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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?
  • robphy
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High School How did fundamental charge thinking develop?
  • pinto
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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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High School Head or Tails: The Question of Determinism and Probability
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High School Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson a Reliable Source for Physics?
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Graduate ChatGPT Results: Testing Special Relativity
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RIP Jay Pasachoff - Astronomer with 74 Solar Eclipses Seen
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Mathematicians' contributions to physics
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Undergrad Building a physics formula database -- Help please
  • angrymonks
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What's Your Favorite Scientific Theory?
  • BadgerBadger92
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What research fields in physics are you working in?
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Most commonly mispronounced scientists' names
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Graduate Are Quantum Mechanics Interpretations Misrepresented in Fiction?
  • sandy stone
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Graduate Effect of time dilation on Earth/space communication?
  • InquiringMind
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Graduate What Is the Significance of PF Signatures in Historical Physics Debates?
  • dextercioby
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Graduate Is ChatGPT useful yet for answering astronomy questions?
  • Ken G
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This is what happens to an aluminum block when it hits...
  • ElliotSmith
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Undergrad Metal drinking cup is stuck inside a pressure cooker
  • bluebird
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Undergrad Can Ground Penetrating Radar Help Locate Earthquake Survivors?
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Undergrad Is this the Fourier Number, or some other formula?
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High School What is the concept of Physics of Cymatics (of a liquid)
  • Rosella Lin
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The Annoying 'That's Bad' in Science YT Videos
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Undergrad Is there a serious risk to airliners from satellite debris 12 miles up?
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Undergrad Why Isn't My Sonoluminescence Experiment Working?
  • Beekeeper
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News Kurt Gottfried: Physicist, Author & Co-Founder of UCS Dies at 93
  • Doc Al
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Undergrad How to find the value of a constant experimentally?
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A Remarkable Example of Equilibrium
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Graduate Quantum entanglement and the Schrödinger experiment
  • Seyara
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Graduate Uh-oh The movies and "quantum physics" as they see it....
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Any texts on the pleasure of studying physics?
  • Master Wayne
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Graduate When can I read and understand research papers?
  • Ahmed1029
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Undergrad How to do resistance (spot) welds by using arc/TIG welder?
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Undergrad Vacuum force factors (vacuum created by a "flow through" liquid)
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High School Investigating the Impact of Chips on Packaging Pressure Differential
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Graduate Explicit search in ChatGPT recalls
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Graduate Gun with a tachyon bullet paradox
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Graduate Should I submit an outlandish physics idea that feels right?
  • Ahmed1029
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Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
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High School Disk with holes falling on water
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Are there online cosmology book clubs for studying together?
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Undergrad How Are Tsinghua Students Using the Friedmann Equation to Protest Lockdowns?
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Undergrad Why NAND & NOR Gates are Necessary for LATCH Circuits
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Undergrad Analysis of data from previous experiments
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Who was the most influential and important physicist?
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High School Please mention all physics animation videos that you know
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Can’t understand is "life" word banned in physics forum.
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Graduate What should I do with my spacetime model?
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Undergrad What do physicists think of the Efficient Market hypothesis?
  • beamthegreat
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Graduate Nima Arkani-Hamed's opinion on Many Worlds?
  • Suekdccia
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High School Or when you look for a clip art of a prism
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Graduate Using the surrounding airflow to deduce the physics around UAP/UFO
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Graduate Superdeterminism and the Mermin Device: A New Perspective on Bell's Inequality
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Undergrad What is the smallest possible state change in the Universe?
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Undergrad Understanding how time derivative = acceleration
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Graduate More Nobel prizes in quantum information?
  • Suekdccia
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High School What is the smallest unit of measurement used that the eye can see?
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Undergrad My favorite physics problem not is not an end-of-chapter problem
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Can a belly button ring travel through a person like a bullet?
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Predictions for the 2022 Physics Nobel Prize
  • Suekdccia
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Physicists Doing Art With Birefringent Materials
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Nobel Prize in Physics (nominees 1901-1970)
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Graduate Chen Ning Yang is (almost) 100 years old
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Refrigerator Too Cold: Wrapping Veggies in a Blanket?
  • Hornbein
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Graduate Is gravity a force or just a consequence of mass?
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High School Is there any physics to this 'punch'?
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Undergrad Understanding Conventions in Engineering: The Role of Rules and Consistency
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Great Sequence of Video Documentaries on Nuclear Disasters
  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad What are the biggest recent advances in physics?
  • MarkTheQuark
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High School Destructive Interference in the sound of multiple firecrackers set off at once?
  • MarvinBotts
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What are the most important secrets of physics today?
  • mech-eng
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Undergrad Frank Drake (Drake Equation) 1930 - Sept. 2 2022
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Graduate Underwater acoustic unit conversion
  • nauman
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Graduate "Heuristics" for Casimir: how close to reality do they have to be?
  • nomadreid
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Undergrad What type of problems do you like the most?
  • bigmike94
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Undergrad Does Memorizing 70,000 Digits Increase the Chance of Being a Bolzmann Brain?
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High School No vacuum anywhere vs the measurement of "c"
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Undergrad Could the universe really be conscious?
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Undergrad Chaos theory has no fine edge -- does it fluctuate?
  • Gary101
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Undergrad What Are the Current Events in the Universe 13 Billion Years Ago?
  • Steve K
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High School Occam's razor in science: all-time practice or modern fashion?
  • Aidyan
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Physics experiments that changed the world (video)
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Graduate Question about kinetic theory and hydrodynamics (in plasmas)
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