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High School Why is black better than white for sun protection?
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Undergrad Measuring Time: An Experimental Methodology
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High School General Energy ? - prob easy to answer
  • CuriousJulia
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Sixty Symbols [The Greatest YouTube Channel Ever]
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Make a Glass Bottle Creation at Home
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High School Airplanes and Birds-Debunking the Myth of Why They Fly
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High School What color is the sky on extra-solar planet?
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Graduate How Can Tube Parameters Influence Fluid Drainage in Glaucoma Treatment?
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High School What's the point of a histogram of baseline measurments?
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Graduate Derivative of Stochastic Function
  • Apteronotus
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Undergrad What is the Young's Modulus for Plastics and How Can I Find an Accurate Value?
  • mathsgeek
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Books About Emptiness: Popular Reads
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  • Poll Poll
Physics competition between two geniuses
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High School Why Does the Pitch of an Emergency Siren Change as It Passes By?
  • gttjohn
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Graduate Why is there such little talk regarding superdeterminism?
  • Descartz2000
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High School Using lightbulbs to circulate the air in my room
  • questionboy
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Welcome Rohan! Starting a Physics Career at 13
  • Rohan11221
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High School Great Circle Path: How Crows & Radio Waves Move
  • rajeshmarndi
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Who do you think can be the Physics Nobel Prize winer tomorrow?
  • Osiris
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Graduate Famous argument against alien life
  • jaxonbridge
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Say Hi to my Planetary Geophysicist niece
  • Evo
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Graduate Q about phyiscs of Liposuction (and Sonolumensence)
  • piareround
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High School Why Become a Physicist? - A High School Student's Curiosity
  • Senjai
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High School How Many Significant Figures Does Physics Agree On?
  • fs93
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Undergrad Question about physics in general, and its weakness
  • Mustapha13
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Are lay person questions annoying to professional scientists?
  • Galteeth
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Undergrad How and why does everything in life reach equilibrium?
  • sameeralord
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High School Drinking Water from the First Floor with a Long Straw
  • jimlee4262
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Undergrad Uncertainty in Measurement (Question)
  • BAnders1
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Undergrad Experimental Values vs. Theoretical Values
  • DBJKIBA
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High School Is Energy Really Just a Force that Moves Objects?
  • magpies
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High School Identifying Sounds: Apparatus Needed?
  • callumbrad128
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Graduate Paper on Unified Theory of Superman's Powers
  • Galteeth
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Please tell me I made the right choice ;)
  • Virtuous
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High School Clarifying the Relationship between A and B
  • Noxide
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Graduate Could the Laws of Physics Be Self-Defining?
  • ConradDJ
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High School Is molten iron a good conductor of electricity?
  • jostpuur
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High School How to Determine Significant Figures in Multiplication/Division?
  • parabolic1
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Undergrad Trying to find some rheostatic fluids
  • GuitarDean
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High School Is the component of a vector still a vector?
  • Red_CCF
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High School Physical meaning of multipication?
  • MeChaState
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Undergrad Are Grain Dust Particles Explosive Due to Static Electricity?
  • doc.madani
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Undergrad Zero Force Propulsion: A Futuristic Concept?
  • Vincit
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High School Meters to the -3rd Power: 5.1*10^-5m
  • you_of_eh
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Undergrad Is v=f lamda true in every circumstance?
  • ATPenergy
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High School Which Definition of Physical Quantity is Clearer and More Accurate?
  • johncena
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What made you begin to love physics?
  • Azael
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Who is your favorite scientist, and why ?
  • Human4D
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High School Where Do the Atoms for a Fetus Come From?
  • {MXC}michael
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High School Can anybody let me know in detail about time and its measurements.
  • harshithelp
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Can Our Voices Really Be Stored in the Atmosphere?
  • EngWiPy
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High School Giant Straw: Will Earth's Atmosphere be Sucked Out?
  • johnandersoni
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Graduate Could Einstein's Revolutionary Ideas Be Published Today?
  • Nereid
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Undergrad Coffee grains are hard to clean up
  • Jame
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High School Why do coffee grounds fly out of the grinder?
  • rsohmer
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Youtube - Great Science/PF Related Videos.
  • Human4D
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High School Properties of Vacuum: What Is It Made of?
  • Razael
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Undergrad The Fundamentals of Gravity: Examining its Place in Nature
  • 2keyla
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High School What are some specific examples of emergence?
  • eranb2
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News Government a non-conservative force?
  • Jasongreat
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Collection of free physics and mathematics video lectures
  • pkrumins
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Undergrad The science of flying molten tungsten
  • MathYew
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Undergrad Who Really Invented Television: Zworykin, Farnsworth, Tihanyi, or a Combination?
  • vampyregirl
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Undergrad Solving the Crime Scene Riddle: Can You?
  • fargoth
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High School Calculate Mass From Weight: Easy Conversion Guide
  • Joe436
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How many hours a day do physicists spend with their girlfrields?
  • causalset
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Undergrad Punching Holes in Trees: A Faster Method for Horticulturists | Woodman's Query
  • Woodman
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High School Can Anti-Gravity Globes Work Upside Down?
  • LSteel
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High School Studying Physics: Memorizing Formulas
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What is BP Invigorate and What Makes It Different?
  • colouredbleu
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Undergrad Why Are Lost Aircraft Difficult to Track Despite Satellite Technology?
  • rajeshmarndi
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Graduate Lee Smolin: Math & Time - Fascinating Insight
  • JoeDawg
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Undergrad Properties of Waves and how they relate to Music
  • avocadogirl
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Undergrad Is the Resultant of Combining Unit Step Functions Still a Unit Step Function?
  • veralika
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Undergrad Kirth, Kerth, Kurth (SP?) Phase?
  • darkfall13
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High School What are Some Units I'm Studying in Grade XI Physics?
  • XuryaX
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High School How to Block a Wireless Router Signal: Help Needed
  • wwwincent
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Noisy Vacuum Cleaners: Is There Such a Thing as a Silent One?
  • xunxine
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Did Feynman Smoke Cigarettes? - Answers Here
  • collectedsoul
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High School Help finding topic for Independent Research
  • tasman2010
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Undergrad What range of frequencies can be generated by blood flow
  • tarek1984
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Undergrad Can some one who understands gravity explain this?
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High School Worst Electrical Conductor Metal: What to Know?
  • RestlessMind
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Undergrad Is there a type of liquid that is less dense than a type of gas?
  • Mattius_
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Undergrad Why can't we always add quantities with the same dimensions?
  • johncena
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Undergrad Solid angle or steradian for measuring
  • monty37
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High School What Are the Best Grade 11 Physics Review Sites?
  • duelinga
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High School Formula Manipulation Basics: A Beginner's Guide
  • rodneyspoon
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High School Fundamentals of Physics- Gold Standard in another language?
  • der4
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Undergrad Calculating Wave Velocity in a Stadium
  • flatmaster
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Graduate Does anybody know who first derived this equation?
  • 9smartcats
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Is Time Travel Discussion Allowed in Physics Forums?
  • secocarmona
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Undergrad The Physics of Pneumatic Office Chairs and Soap Bottles
  • wavingerwin
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High School If all of the polar ice caps melted
  • gravenewworld
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Gravitons Observed? University Discovery June: Details & Link
  • SDutra
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Graduate Scientific Notation Anomaly Explained
  • John Lee
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Formula Database - Free Physics & Math Formulas Online
  • calccrazy1dx
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Undergrad Were any 'breakthroughs' in particle physics
  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Undergrad Power over Fiber residential application
  • Jimcanada
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Graduate MHD Energy Equation: Comparing Formats
  • MasterD
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