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How I learned to stop worrying and start asking questions
As has been noted in the past, particularly in Question self-destruction: why don't experts ask more questions? and in Does reputation correlate with the question-to-answer ratio?, and also here, this ...
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How to provide working for the question if we don't even know how to proceed in a question?
Most of the time when people ask Homework Related questions they are put on hold.They ask for our work on the question.
Sometimes we all face the situation that we don't even know how to proceed ...
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Please down vote questions carefully
First, valid points are made in both Down-voting questions: Please state your rationale and Snobs and down-voters. That is, we need down votes because they discourage poor posts. And it is helpful to ...
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How to reformulate a question?
If a better formulation for a question is reached should the question be deleted and asked again together with copying the already given answers or just edited?
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Answering "Homework-Like" Questions With Hints
It occurred to me today that I don't know what a good approach is for providing hints to homework-like questions.
I cannot find any clear policy on how this should work. The example that brought it ...
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Unclear What You're Asking
I recently posted a question closely related to (but not identical to) this one. I promise not to continue posting variants.
That said: I have just voted to close this question as "unclear what ...
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Physics Stackexchange rules?
From help pages:
"If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here. However, if your motivation is “I ...
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A way to mark questions as non-duplicates?
I'm new to SE but practically every day I come across constructive, thought-out questions that are very quickly marked as duplicates -- while a simple comparison with the alleged duplicate shows very ...
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Asking and answering questions in another language than English
I will start by referring to a question on MSE (Math Stack Exchange) (this) and an answer on Physics Stack Exchange Meta (this). Let me cite the questioner on MSE:
Imagine I want to ask an extremely ...
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Ways of promoting questions on PhysicsStackExchange
Is there way of promoting our questions to seek attention without bounties?
I have seen people changing titles, keeping weird and strange titles ("The dark black holes"), sometimes even challenging ...
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Bounty going to waste - what should I do?
I recently put a bounty on a question, but still no one is answering it. When the bounty period ends, will the bounty just go to waste? If no one is answering I would prefer to just answer the ...
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Why do I get the "Bad question warning" when first posting here? [duplicate]
I was going to post a question and I got the "bad question ban" warning. I have searched my previous posts and it turns out I have never posted anything on this SE - could one of the moderators please ...
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Downvote of newcomers with less than 100 points
There was a small dispute about the downvote of newcomers with less than 110 point:
...the SE is supported by only a view enthusiasts. And they are doing this very well. But how to grow up more ...
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Does questions pertaining the depiction of dimensionally abnormal space belong here?
I want to ask a question along the lines of "What would we see if there are four accessible spatial dimensions, and we are 'lifted up' then rotated in the fourth axis?" It will be hard to explain/...
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Will I still get banned?
I have 2 questions with one upvote, 3 ques with 2 upvotes and other one with 2 downvotes. Will I get banned if a question I post next is of low quality?
P.S.: I got banned yesterday but the ban was ...
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Why is there so little answering of elementary physics questions?
I have begun to notice that it's nearly impossible to get answers for queries on classical mechanics concepts on this website (despite them involving advanced ideas). While say a quantum mechanics ...
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Why can't I post something on Physics Exchange for 2 days?
Why can't I do it? It's stupid, I want to ask more questions!
And why can't it be for only about 4 hours?
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productivity and self improvement questions
You can ask productivity and self improvement questions related to programming or computers on software engineering stack exchange .
See for example this question ,
https://softwareengineering....
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How broad can a resource-recommendation question be? [duplicate]
I am looking for text books of the same style as 'Nuclear and Particle Physics' by W.S.C.Williams - that is, with clearly labeled definitions and sections of concise explanation. However, I am looking ...
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Can a new physical science SE for beginners in physics be created?
Can a simple physics SE be designed for people who have little or no training who are enthusiasts none the less? That way moderators can instant migrate lessor questions there instead of instant close?...
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Remind users to do basic research before asking questions
While any of us can need an explanation of some concept we need to get clear in our minds and can't quite grasp, it does seem sometimes that even the most basic step is sometimes lacking.
Could/...
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Is PSE getting "flash mob" questions?
In the past couple of days (Jan 1 & 2, 2017), there have been questions asked that have received over 20 votes and over 2000 views. Answers have received dozens of upvotes. Look here and here.
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How to handle questions about "physical meaning"?
I'm sorta new here, so this may already have a standard procedure, but I haven't found it anywhere if it exists. Anyway, I've been seeing a lot of questions along the lines of:
"What is the physical ...
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Could StackExchange serve as a resource for the physics subject GRE?
I recently went trough the marginally pleasant experience of having to take both the general and the physics subject GRE tests in order to apply to graduate programs in the US.
I prepared exclusively ...
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Homework policy
My main issue with how the site deals with 'homework questions' is about assumptions. I am an A level physics student and I never ask homework questions on this site. However I will ask questions ...
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No answers - What else further can I do to encourage someone to answer?
No answers - is this question too hard? I don't think that this question is too hard actually. There must be some way to solve this and I know there are plenty of people here with a solid background ...
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Math and engineering questions: where do we draw the line?
I was reading through some old meta discussions recently, and I was interested in some of the points made, but they never quite seemed to be implemented or discussed further. They also seemed to be ...
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Killing the wrong node in a question's logical chain
I noticed a question on which an interesting misunderstanding lead to inappropriate closure.
For the moment, let's think of a question as a chain of proposals linked together through reasoning.
Only ...
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How does a simple question get put hold for being unclear?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/277688/space-elevator-solved
I don't understand what is unclear about this question?
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Policy on asking questions in physics [duplicate]
In the stack overflow site where people post questions on programming, it makes sense to have a policy where the question asked should state the efforts made by the asker to solve the problem and the ...
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Mistaken block on asking questions
The site says we are no longer accepting questions from this account when I try to submit a question in physics section. I don't even have a bad reputation. All I asked was one single question which ...
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The fine line between astronomy and physics [duplicate]
So, a few questions recently came up on the feed:
What is Venus's core made of?
How can core of Mercury be a molten liquid?
They made me wonder: when does something belong on the astronomy.SE ...
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Re-asking a Duplicate Question
What should I do if I want to ask a question which has already been asked but does not have satisfactory answers? How can I make the older question active again, or re-ask the question without it ...
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Very Naive Questions
I am troubled by the comments on this question and many others like it. The (obviously very naive) questioner posits a physically impossible situation (often FTL travel as in this case, but there are ...
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Why can't a question be deleted with answers which are not upvoted or accepted?
If you want to delete a question with an answer, you have an option to delete that question. But when you have made that option to delete the question it seems not possible. Is that a mistake of this ...
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Should history of physics questions be on topic?
When we last visited the issue of history questions, the dedicated History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange was in its early stages. At that time, we decided against closing questions for ...
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Few questions by medium and high reputation participants - EDITED: how to get more? [duplicate]
EDITED after the question was marked as a possible duplicate: I don't think that all items noted in the comments were part of answers before, not fully developed and explained, and which could be ...
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Why close list-based questions?
I'm confused about the rationale behind closing list-based questions. The problem is that almost any question can be rephrased into a list question, and vice versa. Consider the following examples:
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I need to know if I can ask some homework problems on here?
This is my first post. I need to know if I can ask some homework problems on here? Not full problems but after I provide my attempt at the problem.
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Encouraging users to read the full question
Sometimes on my own questions and other people's questions, I see users posting very useless comments that just show they only read the title of the question, and blazed through the specifics ...
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Engineering questions and answers that are closely related to Physics
I found an old question asked 5 years ago. How much power to keep surface of aluminum plate at given temperature?. How do I answer this in a physics kind of way?
This is my original answer:
By ...
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How to delete my question?
I want to delete my question.
But i am not able to delete it? How to do that?
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Canonical question for two masses falling in Newtonian gravity
Some variation of this question gets asked a lot:
We have 2 point masses, $m$ and $M$ in a perfect world separated by radius $r$. Starting from rest, they both begin to accelerate towards each ...
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Poor reception of 'why' questions
Several times, I've seen 'why' questions dismissed unfairly when a better answer could be given, because of a kneejerk reaction that a 'why' question can never have an answer, because physics is built ...
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What is the procedure if your question is answered in a comment? [duplicate]
One of my questions got answered in a comment. What do I do? I could formulate it into an answer myself and write that down, or should I just leave it? Maybe delete the question even?
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Why can't I ask hypothetical questions?
Why can't I ask hypothetical questions about situations that can't happen in the first place, if I'm interested in the resulting phenomena and/or said situation will cause?
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Questions regarding the proof of a physical identity
Is it really on topic to ask questions regarding an exact proof/how to approach the proof of a particular identity, or a physical equation?
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What is the reason that there are so many questions at this stack (physics) comparing to the others?
As far as I know on this physics stack are far more questions posted than other stacks. But why is that. I can't imagine that a study of biology, chemistry or history etc. would comprise less detailed ...
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It is on-topic to ask about computer software useful to do some particular task?
I want to plot some phase diagrams that look professional (Example). I don't really know what tools are usually used to do this kind of diagrams, I've been looking around and found some alternative ...
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