact
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Undergrad Ultrasonic Cavitation: Can I Produce Acoustic Cavitation?
- hamilton17
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Undergrad How does the inverse square law apply to CFL plant lighting?
- notty1975
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High School Why do some sources say 3 states of matter and others say 5?
- Sciencekid
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Undergrad How much Knowledge about science and math has changed since Einstein?
- !Jon Snow!
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Undergrad Why doesn't our body experience equal pressure when we press our finger?
- aditya ver.2.0
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Graduate Can a string of data be both random and meaningless?
- Yoni
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Graduate Memorizing Equations for Physics: Is It Necessary?
- pierce15
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High School What colour is the sky on other planets?
- !Jon Snow!
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Milk Food Coloring And Dish Soap Experiment
- Greg Bernhardt
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High School Can a Stable Dipole Exist Without Charges Neutralizing?
- FerN61
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What is your favorite branch of physics?
- Alexander*GR*
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Do Solids Like Wood Produce Smells?
- Jupiter60
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Undergrad Would Fluid Droplets Land in the Same Position in a Vacuum?
- Mhorton91
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Have you ever heard of the physicist Alex Abastian (sp?)
- warfreak131
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What is the vapor when sugar boils without water?
- mrspeedybob
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High School Why is lithium good for batteries?
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Are there any theories in physics that you don't believe?
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Undergrad Will a resonator change its Freq while energy is added?
- ctech
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Undergrad Can a Boeing 777 dive into water without breaking apart?
- wahoo
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Undergrad Waves having energy with no mass
- Scimaster
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Graduate Casual talk. Constrained Hamilton systems. Dirac brackets.
- jostpuur
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High School Road where each section 1/10 of the last section.
- andreasdagen
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Graduate Do physics books butcher the math?
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High School What is the difference between sodium and sodium metal?
- taregg
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Undergrad Amplitude decrease with geometrical spreading
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Undergrad Can we crush Earth by building on it and would touching atmospheres merge?
- Gondur
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High School Is matter and energy the same thing?
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Undergrad Free Video Lectures from universities, all Math and Physics courses
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Graduate Effects on an explosions force based on varied gas densities?
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High School Bending Vectors: Can We Make Curvy Ones?
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High School Short derivation of solid angle
- Hardik Batra
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High School I need to do a project for science fair based on Newton's laws
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High School Cream on Top: Why is it So Much Denser than Milk?
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Where can I find free physics video lectures?
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Undergrad How relevant is the Feynman's Lectures on Physics?
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High School How Do Gradients, Rates, and the Term 'Per' Relate to Division and Ratios?
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Graduate Net gravitational force inside a shell
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Graduate Group Velocities: Understanding Sound Pulse Faster Than C
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High School Do polymer ion batteries lose capacity faster when charged and discharged simultaneously?
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Undergrad What is difference between natural sodium and metal sodium
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High School What are the different types of Mass?
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Graduate How can different types of plastic be cheaply and easily identified?
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Graduate Sampling a signal and do the discrete Fourier transform
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Graduate Material Conductivity: Material with Variable Ohmic Resistance
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Undergrad How Do Waves Propagate on a String?
- Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Why sound reflects at an open pipe end
- Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Individual Measurement Uncertainty vs. Standard Error of Regression
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High School Difference between dietary iron and iron metal
- taregg
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High School Does Water on the Table Improve Flip Cup Success?
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High School Does Hair Matter in Soccer Headers?
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High School Newbie Questions about Units in Physics Equations
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High School X-Ray Shielding: Importance in Medical Technology
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High School Is the Feynman diagram on this t-shirt real physics?
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Undergrad Squaring the Circle - Is There More to It?
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High School Can we perceive matter directly?
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Graduate Overthinking everyday decisions through physics consequences
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High School Are photons from burning gas the same as light from a filament lamp?
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Graduate Calculating Radar Cross Section for a Spherical Object in GHz Frequency
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Graduate Quartz Crystal Microbalance equilibrium
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Undergrad Green LED in liquid nitrogen turns yellow
- Physics2.0
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Undergrad Measurable quantites vs Base units
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High School Why do matches ignite when struck inside a matchbox?
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Undergrad What is the nature of the force of gravitation?
- Syed Ammar
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High School How to Convert .4350 into Cubic Centimeters?
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Undergrad How can I estimate food mass for carb counting without a scale?
- Nerdydude101
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Summer Reading for Physics Teachers: Physics Books to Read
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Shadow of Steam: Seeing the Unseen
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Undergrad How do constants get their dimensions in dimensional analysis?
- Yashbhatt
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Graduate How can teeth be bent without contact forces
- nemolovesomni
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Graduate What happens if infinitely many waves are concentrated at one point?
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Undergrad Significant Figures and Units in Physics Calculations
- PFuser1232
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High School Where to start learning physics and mathematics as a beginner
- cyber850
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High School How Does the Floating Match Trick Work?
- Nerdydude101
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Undergrad Why does CO molecule have 7 degrees of freedom?
- Hardik Batra
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