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No Ig® Nobel Prize in physics for 2018
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What Are the Best Online Physics Learning Tools and Resources?
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Graduate Colloidal suspensions, Polymer solutions
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Undergrad Error propagation and standard deviation
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High School Hp/Kw required to move 1.5L/m of diesel fuel at 17.2 Bar?
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Photo Contest - P-H-Y-S-I-C-S F-O-R-U-M-S (11/24-11/30)
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Graduate Is the MRI Signal Highest When Protons Are Coherent or Dephasing?
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Undergrad Phasor Addition Explained - Wave Physics
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High School Find the Perfect 4 Point Probe Head Online - Expert Recommendations
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High School Can a Scalar Operate with a Vector Algebraically?
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Undergrad Problem with gravitation field perpendicular vector.
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Undergrad Can i create an air flow through a geometry?
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Insights What is the Spectral Paradox Discussed in PF Insights?
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High School How do you make neutral wire 'neutral'?
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High School Is the 'A Level Physics by Roger Muncaster' suitable for 2018/2019 Syllabus?
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High School The physical concepts in the double jump of the video games
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High School Pixel Size of TVs: OLED & LCD Explained
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Graduate Kinetic energy of Himalayan plate
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Undergrad Graph of wikipedia articles about physics
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Ghost Moons: Astronomers Confirm Unusual Find
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High School Waves in a medium versus waves in a vacuum (ie no medium)
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Undergrad Does a wave in a moving medium propagate ....
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Undergrad How can I calculate the energy of a body of mass?
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Undergrad Glass -- how to increase the surface area
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News There are no laws of physics theres only the landscape.
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High School Outrageous Facts by Academically Validated Physicists
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Undergrad Understanding what the complex cosine spectrum is showing
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A list named the"10 characteristic experiences of physics" does it exist?
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How many Planck lengths are there in a parsec?
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High School Gravity - Do atoms orbit humans ?
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High School What Exactly is Conceptual Physics?
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What Are Good Physics Books for Casual Reading?
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High School COM of Universe: Does it Mean Anything?
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What sparked your interest for physics?
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Stephen Hawking's Final Paper published
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2018 French Nobel Prize clip (what do you think)
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Insights Interview with Physics Mentor bhobba - Comments
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High School How Does a Cartoon Explain Potential Energy?
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Undergrad How do I convert mass units in physics?
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Undergrad Stripes in Kundt's tube experiment
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Undergrad A question about units in equation: Dimensional analysis
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Undergrad Why E=mc^2 is different from E=1/2 mv^2?
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Undergrad Is gravitational prospecting pseudoscience?
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News Who Will Win the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Undergrad What purpose does the delta notation serve in this context?
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Graduate Can Quantum Physics Explain Paranormal Phenomena?
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Undergrad Why don't humans glow in the dark?
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Graduate Normalization of Radial Distribution Function
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Undergrad How Do Geometrical and Physical Symmetry Differ in Objects?
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Graduate What to do with a totally unclassifiable enigma?
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Graduate Question about Helmholtz resonance
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High School Vector multiplication and division
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High School Why longitudinal waves are waves?
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High School What is meant by "first order" and "second order"
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Graduate Eigenstates, Block equations, Regge-theories
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Physics graduates: any vocational ed or engineering courses?
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High School Direction of Vectors: North vs Northeast
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Undergrad Millikan's Experiment: Observing Vibrating Oil Droplets
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Undergrad Was the recent ISS leak imminently dangerous?
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Graduate Physicists who do research on complex systems
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Undergrad How is Solder Made? Learn the Process & Its Benefits
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High School Do Can-and-String Phones Produce Clear Voices or a Tinny Sound?
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Undergrad Significant figures and uncertainty in measurements
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Undergrad What chemicals inside a hearing aid battery make it explode?
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High School Measuring Objects using Dissimilar Units
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High School Calculate, not measure the value of c
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High School Greatest Possible Uncertainty and Sig Figs
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High School History of Error Bars in Physics
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High School What Is the Harm in Using Finite dx in Calculus?
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High School How do we know our laws of physics are correct?
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Undergrad How to measure the surface area of an arbitrary 3D object
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Some Wonderful Talks on Feynman's 100th Birthday
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High School Condensate around rocket spin? Why?
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Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch's muscle
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High School Is the Stairmaster a Valuable Exercise Tool Despite Physics Misconceptions?
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High School Why does mercury rise in a glass capillary tube despite its strong cohesion?
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High School Does it irk you when journalists don't do units properly?
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High School Is everything binary on macroscopic level
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Undergrad Frozen fruit aggregates in hot porridge
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High School How much should it cost to build an MRI Scanner?
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Undergrad Who First Named Physics Observers Alice and Bob?
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Undergrad Is Double Pendulum taught to all Physics majors?
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High School Unit conventions (SI versus others)
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Graduate Questions about the energy of a wave as a Taylor series
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Undergrad Why Do Physicists Write Integrals as ##\int dx f(x)##?
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High School How can I make my friend love physics?
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High School What Are the Different Fields of Physics Explored by Dominic Walliman?
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Undergrad Babies Upside Down: How Buoyancy Protects from Gravity
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Undergrad Dust Accumulation on Fan Blades and Elsewhere
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High School How Long Will My Camping Battery Last?
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Undergrad How can I represent a stochastic process in 2D?
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High School Have you seen the Space Showers in Chicago?
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Need Forum for Outlandish Science Ideas
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Undergrad Is this just a normal fluorescence of glass molecules?
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Undergrad Fourier transform -- what physical variables am I allowed to transform between?
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Feynman Audio Lectures: Complete Set Available?
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Photo Contest - Spin Angular Momentum (6/23-6/29)
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High School Traffic Turbines - Free Energy or Cost Exchange?
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