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High School Why do physicists use coordinate grids for space and 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 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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Identify 70 famous physicists from a group photograph

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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 Did Planck contact Einstein over the photoelectric effect paper, not E=mc²?

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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?

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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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Help identifying unknown equipment in physics department storage

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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 Does physics need more conceptual thinking and less calculation?

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High School Weight calculation for pushing a loaded beverage cart

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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 physics in Arabic or English first as a non-native speaker?

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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 physical quantities become 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 actually possible as a weapon?

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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 Finding the closest matching RGB color from a list

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Can Information be Transformed into Energy?

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High School Starting physics from scratch as an adult self-study

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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 Why does welding emit blue light?

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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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Pan stuck horizontally inside pressure cooker with tight fit

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High School How do you pronounce variables with subscript zero in physics equations?

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High School Applications of Resonance in Real Life, Example?

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High School Bird strike damage to aircraft and ping-pong ball behavior in a water balloon in space

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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 What forms can the behavior of time take?

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Fluctuating interest in physics and other hobbies

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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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