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Why my question is put on hold?
I've posted one question here Please guide me. This question is related to electrical self energy from electrostatic but it was put on hold because it was a homework question. So I edited it following ...
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No comment to a deleted question [duplicate]
As I noticed just know the question Intrinsic spin and magnetic dipole moment of electrons bounded to the nucleus was deleted. This seems to be a not so often carried out procedure.
Is there an ...
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Homework Policy and what justifies closure
Reading through questions on the Q&A Stackexchange, I came across this Question regarding rotational mechanics. I'd been confused a few other times in the past by homework closures and had come to ...
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Asking for an upvote to my *correct* answer to a 5-year-old question
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Why would colder air disperse condensation on a car windshield?
Would a friendly moderator or two consider upvoting it? The previous answers ...
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Why is my question on hold, flagged as homework and why the downvote?
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Shankar Quantum Mechanics: Proof Inverse Of Operators
Hi!
I don't get why my question was flagged as homework plus a down-vote. It is not ...
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Should posts targetted at different complexity levels be marked as duplicate?
The question "What books an undergraduate needs to study to get a clear conception of rotational physics?" has been marked as a duplicate of "What are some good books for learning the concepts of ...
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What's wrong with my post?
I posted this
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/303764/95563
And it was put on hold, then I added more info and explained that this is my attempt to a solution, but I got no answer and it's still ...
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Why was this question deleted? [duplicate]
I noticed that a question (see below) I asked a while back was deleted without a trace or any notification.
I don't have an issue with downvotes and closing. The question is admittedly fairly ...
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Downvotes without explanation
Recently I have posted the question Einstein-Hilbert action as an effective field theory.
I have received a lot of downvotes and it's ok because it was unclear: in order to repair I tried to close it ...
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Can anyone please re-examine this question?
Can people please reopen this question.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/290723/
Or can they give me a reason as to why it is an off-topic question?
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How to ask a practice book question and apology?
I wanted to know how to ask the question from my practice book
I add the homework tag and obviously I myself want to know only the concept part and I also give information about what I did and how I ...
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Why was my question closed as too broad?
My question Evidence indicating that CO2 is responsible for Global warming was closed as being too broad.
There are many research papers on the topic, however it is a very specific question. If you ...
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Should this "homework-like" question about the AKLT Hamiltonian be reopened, or remain deleted?
It's been suggested via a flag that this question, which was deleted by Community after being closed for ten days, has value to other users asking similar questions.
I personally don't understand the ...
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Please re-examine this question
I'd like to strongly suggest the Phys.SE community to carefully re-examine the following question and the reasons it was put on hold or regarded as not a good enough question:
Finding the period of ...
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Was this plagiarism flag correctly handled?
In a recent question, a user complained that one of their answers (10k+ link at the moment; screenshot answer now undeleted, see the answer timeline for more details) was unfairly flagged as ...
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I don't understand what is "unclear" with my question
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Possible reactionless drive
My question is [on hold] as "unclear what you're asking".
From my analysis the system should work and start to ...
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Repeating question
New user here.
I asked this question a few days back. (first post)
Relative motion-Acceleration
And i did not get a satisfactory answer for the above question.
so I framed my question better this ...
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How are these two questions duplicates?
I recently saw that this question has been closed as a duplicate, and I couldn't disagree more, but for some reason it has passed review with a Leave Closed outcome.
The currently-closed question ...
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Put on hold and rephrasing the question
OK - so I rephrase the question to highlight the physics content as suggested and... zilch. It still stays on hold.
So the only option appears to be to re-post the revised question under a different ...
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Why was this question closed as "non-mainstream" when it asked about mainstream physics?
Is this an adequate resolution of the "paradox" of the arrow of time?
This question was closed on the grounds that it is not "mainstream physics", and I was referred to this page. That ...
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A question put on hold one and half years after it was asked
A question was asked by someone in March 2015. It had 4 answers.
I added a (fifth) answer on 26th Sep, 2016 (18 months later) and the question was put on hold the next day.
Can someone please ...
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Why was my question closed as off-topic?
I recently asked a question about a real phenomenon I saw at the end of a documentary, I can't help that at the time the only thing I could find on it was at the end of this documentary which isn't ...
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Very disappointed by my experiment on this site
I am very disappointed by my experiment on this site. Four days ago, I posted this question:
Numerical simulation of the double-slit experiment including watching the electrons .
After less that 24 ...
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Question deleted?!1234567890
what the hell?! I had a Phys.SE question about regularization that had a beautiful answer by a kind user named tparker and a moderator migrated it to Math.SE!
It was a question about quantum field ...
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Is this considered bad attitude?
In my post Imagine I'm on a spacecraft that was accelerated to 1.0$c$ could I only move backwards?, I asked something that came into my mind and I wasn't able to find an answer for it here.
After ...
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How can I revise my 'running in zigzag' question to be on topic?
I posted this question.
Is running in a zigzag helpful in avoiding being shot by an arrow?
It has at least 7 upvotes, and the answer has at least 6 upvotes. I want to give the answerer a bounty.
I ...
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Why are all my edits to a certain question being rejected?
There's currently an unanswered question with typographical and grammatical errors, which I've been prevented from edited in any way, shape, or form.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Is this question too broad?
Can you deduce absolute motion through magnetism
I loved above question. All my doubts at one place.
But is it too broad?
It seems to ask a lot.
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Why is this question about measurement off-topic?
The question Reliable length scales in nature has been received very poorly, for reasons I don't really understand. In the help center, it is stated that questions concerning "Experimental designs ...
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How to get explanation why question is unclear?
I have had a big problem over many months with a question. I try to tell the story as factually as possible. Help is appreciated. Here we go...
I asked a question on Jan 27 at 14:29.
It was closed ...
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How can I reopen it?
What will be final velocity of three charges $q$, $q$, $2q$?
How can I reopen it? All concepts come out from questions. If I know how to solve it, I would know concept automatically.
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Is this question about the meaning of derivations on topic?
Are derivations of physical laws less important than the laws themselves?
This question is attracting a lot of attention, but there is a significant disagreement about whether it's on topic. I want ...
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Why was my question, on dynamics demonstrations videos, closed?
It's a resource request. For questions and comments see:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/177194/75644
And if it's not appropriate for this forum then the question is :
Where on the internet can ...
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How can I improve a specific question which has been closed for being "homework-like, and not showing enough effort"?
The question in question: What parameters control the amount of thermal energy an object must possess for it to be detectable in space?'
It was not a homework question, and I do not know enough ...
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The 'populist' badge
Can someone explain exactly when this badge is awarded?
Highest scoring answer (a) that outscored an accepted answer (A) with score of
more than 10 by more than 2x
I understand that (being a the ...
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Off topic review: How to feed a small black hole against 1 TW Hawking radiation pressure?
My question was put on hold and closed:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/140955/
Reason given was: "We deal with mainstream physics here. Questions about the general correctness of unpublished ...
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Why shouldn't a question be on hold? (no, really, I'm curious)
A little while ago this question was posted to Meta, highlighting an apparent inconsistency between the handling of these two main site questions:
(A) How is the method of Lagrange multipliers used ...
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Books for fractals in physics - question undelete
I recently found this question
Fractals in physics. Suggest book titles
which is currently deleted (screenshot). I'm not sure it's a great question but it seems to matter to some people. When it ...
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Why this question is closed?
Why this question is closed?
How does Spacetime interval emerge from Strings theory
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Request for further clarification on question on hold
This question was put on hold recently (and answered in the comments).
I do not question the decision but would appreciate further guidance about the particular reason so I can adjust future ...
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Why were well-known, valid solutions of the GR "off-topic" or "non-mainstream"? (suggestion)
I've found multiple times the closing of questions about the topic of general relativity/solutions of the einstein field equations. Examples are here and here. These judgement was: "not mainstream".
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How much time will it take to review ON HOLD questions?
I have asked a question before 3 days and it was put on hold. After that i have done all the required editing in the question and also put the comment but till now it haven't been reviewed.
I think ...
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Why was this question hated by the community?
I was digging into my old posts to see if I could improve them. There was a question:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/82449/.
Though it is deleted but the high rep users might be able to read ...
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How can I make my question On topic? 2
I asked a question about the relation between mathematics and physics a few days ago: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109506/a-relation-between-the-law-of-multiplication-with-average-...
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Why is this question downvoted too much?
This question:Why does a bicycle come to rest after travelling a distance? has been downvoted too much. Why is it so.
IMO OP seems to know that there should be some force which brings the bicycle ...
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Marked as duplicate when it is not a duplicate
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/107091/soft-question-the-best-way-to-learn-physics-road-map was marked as a duplicate to How to learn physics effectively and efficiently when I have ...
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Should my question really be on hold?
I posted this question:
Where do these formulas for an object being pushed up an incline come from?
I think I showed enough effort, I am not asking someone to do my homework, I am not asking someone ...
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Yet another quantum-entanglement-gives-faster-than-light-communication question
I recently misread this question and wrote a nice answer for what turned out not to be the question at all. I then proceeded to look quite carefully for the question I had actually answered, and I ...
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How can I make my question On topic?
I asked this question Effects of microwaves on optical properties of human eye a few days ago. I really asked some offtopic things but now i've edited it appropriately. But it is still closed.
So ...
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Should this question be on hold?
Which component shows spin squeezing under twisting Hamiltonian?
There is a contentious debate emerging about whether this question, currently at revision 5, should be open or not. Standard practice ...
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