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High School What Are the Best Books for Independent Physics Study?

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Undergrad Operational Amplifiers - Saturation

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Graduate How Does Changing Water Levels Affect Air Column Resonance and Harmonics?

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Undergrad Going from a rate to a probability

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Undergrad When Do We Use Each SHM Equation?

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High School Why Does Ice Appear White?

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Undergrad Thermistor Problem: Finding Material and Equation

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Graduate My physics/love poem - feedback encouraged

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Identifying an unfamiliar physics symbol

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Undergrad Determining if 3 curves have the same period

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Undergrad What is the Definition of Color According to the CIE?

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Undergrad Easier Way to Build Spice Models from Old Data Sheets

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High School How Does Resonance Occur?

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High School What is the name of this expanding circle effect in physics?

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High School What is z-field compression and how does it relate to black holes?

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Undergrad Have any nobel prizes been awarded to computational physicists?

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Graduate Can Analog Memory Exist? A Physics Inquiry

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High School What is Resonance? Simple Definition

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Undergrad Can someone be too old or too late for physics?

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Graduate The reason why travelling back in time is logically impossible.

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High School Cool Large Scale Physics Projects

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Graduate A list of Physicist and their contributions

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Undergrad What Drives the Creation of Derived Units in Physics?

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Undergrad Remove clothing wrinkles using ultrasonics?

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Obtaining copy of CIE xy chromaticity diagram

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Undergrad Dx as change in distance vs dx as infinitesimal x?

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Graduate Can Iron Exist as a Gas Without Becoming Plasma?

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  • Poll Poll

How ugly is your physics department?

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Graduate How do theoretical physicists know so much?

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High School Air circulation question [Image attatched]

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Mars rocks covered with uniformly thick dust layer?

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Undergrad How exactly are standing waves formed?

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High School Effective Note-Taking Strategies for Physics Students

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Undergrad What does "measure of the same" mean in Newton's Principia?

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High School Why do solids compress more than liquids under pressure?

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High School How does vacuum form in a barometer?

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Graduate How can I find the smallest positive integer number without dividing q by e?

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Undergrad How long until the universe can write a googolplex?

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Being female in physics is ridiculous.

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Undergrad Can you write measurements with relative error in brackets like (1±10%)cm?

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High School Converting between nano and micro prefixes in scientific notation

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High School Number of points in mesh (Comsol 4.3b)

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Graduate Are there limitations to detecting small objects using sound and light?

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Building a boat smaller than 8×8 inches for an experiment

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Graduate The number of laws of physics is finite or infinite?

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Undergrad Why don't nearby atmosphere look blue.

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High School The Life and Contributions of Felix Ehrenhaft

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Undergrad Can soft materials scratch hard materials?

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High School I want to start to make a radio with one of my friends

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High School How much will be the gravity of the sun if i make it like a stick

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High School Are subatomic particles matter or energy?

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Undergrad Constructing a Dip Coater: Does Elevating Solvent Make a Difference?

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Graduate Impact of Helium 3 from Extraterrestrial Sources

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Undergrad What Is Energy at a Microscopic Level?

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Undergrad If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

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How many hertz can kill flying house insects?

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Undergrad Is everything vibrating and will it ever stop?

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Undergrad Where can I find an oxygen phase diagram for 0-50 atm?

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Undergrad How much trig should I know before taking calculus based physics?

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News John Dobson: Pioneer of Amateur Astronomy

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Recharging a dead battery on the moon with only copper wire

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High School Role of transistors as switches in burglar alarm circuits

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Undergrad How would a gas cloud evolve without each fundamental force?

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High School What is the difference between D and AA batteries?

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High School Does robotics follow the laws of physics?

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Where to buy bifilar wound flat spiral and cylindrical coils

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Undergrad Impact Factors/Peer Review in Physics Journals

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Graduate Can Skin Vibrations Be Detected with Lasers or Thermal Imaging?

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High School What does the formula f = 1/T mean?

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Undergrad Why Are Both KE and PE Maximal at Equilibrium in a String Wave?

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Graduate Can Bell's Theorem Be Applied to the Question of Free Will?

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What does this diagram show?

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Graduate What Happens to Time Zones When Flying at Earth's Rotation Speed?

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High School What is the difference between a compound and a molecule?

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Undergrad Can wireless energy transfer deliver significant power?

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Graduate An interesting take on (the lack of) time travel ;)

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Undergrad Standing vs. Travelling waves in a string fixed at both ends

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Graduate Volume and Area in physical equations

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Undergrad Density of Air in the Mesosphere?

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High School When do you multiply a quantity by time versus divide by time?

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Undergrad What kind of physicist is Nassim Haramein?

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Bright light in Orion turned out to be a firework

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Free physics ebooks from freescience.info

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How Would You Address a Letter in the Multiverse Mail Delivery System?

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High School Simple vector arithmetic question

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Undergrad Can Quartz Crystals Really Store Unlimited Data for an Unlimited Time?

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Undergrad So what exactly has changed in physics in the last 20 years?

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Undergrad Can Solar Panels Orbiting the Sun Beam Energy to Earth via Lasers?

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High School Wha is difference between laminar flow and streamlined flow.

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High School How does E=MC^2 convert to Joules?

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Online

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Undergrad How do I build a cathode ray tube from scratch?

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Undergrad What is the Physics behind Global Warming?

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Graduate Why Was the 2013 Nobel Prize Delayed for the Higgs Mechanism?

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Graduate Is Farewell to Reality a Valid Critique of Modern Physics?

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Undergrad Why is amplitude 2A sin(kx) in stationary waves, not 2A cos(ωt)?

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Can You Manage a Pet During Physics Grad School?

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High School How to Convert J/K and kgJs/m into m/s?

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