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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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
- hihiip201
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Undergrad Resistivity in Archaeology: A Tool for Identifying Underground Objects?
- Johntoby
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Undergrad How do blast waves and shock waves relate in an explosion?
- blastbasics
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Undergrad Uncertainty of experiment relative or absolute
- hulk78
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High School This whole we're made from stars thing.
- Oral B
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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?
- CRGordon
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Physics Quiz/Trivia: Understanding Data and the Importance of Proper Analysis
- ZapperZ
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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 Where does the energy come from if a butterfly causes a hurricane?
- jk22
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Can I document vibrations from a neighbor's device with scientific evidence?
- Victor M.
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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 General physics equations in calculus form
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: If someone was burning your head with a energy directed device?
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Undergrad Can Rayleigh–Bénard Convection Be Observed at Home?
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High School Prince Rupert's Drop filmed at 130,000 fps
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How much time do you spend on physics each day?
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Undergrad Why does the surafce of a liquid act as a stretched membrane?
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Graduate Are properties quantities or do properties have quantities?
- aphyx
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Physics and science podcasts worth listening to
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High School E =mc2. e = hf is it different?
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Undergrad Noise cancelling device, making one
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High School What Does It Really Mean to Touch Something at Macro and Nano Scales?
- i know it all
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High School Stationary waves and Resonance
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High School Why dont we explode when we go indoors?
- jaydnul
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Undergrad What is the reason for the square attenuation?
- iVenky
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High School Flamethrowers: Why Do They Need Compressed Gas?
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Undergrad Is there any way to predict if a substance is flammable or not?
- tsuwal
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High School Could someone explain this image to me?
- tat1978
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Undergrad Building A noise cancelling program.
- erickulcyk
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Undergrad Converting brightness temperature to actual surface temperature
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High School How do transverse waves propagate through a string?
- Deshen
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Undergrad Measuring CO2 Solubility in Various Liquids: Experimental Setup Suggestions
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Undergrad Resources for comparing acoustic and ALB ocean bathymetry systems
- gunpowder
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Average IQ of a physicist/mathematician
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Undergrad Why the laws of physics will eventually decay Moore's Law
- jaydnul
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High School Where Did the Concept of Predicting the Universe's Future Originate?
- Eru_JRRT
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Retired physicist and enjoy discussing physics
- Popper
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World class Physics and Bikinis Don't Mix
- jedishrfu
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Undergrad Doubts in Epitaph of Stevinus .
- iVenky
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Website / program speed of light simulation
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Undergrad Basic questions about signal processing and fourier analysis
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Where do you get your physics news and publications?
- JonDrew
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Undergrad Confusion regarding SI base units
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Undergrad Question on why metal ions are remain stationary in the metal body
- sgstudent
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Driving requires one to be a physicist
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Was the Hindenburg Disaster Caused by Static Electricity?
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Hangout With Cern: Lhc And The Grid
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Graduate Learn about the proof of Lamb-Chaplygin dipole
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Undergrad Adjusting anemometer reading for 4.5 inch orifice
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R.I.P. Donald Glaser (inventor of the bubble chamber)
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High School How to prepare for my first physics olympiad in one week
- JimTheSurfer
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Graduate Occam's Razor in Different Fields of Physics
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High School What if there were no atmosphere
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High School Ideas Wanted: World's Simplest Physics Demos
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Let's rename Valentines day and call it Monopole day
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Undergrad Air Consumption Rate of Cylinder Actuators on SKG200 Valves
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Greatest work of physicist done in their 20s?
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Graduate Topics Not on Wikipedia: Special Relativity, General Relativity, etc.
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Graduate What Does the Equation K(q,q;T)=Ae(q,q;T/π) Mean?
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Looking for LHC cost-benefit analysis video online
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High School What is meant by energy use, storage and expenditure?
- mc2_phy
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High School Why does flight simulator physics contradict what I learned?
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High School Can Time Travel Ever Become Reality?
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Is the first 3 minutes the best pop sci book ever written
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Do you document your personal physics learning?
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Hole in reality? Very strange experience I (we) had
- Kawakaze
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Is a Day Truly 24 Hours Long?
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Imperial measurements just feel better
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Undergrad Physics Project ( College/University )
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Graduate Solve Harmonic Wave Equation: Manish from Germany
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Global Particle Physics Photowalk Contest
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Graduate How much can we rely on theories?
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Good science/physics documentaries?
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Undergrad What is the meaning behind multiplication in Physics?
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High School Ruben's Tube - Is a one inch OD pipe okay?
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High School Ice spikes forming in freezer ice cube trays
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Undergrad Difference between rule and law in physics
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Undergrad How Can a Particle Move Downwards and Be Displaced Upwards in a Wave?
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High School What Causes a Circular Hole in Snow on an Attic Skylight?
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Graduate Setup for the saturn effects of Kristian Birkeland's experiments
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Why Did My Gate Suddenly Transform?
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Graduate Non-friction Langevin equation in plasma media
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Graduate Low Wavelength and Photosynthesis
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Graduate Compressible flow in cylindrical coordinate
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High School Can Liquids Really Be Compressed Under Pressure?
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How do professional physicists think?
- alex6
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Undergrad Using Doppler effect to challenge speeding ticket radar
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High School How physicists were writting papers in the old times?
- Sayajin
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Why do you love physics?
- isnt life juicy
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