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High School What is Dipole Moment? - Experts Explain
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Survival of the Fittest: The Ultimate Dilemma on the Titanic
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Because Physics is better than your major
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Graduate Imaginary Center of Mass? What is that?
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High School Uncertainty Meaning: Definition & Difference from Error
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Undergrad What is the difference between normal modes and propagation modes?
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Undergrad Physics: The Study of Motion and Reality
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If you wear glasses please look at this picture optical illusion?
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Graduate How Do Wavelets Compare to Fourier Transforms for Analyzing Non-Uniform Signals?
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Undergrad Randomness the secret of everything
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High School COuld anybody join physics conferences?
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Mysterious Picture Change on Android Device
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Undergrad Error analysis, multiplying an error
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Undergrad Is the Uncertainty Principle the Key to Understanding Causal Determinism?
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High School Sub-bass pattern effects @ 30-70 Hz
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Graduate Gravitational Field From Ring Mass
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High School How Does Ultrasonic Cleaning Work?
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Graduate What is the Meaning of the Symbol in Equation (4) on arXiv?
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High School How to write joules per metre squared per second
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High School How to succeed in AP Physics B? HELP
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Undergrad Intermolecular attractions and Wave propagation
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Uncertainty should be called as unpredictability
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Undergrad Understanding Different Waves Propagating Through Water
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Undergrad Can Santa Be in Multiple Houses at Once, Just Like an Electron?
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Undergrad Immeadiacy of sensory experience
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Undergrad Leap seconds- the debate communicated by a designer.
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Undergrad How did I capture these intriguing feedback loop photos?
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Why Did My Wave Function Collapse on the Way to Lecture?
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Undergrad How to make a discovery in Physics/How to get in the Physics Mindset
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Undergrad Experimental Results vs Predictions
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Undergrad Intuitive understanding of dimension (units)
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High School A question about a quote from Einstein
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High School Green Grass in Night: What Color Will We See?
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Undergrad What is Chlorine Trifluoride and How Does it React with Fire?
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Graduate The use of arbitrary parameters in theoretical models
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Are stale bagels better insulators than fresh ones?
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High School Device to measure materials' vibration?
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Mysterious Sighting in Atlantic City NJ: Investigating the Possibilities
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Undergrad Publish Astrophysics Paper: Procedure Guide
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Best of Physics Forums : If I were to advice my students to use Physics Forums
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Anyone here help out with the LHC@home sixtrack?I recently started
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High School Are there any astrophysics quizzes available online?
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University Physics- Young Freedman 12/E errata
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Undergrad Harnessing Solar Energy to Provide Power & Water
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High School States of Matter: Number & Properties
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Do you use Physics Forums in business?
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Undergrad Information about chalk sticking to blackboard
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High School How long does it take to become a physics expert?
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High School Overall, H2O More Negative Than Positive?
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High School Is someone tell me what is quadrant system ?
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High School How Does Blue Tack Adhere to Smooth Surfaces?
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Undergrad The Teapot Effect: Investigating the Causes
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Undergrad Radar Doppler Effect: What Does the "V" Stand For?
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High School Bathtub Water Drainage: Northern vs Southern Hemispheres
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Undergrad Can the private sector unlock hidden advancements in physics?
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High School Understanding Contrail Movement: Explaining a Mysterious Phenomenon
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High School Who Invented the Modern Scientific Method?
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Is Ronald Mallett's Time Travel Mission Respected by the Scientific Community?
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Is Physics amazing, or is it just me?
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Is Everything Really Half Its Original Size?
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High School Amateur question about rearranging atoms
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High School What is Matter? Is an Electron Matter?
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High School How to Measure Squishiness?
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High School What are some unique Physics experiment ideas?
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Graduate Explaining Apparent Superluminal Neutrino Speeds as Quantum Weak Measurement
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Graduate Can Heaven Be a Realm with Molecular Structures Beyond Light Speed?
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Undergrad Rate of energy transfer of a longitudinal wave?
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Undergrad I may have found a couple of meteorites
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Pop Science Books: Pro's or Con's?
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Graduate Falsifying Scientific Theories: How Do We Know When a Theory is Wrong?
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Undergrad Thin Film Interference: The Movie
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So what are you physicists' opinions on psychedelic drugs?
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Graduate Frontier Research in Physics Today: Cosmology, Particle Physics, String Theory
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High School How should physical units be displayed on chart axes?
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Physics Animations - Looking for Websites with Flash Animation
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Which Journal Would Publish the First Unified Physics Theory?
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High School Why the RGB Color Model is so Popular
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Undergrad Understanding Volume from Speaker: Physics Perspective
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Undergrad Where Can I Find Research Resources on the Impact of Science in the Media?
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High School Proof of time travel from future to past
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Graduate Is Intrinsic Uncertainty in Measurement Tools Systematic or Random?
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High School Sig. Figs. and Averaging: How Many Decimal Places Should I Keep?
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High School I need physic fair project ideas
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High School Ionic Hair Dryers: Rune's Investigation
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What do you find most interesting in physics?
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Who Won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Undergrad Can You Master Math and Physics Autodidactically?
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What is the Connection Between Mass and Time?
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Your favorite definition of physics
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Undergrad Underplatform Damper: Explained & Uses
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The most sublime physics entity [include image]
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High School I need information about vacum chem
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Graduate Are Our Experiences Shaped by a Few Million Subatomic Particles?
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Undergrad Copenhagen Physics: Fact or Fiction?
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Graduate Do you expect that there will ever be another massive revolution in physics?
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High School Understanding High Gears on Bikes
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Graduate Tevatron: Reflecting on 26 Years of Achievements
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Graduate Do chemical properties have an effect on gravitational forces?
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What is the Role of Cosmology in Our Understanding of the Universe?
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