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• What's the difference between inclusive and exclusive decays?

• How 'pure' is liquid nitrogen? (unanswered, however)
• Fairly Broad Spectrum Light Source Options
• Do high/low pass lenses exist?
• What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?
• added 5-Sept-2011 Measuring concentration
• added 5-Sept-2011 Cleaning Already Mounted Microspheres on an AFM

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm
• added 5-Sept-2011 Fitting to a high density scatter plot

• How to communicate institutional knowledge in a big physics collaboration?
• Are the results from models considered “data”?
• Publication Authorship Credits

• Starting a physics Ph.D. at 60?
• Is it possible to restart formal higher education in physics at a later age?

I won't guess at akeshet's motive for opening a new proposal (I fear that he dropped by during one of our outbreaks of pop-sci-quantum-philosophers), but I think the questions he envisions would be welcome here and that we have some expertise in these matters already on-baord.

• [experimental-technique]
• [sample-preparation]
• [data-analysis]
• [laboratory-safety] which has only been applied to a question that predates this discussion and isn't really a graduate+ level question, but the tag would be applicable to some questions that are

• What's the difference between inclusive and exclusive decays?

• How 'pure' is liquid nitrogen? (unanswered, however)
• Fairly Broad Spectrum Light Source Options
• Do high/low pass lenses exist?
• What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?
• added 5-Sept-2011 Measuring concentration
• added 5-Sept-2011 Cleaning Already Mounted Microspheres on an AFM

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm
• added 5-Sept-2011 Fitting to a high density scatter plot

• How to communicate institutional knowledge in a big physics collaboration?
• Are the results from models considered “data”?
• Publication Authorship Credits

• Starting a physics Ph.D. at 60?
• Is it possible to restart formal higher education in physics at a later age?

I won't guess at akeshet's motive for opening a new proposal (I fear that he dropped by during one of our outbreaks of pop-sci-quantum-philosophers), but I think the questions he envisions would be welcome here and that we have some expertise in these matters already on-baord.

• [experimental-technique]
• [sample-preparation]
• [data-analysis]
• [laboratory-safety] which has only been applied to a question that predates this discussion and isn't really a graduate+ level question, but the tag would be applicable to some questions that are

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm

• [experimental-technique]
• [sample-preparation]

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm
• added 5-Sept-2011 Fitting to a high density scatter plot

• [experimental-technique]
• [sample-preparation]
• [data-analysis]
• [laboratory-safety] which has only been applied to a question that predates this discussion and isn't really a graduate+ level question, but the tag would be applicable to some questions that are

As the proposal is brand new it is hard to be sure, but my first inclination is to guess that everything (or at least very nearly everything) that is on-topic for the proposal will also be on-topic for Physics.SE.

Certainly the original two examples with one vote each

• Will photoresist [X] work in process [Y], and if not why? (on-topic)
• What is your favorite way to bake a vacuum chamber? (not a great example)

seem to in keeping with our practice on Physics.SE. The newly added example

• How should I remove rust/stains from my optics table without compromising its flatness?

is well chosen to explore the possible seem between the two proposals. I would judge that to be on-topic on Physics>SE, but I am an experimenter. How do other's feel about this?

I will try to provide examples of several classes of experimental technique and applied physics questions from Physics.SE (and trying to select those that would be interesting to grad students and those further on in their careers in keeping with the proposal).

The Jargon (not generally discussed with undergrads)

• What's the difference between inclusive and exclusive decays?

Instrumentation, calibration, and technique

• How 'pure' is liquid nitrogen? (unanswered, however)
• Fairly Broad Spectrum Light Source Options
• Do high/low pass lenses exist?
• What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?

Data analysis & Computation

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm

Collaboration skills and Culture

• How to communicate institutional knowledge in a big physics collaboration?
• Are the results from models considered “data”?
• Publication Authorship Credits

Physics Education at the Graduate Level and Up

• Starting a physics Ph.D. at 60?
• Is it possible to restart formal higher education in physics at a later age?

Frankly there is not as much there as I (an experimenter, after all) would have hoped, but I claim that we are welcoming of these matters.

I won't guess at akeshet's motive for opening a new proposal (I fear that he dropped by during one of our outbreaks of pop-sci-quantum-philosophers), but I think the questions he envisions would be welcome here and that we have some expertise in these matters already on-baord.

As the proposal is brand new it is hard to be sure, but my first inclination is to guess that everything (or at least very nearly everything) that is on-topic for the proposal will also be on-topic for Physics.SE.

Certainly the original two examples with one vote each

• Will photoresist [X] work in process [Y], and if not why? (on-topic)
• What is your favorite way to bake a vacuum chamber? (not a great example)

seem to in keeping with our practice on Physics.SE. The newly added example

• How should I remove rust/stains from my optics table without compromising its flatness?

is well chosen to explore the possible seem between the two proposals. I would judge that to be on-topic on Physics>SE, but I am an experimenter. How do other's feel about this?

I will try to provide examples of several classes of experimental technique and applied physics questions from Physics.SE (and trying to select those that would be interesting to grad students and those further on in their careers in keeping with the proposal).

The Jargon (not generally discussed with undergrads)

• What's the difference between inclusive and exclusive decays?

Instrumentation, calibration, and technique

• How 'pure' is liquid nitrogen? (unanswered, however)
• Fairly Broad Spectrum Light Source Options
• Do high/low pass lenses exist?
• What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?
• added 5-Sept-2011 Measuring concentration
• added 5-Sept-2011 Cleaning Already Mounted Microspheres on an AFM

Data analysis & Computation

• How small of a depletion signal can the best modern mass spectrometers detect? (might have gone in instrumentation as well but the answers dwell on the statistics of the measurement; only partially answered)
• Efficiency of Metropolis algorithm

Collaboration skills and Culture

• How to communicate institutional knowledge in a big physics collaboration?
• Are the results from models considered “data”?
• Publication Authorship Credits

Physics Education at the Graduate Level and Up

• Starting a physics Ph.D. at 60?
• Is it possible to restart formal higher education in physics at a later age?

Frankly there is not as much there as I (an experimenter, after all) would have hoped, but I claim that we are welcoming of these matters.

I won't guess at akeshet's motive for opening a new proposal (I fear that he dropped by during one of our outbreaks of pop-sci-quantum-philosophers), but I think the questions he envisions would be welcome here and that we have some expertise in these matters already on-baord.

Edit 5-Sept-2011: Since this discussion I have been trying to take note of those questions on Physics.SE that would be candidates for ExperimentalPhysics.SE (or whatever).

See:

• [experimental-technique]
• [sample-preparation]

I don't really know what light this sheds on the proposal. Clearly we are still getting very few greasy-handed practical experimental questions; whether that means there are few that people want to ask the internet of Physics.SE has chased away everyone who wants to ask them I do not know.