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Undergrad How do you get into physics when you already graduated?
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Where Should the International Linear Collider Be Built?
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High School Physics individual investigation
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Understanding Hartle: My Success Story with WannabeNewton
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Undergrad Sensitive barometer to show altitude
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High School Preparing for Mid-Year Exam: Motion, Electronics, Photonics, and Relativity
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Graduate How to absorb a characteristic line in the spectrum
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Undergrad What exactly does integration signify?
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Looking for a Comprehensive Physics Encyclopedia?
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Undergrad Doppler Effect Formula Question
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Graduate Questions about a Transient Luminous Event
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Graduate Where is a good place to go to get input on theories?
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Undergrad Photo of Enrico Fermi includes math/physics I do not understand
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Graduate Is Schrodinger's Cat a Quantum Physics Trap?
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Undergrad What is the Shear Modulus of This Screw?
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Undergrad Wrong science information everywhere?
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High School Who is the true father of modern physics?
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High School Why is in the middle of a cyclone the air going up?
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Graduate Ionizing solids- effects and materials
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Graduate Applying Chaos Theory to history
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Graduate How to deal with published (and indexed) baloney?
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Undergrad Type of curvature of gradient force from edge to center of a sphere
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Undergrad If two units have the same dimensions are they always inequivalent?
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Okay this one is proving hard to find on YouTube
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High School Monthly Physics Competition Questionnaire
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Most important piece of scientific knowledge
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High School I need the definition of a few basic physics terms. Can anyone help?
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Undergrad Can Smell Be Captured and Transferred Electronically?
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High School Glass is Solid, Not Liquid: Urban Legend Debunked
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High School How Does Physics Unlock the Secrets of Everyday Phenomena?
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What is the hardest thing for you to wrap your brain around
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Undergrad How do Wavelength, Intensity, and HSV/RGB Interact in Image Processing?
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Undergrad Can You Identify the Scientist Behind This Formula?
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Graduate What Are the Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Science Today?
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Graduate How to think better as a physicist?
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Undergrad Physical meaning of a Metre-Second? [or (Kg · s) or (N · s) ]
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Graduate Hofstadter's Butterfly confirmation note
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Undergrad In what proton MRI is focusing ?
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Undergrad Question about the formula of wave used and plane wave.
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How to Safely Dispose of a Frozen Soda Can
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What are some recommended books on popular science?
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Graduate Fourier Transform : Analysis of 2 different signals
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Graduate Difficulty level of pre-IPhO exams in india.
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What's with this We physicists stuff?
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Graduate Can a Spinning Disc and Photon Technology Create a Femtosecond Clock?
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High School Sun's energy converted into biomass?
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High School The use of Pitchblend in the 1900s
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Undergrad Need help with argument about wave equation
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High School Anyone know of some basic physics papers to 'critique'?
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Graduate The Concept of Energy: A Philosophical and Historical Exploration
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Graduate High-Vacuum Connectors: Best Way to Vent and Attach
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High School Solve Equations with Ease: Get Expert Help and Tips Here!
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Mind-Blowing Physics Discoveries of the Past: What More Can We Find?
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What is Time? A Brief Explanation
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Graduate IBM's A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
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High School Introductory Physics Learning Materials
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High School What are the best strategies for preparing for a physics final?
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Graduate Is the Universe a Computer Simulation? Physicists to Test Theory
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Undergrad What is the relationship between particle velocity and sound waves in air?
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High School Comparative Analysis of Bionic Eye, Human Eye, and Camera
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High School How would you structure high school physics?
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High School Do you find that you intimidate others because you study physics?
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Undergrad Relationship between pitch and string length
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Graduate What Are Some Recommended References for Luminescence Spectroscopy?
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Graduate What is this equation regarding?
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Graduate Simulating Molecules: Can We Simulate Complexity?
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High School How Physicists Create Complex Equations - A Mid School Student's Guide
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Graduate Uncertainties of numerical results
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Graduate What was the impact of Plank's solution to the UVC?
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Graduate Problems of Semantics and Visual Aids in Science
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Defining Time: What Does Science Say?
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Undergrad Can hail cannons really disrupt hail storms?
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High School Difference between systematic and random errors
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High School What is the relationship of this formula?
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Position of Arms When Facing North
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Undergrad How do bubbles close when forming?
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Graduate Videos that motivate you to be involved with science
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Graduate Looking for Article on Determinism
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Undergrad Physics behind climb cutting and conventional cutting
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Undergrad Resistivity in Archaeology: A Tool for Identifying Underground Objects?
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Undergrad How do blast waves and shock waves relate in an explosion?
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Undergrad Uncertainty of experiment relative or absolute
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High School This whole we're made from stars thing.
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Undergrad Is this a standing wave? What is it?
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How Michio Kaku, Alex Filippenko, Laura Danly, et al. earn their pay
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Graduate Is there a quantification of gravitational attraction at the atomic level?
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Physics Quiz/Trivia: Understanding Data and the Importance of Proper Analysis
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Undergrad Why is it bad to put metal in an MRI machine?
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Graduate Where Can I Discuss New Ideas in Quantum Gravity?
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Undergrad Constancy of gravitational constant
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Undergrad What is the strange phenomenon above this explosion on Mythbusters?
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Undergrad Examples of progress due to the Copernican Principle?
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Graduate How Does the Butterfly Effect Relate to Energy Conservation in Chaos Theory?
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Harassment with Wave Emitter: Documenting Vibrations for Evidence
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Undergrad Vacuum chamber air intake problem
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High School [BASIC] Interpretation of multiplication
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Undergrad How to tell if two oscillators are different
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Comprehensive List of General Physics Equations?
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: If someone was burning your head with a energy directed device?
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