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Find a Blackboard for Physics PhD Student
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If you were on a perfectly flat plane
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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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Graduate Some General Questions - Need Clarification
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What Are Some Inexpensive Physics Experiments to Revive a University Club?
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Undergrad Does Human Population Growth Affect Earth's Mass and Gravity?
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Eternity and Change: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Units into Log and Exponential Functions
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Graduate Feynman's cargo cult, honesty in science
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What are some quirky physics blogs worth reading?
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Graduate Calculating the Maximum Velocity of a 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 Can a Dry Pump be Reused for Vacuum Chambers? | lamonster
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Undergrad What is the Voltage Measurement in a Parallel Battery Circuit?
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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?
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High School Why Are There Different Notations for Scientific Symbols?
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Mastering Equation Typing: Tips and Tricks for Beautiful Formulas
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Graduate Einstein & Hawking: Delivering Theories Without Experiments?
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Does anyone know when the LHC will be open to the public again?
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Undergrad Understanding Doppler Shift: Impact on Sound Waves and Airplane Movement
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Can You Create a Physics Costume for an Anime Convention?
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Graduate Is the Ether Concept Equivalent to the Fabric of Space-Time in Physics?
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High School Physics of Triangles: Why Are They the Strongest?
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Undergrad Standing Waves - Loud and Soft spots
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High School Sig Figs: Displacement of Car from Origin - 2.8x10^2 km?
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Graduate What Custom Options and Resources Exist for Quantum Design PPMS Users?
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High School Where to Buy Physics Equipment for DIY Projects?
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Sports on the Moon: Football, Basketball, Soccer?
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Graduate Laws of physics may just be 'local by-laws'
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Undergrad Confirming MAC=LAC/Density Calculation
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Graduate Unified Field Theory: Presenting a Mathmatical Formula
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Graduate Questions about a travelling electron
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High School How do I figure out the number of shells in noble gas items?
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At last I became a physics student
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Popular Physics Tourist Destinations
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