Questions tagged [support]
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Apparently incomplete support of mhchem on Physics
$\require{mhchem}$
Inspired by a question on chemistry.se (now closed, because it was a cross post from Phys.SE), I observe the mhchem extension can be used here provided the question/answer contains ...
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Trying to ping users in comments: @username disappears
Usually the site allows me to tag an individual member at the start of a comment by typing @username, but sometimes it does not recognise the name and the string beginning with @ is automatically ...
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How do I make png files display smaller?
I just submitted this question, and I don't like the way my .png image renders. I often make diagrams in questions and answers using Microsoft paint, which produces a .png. In Physics stack exchange ...
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Help finding a question about charged metal block expanding in volume
Either myself or someone else had asked a question here about how the volume of a metal block changes as it becomes positively charged (extracting electrons).
Going through my question history I ...
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Mainstream Physics: Unconfirmed Particles
Asking regarding potential questions I might pose soon. While asking a well formulated question about tachyons in special relativity is allowed (as I did last week), I’m wondering how far that goes.
I’...
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How can I know which is the oldest tag of Physics Stack Exchange?
How can I know which is the oldest tag of Physics Stack Exchange?
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How can arrows connecting verbiage in an incorrect sequence to diagrams be edited?
In posts on a PSE Q&A, I found two diagrams in this answer, each connected to verbiage by arrows in a sequence that conflicts with information in a more recent NASA video. As my experience ...
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What is this question lacking?
Consider this question:
I have been thinking about the idea of illusionary current. Consider the following situation
I have a rod which has a mass $m$ and hence does have the virtue to perform work ...
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Why haven’t I got this badge yet?
I have gotten 30 of the required 30 days with well received questions required to get inquisitive and yet I’ve not been awarded the badge, why is this?
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Question disappeared
Yesterday I took sometime to try to understand a mix up of duplicates, due to a user submitting three times a question, and flagged it for a moderator.
This morning all three questions have ...
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How is my question off topic when I'm asking what would be the outcome of a particular experiment and what would the results mean?
My question here was recently closed marked as off topic and not main stream physics and serially downvoted with no one even understanding the question in my opinion.
I don't think this is fair.
I ...
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Is this "serial downvoting"?
I'm just now looking at my recent reputation changes and I see eight downvotes on various different answers I posted over seemingly one single day.
I'm wondering if this is serial downvoting by a ...
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Why does my question need 'details or clarity?'
I asked this question, which is simply about how an outside observer would observe an in falling object into a black hole. The question is simple and clear: Due to the slowing of time as the event ...
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What is the proper way to make a community wiki at physics.stackexchange?
So I posted this: A List of Divergent Series and Where they appear in Physics?
And I want it to be a community wiki not a standard Q&A question.
The process here appears to be done on the ...
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Why are all questions given a tag homework and exercise and then closed?
Recently, I wrote a question (you can see here). Which doesn't involve finding the value of an expression, nor a difficult calculation.
The first thing: This should not be considered a "homework ...
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The h Bar is always open! (Chat Guidelines)
The main chat room for Physics SE is called the h Bar (yeah, it's a cool name); it has been an active place for a while now, and a lot of you have probably popped in at some point of time. However, ...
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MathJax does not show the equations properly
I tried to answer a question and in the edit mode MathJax shows the equations properly, but when I click on "save" some equations are not rendered (?) at all, and I see only the MathJax code....
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I can't ask questions even if there are only 2 questions with negative points, why?
I have been actively asking and answering but now it seems like just because of some negative votes I am unable to ask questions, and downvotes don't even leave the comments.
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Why downvotes on three separate answers in a short amount of time, two times?
It seems that someone doesn't like me, for whatever reason, because three answers of mine have been downvoted in less than one minute the Mar 19 at 8:45 (votes corrected now):
Can black holes ...
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I want to ask a question that is similar, but not identical, to an existing one
I would like to know why hot air holds more water vapor. There is this question:
Why does hot air contain more water?
But I would like a more quantitative explanation. Ideally, an explanation based on,...
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Question about the underlying concepts that will validate the existing answers
Courtesy link: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/441290/
That question above was closed as needing more focus after the question already had an answer. I had to edit the question so that ...
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Question still attracting downvotes
It is the same question which I have mentioned at On-topic question about wavelengths. It took several edits for the question to be reopened. Yet, my question has 6 downvotes and 1 upvote. Apart from ...
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On-topic question about wavelengths
I made several edits to a question about wavelengths. Each version of this question was marked as off-topic. Since I cannot post new question on the Physics site, I need to work on improving my ...
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Why was this question deleted despite having no issues as far as I can see?
Some days ago someone asked a question which was genuine. I don't know, but why was it deleted?
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Who or what closes questions here on the Physics Stack Exchange site?
Who or what closes questions here on the Physics Stack Exchange site?
None of my questions are "homework" questions, and I wish whoever closes them would actually "read them more ...
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Meta question displays differently in Home and Questions
On the Home page of Physics Meta, the question “Why can I still no longer ask questions?” is attributed to user250478, but on the Questions page it is attributed to a user who uses his name. Why do ...
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Can a question be closed if it exists on another Stack Exchange site?
Can a question be closed or called a duplicate if it has already been asked with or without answers on another Stack Exchange site?
Since many topics of physics and biology tend to intersect with ...
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Is there a way to search for downvoted or negative questions to answer?
Questions with negative votes are generally not displayed at the top and are sometimes hidden.
Is there a way to specifically look up for negative voted or inactive questions on the site?
The ...
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I don't know how to be on-topic
I asked this question that got closed as off-topic and I don't know what makes it on-topic.
Clicking on one of the links takes me to a page that says "A homework question is any question whose ...
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Getting Copy of Deleted Answer
There was an answer on this question that I thought was really helpful.
In fact, I really need the references provided in that answer, but I don't have enough rep to view deleted answers.
Would ...
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How do I get the reviewers to provide more informative comments on question closure?
My question has been closed with the comment that it is a "homework-like" or "check my work" question. I have read the posts recommended by the reviewers to address the issues and ...
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Possibility to protect question even when closed?
This PSE question is now closed for being a duplicate. This means that no one (less than 10k rep?/no unprotect priv.) can answer. The purpose of "protect question" is to "Protect this ...
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What is the distribution of phone users vs question score?
I'm frequently visiting the physics Stack Exchange site via my phone and sometimes I ask a question too.
While by design the phone is not optimal for asking a question as compared to a laptop or PC. I'...
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What does it take for a user to get an answer ban?
There is a user who has answered almost 90 questions and gotten, if I added correctly, a net -76 votes. The range of net votes on individual answers is from -9 to +1. This indicates to me that this ...
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This is a sandbox
This is a sandbox
You can use this question as a formatting sandbox (if you can edit CW questions), and you can post answers if you want to test out formatting there as well.
NB: It's hard not to ...
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Flag declined even thought it was (possibly) correct
I've flagged this post with the 'other' option for flags, and described it as 'Homework question'. The post was closed as a homework question, and my flag was declined. The justification was that I ...
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Trying to upload images I get
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
Whether the image is shown in diminution on the left or not, and whether it's is JPEG or PNG.
What is up?
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My posts downvoted
I am autistic. It's easy for the physics Stack Exchange team to say I need to amend, so I'm learning as I go.
One criticism was that a poster couldn't understand a question. I showed them the ...
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Why do equations display weirdly on my computer?
When I open a link on Stack Exchange, the math equations just can't show correctly. How do I fix it? (I've tried reinstalling Chrome, but it wouldn't work. But things go well in the Edge browser.)
For ...
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How do you trace posts from inactive members?
I read an interesting post by post by user # xyxy. I tried to reach other posts by the same author, searching by user:xyxy, but I didn't get any returns, since the account has been deleted. Is it ...
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Upvote not reflecting in reputation points?
So I asked a question and got an upvote on it but it's not reflecting in my reputation. Why is that? Is it a bug?
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A question on having my questions closed
How exactly does having a question that I posted being closed, affect me? Does it increase the chance that I'll be banned?
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Avoid display of closed questions
I routinely check for new questions with tags I follow, using https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged?tab=Newest&tagMode=Watched. Given my Watched tags, that list often is clogged with ...
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If I set bounties do I lose privileges?
When I set a bounty, I lose my reputation to someone else.
But
If I lose my reputation because of a bounty, will it be the same as losing reputation because of downvotes, bad questions etc.
I mean ...
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Who has the power to delete comments?
Today I commented to this question because it had "particle" in the tags, which I edited out and left a comment to that effect. Of course the revised final does not have "particle" ...
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Further clarification needed on someone else's question
I was trying to understand the Doppler effect across different mediums on the SE site and came across the question Doppler Effect and change in medium.
Though it's a homework question, I was ...
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(How) Should I move a question from Math SE to Physics SE?
I asked a math question https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4475036/342834 in an area where physicists are likely to have a great deal of practical background. I had originally intended to post the ...
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Why does the font size appear different for this question?
I saw a question on the Newest Questions page (the 3rd question in the image below) whose title and body were rendered in a smaller font compared to other questions.
Here : https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
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Questions being responded to negatively
I know that there are some similar questions like this one, but I have a genuine concern. For example, the question A puzzling simple question on thermodynamics or another I had deleted.
Apparently ...
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Why is the most voted question "how to cool my coffee with a spoon"?
From Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon
What is the fastest method to cool a cup of coffee, if your only available instrument is a spoon?
This is the most successful question in this SE. ...
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