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What are good examples of narrowing a homework question down to a conceptual question?

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Where to ask for a software recommendation about light refraction in a 3D media?

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What can I do to clarify what I'm asking?

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How can one identify a downvoter?

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Why was my question about Quantum Mechanics and FTL drives put on hold?

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Why is the 'physics' tag not allowed?

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Redundant tags II [duplicate]

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Redundant tags I [duplicate]

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Should our meta site have orange links?

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Is the demise of Stack Exchange (as we know it) ineluctable?

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Qmechanic reaches 100k rep

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In praise of “… and links therein”

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Should we add more answers/comments to the original question of the duplicate?

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My question was closed on Phys.SE. Can you recommend me another internet site where my question might be on-topic?

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What is the line between fiction and physics with respect to off-topic?

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Is Vote to Close as Off-Topic an appropriate remedy for questions that are deemed too “populist”?

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Does math in my questions need to be in the form of MathJax?

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Should poor-quality questions be deleted in general?

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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?

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Why can't I ask hypothetical questions?

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What does conceptual mean?

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Reasons for down votes [duplicate]

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What to do if my question ban is not getting removed?

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Possibility to retract flag on comments [closed]

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I need more light on the homework policy

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What's wrong with my question?

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Where to ask questions about teaching physics?

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Deleting an Answer

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answered Nov 6 at 17:28 Emilio Pisanty 81.6k

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How to respond to this user's “geopotential waffle” comments and/or best edit my question?

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Profile views, location section moved to extreme right corner

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Are questions about the character or personality of famous Physicists on-topic?

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Spam flag on nonsense garbage declined

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Should this question have been deleted?

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Profile/Activity layout issue [closed]

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Why was my self-answer accepted, and why did I get +5 rep?

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Is a question about calculators in SI format according to “what topics can I ask about here”?

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Should history of physics questions be on topic?

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modified Oct 11 at 19:42 Emilio Pisanty 81.6k

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Tag for Personal Theory?

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Reopen request - Question about water splash on impact

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Vote to reopen my question

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Is my question off topic? If not, how to get more attention?

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answered Oct 4 at 17:02 Emilio Pisanty 81.6k

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The mainstream-physics close reason has a link to meta with the user ID of a moderator. Can it be removed?

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Things one should be aware of before deleting account?

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Should you not give feedback if you vote to close a question to help the questioner better use this website? [duplicate]

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answered Sep 30 at 21:44 ZeroTheHero 18.4k

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Has my question been put on hold because it seemed like “a check my work” question?

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Printing questions on PSE

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