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Undergrad Mars-One: People living on Mars in 2023
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Need logical explanation for strange event
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Graduate Is Antimatter a Misnomer?
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Undergrad Power of the Pendulum - Proof of Ultra-Efficiency?
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Graduate Why would someone decorate their mausoleum with complex equations and symbols?
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Undergrad Finding Uncertainty of Average Values
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Does michio kaku hate leonard susskind?
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See the Transit of Venus Live Here
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Undergrad Why is the ember of a cigarette harder than the non-burning tobacco alone?
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MHB Venus - Transit of VenusWhat did I capture during the recent transit of Venus?
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Undergrad Is Anti-Gravity Levitation Possible for Human Transport?
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High School Today and tomorrow (5/11 and 5/12) an extremely large group of
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High School What Causes the Blue Color of Sea Water?
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High School Want to know of any easy physics book for beginners
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High School Storing Dry Ice in a Freezer: Is it Safe?
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Graduate Unit of Measure of Exponentiated Item
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Undergrad Question Regarding Operational Amps
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Graduate H2O Vibrational Transitions (molecular as opposed to election) Why ?
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Physics Forums getting some love at MSN
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High School WHat is the uncertainty in a metre rule?
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Undergrad Possible webpage title: Mars and Earth Warming: Fact or Assumption?
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High School What exactly is a wave and how does it propagate?
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High School 12V Lead Acid Battery Charging & discharging rate?
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Graduate Expected time of arrival with uncertainty
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Setting up a Physics revision site
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Undergrad What is the impact of speaker direction on noise levels?
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Undergrad Is this effect common in all fields of physics?
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High School What are Chords? What is the smallest unit in physics?
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Graduate Fast Fourier Transform in Real Time
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Undergrad Distribution of molecules throughout the atmosphere
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MHB Experiment finding particles travelling faster than light
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High School Understanding Reverse Osmosis Water Filters: Fact or Fiction?
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Graduate How to challenge a well established theory?
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Graduate Unravelling Mysteries of the Universe: Researching for a Book
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Physics is copies idea from sci fi, i dont think show
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High School Question about battery amp hours
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Undergrad MARVEL's fictional Adamantium in real life?
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High School Waves - Matter is transported or not?
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Why Are Physicists Shy & Antisocial?
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Undergrad Accoustic wave propagation and effects in a tube
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Graduate Mixing He, O, Ge, N and U: What Could Happen?
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Undergrad What is the difference between dot product and cross product in physics?
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High School Creating an Egg-Carrying Device Without a Parachute
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High School Sig Figs: Adding Accurate Lengths with Fewer Decimals
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Undergrad Carrying Uncertainty in Math: A Paradox?
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Undergrad Energy - Can energy be negative?
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Undergrad Magnetic-like resistance between palms
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High School Why Can't Vernier Calipers Measure Less Than 1 cm Accurately?
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High School Why candle reduces cigarette smoke odor?
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High School Help Choose Physics Topic for AP Class Presentation
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Undergrad Determining Mass of Individual Objects in Bags - Oil, Candy, Millikan?
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Undergrad Can You Determine an Epicenter in a Classroom Seismic Activity Simulation?
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High School Do Vibrating Systems Only Relate to Sound Waves?
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Undergrad Need help on explanation of Jiskoot sampler.
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What objects can I use to improve my ball curving skills?
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Graduate How to Locate Original Quantum Mechanics Articles by Bohm and Dirac?
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High School What's the difference between entrainment and resonance?
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Graduate Validity of physics or any result of it
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High School Anti Matter - Does it exist on Earth?
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High School Can we see nuclear explosion from orbit?
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Moving Airplane; Strongman Competition
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Graduate Can Magnetic Super Fluids Create Gravity Waves?
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Graduate How Can Catalysts Enhance the Recombination of Oppositely Charged Ions?
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Undergrad Standing waves on a circular plate.
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Graduate Practical Physics: Esoteric Parallels
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Greatest physicists of all time alive and dead
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High School Bermuda Triangle: Unsolved Mysteries & Gravitational Forces
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Undergrad How safe is a digital-TV repeater?
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Undergrad The common practice to not put equations in pop science books
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High School The Scientific Method: Why is it Important?
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What Are the Best Physics Websites?
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High School Do Thoughts Have Physical Mass?
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High School Myth or Bust: Tint shatters sun roof
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Revisiting Einstein's Biggest Blunder: Uncertainty and its Impact on Science
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High School Contribution to physics- who should be included?
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High School What Physics Experiment Can Combine Computers, Soccer, or Music?
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Graduate How Does the Equation F→∏ A l Z Relate to Fundamental Physics?
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High School Waves can cause the displacement of an object.
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Graduate J.J. Thomson's cathode ray experiment
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Gravity Act as a Restoring Force in Wave Pulses?
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High School What generate the Gravity force from mass?
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High School If the earth started spinning clockwise
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High School Will level of liquid increase if ice melts in it?
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Graduate About the missing Gamma Rays of Low Energy Fusion
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Graduate Publication advice for Born Rule paper
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High School Strange object in the sky blinking
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Undergrad Is a Perfect Vacuum Achievable?
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Graduate ED-XRF spectra - recurrant artifact below 0 keV?
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High School Converting Joules to MeV: Understanding Energy Conversion
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Questions about Radio/Radar Mapping of Other Planets - Forum User SC
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How does Walter Lewin draw dotted lines so quickly on a blackboard?
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Graduate A scale challenge for your brilliant minds.
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High School Why does foam form on orange squash?
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What Are the Most Romantic Old-Time Science Phrases?
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Why do lots of people think time isn't real?
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Undergrad Digital Signals on Analog lines?
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High School Whats fire made of? What element atoms are it.?
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Undergrad What are some good websites/magazines for updates in physics?
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Can energy be perceived directly?
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Graduate N-Body Problem Help: Finding Chaos
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