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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

  • FlexGunship
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High School Calc: Calculating Volume of a Pipe

  • qim
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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?

  • Newai
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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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High School Why do logs with bark dry so easily in damp outdoor conditions?

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Graduate Pirani gauge fluctuations in CVD silver coating setup

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Graduate How Can You Create and Control a Shockwave Using Electricity?

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High School Why do physics theories use math equations?

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Undergrad What is the Greatest Info Density? DNA Holds Record

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Graduate Blacklight Power Announces Independent Replication

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High School Does the Earth Have a Frequency?

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Help choosing a physics-themed band name

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Graduate Are physics theories just useful stories rather than truths?

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High School What Quotes Capture the Legacy of the Atomic Bomb?

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High School Can Ferrofluid Be Used as a Lubricant for Magnets and PVC Pipes?

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High School What are some user-friendly resources for beginners to learn physics?

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Undergrad Can collaboration lead to scientific breakthroughs?

  • geordief
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Undergrad Understanding Energy in standing waves

  • shehri
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Physics Problem + Solution Database

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Khan Academy physics and math video lessons on YouTube

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High School Requesting relationships to know for success in Physics

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Undergrad Can materials with different surface properties move without external forces?

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High School Any Good Resources for Non-Technical, Non- Popular Physics Videos?

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Find a Blackboard for Physics PhD Student

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High School How does something become tangible? How many atoms are needed to be

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Graduate Unified Theory of Everything - Figured Out

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If you were on a perfectly flat plane

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Undergrad Breaking a drinking straw with karate chop

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Why does a sealed plastic bottle deflate after being capped?

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High School Can compounds have a higher density than their component elements?

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Undergrad Strange white flash in dark room.

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High School Can someone explain Specific Gravity?

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Graduate Arguments Against Superdeterminism

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High School Is Fire Considered Matter and What State Does It Belong To?

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High School What do the units of diffusion coefficient mean?

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Graduate What are the latest theories on time and its relationship with the universe?

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High School Can matter really be created or destroyed?

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Physics audio and video lectures

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Undergrad How long would it take to cook twice the amount of beans?

  • kaleidoscope
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Graduate Strings and time dimensions, light in oscillating spacetime, laser pulse collisions

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What Are Some Inexpensive Physics Experiments to Revive a University Club?

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Marko Rodin Fraud or not a Fraud?

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Undergrad Why do some substances absorb EMR more than others?

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Undergrad Does Human Population Growth Affect Earth's Mass and Gravity?

  • Funkmaster W
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Eternity and Change: Is it Possible?

  • shinokk
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Undergrad Can I Step Through a System to Understand an Object?

  • Wiccidu
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Undergrad Units into Log and Exponential Functions

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Graduate Feynman's cargo cult, honesty in science

  • Andre
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What are some quirky physics blogs worth reading?

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Graduate Velocity of sheep in a vacuum

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High School Is Autocorrelation of White Noise Zero?

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Scientists claim breakthrough in antimatter hunt

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High School Went along my uncle to get the natural gas cylinder refilled

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High School Can a 2hp compressor be used as a dry pump for vacuum chambers?

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Undergrad What is the Voltage Measurement in a Parallel Battery Circuit?

  • Dadface
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Undergrad Resonance/ Natural Resonance Frequencies?

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Undergrad Does the conductivity of something

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Graduate Examples of asymmetry in (non-biological) nature

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Interesting Activity with a Paper

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Graduate Perimeter Scholars Lecture Archive

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High School What Causes Mass to Attract Each Other?

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Undergrad Compressed/Uncompressed gas combustion and Emissions

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Graduate Etymological link between moments and momentum?

  • pellman
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PBS Nova sketches on gravity and dark matter

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Undergrad Conditions at the Centre of the Earth

  • John100
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High School Why Are There Different Notations for Scientific Symbols?

  • Elbobo
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High School Why Study Physics? A High School Commercial Contest in Alabama

  • flatmaster
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How do you type beautiful equations on this forum?

  • quantum123
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Graduate Can you develop theories without lab work or experiments?

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When will CERN's underground areas reopen to public visitors?

  • James1991
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Graduate Hot air bubbles explain O'Hare Airport UFO sightings

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Graduate Can strangelets from the LHC cause an ice-9 reaction?

  • Galteeth
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High School What was the satellite we saw near the moon and why were its signals visible?

  • Hoku
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Undergrad Understanding Doppler Shift: Impact on Sound Waves and Airplane Movement

  • jsmith613
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Can You Create a Physics Costume for an Anime Convention?

  • teraptus
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High School Why are solar tides every 12 hours, not 6 hours?

  • The legend
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High School Building a temperature-controlled fan system for Xbox 360

  • Jim2010
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Undergrad Campfire Smoke: Blue Trees, Yellow Sky

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Graduate Is the Ether Concept Equivalent to the Fabric of Space-Time in Physics?

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High School Why are triangles the strongest geometric shape?

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Undergrad Can a gravity-powered aircraft work without violating energy conservation?

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High School Can dropping an aerosol can make it explode?

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High School What does relative mean in physics?

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High School A high schooler looking for some complicated physics problems

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Undergrad How do nodes and antinodes form in standing waves?

  • jsmith613
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Undergrad Standing Waves - Loud and Soft spots

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High School Should car displacement be 2.8×10² km based on significant figures?

  • ThomasMagnus
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Physics Intro by Dr. Donald Luttermoser | ETSU

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High School Best Parachute Design: Minimizing Material Usage

  • Aeroneer
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Undergrad Most Frustrating, Embarrassing Brain Farts

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