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High School What Causes These Unique Swirly Ice Formations?
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Graduate Dynamical Qualities and the Informational Paradigm
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Undergrad Uncovering the Physics Behind 1/x + 1/x = 1/y
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Undergrad Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force in Physics?
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Undergrad Can You Compress a Vacuum Void?
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Undergrad Which Vector Notation is Best for Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics?
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What is Athene's Theory of Everything?
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Most exciting areas of research in Physics?
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Undergrad I'm trying to explain some physics principles to a general audience
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Graduate Fourier Transform and Complex Plane
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High School Can I Accurately Test Hardness of Materials Without a Microscope?
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Undergrad Physical law behind some physical effects
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High School What physics (topics) to study to become a pilot
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Graduate Antimatter at the Speed of Light: Uncovering the Mysteries
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Graduate What Really Grinds my Gear about the Dark Phenomena.
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Undergrad Discover the Fascinating World of Fine Structure: Explained in Detail
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Undergrad Why Does the Endolymph Move Opposite to Head Movement in Vestibular Function?
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Graduate Is measurable physics based on three things?
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Graduate Idea for graphics programming project?
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Who Was Einstein's Favorite Physicist?
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High School Can a man made fire be visible a few miles in the night?
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High School Convert MPH to lb-force - Easy Guide
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Graduate Is There a Scientific Basis for 'Hyperspace' Travel in My Fictional World?
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Undergrad Do Physical Laws Apply to Dreams Like They Do in Waking Reality?
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Does the presence of a cat affect the shock received from a cowherd experiment?
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Undergrad What Are Some Quirky Science Topics for a Physics Talk?
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Time Machine will not be invented
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Undergrad Tips For How To Understand Application of Integrals In Physics
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Graduate Is a Homemade Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Possible?
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Energy Converter: Find an Online Calculator
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What Happened to the Advanced Physics Forum?
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Virtual Particles: Fact or Fiction?
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Undergrad Complex notation of periodic functions
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Undergrad Understanding the Significance of Photodiode Bandwidth | Lab Tips
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High School What causes the moon to be bright at night?
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Graduate How Are BV Functions Applied in Physics and Engineering?
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Graduate What Unanswered Questions from Richard Feynman's Talks Have Been Resolved Today?
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High School Understanding 10mAhr and 10Whr Ratings for Laptop Batteries
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High School If you look far far away you'll find that you're looking to your back
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High School Understanding the Concept of Field in Physics: Definition and Relation to Waves
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Graduate Blinded by the light (slight return)
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Do you still find popular science books to be enlightening?
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Graduate Advice Wanted:How To Solve A Problem Without Really Understanding It
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Undergrad Confused about wavelength (basic)
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Undergrad Calculating Compressed air leaks within a system
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High School Why Does a Longer or Thicker String Produce a Lower Note?
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Undergrad Stagnation points for flow around a cylinder
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Graduate Central difference approximation
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Graduate Proving the Normal Law of Errors
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Undergrad Physics Theory Help: Submitting and Solving Complex Ideas
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What Galactic Processes Did You Dream About in the Milky Way?
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Graduate Given a 2nd order system response, how to get equation ?
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Undergrad Does the butterfly effect apply in reality?
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High School Can Non-Live Images Be Captured on a Screen?
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High School Inverted Mercury Rod: Will Gas Pressure Change?
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High School What are locality and nonlocality?
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Graduate Many-Worlds Theory: Existence of Multiple Universes
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High School Is Observing Starlight a Form of Time Travel?
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Undergrad Uncertainty in Multiplication: Significant Figures vs. Rate
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High School Starting Non-Calculus Based Physics
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Undergrad How Much Data Can a Single Wave Carry?
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Undergrad MAh, UPS power consumption of laptop
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Physics paper guessing game: Are you worse than a monkey?
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Can the Public Tour the Large Hadron Collider?
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Liquid Simulation: Cool Visual Effects
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Graduate Nano-field Will Ultimately Aid Physics Knowledge
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Graduate Is the Grandfather Paradox Truly a Paradox if Feedback is Considered?
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Undergrad Any arguments for time travel back in time (the past)?
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Undergrad In Dimensional analysis why is Lenght/Lenght=1 (a dimensionless number)?
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How many physics friends do you have?
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Graduate Is there a perception of a prestige hierarchy among physicists?
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High School Pound of TNT to Joules Conversion: Explained and Simplified
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Undergrad When the motor is working harder, it needs to rotate faster.
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High School A 500 pound fly (this is not a HW question)
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High School A simple thought experiment | Please confirm
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig relationship between ultrasonic attenuation and phase velocty
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Graduate Greatest Theoretical Physicists of 20th Century?
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Graduate Does time exist outside one's mind?
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High School What is the Difference Between Vector and Scalar?
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Graduate Solving Difficult Physics Questions: Beyond Technical Thinking?
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Undergrad Trying to about vectors and matrices to aid my game design hobby
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Graduate Rebutting Fixed Earth Argument: A Response
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Undergrad Distance Without Time: Possible?
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Undergrad Three (hopefully simple) physics puzzlers
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Undergrad Uncertainty in measurements and epsilon delta definition of a limit
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High School Do Atoms Need Fuel? A Curious Question
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Undergrad Natural constants: are they irrational numbers?
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Undergrad Seismometer Sensitivity: Unit, Richter-Scale, Magnitude
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Undergrad The Sock Toe-Hole Symmetry Breaking Problem
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High School Calc: Calculating Volume of a Pipe
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Investigatory Project for physics
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What is "Linky" by Stansi Scientific Co.?
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Ring Structures and Tidal Effects?
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Graduate Problem with randomness and uncertainty
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Is there a difference between a physist and a physicist?
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Are There Modern Einsteins Among Us?
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High School Physics Project Topic Ideas for High School
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High School Analog volume control, digital volume control
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Undergrad Can a balance accurately measure the mass of a gas in a balloon?
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Graduate Geophysics: Calculating Inner Core Radius
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