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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High School Unbelievable Optical Illusions: How Your Eyes Can Deceive You
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Graduate Do carved pips affect dice fairness by shifting the center of gravity?
- nottheone
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Undergrad Laplace transform of (t-2)² u(t-2)
- chota
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Undergrad Wind turbine, conceptual question
- mikelepore
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Graduate Waves, Energy, Blackbodies and Modes
- Quelsita
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Graduate Speed of light, pressure from single atoms, and absolute velocity
- drak
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High School Finding the Right Book to Understand the Doppler Effect
- adam0211
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High School What are the effects of earthquake waves on skyscrapers?
- Chipmunk
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High School How do you draw one wave lagging another by 90 degrees?
- StudentofLife
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What place on Earth moves the fastest?
- Loren Booda
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Undergrad How would surface waves behave in an ocean of crude oil?
- lewdtenant
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Undergrad Should Uncertainty Dictate Significant Figures in Physics Calculations?
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High School What is Energy? Is it Tangible or Physical?
- er1c
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Graduate Can Cosmology Offer Hope for Humanity's Future Beyond Our Solar System?
- wolram
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Physics has Something to do with IQ doesn't it
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Plastic on cable, UHF flashback prevention?
- philip041
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Graduate Is time finite or infinite, and does infinity imply absence of motion?
- GodSource
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Graduate Can You Answer These Questions About Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness?
- Satyesu
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Undergrad Why use multifluid manometers instead of single-fluid ones
- Pandris
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Graduate How Accurate Is CERN's Science Rap Video?
- Mammo
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Undergrad Why use sine and cosine to describe waves
- johndb
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High School Is Cold a Universal Phenomenon in Space?
- C4t4StRoPhIc
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Undergrad How to determine if a metal sample is a conductor or semiconductor
- mabs239
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Undergrad The worst written science article I've ever seen a journalist produce
- Lyuokdea
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High School How Do Metronomes Achieve Synchronization?
- k1point618
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Is Joseph Newman's Energy Machine a Hoax?
- CozmicScott
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Graduate What was wrong with Tesla's dynamic theory of gravity?
- Charlie G
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Undergrad Biefeld-Brown Electrogravity Theory- A hoax or something else?
- vader
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High School What is Nanotechnology?
- JOL
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Any good Physics Interactive Programs out there?
- derek.basler
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High School Is humid air really heavier than dry air?
- Shackleford
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Graduate How Do Bayonet Connections Function in Cryostats for Liquid Helium Transfer?
- Rajini
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Graduate Strategy for destroying a 6 km wide asteroid
- spartan3123
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Is this equation a known physics formula?
- LuciaUruguay
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Undergrad Calculating Density Alttitude of Air knoing temp/baro/humidity?
- soundengineer
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Graduate Feynman's Orange Riddle: Impossible or Not?
- Soff
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Undergrad Why does Newton's law need a gravitational constant?
- chis
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High School Why was the 2012 galactic alignment supposed to be catastrophic?
- rebecca8
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Undergrad Is Solving Physics Problems the Only Way to Understand the Subject?
- ice109
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Undergrad Need Suggestions For An Experiment - Upper Division Undergraduate
- Chronothread
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High School Why does dirty road snow (snirt) melt slower than clean snow?
- Mephisto
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High School Chosing appropriate letters (labels)
- Micko
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Graduate What is your opinion about Arrhenius' announcement?
- Jang Jin Hong
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High School What Would Happen If a Vacuum Tube Connected Earth and Space?
- Moonballs
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Gravity's Race/ Contest Who wins?
- Chuck St. Lou
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High School Fluid as a medium to transfer electricity
- GDBot
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Undergrad What is the Unit 'a.u.' and How to Convert it to SI?
- El Flea
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High School Hubble deep field ultraviolet light source
- Ivan Seeking
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High School Why do air bubbles form at the bottom of a glass of sparkling wine?
- Rajini
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High School Why is Saturday's full moon the largest of 2009?
- Evo
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Undergrad Prefix for universal laws in word analogy
- Soliloquy
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Why does a bicycle fall over when you let go of the handlebars?
- grizzlyjoker
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High School How Do You Calculate Gain in Sinusoidal Signals?
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Graduate Does Einstein's belief in a new ether contradict the principle of relativity?
- Tam Hunt
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Why does gravity attract objects with mass?
- CozmicScott
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How can I quickly and effectively clear frozen pipes in my home?
- pchalla90
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Graduate Had we already abandoned falsifiability?
- Dmitry67
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Graduate Is Time Static Like Other Dimensions?
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High School Who discovered the Sun is the center of the solar system, not the universe?
- Izzhov
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Graduate Are Cosmologists Sheep or Crackpots?
- Garth
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Undergrad Brewing Wort: Calculating Boil Length for Desired Gravity
- Ohio Homebrew
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Undergrad Why do physicists pursue a unified theory?
- ChrisPeace
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High School Seeking easy to understand science facts behind simple experiments
- Blouella
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Undergrad Daredevil Robbie Maddison completes Vegas jump
- LowlyPion
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High School Is a 100 kg Cotton Bag Heavier than a 100 kg Iron Bar?
- DrChem
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Undergrad What Are the Practical Applications of Anti-Gravity?
- Denton
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What's the probability of someone's getting thunderstruck
- MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Is There a Doppelgänger of You Somewhere in the Universe?
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High School Fundamental equations that are at the root of all physics?
- quddusaliquddus
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What happened to me? I have lost my love for Physics
- tommyburgey
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Undergrad Can humans survive extreme pressure if acclimated in a compression chamber?
- LennoxLewis
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A Physics Opera on TV tonight (USA)
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Graduate Why phase transition not possible in one dimension?
- supratimmitra
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Graduate Dual wave-particle' property of electrons
- loup
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High School Why is it so hard to reach the Moon?
- fluidistic
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Graduate Factors Affecting Gravitation Constant: Understanding G in Cavendish Experiment
- DrChem
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of 'w' in an EOS Equation?
- pi.rootpi
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Graduate Schroedinger's Cat and Uncertainty
- Dissident Dan
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Undergrad Sailing Downwind Faster Than The Wind
- Leopolis
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Undergrad No-one knows the answer to the tenth question ('cept me)
- Ian
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Graduate Is force more fundamental than mass?
- sganesh88
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High School Can your son see infrared light from a remote control?
- DaveC426913
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Did I see the green flash at sunset last night?
- Andre
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Graduate Understanding Dimensional Analysis: Simplifying Fluid Flow Equations
- Beer w/Straw
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Graduate Why does E=mc² change form in different unit systems?
- BernieM
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Graduate Shawyer's EMdrive: Lift a Car Against Gravity?
- Kosta
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Undergrad What Are the Alternatives to Nanotechnology?
- Nick89
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Undergrad Answer this if you know your physics?
- Ian
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High School How do you make a near-perfect vacuum?
- ducnguyen2000
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High School Physics Olympiad US: Register by Dec 19th - Deadline?
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Undergrad Wave energy ~ wave height squ. or wave amplitude squ.?
- zweistein
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High School Is Time Magazine Misrepresenting How Energy and Power Are Measured?
- russ_watters
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Undergrad Measuring cross-sectional area of a cable
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High School What is a physics mobile ruler?
- teedoff087
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High School Can a super strong rope cut through the Earth's surface?
- S1nG
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Graduate Time - a Dimension of Physics or Mathematics?
- Chrisc
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Got any physics-themed dish ideas for a cookoff?
- quasar_4
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Why does winter wind sound louder than summer wind at the same speed?
- nantz
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High School What are Waves, Troughs, and Crests?
- ScienceNerd36
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High School Head First Physics - view book via Safari trial or Google
- heth
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