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GR by R. Wald: Apple & Canopy Cover Explained
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Has anyone won a physics Nobel prize for computation/simulation work?
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Undergrad The treatment of errors and uncertainties?
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Undergrad Bubbles in Resin: How & Why They Rise to the Surface
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Open learn (ou courses for free)
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High School Understanding Vectors: A Physics Primer
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High School May i ask where can i read some sample good lab report?
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Undergrad How do standing waves and resonance relate in a speaker?
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Undergrad Why Do Rivers Flow? Earth's Bulge Causes Uphill Flow
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Undergrad How can we determine viscosity from a graph using Poiseuille's equation?
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Undergrad How Did Graphene Research Lead to a Nobel Prize in Physics?
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High School Question Is it possible to have energy going from the body without touching it
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Undergrad Geometry problem: a cone meeting a cylindre.
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High School What is Bandwidth and Why is 3 dB Important?
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High School Cleaning your PC with a vacuum cleaner
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Undergrad Capillary Rise and Pressure in Sealed Capillary Tubes
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Newbie Alyssa Struggles with Physics - Find Support Here
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The spinning, levitating orbiting card trick ?
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High School Compact Unidirectional Audio Speaker
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High School Are Atoms Just a Model for the Unexplained in Programming?
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Undergrad Can energy and mass be created or transformed in the universe?
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Welcome New Physics Forum User - Grade 11 Student
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Double-Checking Before Proceeding
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High School Atoms that make up the body do they come from
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Undergrad Calculation Results for Hexane Density - Get Best Value
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Undergrad What is the physics behind seismometers?
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High School How long does it take to learn physics?
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High School Does a speedometer measure a scalar or vector quantity?
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High School Properties of foam plastic in Mattress and in general
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Controversial Nobel-Worthy Physics in 1935 England: What Could Have Been?
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Undergrad Emission spectral line intensity
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High School Why Are Physics Notations Like 'c' for Speed of Light Used?
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Graduate On Fine-Tuning and the Functionality of Physics
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High School Hump on an aeroplane can be on the bottom
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Graduate Calculating PFA Diffusion Rate in 1% Agar Gel: Tips and Resources
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Undergrad The physics of losing Helium from the Earth - question
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Graduate What Are the True Laws of Physics and Their Role in Understanding Nature?
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High School Why do waves(in general) travel in different frequencies?
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Undergrad Need book recommendation for difficult multiple choice problems
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Undergrad Flight of rocks thrown through the air
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Why isn't Chinese Physics in the ISI?
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Top 5 hallmark experiments in physics
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Which Fictional Superheroes Also Have a Passion for Physics?
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Little murder things jumping out of sodas
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Graduate What Are the Challenges of Translating Einstein's Aether Paper?
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Graduate Is a 3D Equation System the Future of Advanced Mathematics?
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Undergrad 3D 'perception' of the world we live in
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Is there really such a thing as a perfect circle in nature?
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Graduate Can Verlinde's Gravity Theory Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Universe?
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The general public is scientifically illiterate
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High School What Are Some Physics-Based Senior Project Ideas for High School Students?
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High School Commutative property of numbers and uncertainity
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Where Do Nuclear Physicists and Astrophysicists Gather in Their Free Time?
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High School Discovering the Analog vs. Digital Display in CRT and LCD TVs
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High School What are the Topical Physics Video Lectures Offered by MIT and Yale?
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Undergrad Calculating CFM at 40 psi from 3.7 CFM @ 90 psi
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When The Stephen Hawking Young and Walking
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Graduate A nonlinear model of ionic wave propagation along microtubules
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How Can Google Improve Your Academic Searches?
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How close did the asteroids come to Earth in 2010?
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Graduate Experimental Error on a quadratic
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Undergrad Street Lights react to passersby?
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High School Warning: Oxygen and Oil/Grease - Why Explosion?
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Undergrad Is Cell Phone Signal Transmitted in Digital Form?
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Polarization by quarter-wave plates
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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Exist in Multiple Places at Once?
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Kids of the new decades moving beyond science clubbing continuum
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Undergrad Stan Lee's Superhuman: Electricity Resistance
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High School What is the Scientific Explanation for the Movement Pattern of Liquids?
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Graduate Limitations of Physics | Seeking Feedback on Ideas
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Undergrad What is the top speed of a fencing weapon?
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Unexplained Movement: Mystery of Shifting Rug in Empty House
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Is there any branch in math that is not directly or indirectly used in physics?
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Graduate NOT A HWK QUESTION Molecular Theory PLEASE.
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High School Unraveling Drake's Equation: What is it?
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Searching for some good popular science books
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High School Why Do Physicists Use Grids & Time?
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Undergrad Algebraic Physics to Calculus based
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Undergrad Energy weapons: reality and fiction
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Graduate Non linear properties of Metamaterials
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Undergrad Average Deviation: Summing Positive & Negative Values
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Undergrad Synchronization vs. Resonance: What's the Difference?
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High School Where do all these formulas really come from?
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High School Interesting studies of sound called 'Cymatics'.
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Undergrad Identifying resonant frequencies in various objects
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Have You Ever Experienced the 'Lighter' Feeling of Spent Batteries?
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Name That Physicist: 70 of World's Most Famous Faces
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Undergrad Relation between presion wave and displacement wave
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Undergrad Standing wave detection using a microphone
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Should I Attend Hawking's Lecture on the Grand Design?
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High School Harmful Levels of Magnetic field exposer?
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Undergrad Is the concept of attractive and repelling fields a reliable law of physics?
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My Conversation with Cleverbot on Physics and Halloween
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High School Why Do Wet Clothes Appear Brighter or Darker in Color?
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Graduate Solving a Difficult Math Problem
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Graduate Max Planck & Einstein: 1905 Paper on Energy Quantization
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Graduate In order to develop the right language?
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Undergrad Is There a Relationship Between the Golden Ratio and Physics?
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High School Modern Physicists: Late 1800s - Present Suggestions
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High School What is the incompressible fluid?
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