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Undergrad Where to find information on pressure drop in air flow systems

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Graduate What is the Connection Between the ABC Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem?

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Graduate How Can You Create a Near Perfect Vacuum Without Contamination?

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High School How do handheld barcode scanners read barcodes?

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Information on studying Medical Physics

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Technology to save the enviroment already exists

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I can't believe it was in my bath tub.

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Graduate Do limit definitions differ between standard and infinitesimal approaches?

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High School What is the difference between dot and cross products in vector operations?

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Undergrad Find Resultant Wave of y1 & y2: Get Hint Now!

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Whose article is this?Who Plagiarized My PhysicsPost Article?

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Undergrad How is the limit concept rigorous?

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Graduate Is time a necessary property of physics?

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Graduate Confutatis maledictis (text of Latin requiem)

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Graduate Where Are Uniform Gravitating Prolate Spheroids Found?

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High School Can Physics and Mathematics Predict the Future?

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High School Different poles and arrange them in a circle

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Undergrad How low can vacuum pressure go in a sealed vessel?

  • whitelighter
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Recent Physics Books Worth Reading

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Who Was John Titor?

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Undergrad Good intro physics review books with worked solutions

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How do I add a signature to my forum profile?

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Graduate Creating a black hole that doesn't evaporate

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What is the term for constantly teetering on the brink of change?

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Are You Sure One And One Makes Two?

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Be your self, no matter what they say

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Undergrad Good question > 50% of the answer

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Graduate The Iron inside a cell pulls and holds on to the oxygen

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Rear Differential Design: The Cause of Washboard Roads?

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Undergrad Are There Unknown Forces in the Universe Beyond Gravity and Electromagnetism?

  • Darmowin
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PASC:45.50.Jf Few- and many-body systems

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Graduate Sending a message back through time

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Is aikido based on the law of leverage?

  • deda
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High School Making clouds in a sustainable form in labs

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Graduate How can we effectively construct and explore complex numerical models?

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Graduate Defining natural numbers through group operations on finite sets

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Science with a Twist - Scientific Review

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Graduate Technology, morality and the misuse of mathematics in weapons

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Why Do Nuclei Move in Relation to Electrons?

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High School Can lightning strike the same point twice?

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Graduate Frege's Concept - Script (Begriffsschrift)

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High School Where to find physics resources and printable practice tests for high school

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High School What is the speed of gravity?

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Can you jump off the moon with human leg power?

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Crinoid fossil cover-up allegations

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Graduate Odds of Universe Occurring: Have You Heard?

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Undergrad Why is 1 Decibel = 10 Log (Power1/Power2)?

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High School Real world example for derivatives

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High School Materials and physics in Mars rovers

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High School Is Using E Instead of x10 in Scientific Notation Acceptable?

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Undergrad Can Chaos Theory Truly Render Future Systems Unpredictable?

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Brian Greene on Techtv: A Kaku Forum

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Omega partial alpha found @ www.beyond-science.com

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Was Einstein Wrong? Check Out The NY Times Article

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Undergrad Can an Object Pass Through a Wall?

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High School What is topic number 9 on eurekalert.org and why is it important?

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Graduate Creating and controlling gravity, and Newton's third law

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High School What are the 6 states of matter?

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Undergrad What is the Collatz Problem and how can it be solved?

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Graduate How the suggestion to found the time travel award

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Where can I find guidance and information for my scientific inquiries?

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Undergrad What Are My Options for Proving My Science Knowledge for University Admission?

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High School How Long Does Sound Take to Travel from the Voicebox to the Ear?

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Undergrad Are Cookies More Explosive Than Dynamite Based on Calories?

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News Plea for good info on global warming

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High School Factors affecting mobile phone signals

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Graduate Need Recommendation for GOOD physics books,

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High School Medical Physics or Physics of Fluids: Which Should I Choose for A-Levels?

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Graduate Experiment and Theory vs. Reality

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Missing Chapters in E.T. Jaynes' Probability Theory - Requesting PDFs/PS files

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What Theories of Magnetism Surround Coral Castle in Florida?

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High School Real Life Examples of Physics Theories

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What science periodicals do you recommend?

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Graduate Has anyone used Landau's Mechanics and other volumes in the series?

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High School What are knot theory and parlor games? Preparing for a lecture?

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What are Bose-Einstein condensates used for?

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Undergrad Can a Robot be Programmed to Remember its Future?

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Order Signed Copies from Will - Now Available

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High School What is the Fascinating World of Chaos Theory?

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Undergrad LDRs Preferably cadmium sulphide LDRs

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Why was my question moved to homework when it's not homework?

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High School Why is 100 kg of goose feathers equal to 100 kg of mass?

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Compassion and positivity are the only solution

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Undergrad Insane physicists and mathematicians

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God's Simple Energy is One Spectrum

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High School Book recommendations for learning physics basics

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Graduate Is dark energy really causing the universe to accelerate?

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Graduate Origin of Matter: Orthodox Scientific View?

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Undergrad What are error bars on graphs in research papers?

  • sk381
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High School Resources for the physics of stereo systems

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High School Do dot products have units?

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Undergrad Best US schools for physics? Advice?

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What about a computational physics forum?

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What happens in the afterlife? Can we become anything in our next life?

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High School Can Infrasound Explain Ghostly Apparitions?

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High School Why Doesn't Static Cling Develop with Cotton Towels in the Dryer?

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Graduate Luis Boya on Max Planck's radiation law

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Petrus's Opinion on Gravifugal Force

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Kaku Named to Holiday TSS 'A List

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Graduate How can we extend the concept of sets to deal with infinite dimensions?

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