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High School What Does a 10th Grader Think About the Sixth Dimension?

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Undergrad Is this thought experiment posible?

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Where can i find Lorenz attractor animation/screensaver?

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How do you pronounce the apostrophe in a formula?

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High School Build a Physics Apparatus: Ideas Needed

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What type of person succeeds in physics?

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Graduate Does Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Extend to Observers Outside the System?

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Are the Laws of Nature Being Repealed?

  • interested_learner
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Discover the Best Places for Video Lectures and Informative Movies

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High School Elements that cause explosion/burn

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High School A few fundamental questions I'm having trouble on

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Undergrad Can Four Parameters Really Model an Elephant?

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Who are the Greatest Physicists in this century?

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High School Understanding Moments in Math and Physics: A Beginner's Guide

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High School Tips for Creating Physics Diagrams in Adobe Illustrator on Windows Machine

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Graduate What does modern physics say about uncaused effects

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Graduate Backward Causation in Quantum Mechanics: A Refreshing Discussion

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High School Why cant you dim a fluorescent bulb?

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Whats the big deal about Einstein?

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High School How do light, radio, and sound waves work together in televisions?

  • physics246
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Nanotechology-why is it so popular?

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High School Understanding Wave Energy: Amplitude vs Frequency

  • IMGOOD
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Remote Control + Head = further distance?

  • juming
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Somebody please explain this pic?

  • redfox55
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High School Physics Articles: Ideas, Math Proofs & Definitions

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Witness the Kaye Effect: Unbelievable Fluid Dynamics!

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Are There Physics Programs for Complex Calculations?

  • Nuklear
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High School What Constellations Can You See with a Telescope in India?

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Graduate Could dimensions be considered as expanding or contracting?

  • petm1
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Undergrad The Necessity of Supply: Maintaining Standing Waves

  • adiputra
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Annals of Physics (NY): Access or Web Address?

  • quantumdude
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Graduate How Skepticism Slowed Scientific Progress: The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiments

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This is NOT the way to get out of a Physics exam

  • ZapperZ
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Graduate Can Exploring Ether and Space Reshape Our Understanding of Maxwell's Equations?

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Undergrad Can a Very Long Rope Stretch from Earth to Sun?

  • Laboro
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Strange glow from TV that is off.

  • Artman
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Graduate Short Story Physics: Radiation in Interstellar Space

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Graduate Is the Flow of Fluid a Nonlinear Physical System?

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High School Why the process of diffusion takes place

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Download Feynman Lectures: Where to Find

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Graduate Telekenesis (Not what you think)

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Graduate Get Free Energy: Check Out Steorn Ireland

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Graduate Impossible Materials for Sci-Fi Story: Ideas & Tests Needed

  • ktoz
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Undergrad What Makes Solitons Different from Normal Waves?

  • hanson
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Did Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr believe in good luck charms?

  • Loren Booda
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High School Poster presentation general questions

  • Salerk
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Welcome to Zenmaster99 - Crazy Physicist, Crazy Friend

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Are you ready for the 2007 APS March Meeting in Denver, CO?

  • Gokul43201
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High School Starting a Physics Club, need ideas

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High School Local Physics Project Ideas for Junior High Students

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Graduate Does Cosmic Censorship Link Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness, and Causality?

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High School Bending Guitar Strings: Learn How to Make a Synth Effect

  • DannyCov
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High School Is Everything in the Universe Made of Mass?

  • MaNiFeST
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Undergrad Dampening the travelling wave a wave

  • DannyCov
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Wikipedia and credibility in physics/science

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High School Why Does Coffee Pitch Rise When Stirred?

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Undergrad Physics of mixing different powders

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High School I need someone to answer this physics questiopn for me please.

  • Orl13
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High School Which Gas Was Used in J.J. Thomson's Cathode Ray Experiment?

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Graduate Is Richard Feynman's Description of Electrons as Almost Real Valid?

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Reliable Source for Electron Energy Values?

  • kel
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High School Understanding Amplitude and Frequency Modulation

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Undergrad Im not too clever, but faster than light?

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Graduate The relationship between energy and matter

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Undergrad Proof of Phase Change: How Can We Prove It?

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Graduate Gravity's Effects on Aqueous Foams - Discussion & Experiments

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High School How long is the coastline of Britain?

  • billiards
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High School Germany: Participating in International Physics Olympics 2007

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High School Capillary Action- Rate/Temp- How would you analyze?

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Physics Word Problems - Helpful Websites

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Julian Barbour: Video Documentary on His Theories

  • MeJennifer
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What Is This Amazing Interactive Physics Program?

  • tiagomendes
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The pleasure of finding things out

  • kant
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Undergrad Is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Your Favorite Principle?

  • kant
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Graduate Is Expansion Possible Without Contraction in the Universe?

  • flech
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Undergrad How Far Can a Person Throw a Pebble?

  • SAZAR
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Graduate How Has the Twin Paradox Been Resolved?

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Greatest Physicist Ever - Redux Discussion

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Undergrad Is Will O' The Wisp's Explanation Accurate?: Doubt About Density

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High School Last Year of High School Physics Project Ideas

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Physics & Math Audio Lectures: Find Online

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Who is the father of QED and where can you find his lectures and eBooks?

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Undergrad How to interpret physically the divergence of vector field?

  • hanson
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Graduate Why do we experience time as moving forward?

  • B.E.M
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News What a jerk (cont'd from General Physics)

  • Andrew Mason
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Can We Ever Learn to Walk Through Walls Like Ghosts?

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Graduate Is the Butterfly Effect a True Phenomenon in Real-World Systems?

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High School Meaning of isophotal and photometric

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Prominent U.S. Physicists Ask Congress

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Undergrad Graph uncertainty analysis question

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High School Perpetual Motion: The Bottomless Pit

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Undergrad Buoyancy/Archimedes's Principle, how is it explained at the molecular level?

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New User Introduction: Get to Know Force=Mass x Acceleration!

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Creative solution to a physics problem

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Undergrad What is the energy of a 1/2 Hz photon according to Planck's constant?

  • Sheyr
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High School Significant Numbers in Experiments

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High School Advantage and disadvantage of resonance

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Collaborative Efforts to Enhance Physics Articles on Wikipedia

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High School Does Water Always Drain in the Same Direction?

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High School Do you have the answers for AP Physics B 1988 and 1984 tests?

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