Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Is non-mainstream physics appropriate for this site?
Is non-mainstream physics allowed here?
What defines non-mainstream physics?
What sort of questions and answers are disallowed by this policy?
What should I do if I see a question or answer containing ...
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FAQ for Physics Stack Exchange
Frequently Asked Questions
This thread is an index of Frequently Asked Questions, and other resources, for Physics Stack Exchange.
General questions about Stack Exchange
For general questions about ...
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Is there a standard place to point people to learn how to typeset their equations?
I've seen a number of questions in which the moderators change html equations into LaTeX, or else people writing in the comments that the site supports LaTeX. Do we have a standard place where we can ...
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Which flag do I use for an inappropriate post?
Other than off topic flags, there are several different types of flags that one can cast on a question, answer, or comment. What are each of these flags for?
Question and answer flags:
spam
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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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Using Comments as Answers
An answer is placed in the comment box on your question and it would make an answer. As long as you quote it is it OK to use it?
See Comments at this question for example.
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user was removed
When does that happen?
I found a 4+ in my sum and tried to see for what, and got "user was removed" instead of a link to the question.
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Is it possible to explain how to use LaTeX in questions / answers in the "How to format" help box?
After a bit of time using the site I can see people using lots of nice equations. But there's nothing in the "How to format" help box (or in the "full reference >>" link) saying how to do this.
I got ...
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How to quit physics.stackexchange.com completely?
I was wondering how to completely leave this community. Please guide me. I have gone through FAQ section but of no use.
What should I do ?
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Full migration of Theoretical Physics SE questions to Physics SE
The younger brother "Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange" will abolished in a week or so,
http://meta.theoreticalphysics.stackexchange.com/questions/245/theoretical-physics-is-closing
due to the ...
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Why am I in risk of a questions ban after one duplicate and one closed question?
A moment ago, I wanted to ask a question on this SE about the amount of energy in human blood, but it warned me that I'm in risk of no longer being able to ask questions on this account due to a large ...
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What is threshold to get ban on asking questions?
I have been registered with Physics SE for almost two months, I am not a physicist (programmer) and here not to get my homework done, but more of curious person. I have asked 8 questions so far, 3 ...
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What is the mark "favorite question" for?
"This is a favorite question (click again to undo)"
is what you get if you position the mouse pointer on that star that appears besides each question.
What effect does that star have?
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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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Latex/MathJax question: How to number equations?
Is it possible to number equations when posting questions at physics stack exchange, or any other stack exchange site enabled with MathJax?
I have tried ...
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Very minor edits, e.g. punctuation
Is there going to be a way for me to make a very minor edit, e.g. punctuation, without pushing the question to the top of the activity date sort?
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What would be the best and worst time to ask questions on Physics Stack Exchange?
Perhaps somebody may know the time (of a specific timezone) where most people are online and offline.
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Does minimum rep to answer protected question includes association points?
When I visit this question,
How do I explain to a six year old why people on the other side of the Earth don't fall off?
, I see this message:
protected by dmckee♦ 2 days ago
This question is ...
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Down-voting and no comments
In these sites, down-voting has become a passion to prove intelligence. Yesterday, I got two upvoted answers downvoted simultaneously (Someone has down-voted both within 1 min). I think they're too ...
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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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Physics SE should emphasis on problem solving
I observed math SE is more active than physics SE. They don't close problems. I think Physics SE should encourage problem solving. Moderator should not close homework problem. This will help community ...
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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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New site proposal specifically for problem solving in Physics on Area 51
"Physics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for active researchers, academics and students of physics."
At present Physics Stack Exchange is more inclined towards answering specific ...
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What is the Latex and MathJax, how can I write beautiful formulas in my posts?
I get regularly the feedback in comments to use Latex or MathJax. Also I would write beautiful formulas what I can do only on pen & paper. Where can I get info about these?
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Flags marked "helpful" but question not closed?
I have noticed that often, when I flag questions, they are marked as "helpful", but the question never gets closed, nor does it get any "vote to close" from those with >3k rep. Some examples:
Total ...
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What does "temporarily deleted" mean?
I can't find in the help, or by googling, the meaning of "temporarily deleting" from a comment
I'm temporarily deleting this in accordance with our homework policy. Please don't post complete ...
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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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Is it inappropriate behaviour to post links?
preamble:- This is not related to my 1-year suspension which just expired, I understand the reasons for that, because my comments were really spam (because I posted links to PO threads before they ...
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What does the "disputed" status of a flag mean?
What does the "disputed" status of a flag mean? E.g.
Does it mean that the moderators couldn't decide whether the flag should be accepted or declined ? .
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Why was I blocked from asking a question despite recently having only positive answer and question reactions?
In my early days of using Physics Stack Exchange, I had no idea how the website worked and admittedly didn't do my research. And I'm talking about one question.
I've asked only 6 questions - two with ...
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I am being serial downvoted or something else
How does one know if you are being serial down voted? How do you reverse it and stop them from voting on your stuff in the future?
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What is the policy for linking? E.g.: Why should we link to abstract pages rather than pdf files? How do we cite arXiv preprints?
As a comment to one of my contributions, I received the comment:
In the future please link to abstract pages rather than pdf files.
Fine. I am happy to follow up on this suggestion.
Can anybody ...
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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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How can I cite a question in SE?
Is there a way to cite a StackExchange question, in a way similar to arXiv.org for instance ?
For arXiv, I can just write arXiv:1303.6666 for the article at link http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6666 and ...
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Can I create two accounts?
In physics forums, I created two accounts (actually for myself, for not being able to change my photograph), then I was suspended from the site. Now, as my sister is forcing me to create an account ...
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How to input using Latex? [duplicate]
I just found this site today and I asked a few questions but I didn't know how to use the latex syntax, so my questions were difficult to understand. Can anyone tell me how to use this Latex program? ...
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What is the function of `cite` below each question & answer?
I, today, saw one new thing below my question cite . I pressed it & this appeared:
Example citation:
user36790 (https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/...
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Question appears "blue"?
Some questions are appearing on the main page with a blue background - what does this mean?
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Are technically wrong answers and comments allowed on physics.SE?
I flagged some comments and answers as technically wrong but these flags were declined and moderator's reply was:"flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong ...
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When is asking a duplicate ok?
This question: Kinetic theory derivation of viscosity of a gas has an accepted answer. That answer, however, does not contain the amount of detail that I want for a specific part of the question. I ...
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How to find all the comments written by some user?
Some users have excellent answers and one likes to look for all their answers about any question they replied to. That is easy, but sometimes their answers is in form of comments, or sometimes they ...
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\oiint doesn't seem to work
Today as I was answering a question I noticed that $\oiint$ doesn't work in Physics SE. Is it some kind of a bug or am I missing something obvious?
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Is there some kind of bug preventing me from receiving the "Curious" badge?
According to this I have 17/5 for the Curious badge. So I have effectively 'earned' this badge more than 3 times over. So why haven't I received it yet? I have maintained a positive question record so ...
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When are next moderator elections?
When are next moderator elections?
How many moderator positions will be available?
When does the current moderators' term of office conclude?
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Can a question with an upvoted answer be deleted?
In discussion on another question there was some disagreement over whether a question can be deleted by regular users if it has an upvoted answer. (Here we are talking neither about deletion by the OP ...
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Is it possible to follow a user on Stack Exchange?
If I like the answers posted by a user on Stack Exchange, is there a way to follow the user? like for example, set an alert so that whenever he asks a question or replies to a question, it is notified ...
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Incorrect reputation being displayed
Please don't mistake me as crazy. I was just wondering if other users have seen about this case...
At the start (for a day), I had 2980 rep. I just returned now, answered a question here. The user up-...
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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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What should I do if my answer to a question has a downvote for no reason defined?
What should I do if my answer to a question has a downvote for no reason defined?
I do agree if there is maybe some mistake in my answer but I am not able to find. Then, yes. I agree with the downvote....
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