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Undergrad Difference between differentiation and partial differentiation

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Undergrad How do bubble rings form in water?

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Graduate What is Quench Management for Magnetism?

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Science education video's at Youtube

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Undergrad Please help me for a calculation why my value different from that of literature?

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High School Atom Rubbing Sounds: Wood vs Glass

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Undergrad Is a Verified Theory Considered Scientific Fact?

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Graduate What has changed in physics since the beginning of PF?

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High School Could the LHC Really Create Earth-Eating Black Holes?

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Undergrad What causes the noise in squeaky toys?

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High School Understanding 'Traverse' in Physics for High School Juniors

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Why does mixing Coca-Cola and Crown Royal cause eruptions?

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Graduate Basis of the Copenhagen Interpretation

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Undergrad How do air molecules interact with supersonic objects in kinetic molecular theory?

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Undergrad What physics holds a soap bubble together and makes it last longer?

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Lighting water on fire? I don't think so.

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High School When do significant digits matter in science?

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News American Physical Society on climate change

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Graduate Is Time Absolute and Does Its Existence Depend on Photons?

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High School Shower and curtain effect, what's happening?

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High School Tutorial for the nanotechnologies

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Graduate Is it possible to control the illuminance of atoms?

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Undergrad Can a colorimeter prove a faint color isn't actually blue?

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Searching for DaveC's Square-Cube Law: 30 Seconds at a Time!

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High School Could Giant Movie Fans Stop a Hurricane?

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High School Which equation for parabola coordinates

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High School Does it matter if I turn my computer off?

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Graduate Shannon's measure - any profound explanation?

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High School Action Scenes in movies that depict projectile motion?

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High School Could humans survive weeks of severe cosmic storms?

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Undergrad Europe is the center of physics now?

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Graduate Is Quantum Mechanics Deterministic or Is There an Element of Randomness?

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Undergrad Can we capture Earth's reflected light from far away to see the past?

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Why Is Maxwell Less Recognized Than Other Famous Scientists?

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Watch LHC Launch Tonight on TV in US with FTA Dish

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What is the Terminal Velocity of Cats?

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Graduate Is matter just a configuration of electromagnetic fields?

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High School Is air a conductor or insulator? Does humidity matter?

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Cat with buttered toast spinning forever

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Graduate What is energy fundamentally?

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Undergrad How do you determine the total error in a measurement of flow rate?

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Graduate Comparing public interest in background-independent quantum gravity books

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What are the Aesthetics of Physics?

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Undergrad In a cavity 12.5 cm by 3.9 cm, with Y being 12.5 cm and X/Z being 3.9,

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Graduate What Does a Formal Proof in Physics Look Like?

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Undergrad Relationship between density and elastisity

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200 Physics Vector Animations or Flash Files

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IP topic is badly needed here.

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Undergrad What Are Standing Waves and How Do Their Amplitudes Relate to Intensity?

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Graduate The decrease of the information v.s. chaos ?

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High School Converting Earth's radius to circumference in kilometers

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Graduate How to Calculate the Total Mass of Earth's Atmosphere Using Physics Modelling?

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Graduate What is gravity actually?

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Undergrad Is Energy Truly Eternal and Infinite?

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High School Mathematics and physics in table tennis

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Undergrad Can We Quantify the Energy Released by Hurricanes?

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Graduate What is the difference between degree and level of order?

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Undergrad Links to Physics and Maths Olympiads

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Undergrad What Are the Ideal Proportions for a Cylinder to Act as a Three-Sided Die?

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  • Poll Poll

Bad at maths but good at experimental physics ?

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High School Are vectors time-related?

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High School Why is CERN better known than ITER?

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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

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High School Why does thunder last for so long?

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High School How Can I Use LaTeX Notation to Write Equations on This Site?

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High School Newton's third law and rocket propulsion

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Undergrad Lumped v. distributed parameter

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High School Wavelength and amplitude. Are they related?

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Graduate Don't understand material derivative and and advective derivative

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High School How do we do uncertainty questions in measurements and data analysis in Excel?

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High School Dr. Bruce DePalma's Spinning Ball Anomaly: Fact or Fiction?

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High School Questions of Latitude: Can You See the Back of Your Head?

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Undergrad What is the maximum CFM through a pipe in the rock drilling industry?

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Graduate Everything can be broken down to a digital signal.

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High School Calculating doubling time in exponential growth

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Physics for Future Presidents book

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Graduate Is hydrogen-helium fusion in this claim viable or crackpot?

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Graduate Does decoherence really solve the measurement problem?

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Graduate Null Physics: A Paradigm Shift in Modern Science?

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Graduate When Are Time-Dependent Fitted Parameters Statistically Distinct?

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High School How to tell which ball is gold and which is titanium without measuring

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High School Things that take your breath away

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Separating salt and pepper without physical contact

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Can Ping-Pong Balls Revolutionize Particle Acceleration?

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Undergrad Communicating with an alien race

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Amazing slo-mo of lightning strike.

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LHC first beam (end of world) time announced

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Which Country Leads in Physics Forum Interest?

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Undergrad Kardashev Scale: Size vs Energy Output

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High School Complete noob , got many questions

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Graduate How Can Gravity and Diffusion Be Modeled in a Two-Gas System?

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High School What Do These Weird Physics Symbols Mean?

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High School Can the Rubik's Cube be Solved in a Disco?

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Graduate Questions on Light - Is it Even Possible?

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High School Eric Laithwaite Gyroscopic antigravity.

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How Does a Rap Battle Incorporate Physics at CERN's LHC?

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Graduate Introduction to Computational Physics

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High School Is Energy Simply a Description of Position or Change?

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High School Why does multiplying mass and acceleration produce force?

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