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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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Will visible tattoos affect my chances in physics research?

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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 Does ice-nine from Cat's Cradle violate physical laws?

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Undergrad Right handed co-ordinates and Left handed co-ordinates

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Undergrad Is optics typically taught before electricity and magnetism?

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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 ChatGPT on quantum mechanics interpretations and Bell's theorem

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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 Creating a comprehensive online physics formula database

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What's Your Favorite Scientific Theory?

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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?

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Graduate Effect of time dilation on Earth/space communication?

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Graduate What Is the Significance of PF Signatures in Historical Physics Debates?

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Graduate Is ChatGPT useful yet for answering astronomy questions?

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Aluminum block hit by 0.5 ounce plastic at 15,000 mph

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Undergrad Steel cup stuck diagonally in pressure cooker

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Undergrad Using GPR and sound analysis to 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)

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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?

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News Kurt Gottfried, quantum mechanics textbook author, dies at 93

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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

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Graduate How movies misrepresent quantum physics and the multiverse

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Any texts on the pleasure of studying physics?

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Graduate When can I read and understand research papers?

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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 Do chips in packaging affect pressure differential in a sealed bag test?

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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?

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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 latch circuits require NAND or NOR gates

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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 Physics animation videos for learning concepts

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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?

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Graduate Does Nima Arkani-Hamed support the many worlds interpretation?

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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?

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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

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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?

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Graduate Is gravity a force or a consequence of spacetime curvature?

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High School Is there any physics to this 'punch'?

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Undergrad What happens when we adopt mathematical conventions like the right-hand rule?

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Great Sequence of Video Documentaries on Nuclear Disasters

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Undergrad What are the biggest recent advances in physics?

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High School Destructive Interference in the sound of multiple firecrackers set off at once?

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What are physicists today racing to develop?

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Undergrad Frank Drake (Drake Equation) 1930 - Sept. 2 2022

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Graduate Underwater acoustic unit conversion

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Graduate "Heuristics" for Casimir: how close to reality do they have to be?

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Undergrad What type of problems do you like the most?

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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?

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Undergrad What Are the Current Events in the Universe 13 Billion Years Ago?

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High School Occam's razor in science: all-time practice or modern fashion?

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Physics experiments that changed the world (video)

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