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What are some alternative physics sites for electromagnetic people?

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High School Are there any accidental things in Physics?

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Graduate The reversed Cicular Pi !Reversed Circular Pi: A New Math for Geometric Shapes

  • shintashi
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Who is in Charge for Objections to Newtonian Mechanics?

  • dedaNoe
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Will Dr. Kaku be featured on the new merged TechTV and G4 channel?

  • Ebe
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High School Can You Suggest Experiments for My Physics Exam Topics?

  • Knutz
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High School OCR January 2004 Physics papers and markschemes

  • dodster
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Is Dr. Kaku Appearing on Art's Show October 19?

  • Dave's Haarp
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High School 10-minute lecture topic for university program application

  • Chen
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High School What Causes Colorful Rings Around the Sun in Changsha?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Is it possible to get better technology ?

  • AnthreX
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Undergrad How is a radio signal turned into an image?

  • Matt Jacques
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High School What Do Top UK Universities Seek in a Physics Student?

  • DaveZZZ
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High School Ranked list of extinction threats and their probabilities

  • Innexplicable
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Mowgli: A Lone Hunter in the Jungle

  • arivero
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Undergrad Can Experiments Determine the Truth in Science?

  • Antonio Lao
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Bad science in science fiction

  • quddusaliquddus
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Graduate Physics of a full-wave bridge rectifier with capacitor filter

  • ElectroPhysics
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High School E-16. Electrically Charged Student

  • zoobyshoe
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High School Why the SI-unit for mass is chosen to kg and not g?

  • EL
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Is this forum useful for serious physics students?

  • AmirSafavi
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High School Physics SAT II test preparation

  • Mark
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Undergrad IS there an iron core in our sun?

  • Duane M
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Undergrad Can EM anomalies in labs reproduce ghostly phenomena?

  • wolram
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Is there any qns that worth a nobel?

  • New|c
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Parody of absurd TD claims

  • Chi Meson
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High School Why is laundry so much more inert than its mass?

  • zoobyshoe
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High School Can an Infinitely Accurate Watch Truly Measure Time?

  • F-Bert
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The hedonistic imperative and genetic engineering

  • Entheos
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Undergrad Smallest Molecules for Water to be Fluid: Why?

  • Lorentz
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Has Voyager Sent Us a Message We Can't Decode?

  • Blair
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Graduate Why Do Scientists Assume Particles Are Point-Like in Theories?

  • alpha_wolf
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Michio Kaku to Appear on Coast to Coast AM

  • Kaseki
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Graduate What Is the Postulate for Superconductivity?

  • b11ngoo
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High School Sine Waves - Natural Emissions of All Matter?

  • Imparcticle
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Graduate Can we use Math in an incorrect way?

  • WWW
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How Will You React to My Return?

  • dedaNoe
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Can Arsonade's PMM Quest Redefine Impossible Inventions?

  • Syed F. Karim
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Graduate Can science be objective or does authority stifle research?

  • Ikonoclast
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Undergrad Is 0.999... equal to 1?

  • ram2048
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High School Who Was Archimedes and What Are His Contributions to Physics?

  • dedaNoe
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High School How Does Physics Enhance the Effectiveness of Martial Arts Techniques?

  • Chrono
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High School How can bumblebees fly despite their weight?

  • shadowman
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High School What Should You Study First in Physics at 18?

  • Tohz
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Strange occurrences in aurora displays

  • Demensionseperator
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Undergrad The Rule of Nines: The Surprising Mathematics Behind It

  • sol2
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Undergrad Physics and psychology of mind-machine integration

  • cangus
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Am I a crackpot for my alternative physics theories?

  • ram2048
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Usenet sci.phys. - can intelligence be obscene?

  • Loren Booda
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High School Moving trailer wheels to fix rear axle weight violation

  • Last Stand
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Undergrad Statistically speaking, Finding a second unique object

  • syano
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Undergrad Questioning the Universe: Hawking's Theory

  • Ebolamonk3y
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Graduate How Does One Begin to Understand Physical Realities Through Experimentation?

  • Antonio Lao
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Mars Rovers: Opportunity at Endurance Crater

  • pelastration
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High School Is there really such a thing as TIME?

  • Euphoriet
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High School Physics in pool

  • einsteinian77
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High School Why do like charges repel and opposite charges attract?

  • protonman
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High School Finding Emilie du Châtelet's original energy experiment with clay

  • physics_illiterate
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High School Photo mat width when mat area equals photo area

  • travishillier
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High School Why can bass travel through walls so easily?

  • ShawnD
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Graduate Is the Implication True or False in Quantum Logic?

  • philosophking
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High School Physics involved in the International Space Station

  • angers109
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Where does happiness come from ?

  • Vance
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Graduate Planetary alignments causing Earth's climate cycles

  • Pierre
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Graduate Can time reversal be achieved physically?

  • alpha_wolf
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High School Old AP Physics C Exams: Finding Multiple Choice Sections

  • mahtiyar
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High School What are you favorite to hated topics in Physics?

  • Matt Jacques
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Undergrad Need system of linear differential equation physics application

  • Matt Jacques
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High School High School Physics: Questions for YOU

  • Groto
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Did Mr. Parsons Really Promise Not to Post Here Again?

  • Mr. Robin Parsons
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Why do you get sunburnt on a cloudy day?

  • dellianaL
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Graduate How is physics relevant to understanding living organisms?

  • Scott Sieger
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High School Spacing of iron railing uprights from 640 Hz sound reflection

  • woolly
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High School Physics resources for beginners

  • lvlastermind
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Graduate Where to Begin with Math and Physics?

  • JasonRox
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Graduate Can We Really Alter Our Temporal Path?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Why do passing vehicles and people pull toward me?

  • Pocketwatch
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Undergrad Is it possible to do calculations for systematic errors?

  • SHM
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The origin of Time, Matter and Life

  • fons wils
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High School What is the opposite of gravity?

  • Atrius
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Where to find MP3s of Feynman's physics lectures

  • Nimrod
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Graduate Strings Most Fundamental Elements?

  • FuriousBroccoli
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Motorcycle tour through Chernobyl exclusion zone

  • LURCH
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Borrowed Time: Interview with Michio Kaku

  • Esoteric
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May we have enough compassion

  • Teo1
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Undergrad Physics major vs electrical engineering for physics grad school

  • anish
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High School Science Resources For High School Students

  • ViEternal83
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Graduate How many times per day did Arcon's space-time gate open?

  • hemmul
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Graduate Can emptiness and fullness be used as inputs in mathematical systems?

  • Organic
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Graduate 4-valued logic forms between XOR and AND operations

  • Organic
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Graduate Why is the speed of light the same relative to any frame of reference?

  • Rationalise
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Graduate Could a shrinking universe explain cosmic expansion?

  • tribdog
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Rip Van Winkle as early time travel fiction

  • hey.like
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Does Dr. Michio Kaku See Posts on This Forum?

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High School I can't understand technical books/papers.

  • BookWorm
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Graduate Questions about antimatter gravity, singularities and decay

  • Nice coder
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Undergrad So the new equation for V1 is:V1=\frac{-Vo}{Rf/R1}+V2

  • sgillon
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Sixth Phase of Matter: Can't Find Thread?

  • KingNothing
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High School Finding a report on ultrahigh-energy particles

  • Terry Giblin
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Undergrad Where can I find data on natural vibration frequencies of materials?

  • zg74
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