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Creating a personal reference notebook for physics and math

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Graduate Measurement scales are clearly defined except time.

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Storing Energy with This Method? - A Tech Article

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Graduate Does infinite causation contradict the second law of thermodynamics?

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Undergrad Is C2H4 an Example of SP2 Hybridization?

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High School Do Gasses Have Viscosity?

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High School Young's Modulus: Formula for Calculation

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High School Is there more to physics than projectiles and formulas?

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Graduate Math and Reality. What is the deep connection?

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Undergrad What Did My Microphone Pick Up?

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High School How to calculate gravitational constant

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High School Does 2 pascals equal 2 newtons per square meter or 2 newtons per 2 square meters?

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Graduate Can amplitude change through frequency entrainment?

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Undergrad A long nededle verus a short one

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Graduate Is EPR's Concept of a Complete Description of Physical Reality Possible?

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Health risks from living near a cell phone tower

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Undergrad What new physics might CERN discover beyond the Higgs?

  • Calrid
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Undergrad Does time have infinite accuracy?

  • silenzer
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High School The Importance of Units for Zero Values in Physics

  • Hinte
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Funny Physics Photos? Let's Share!

  • Konata
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High School What's the Difference Between Two Bottles in a Dark Room?

  • humanbeing
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Biggest recent mistakes in physics or any science.

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High School Why aren't atmospheric regions with stable temperature classified as separate layers?

  • termina
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Graduate This should be easy Units of log graph?

  • IN88
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Which color of light has the strongest spectral line?

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Dau-film about Russian physicist Lev Landau 1908-1968

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Graduate Why is the gradient decreasing in the Blasius equation?

  • johnt447
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High School What does this remark by Einstein mean?

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Graduate Capillary Force in a V shaped tube

  • dpage
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High School Density vs Mass: Which Has Stronger Gravitational Pull?

  • sharan
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High School Mass vs Volume: What is the Difference?

  • humanbeing
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High School Can bomb sitll ignite in vacuum?

  • Chitose
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High School Gravitational Constant (universal)

  • robertroman10
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Undergrad Most Valuable Online/Free Physics Resources

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Graduate Weight gain transients observed at sheep death

  • Isaacsname
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Undergrad Understanding Error in Measurement for Simple Pendulum Experiment

  • AStaunton
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High School What happens during a nuclear meltdown?

  • oexnorth
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Undergrad Should popular physics books be banned or come with a disclaimer?

  • ice109
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Undergrad Can HAARP or scalar weapons cause earthquakes?

  • Tweet1962
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Undergrad Deriving Graph Relationships from 1/x^2 Plot

  • leon24
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Undergrad How to Convert Error to Standard Deviation?

  • intervoxel
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Undergrad Why does HCl absorption spectrum have a gap in the middle?

  • v_pino
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Undergrad Why do professors rush to publish papers?

  • phrygian
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High School Why does light travel so quickly?

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High School Help with periodic motion, frequency, and wavelength

  • ErikIoerger94
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How does gravity work?

  • Forestman
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Graduate Right-Handed and Left-Handed Spin: Just Orientation?

  • liometopum
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High School How important is graphene research in modern physics?

  • RichardParker
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High School Is there a way to test the total impedance of my body?

  • Simfish
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Graduate XFoil Reynolds Number Calculations

  • Thusithatck
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Could a hurricane or tornado have enough energy to create a worm hole

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Undergrad Matrix element assignment returns noval error after ConstantArray in Mathematica

  • brydustin
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Is there a Math forum as good as this Physics forum?

  • Rap
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Undergrad What physics project would you do with $?

  • Galgenstrick
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High School Resonant Frequencies and Natural Frequencies

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High School What are the differences between a solar cooker and a solar oven?

  • soonsoon88
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Undergrad Marginal Error of Prayer Directions

  • pfssassin
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High School Physical Laws vs Physical Theories

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Determine Best Fit Line and Uncertainties Using Min and Max Slope Method

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Undergrad Calculate endpoint from initial coordinates, distance and bearing

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Graduate Individuation as Brute Assumption

  • ZachHerbert
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Undergrad Justifying investment in Cosmology

  • AlexSm11
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Graduate Does fractal geometry in physics prevent reaching fundamental discrete levels?

  • cam875
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High School Which Ball Lands First on the Moon?

  • Goongyae
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High School Do People of Different Body Types Have the Same Number of Atoms?

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High School Why Do Gravitational Force Values Vary and How Are They Measured?

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High School Can Satellites Really be Made from Iron Salvaged from Old Warships?

  • Andrew1947
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High School Time delay of speech to travel from moon to earth

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High School Ideas for a physics based c program?

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Undergrad Why Does a Square Wave Contain Only Odd Harmonics?

  • likephysics
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Old mathematics fonts, names and availability?

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Undergrad Questions about energy and gravity

  • John15
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High School Any ideas for grade 12 Physics project?

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[Ortvay International Physics Contest] 2010 results

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Graduate Correlation Function for a 2-D field

  • Miss_Astro
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Graduate How to visualize an 11-dimensional cube in 2D

  • KayEl9
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High School Making New Paper Process and Making Recycled Paper Process

  • soonsoon88
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Why do online Indian physics lectures

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Graduate Pressure at the interface when fluid 2 displaces fluid 1 in a microchannel

  • sir_manning
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Undergrad Inverse Square Law: What & How to Prove It

  • eddybob123
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High School What Aspects of Physics Do Enthusiasts Enjoy Most?

  • saubhik
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Undergrad What does it mean for a bubble to be in equilibrium?

  • Matthollyw00d
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Which Physics Blog Has a Well-Organized Guide to Mathematical Symbols?

  • flyingpig
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High School What does a spectrogram represent?

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High School What If an Object Suddenly Appeared?

  • Heavan 777
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What is everyone's opinion on Stephen Hawking?

  • mitcho
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Undergrad Closed tube standing wave

  • exaramco
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High School Finding the Hour Angle between 8:00 and 9:00

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Can water hold the shape of a cup when poured upside down?

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  • Poll Poll

In your opinions, who are the top 10 living Australian physicists?

  • JasonDunning
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Which Rock Guitarist Was Once a Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics?

  • George Jones
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Undergrad Find Hamiltonian Value of 4x4 Matrix

  • vinothr
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Graduate Solving Fluid Dynamics Question on Droplet Shape

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Undergrad Prerequisites for modern physics

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Discuss Possibilities of Science Fiction Movies

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Undergrad Complex numbers-roles in phyiscs

  • neginf
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High School Which way does a towel dry fastest?

  • Farah Roslend
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New here I don't know if there's a special place for this

  • blade123
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Undergrad Relationships between mass and time

  • Dezepar
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Found a community for physics discussions

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