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Undergrad Why is tension used for gas and electricity measurements?

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High School Complete list of physics equations?

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Undergrad Are Static Shocks More Common in Different Climates?

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High School Q: How can you hear someone through a closed door?

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Most revolutionary physicist/s currently

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Undergrad Correlation between metal strength and melting point?

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Undergrad What is Cyclic Symmetry in Jet Engines?

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Undergrad How Does the Kardashev Scale Classify Civilizations?

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What Are Creative Mechanics-Themed Christmas Ornament Ideas?

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High School What happens when two portals collide with you between them?

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Undergrad How many molecules make a droplet

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Something Scary Just Happened: Cooker Knob Malfunction

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Undergrad How to plot it graph in Mathematica

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High School Why Do Sausages Roll Over While Cooking? Scientific Explanation Needed!

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Graduate Wave function: physical state, information, or configuration space field?

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Graduate Creating 2D Maps: Practical Approaches and Limitations for 2D Creatures

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A way to eat a beef patty without spilling the beef

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Undergrad Ion Density Theory: Can It Create Lift?

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Welcome to PhysicsForums! 13 y/o Interested in Physics

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High School Can a liquid exist in vacuum without vaporizing?

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High School The senses detect vibrational energy?

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Undergrad Approximating sqrt(n+1) when n is very small

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Undergrad How Can I Optimize My CNC Setup for Cutting 2024 Aluminum?

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A Wild Idea on the Creation of the Universe: Seeking Suggestions

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High School Dancing Cloud Phenomenon on YouTube - Bad Astronomy

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High School What is a dipole moment?

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Undergrad # of measurments in order to find parameters

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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 What is the difference between uncertainty and error?

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Undergrad What is the difference between normal modes and propagation modes?

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Undergrad What is physics and what makes something real?

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Hexagon pattern shifts when moving head while wearing glasses

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Graduate How wavelets handle time-frequency trade-off better than windowed Fourier transforms

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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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Pictures change to different image when zoomed in on Android phone

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Undergrad Error analysis, multiplying an error

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Undergrad Does quantum randomness prove indeterminism or just hide 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 study effectively for AP Physics B

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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 Why do transverse and longitudinal waves propagate differently in 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 get into a productive 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 Verifying an Einstein quote for academic use

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High School What color does grass appear under red light at night?

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Undergrad Can other elements replace oxygen in combustion reactions?

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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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Bright fast-moving object over Atlantic City at 4:25 AM

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Undergrad Where can I send an astrophysics paper for journal publication?

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Best of Physics Forums : If I were to advice my students to use Physics Forums

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Participating in LHC@home sixtrack project

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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 Could orbiting mirrors focus solar energy to desalinate seawater?

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High School How many states of matter are there?

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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 to understand advanced physics topics?

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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 Why does water run under a teapot spout instead of dripping?

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Undergrad Radar Doppler Effect: What Does the "V" Stand For?

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High School Why does water drain clockwise in the north and anticlockwise in the south?

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Undergrad Can the private sector unlock hidden advancements in physics?

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High School Why did a contrail stay curved as it drifted across the sky?

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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 Can atoms be rearranged to convert waste into useful materials?

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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 Can theoretical physics models be falsified?

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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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