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High School Any Website on daily physics phenomenon?

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Graduate Getting relative amplitudes from FFT for sine wave resynthesis

  • max_planck735
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Graduate Is Energy Conserved by Fundamental Forces in Accelerating Bodies?

  • Ratzinger
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Graduate Questions About Vacuum: Searching for Answers

  • AlienUFO
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High School Is there a limit to how high a mountain can be due to gravity?

  • ravachol
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Who was more important for physics, Newton or Einstein?

  • Leon W Zhang
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Graduate Sensitive dependence on initial conditions

  • broegger
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Undergrad What's our best resolving microscope?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Ten Obscure Factoids Concerning Albert Einstein

  • scott1
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High School Who first conceived the idea of atoms

  • THX22
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Undergrad Does Wave Motion Challenge the Energy-Matter Relationship?

  • 3trQN
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Undergrad Physics of capoeira

  • Mt. Nixion
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Graduate Cold fusion session at an energy conference

  • rachmaninoff
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Source for quotation about science/physics?

  • Stephan Hoyer
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Undergrad Maximum bandwidth of oscilloscope in undergraduate lab

  • darkar
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What does jitter mean in scientific contexts?

  • dervast
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High School Accuracy and sensitivity

  • SudanBlack
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High School Why Does A Wave Move As It Does?

  • gsmushet1
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Berkeley physics archive post unclear

  • marcus
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Posters featuring both Einstein and Bohr together

  • rygar
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Graduate Unusual and catchy physics paper titles

  • brahma
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Interesting facts about antique electrical measuring instruments

  • mathlete
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Graduate Is Time Travel Through Communication with the Past Possible?

  • Sneil
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Defining Gravity - Give it a Rest

  • gillwill
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Graduate What is the cause of sonoluminescence?

  • Azael
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Undergrad What's the longest wavelength possible?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Lisa Randall on Coast to Coast Sat. 2/25

  • Math Is Hard
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Graduate Can a single atom have a temperature, and how do EM waves affect neutral particles?

  • skywolf
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High School Confusing Osmosis: Why Hot Milk Tastes Like Water

  • spiffing_abhijit
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High School What do symbols in equations mean?

  • SimpleHarmonicMotion
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Graduate Where Can I Find Reliable Information on Warp Drive?

  • plum
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High School Who Said "Shut Up and Calculate"?

  • Azael
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Undergrad Taking five physics classes in one quarter

  • franznietzsche
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Graduate Is QM interpretation a matter of knowledge and probability?

  • reilly
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Undergrad What is the best physics text for self learners?

  • Zandorian
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Request for AJP article on multiple reflection images

  • rushil
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Undergrad Physical change chemical change?

  • pivoxa15
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High School Energy Alternatives to Oil: Perspectives for the Future

  • Werg22
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Undergrad Is Physics Essays Journal Just Full of Crackpot Theories?

  • Lewis
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Undergrad Electrodynamics test scored 8/20 due to time pressure

  • siddharth
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High School Physics of figure skating

  • PhysicsFan
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Have You Ever Experienced an Eye-Opening Experiment?

  • heman
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Undergrad Can Calculus Prove that Walking in a Room Will Eventually Reach the Other Side?

  • wunderkind
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Undergrad Can a Magnet-Powered Wheel Generate Perpetual Energy?

  • Gnophos
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Graduate Is a New Exact Solution to Einstein's Equations Possible?

  • Plastic Photon
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High School Physics Olympiad: what are the award thresholds?

  • Dave 007
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Graduate Is the nature of physics more probabilistic or deterministic?

  • Loren Booda
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Quality physics radio stations or audio lessons

  • Tido611
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Graduate Information on the percolation threshold

  • robbo2004
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High School How do I improve my lab report writing skills?

  • darkar
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High School Can Auroras Produce Audible Sounds?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Can an invisible person see?

  • langtu
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Seven hours of physics classes and lab with no breaks tomorrow

  • Gale
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Graduate Is Physics the Ultimate Authority?

  • Wishbone
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Graduate An antigravity patent that accidentally got through

  • ZapperZ
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High School Need a list on derivatives in Physics

  • Noone1982
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I broke the laws of Physics (and don't know how to put it back)

  • Nucleonics
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Graduate Consciousness as an active part in modern physics

  • vanesch
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Graduate What is emergence and how does it differ from reductionism?

  • cscott
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High School What Does the Equation PV=C(1+i)^n Represent?

  • Frizz
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High School Why is energy considered separate from matter?

  • Vayne
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High School Why I finally enjoy physics and math

  • Blahness
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Undergrad Why do longer wavelengths penetrate buildings better than shorter ones?

  • chris4434
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Undergrad Skills, attitudes and habits developed in introductory quantum mechanics

  • raj_vad
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High school physics and maths help wanted

  • dilan
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Feynman And The Challenger Explosion

  • zoobyshoe
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Graduate Is observability restricted by scale ?

  • An Average Joe
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Undergrad Can Commandos Bypass a Force Field with an EM Emitter in Sci-Fi?

  • drcathyc
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Graduate What Causes Negative Gravitational Force Between Particles?

  • matt85
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I need something to waste time on,

  • Blahness
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Graduate Do physicist's consider themselve's one of instruments in an experiment?

  • quantumcarl
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High School What Are Good Starter Books for Aspiring Astronomers and Physics Enthusiasts?

  • MaddenDude
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Graduate Can Motion Be Defined Beyond Change in Position Over Time?

  • Sikz
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Graduate Ftl - Heim QT based propulsion models

  • Atomos
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Undergrad Why does my Wi-Fi signal weaken upstairs 15 meters from the router?

  • runicle
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Undergrad What Causes the Blue Light in Triboluminescence?

  • Redhat
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High School Pros and cons of the science -physics

  • youngscientist
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High School Why are there no contrails over Guam despite heavy air traffic?

  • Mk
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Graduate Can science claim any unified theories?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad What I've seen and learned do not correspond with the members here

  • QuantumTheory
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High School Hearing outside noise while in an encolsed room

  • pivoxa15
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Frustrated with self-taught physics and unsolved problems

  • G01
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Undergrad Physics of coordination and reflexes

  • Mt. Nixion
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High School Meaning of gravity in an intuitive sense?

  • jrm2002
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High School How do taps and vacuum cleaners work with pressure?

  • hkhil
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What happens if you compress a vacuum?

  • Wave!
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Undergrad Physics Experiments for Third Year Students - Bill's Request

  • Bill12
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Undergrad I think popular science is ruining science

  • Pengwuino
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What is the definition of Uphill?

  • Averagesupernova
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High School Struggling to progress beyond popular science books in physics

  • FeynmanMH42
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Undergrad What caused these doppler radar signatures in the photos?

  • PIT2
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Strange behavior of tea leaves in Tea Cup

  • physicsman
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Graduate What would you see if you travel at the speed of light?

  • ZapperZ
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Undergrad Can You See a Dense Patch of Gas?

  • pivoxa15
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Will space travel ever become a safe mode of transportation in the year 2050?

  • QuantumTheory
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Deciding to be an Astronomer at Age 7

  • fourier jr
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Graduate General Relavitiy, P-branes, and time travel.

  • QuantumTheory
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New bike - can't ride no-hands anymore?

  • bikeguy
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High School Flying is impossible, so is timetravel.

  • QuantumTheory
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