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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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Does Energy Exist? | Answer Here
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Counting Seconds to Estimate Storm Distance
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Graduate Is it common to have dimensionally wrong equations in physics?
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What Is This Mysterious Physics Equipment?
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Graduate Ball lightning = magn. induced phosphenes?
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Graduate Why I like spheres and how things may tend to look like them
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Is there a science called BioGeometry and what is it about?I have
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Graduate Shut Up and Calculate: Exploring Feynman's Ideas on Physics
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High School Help Union Labor at Convention Center
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High School If you scratch a piece of metal, does it weigh more?
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What Is the Typical Educational Background of Readers Here?
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High School Does a full 3TB hard drive weigh more than an empty one?
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Undergrad Is the time average of a sin function = 0?
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Learn English & Physics - Question from an Egyptian
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Is Matter Really Composed of Pixels?
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Undergrad Is my physics course following acceptable standards?
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Undergrad KG and SEC as the basis of all units?
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Undergrad Calculating young's modulus from data provided
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Undergrad Why Does Physics Use 1/e for 'Lifetimes'?
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Graduate Is Negative Matter the Same as Antimatter?
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Graduate Capillary force when immersed in liquid
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Undergrad Physical significance of wavenumber
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High School I would link to know about tide force and manetic force
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Graduate Is it possible to conserve gravity ?
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High School What Does Standard Mean in SCCM Gas Flow Rate?
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Graduate What Happens When Fundamental Physical Quantities Go Negative?
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High School Human Antenna: Improving Poor FM Reception in Hilly Locations
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Lecture Notes - Introduction to GR
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Undergrad Is an Ion Bomb a Real Possibility or Just Technobabble?
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Undergrad Are there really only 4 grains of salt in the entire universe?
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High School Why does wet cloth or mud appear darker?
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Two questions about school buses
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Undergrad RGB Color Comparison: Find Closest Matching Color
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Can Information be Transformed into Energy?
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High School How Can a Beginner Start Learning Physics Independently?
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News Physics and social/economic problems
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Graduate Does Schrodinger's cat know whether it's dead?
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High School What Are Engaging Physics Research Topics for High School Projects?
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High School Welding & Blue Light: Is Nitrogen the Cause?
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Graduate Peer Review: Time Mechanics Unification Theory
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High School Why does stainless steel float when coated with wax?
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High School Does Gravity Between Smaller Objects Get Blocked by a Larger Object?
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Undergrad Finding the mass of earths troposphere
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High School Getting graph of v(t) on oscilloscope?
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Graduate The possibility of Perception being a dimension?
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Graduate Is There One Equation That Can Explain All of Physics?
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High School Brand new physics animation site
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Where to Buy Inexpensive Force Sensors?
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Graduate Why Does a 26mm Port Improve CO2 Diffusion in Cell Culture Vessels?
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Graduate Are there any people actively doing research in MHD topics these days?
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High School Oil shortens lifespan of halogen bulbs?
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High School What Are the Discontinuous Processes Found in Nature?
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Undergrad Math and Physics Visualization Applets
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Undergrad I want to believe that it is true
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High School Is Breaking the Speed of Light Possible?
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High School FM vs AM: Which Radio Wavelength Is Bigger?
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Undergrad 2D surfaces in the third dimension?
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How do you pronounce these scientists' names?
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What is the Intrinsic Field in Watchmen and How Does it Affect the Characters?
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Troubleshooting: How to Remove a Stuck Pan from a Pressure Cooker
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High School How do you properly pronounce subscripts in physics equations?
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High School Applications of Resonance in Real Life, Example?
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High School Good old fashion beer drinkin' physics help settle the bet
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High School Q:Why is the direction designated by S22°30′E not commonly used in the US?
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Graduate Making sense of observer participation in physics
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Undergrad Why Does Hydrogen Have Multiple Lines on Its Spectrum?
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Nearest & Farthest Points on Mars to Earth
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Undergrad What does the w in this equation stand for?
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Undergrad Can Sound Waves Make Objects Hover?
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High School Time Behavior: Sinus, Circle, Periodic & Non-Periodic Forms
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Does anyone else ever go in and out of liking physics?
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High School Question on solary cell etc very simple
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High School Why read bottom/top of menicsus?
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High School Can a simple fan create a vortex without a screen obstruction?
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Undergrad A science project about Antigravity
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High School What Is the Standard Unit for Measuring Momentum?
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Undergrad Diving in Dense Liquids: Understanding the Risks and Dangers
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Undergrad American Physicists: A Look Into US Dominance
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Undergrad Force in Vacuum: Gravity, EM or Entropy?
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Undergrad Robert Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment
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Graduate Atomic Vibration: Disproving the Theory
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High School New Energy: Audio Vibrations Create Movement Energy
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Dr. Emoto's : the structural formation of ice crystals
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Undergrad Conversion Formula for Intensity Units: SI to AU Explained
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Graduate Evolutionary reason for 3-D extrapolation
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Undergrad Is Studying Physics the Key to Enhancing Human Life?
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Undergrad Help i need a explanation for this
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What is the lifetyle of a theoretical physicist like?
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High School Can Telescopes Capture Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Equipment?
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Undergrad How is gravity the weakest force?
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