Participate in expert physics discussion. Discussion on the nature and properties of matter and energy. This area is for topics that don't fit the other categories. Mainstream physics only.
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What does this mean and how do you do it
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Undergrad An Alternative View Of Physics - debunk?
- lowing99
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Electrician with an interest in most of the sciences
- sparkey
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Graduate What Custom Options and Resources Exist for Quantum Design PPMS Users?
- 0xDEADBEEF
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High School Where to Buy Physics Equipment for DIY Projects?
- Spoonerz
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Need some words of encouragement =(
- preluderacer
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Undergrad What is the smallest reference of time
- DARKSYDE
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Undergrad Can a Vacuum Chamber Suppress a Detonation?
- Nojophy
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Undergrad R-square value for model fitting
- bbobb
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Undergrad Can the sodium layer of the atmosphere be used as a projection screen?
- rockhouse
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High School What is zero point energy?
- Karoka
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Sports on the Moon: Football, Basketball, Soccer?
- AfRoMaNn
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Undergrad Does the Earth Have an Excess of Positive Charge?
- Frank66
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High School What does km-1 mean in unit notation?
- Danny-Boy
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High School Convert 8 Beers/Night to Weight Gain in Pounds
- tommcwilliams
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High School Who made the D'Arsonval/Weston galvanometer movement?
- Brown Arrow
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Graduate Laws of physics may just be 'local by-laws'
- ikos9lives
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Undergrad Confirming MAC=LAC/Density Calculation
- mxyplizk
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Graduate How to present a gravity-electromagnetism formula safely
- Reuben Smith
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Graduate Questions about a travelling electron
- kipsate
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High School How do I figure out the number of shells in noble gas items?
- LoveKnowledge
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At last I became a physics student
- ShayanJ
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Popular Physics Tourist Destinations
- juming
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What does the apple and canopy on Wald's General Relativity cover mean?
- paweld
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Has anyone won a physics Nobel prize for computation/simulation work?
- petergreat
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Undergrad The treatment of errors and uncertainties?
- alexgmcm
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Undergrad Why are air bubbles in resin drawn to the surface by CO2 or blowing?
- Hobart
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Open learn (ou courses for free)
- lincs_b
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High School Understanding Vectors: A Physics Primer
- bhatnv
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High School May i ask where can i read some sample good lab report?
- jessicaw
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Undergrad How do standing waves and resonance relate in a speaker?
- SFB
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Undergrad Why Do Rivers Flow? Earth's Bulge Causes Uphill Flow
- alphabeta1720
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Undergrad How can we determine viscosity from a graph using Poiseuille's equation?
- jsmith613
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Undergrad How Did Graphene Research Lead to a Nobel Prize in Physics?
- Astronuc
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High School Question Is it possible to have energy going from the body without touching it
- shobat
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Undergrad Geometry problem: a cone meeting a cylindre.
- Vilestag
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High School Why is the 3 dB point important in bandwidth?
- snshusat161
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High School Cleaning your PC with a vacuum cleaner
- fawk3s
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Undergrad Capillary Rise and Pressure in Sealed Capillary Tubes
- zorro
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Newbie Alyssa Struggles with Physics - Find Support Here
- preluderacer
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The spinning, levitating orbiting card trick ?
- Point Conception
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High School Compact Unidirectional Audio Speaker
- 1MK5
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High School Are Atoms Just a Model for the Unexplained in Programming?
- BlackVenom
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Undergrad Can energy and mass be created or transformed in the universe?
- uros
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Welcome New Physics Forum User - Grade 11 Student
- brain123
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Double-Checking Before Proceeding
- LoveKnowledge
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High School Atoms that make up the body do they come from
- littlebanger
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Undergrad Calculation Results for Hexane Density - Get Best Value
- xzh
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Undergrad What is the physics behind seismometers?
- qspeechc
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High School How long does it take to learn physics?
- jduster
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High School Does a speedometer measure a scalar or vector quantity?
- zomgwtf
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High School Properties of foam plastic in Mattress and in general
- MQTUAE
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What controversial physics could have won a Nobel prize in 1935 England?
- eae
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Undergrad Emission spectral line intensity
- bejoynp
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High School Why Are Physics Notations Like 'c' for Speed of Light Used?
- silin
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Graduate On Fine-Tuning and the Functionality of Physics
- ConradDJ
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High School Hump on an aeroplane can be on the bottom
- jsmith613
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Graduate PFA diffusion rate through 1% agar gel 2mm thick
- harryfeng
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Undergrad The physics of losing Helium from the Earth - question
- GTrax
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Graduate Are physical laws really laws or just approximations?
- kgbgru
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High School Why do waves(in general) travel in different frequencies?
- mapa
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Undergrad Need book recommendation for difficult multiple choice problems
- mjain79
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Undergrad Flight of rocks thrown through the air
- merrius
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Why isn't Chinese Physics in the ISI?
- Pythagorean
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Top 5 hallmark experiments in physics
- Billyneutron
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Which Fictional Superheroes Also Have a Passion for Physics?
- dr.mcawesome
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Little murder things jumping out of sodas
- Pengwuino
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Graduate Translating Einstein's aether paper from German
- Rasalhague
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Graduate Would a 3D notation system help represent advanced mathematics?
- Jonnyb42
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Undergrad 3D 'perception' of the world we live in
- keithcp
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Is there really such a thing as a perfect circle in nature?
- zeromodz
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Graduate Erik Verlinde's emergent gravity theory and the future of physics
- dantsmith
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The general public is scientifically illiterate
- aychamo
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High School What Are Some Physics-Based Senior Project Ideas for High School Students?
- kLPantera
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High School Commutative property of numbers and uncertainity
- madah12
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Where Do Nuclear Physicists and Astrophysicists Gather in Their Free Time?
- nucleargirl
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High School Is the display in CRT and LCD TVs analog or digital?
- Sethi
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High School What are the Topical Physics Video Lectures Offered by MIT and Yale?
- Senjai
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Undergrad Calculating CFM at 40 psi from 3.7 CFM @ 90 psi
- jimff
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When The Stephen Hawking Young and Walking
- getcarter
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Graduate A nonlinear model of ionic wave propagation along microtubules
- Billyneutron
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How Can Google Improve Your Academic Searches?
- physiker_192
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How close did the asteroids come to Earth in 2010?
- nismaratwork
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Graduate Experimental Error on a quadratic
- dustydude
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Undergrad Street Lights react to passersby?
- prinzlb
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High School Why do oxygen and oil cause violent reactions without ignition?
- LT72884
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Undergrad Is Cell Phone Signal Transmitted in Digital Form?
- jeekeshen
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Polarization by quarter-wave plates
- ViTiB
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Graduate Do Quantum Particles Exist in Multiple Places at Once?
- skycastlefish
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Kids of the new decades moving beyond science clubbing continuum
- ikos9lives
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Undergrad Stan Lee's Superhuman: Electricity Resistance
- QuarkCharmer
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High School What is the Scientific Explanation for the Movement Pattern of Liquids?
- riddle
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Graduate Can physics discover absolute truth about matter?
- ThudanBlunder
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Undergrad What is the top speed of a fencing weapon?
- eroomynohtna
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Why did a rug in my empty house move on its own?
- JDługosz
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Is there any branch in math that is not directly or indirectly used in physics?
- naggy
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Graduate Did Bacon's metal sphere experiment show spaces between atoms?
- ethan5
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High School What is Drake's equation?
- swatmedic05
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Searching for some good popular science books
- Dominique
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