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High School Have you seen the Space Showers in Chicago?
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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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Undergrad Can tiny gas bubbles cause discomfort in body cavities?
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High School Why is Fire Considered Conductive?
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Graduate Apliying PCA to two correlated stochastic processes
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Undergrad Looking for a cheap digital scale with accuracy <1 g
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Undergrad Why are the last two digits of the mass of an electron in parentheses?
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Great Domain of Science Video on Movie Sci Fi
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Graduate Why Is Mechanics So Difficult to Master?
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High School How does the ear distinguish multiple different pitches?
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Graduate Calculating decay rates for modes of a circular membrane
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Undergrad Designing Rehabilitation Equipment for an Upper Limb (arm)
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High School Expert Tips for Solving Physics Problems | Ace Your Finals in 6 Days!
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Graduate Free bar fundamental vibration relationship length to width
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Undergrad Predicting the decay time of a resonant bandpass filter
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High School What we mean in physics definition (quantity or property)?
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News Physics, What have you done lately?
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High School Question about the allassonic effect
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High School Can Height, Shadow Length, and a Photo Reveal a Person's Location?
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Undergrad How Does a Pressurized Tank Empty Over Time Through a Hole?
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Can you predict when Manhattanhenge will occur this year?
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High School Why does GPS require an accurate clock?
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Undergrad Burn Out & Boredom: How to Keep STEM Learning Fun
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Graduate Time Magazine: instantaneous communication via entanglement
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Undergrad Deterministic chaos in linear systems
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Undergrad What does peak intensity mean in qualitative XRD?
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High School Examples of discoveries without a hypothesis?
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Undergrad Is it possible to have a breathable atmosphere at 6 atm
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Undergrad Need a practical example of E=mc^2 with real numbers
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Undergrad What is the most efficient radiator shape?
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News Did Homer Neal's Contributions to Physics and Education Leave a Lasting Legacy?
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High School Why Do We Lose Cell Phone Connection Outdoors Without Buildings or Cars Nearby?
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High School Who drew the first model of the atom?
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High School Is Learning Existing Knowledge Essential Before Developing New Theories?
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Undergrad A model of what makes up the physical world
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Will you be attending the AAPT Summer Meeting 2018?
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News RIP David Pines: Physics Giant Who Could Have Won Nobel Prize
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Undergrad Experiment Ideas using an MRI scanner?
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Daily challenges confronting physicists
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Graduate Why does a guitar string "beat" as if it is out of phase?
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High School A couple of links about, not from science
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Undergrad Musings on waves - possible or already realised?
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High School What does coefficient of increase of physical quantity mean?
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Undergrad How Can Muscle Strain Be Measured?
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High School Royal Society revives a strange old document
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Undergrad Who's moving towards whom in Doppler effect situations?
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High School Can time travel affect cell phone communication?
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100th anniversary of Feynman's birth
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Undergrad Analysis of Ultrasonic Waves at a point
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Graduate What would AI *want to do*, according to physics?
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Graduate Help with Remote Sensing Finals: Spatial Res., Radiometric Res., Resampling
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Graduate Recently, I want to write something about data in physics
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Undergrad What Is the Equation Relating Wind Erosivity to Velocity and Air Density Called?
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Undergrad Calculate measurement uncertainty? I made one measurement....
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High School Is There Truly an Inside and Outside?
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I "met" a physics Nobel Prize winner yesterday
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Excerpts from Letters by Dyson about Feynman
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Undergrad How does the equation for experimental uncertainty work?
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Undergrad What would be a useful application for 10 Thz nano-antennas?
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High School Why do microcontrollers fail in a Vacuum?
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Graduate What Is a Fourier Series?
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High School Why does bonding occur between atoms?
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Graduate How were you exposed to probability theory in physics?
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High School Why Does Closing My Door Increase the Breeze in My Room?
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High School Why Is Tornado Alley a Hotspot for Twisters?
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Undergrad Clarification for a standing wave on a string equation
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Undergrad Physically relevant: fractals, phi?
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Undergrad Quiz question: Who Dies If 'E' Pushes The Stone?
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Undergrad What is the thickness of the atmosphere?
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Undergrad Proof of a law versus proof of a theorem
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Undergrad Identifying & Accounting for Systematic Error in Scales with 1mg Capacity
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Undergrad How many ion-pairs are there in normal conditions in the air?
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High School Can Digital Radios Tune Without Moving Parts?
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High School Showing/proving a physical relationship
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Undergrad What is the difference between transverse and plane waves?
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Undergrad Aesthetically pleasing formulae involving time?
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Graduate "Humpty-Dumpty" particle (Eggeron) discovered at CERN on April 1st, 2018
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Undergrad Adhesive Forces: Bigger vs. Smaller Straws
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High School The Wave Equation and Traveling Waves
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Undergrad Aviation safety plane crash question/idea
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High School Why Are Sounds Louder at Night Compared to Daytime?
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Undergrad Linear fitting in physics experiments with errors
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High School Fundamental Constants: How Do We Know They're Constant?
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Undergrad Error of a measurements taken with a multimeter
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High School Converting Units (Medical Application)
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High School Can you prove anything using the Scientific Method?
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High School How Do You Properly Calculate Uncertainty in Measurements?
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News What are the best educational trips for first-year physics students in Europe?
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Undergrad Can energy exist by itself (without time and matter)?
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Compare and contrast Bohr and Feynman?
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Undergrad What does this n(MAX)j=1 part mean?
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Where will Hawking stand in the future?
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High School Do Electrons Get Excited and De-Excited Equally in Colored Compounds?
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