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How work Physics.SE and Mathematics.SE about mathematical/physic question
In these two years I'm always trying to understand how to write well my questions.
Some of my Physics questions necessarily also require mathematical knowledge that I don't have at the moment and the ...
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No response to question
I recently asked a question which did not receive any attention at all (no comments or answers, just a like). What should I do?
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Why am I not allowed to ask a question? [duplicate]
I do not understand why should I be barred from asking questions despite having asked some question with very good reputations.
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What's required for the lifting of a temporary question ban?
Although it has been in place for more than a year, the only question ban I've encountered on any Stack Exchange site was a temporary one that would have supposedly allowed me to ask one more question ...
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What, really, is a good question?
So it seems like the general consensus of a "good" question is one that includes adequate research/reasoning to provide context for/justify the question being asked, and if applicable cites sources ...
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Asking about the origin of an equation?
Some grad colleagues in a local forum were asking about a certain system of equations of unknown origin, and I was wondering if I would be allowed to ask about it in the Physics Stack Exchange. My ...
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Banes and Boons of "extra" Bounties
In the past few weeks I have seen users placing "extra" bounties on questions with answers that are "exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty." While the said answers undoubtedly make some of the ...
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How to handle references to literature in predatory journals
Are questions or answers that cite, refer to or are based on work published in predatory journals (in the sense discussed here, here, or here) to be tolerated?
If no, how do we check if a journal is ...
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Where am I supposed ask questions regarding Physics education/research?
I asked this as a soft question How to explore Physics research as an undergraduate, keeping in mind the ever increasing weightage on publications?
I have explictly asked if this is the right place ...
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An Issue with Detecting Identical Titles
I was editing a question titled "newton's law of restitution" and I edited the title to "Newton's law of restitution" (There were latex issues in the body of the question and I was not editing the ...
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Data collection: When should (or shouldn't) we exclude questions from the Hot Network Questions list?
The SE team has made
several promising changes to the "Hot Network Questions" system.
If you have previously found HNQs to be problematic, you are invited to participate in the discussion ...
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Questions about statements in papers
I often read papers and am stuck on important statements/equations that are not satisfactorily explained to my understanding. Sometimes references are provided, but even then it's cumbersome to ...
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Which of several disagreeing answers to accept?
Last week, I asked a question about an everyday physical phenomenon (In aluminum, how does electricity travel through the surface oxide layer?). I was fortunate enough to get two answers and some ...
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Is it necessary to use heavy maths and math Jax?
Is use of high knowledge of maths in physics and heavy use of MathJax necessary to ask any questions, what if my question do not use heavy maths and do not sound complicatedly interesting like "...
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20 most viewed questions that need answers
Updated 8 Aug 2022
Here are 20 most viewed questions that need answers. Some of these questions may have answers with negative votes. Only questions with upvotes will be removed from this list. This ...
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I am not able to understand what should I do on this question to avoid it from being downvoted?
Please help me understanding about How I should improve my questions like this-
How does torque operate? What will be going on with disc?
from being downvoted?
I think I have given the specific ...
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Are questions regarding gravitational waves allowed? [closed]
A question I have is "We know gravitational waves exist, but how do we detect them?"
"I have heard astronomers talk about gravitational waves being created when two black holes collide or when two ...
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What can I do other than wait and edit questions if I am blocked from asking for a while?
I am at a road block because I have some questions with good answers and I don't want to delete them what else can I do?
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I am having trouble improving how my questions are received
Is there a way I can improve how my current questions are received because no matter what I do they get received worse? They don't even tell me what needs improvement.
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How can a question be marked as a duplicate if it's been asked **earlier** than a similar question?
This question has been asked 6 years and 10 months ago. How can it be a duplicate of this question, which has been asked 4 years and 4 months ago? Shouldn't the second be marked as a duplicate?
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Adding option to get notification when a "followed" question is answered [duplicate]
I have read this question about the feature request for adding an option to get a notification when a "followed" question gets answers posted to them.
The top answer seemed to indicate that such a ...
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Feature: Subscribing to Questions
It happens to me very often that I see an interesting question that I'd like to know the answer to. I'll favorite it but then never get notified if there is a change. It would be very nice to have a "...
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What are good examples of narrowing a homework question down to a conceptual question?
It is obvious that Physics SE community aren't here to solve specific physics problems. Homework policy, however, states that a question can be narrowed down to a conceptual question. To reinforce ...
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Is Vote to Close as Off-Topic an appropriate remedy for questions that are deemed too "populist"?
Background: There are users who have been using the privilege to vote to close a question as off-topic as a way of dealing with "populist" questions (see the discussion here) believing them to be "...
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Does math in my questions need to be in the form of MathJax?
I asked a question recently. With the question I included a picture of the question with my best handwriting. But received very harsh criticism from two users who insisted that the question be in ...
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Is the demise of Stack Exchange (as we know it) ineluctable?
I feel concerned about a thought that I had recently.
I am wondering if the current policy about duplicate questions may become problematic in the (very) long term for the health of Stack Exchange.
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What does conceptual mean?
I've told to come here by another user after my question was put on hold a few days ago for being "off-topic".
What does "conceptual" mean? It's a word I see floating around a lot on this site and it'...
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What to do if my question ban is not getting removed?
I have read on the Physics S.E website that users get a chance to ask question after 6 months of question ban
If you're unable to improve your existing questions, you'll get the chance to ask a new ...
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I need more light on the homework policy
Please, I need to know what is wrong if one posts their homework here and it is well formatted?
The actual thing is they might have tried solving before coming here in the case where they didn't ...
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Engineering, what does Phys.SE deem as not Physics?
Right so I posted a question about something (not really important because the response is the important part).
One of my responses (who I believe flagged the article) complained that it was not ...
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Not poorly received but still no answer: What can be done?
I asked the question Criterion for a Feynman loop diagram to give a finite value long back. Though it wasn't poorly received, I did not get an answer yet. What can I do to improve the question? Of ...
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Why I cannot ask question? [duplicate]
I cannot post a question anymore! What can I do to solve this problem? I think somebody did not like my questions and finally, a m... f... kills me. I do not have a lot of time. What can I do?
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Seeking attention towards the unanswered questions [duplicate]
Is there a way to re-iterate the attention of the readers towards my questions which remains unanswered for a long time? Can I ask them again?
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Why am I blocked from posting further questions?
As all community members know I am just a beginner of physics. Mistakes often happens from everyone. Why can't everyone give me a second chance to blot out my mistakes and this is how I can improve my ...
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How do I make these questions better?
I have been banned from Physics Stack Exchange, and I think it is mainly because of these two questions which were not received well. The thing is that for both these questions I have received hints ...
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Discouraging the use of textual screenshots in questions
[This was originally posted as an answer to another question and was transformed into a question following a comment to this effect.]
To discourage rapid postings of the type alluded to in another ...
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What to flag for "lack of basic research" questions? [duplicate]
There have been a variety of questions that shouldn't be allowed under current site rules because they are very clearly lacking basic research - 2 minutes on google would probably help them with their ...
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Users that post every question in their homework/exams
Everybody who's been here for a while knows that the homework policy is not as advertised.
If the exercise is sufficiently interesting, and the OP is sufficiently polite, the question often stays ...
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Which answer should we accept if multiple answers address the question?
If a question I asked gets answered by multiple users. And all of them solve the question satisfactorily, which answer should I accept?
Should it be the one that was posted first (first come first ...
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Answering own question: "work" of the question in own answer
After reading the links provided by the mods in a question I recently posted with an answer, I believe that my question conforms in spirit the criteria that the moderators have tried to infuse in our ...
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Rethinking the "too broad" criterion
I was sad this morning to see Gil Kalai's great question about the role of rigor closed for being too broad. I was even sadder this afternoon when Prof. Kalai's narrower follow-up question, was also ...
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Is it proper to ask about the preferrence of units?
I would like to seek an answer to the following question but am not sure if my question will be considered as off topic:
I read that bond angles are almost always measured in degrees instead of ...
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How to stop asking duplicate questions?
Whenever I ask a question that is found to be duplicate. If I search the question previously to make sure it was not asked before it does not appear as the language of me and the question is not the ...
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Duration between two questions which I can ask
How frequently I an ask a question? Stack exchange says we are no longer accepting questions from this account why?
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What does "protected by..." below a question mean?
I've noticed (already a long time ago) that below certain questions one can read **protected by...". I never quite well understood why this is written there. So my question is:
Why is the statement "...
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How does one know if his question is non-mainstream?
How can one know if his or her question is non-mainstream? Just by asking it? Or is it supposed that the one who asks knows that for him/herself?
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Is new physics a bad fit for Stack Exchange?
My interest is in new physics, from the point of view of propulsion, and experiments that can confirm or disprove related new hypotheses. New physics attracts people who want to casually speculate and ...
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After Three years I returned to stackexchange to ask one question and get question banned .......:p [duplicate]
After three years I returned to stackexchange to ask one question. Because it was not recieved well, I am now banned from asking with this account. Really? Three years on and there is no room for one ...
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A moderator understood and answered my question but put it was put on hold as unclear?
I asked this question Zero Radiation Nuclear Bomb Possible? and a moderator completely understood my question, provided an answer and mention he would like to see other answers, but it still got put ...
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Ping/Reference a user in the core text of a question
One more question. Is it OK to reference a particular user in the text of a question (right at the end of the post with an @), just to be sure that that user gets to read my question (he receives an ...
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