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High School Why does multiplying mass and acceleration produce force?

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High School Can Telescopes Show Moon Landing Evidence?

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High School Question about intensity and area

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In your own personal life, how often do you use this equation?

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Graduate Time Travel: No worry about paradoxes

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Expansion coefficient of liquid Propane ?

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Undergrad Converting lux measurements to kJ/m² for habitat modeling

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High School Proofs of kinetic energy, potential energy and force formulas

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Graduate Solutions to Road to Reality exercises

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Undergrad The most misleading stereotypes about physics

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Graduate Why prefer the shut up and calculate approach to quantum mechanics

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High School What creates draft when only one window is open in a closed room?

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Undergrad What are the expansion coefficients of diesel fuel?

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High School Does the part of a string closest to your hand move faster when you spin a stone on it?

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Undergrad What is the Flaw in this Perpetual Motion Machine?

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High School What are some of these scales based on?

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High School What's the relation be zmole and mole?

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High School Is a Slide Rule Worth It for New Physics Students?

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High School Do photons and light attract each other gravitationally?

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What Inspired Your Career in Physics?

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Graduate Calculating ion frequency in a homemade cyclotron

  • Cups
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Undergrad Levitation - what the heck is this?

  • pellman
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Undergrad "Was Feynman's license plate ARW 357 a subtle physicist joke?

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Graduate Are There Multiple Big Bangs?

  • Nenad G.
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What courses are available on Youtube through NPTEL?

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What is the Bifinda-Brauna effect?

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High School Why can't a time machine go back before it was invented?

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Undergrad Non-Euclidean Recommended books

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Mysterious code sent to Fermilab

  • ZapperZ
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High School Counting Raindrops in Wichita, KS

  • moe7404
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Is Enthusiasm Enough to Thrive in Physics Forums?

  • KirkDamborg
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High School Imperial, metric, U.S. customary units

  • Expl1c1t
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Undergrad How do air bubbles behave in a water-filled balloon in zero gravity?

  • sketchtrack
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Graduate Why are we constantly traveling into the future?

  • epkid08
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Is it possible to obtain a published paper for free through this forum?

  • sogdiana
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Most efficent Portable Energy sources

  • maurice_z
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High School Tea in Milk: Reasons for Floating Upwards

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Graduate Tracking Smolin's book on non-string quantum gravity research groups

  • marcus
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High School Who Created an Electromagnetic Anti-Gravity Field?

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Graduate Riemannian geometry, relativity, and string theory for a high school freshman

  • Englishman
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Graduate Proposed US Budget A Major Blow to High Energy Physics

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Undergrad Motorcyclist falls off but bike stays upright

  • Hot Rod SS
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High School Area efficiency of Miles Per Gallon

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Could the LHC create a black hole and destroy Earth?

  • FredGarvin
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I come to these forums for one thing and one thing only.

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High School Feynman Lectures: Is It Worth The Money?

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Graduate Chris Morris Visits the LHC (The Guardian UK)

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Graduate Is Time Travel Possible as Depicted in Movies?

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Is the glowing object always visible between 11pm and 12am?

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High School Why Do Systems Have Organization?

  • Gear300
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Undergrad Is Cold Fusion for real this time?

  • SF
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News Global Warming based on solar flares?

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High School What is Null Physics and does it have any credibility?

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Graduate Loop-String companionship at the 2008 Bad Honnef conference

  • marcus
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Graduate String research down 33% in one year-ideas why?

  • marcus
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Graduate Human mind has a relatively large degree of freedom

  • Gear300
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High School Inquiries on Vacuum Sphere: Spinning and Weight Difference

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Graduate Does Quantum Mechanics Disprove Causality?

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Graduate Consciousness of Double Slit Observer

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Undergrad What Does Vc Mean? Kennedy Space Center Plaque

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Why does light travel at 186,000 miles per second?

  • arbol
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Undergrad Why is mercury a liquid even though its atoms are closely packed

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Undergrad How the acceleration of gravity is almost equal to pi squared?

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High School How can you prove the earth is round?

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Undergrad Walter L. Wagner's false credentials and LHC safety claims

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Could we send a message to space without embarrassing ourselves?

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Graduate Which Software Calculates TE and TM Fields in a Two-Core System?

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Graduate A quote regarding entanglement, looking for an interpretation.

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Undergrad Would a microphone in a perfect vacuum measure −∞ dB?

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Graduate Do scalar electromagnetic waves exist in conventional physics?

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High School Why can pounds and kilograms be converted if they measure different things?

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Undergrad Is energy a fourth state of matter according to e=mc²?

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High School Can Shooting Locks in Movies be Realistic?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Are There Prefixes for Decimal Places Between the Commonly Used Ones?

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High School Can Nikola Tesla's Concepts Power a UFO-like Flying Vehicle?

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High School What software is recommended for graphic design and integration with LaTeX?

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Undergrad Adding physics content to a solar tracker dissertation project

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High School Free Video Lectures - Learn Calculus Online

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When will CERN start testing the Large Hadron Collider?

  • Gear300
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High School Why the clock hands turn clockwise?

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Undergrad Conversion from cm^{-1} to eV - Ask Here!

  • carlo
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High School Min. Tone Bar Size for Electromechanical Doorbell

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Graduate Is the Big Bang No Longer the Beginning?

  • marcus
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Does the elevator switch counteract or turn off gravity?

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Undergrad The Multiple Launch Rocket System and Rocket Noises

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Graduate Raman Microscopy: Best Way to Hold Micron-sized Polystyrene Beads

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What Is the Lawrence Berkeley Pocket Book?

  • darkfall13
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Physics of mudwrestling and competitive advantage

  • Lesley Bian
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Graduate Citation to string has crashed-any idea why?

  • marcus
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Famous Overweight Physicists and Mathematicians

  • samalkhaiat
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Nobody complains about physicists' math?

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Willis Lamb 1913-2008

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Say Hi to Web Developer from Philippines Interested in Physics

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High School I need to create a demonstration

  • Senseiofj
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How does one pronounce de Broglie ?

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High School Can a table tennis ball clip the side without hitting the edge first?

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High School Treasure hunting metal detectors

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High School Will time travel ever come to an end?

  • Y00
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Graduate What are the implications of neutrino mass on the universe?

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Einstein or Newton, the better man?

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