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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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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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What if we clean several shopping questions..?
Today, I accidentally went through the questions under telescopes tag and all questions confused me totally. Looks like, there are many questions that seem to me like off-topic. I've listed several ...
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Problem in viewing MathJax formatted writing in smartphone
I access this site using Chrome from myou smartphone. Recently, the MathJax formatted writings appear overlapped, for example in the following answer:
What could be the reason for this?
Update: ...
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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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Opera browser blocks log in Physics Stack Exchange - HSTS issue
I have difficulties to log in the Physics Stack Exchange site via the Opera browser. It says:
Your connection is not private
This server could not prove that it is physics.stackexchange.com; its ...
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What should I flag as duplicate? New question or old question?
Someone asked this question: Why linear displacement is length of the arc? which is similar to this question: Confused about linear displacement in circular motion. The second question has been ...
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Why are my upvotes displaced?
I wanted to upvote this answer and so I did. However, half an hour later the upvote was registered to this answer. I upvoted the intended answer again. Then this appeared, suggesting I upvoted yet ...
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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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User name disappeared
Consider:
Until yesterday, my username was visible in this circle. But now it does not seem to be there. So I have to search my name under the 'users' section to go to my profile. Am I the only one ...
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Please reopen my question about a physical limit
I asked this question about what it is (if anything) that provides and upper limit to the speed of a turbine in a fluid stream: Maximum rotation rate of a turbine in a fluid with a given speed
It was ...
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Can't logout from Stack Exchange
I am unable to log out from Stack Exchange in my browser, in both PC and mobile. After logging out, when I open the site again it appears as I am already logged in. I have not enabled the remembering ...
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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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Views for a question
If a person opens a particular question more than once, are the views incremented just once or multiple times?
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What does the question count include?
At the time of writing this there where 64,202 questions according to the figure given on the questions-newest tab. What does this number represent, is it the total number of questions on the website, ...
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What happens after death?
What will happen with my SE account after my death? Is there something that eg. warn foture users not to try contact with me, because I'm dead? Would my account be deleted for preserving servers ...
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Can not find edit request that I had skipped
I "skipped" a proposed edit in the review on https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/107909/42975 because I was editing myself quite a lot.
Now, I want to manually apply the useful fixes from it, but can ...
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Does anybody experience freezing and chrashing of browser while on SE?
I'm using Chrome (Version 29.0.1547.76 m), and lately whether I'm on physics.stackexchange, or on mathematica.stackexchange, when I'm writing a long question, usually with a lot of equations in latex, ...
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Editing tags not allowed because not 6 characters?
I was trying to edit the post "Big Bang Anybody?" by adding a popular-science tag to it.. While until now, even if I didn't edit the body of the post, I could still edit the tags. However, it seems ...
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Edit Suggestion disappeared
An hour or so ago I suggested an edit for this question about heat-conductance in diamonds. When I now browse to said question, I don’t see the block ‘your edit is being reviewed’ anymore, nor does it ...
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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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Are questions front-paged for unspecified reasons perhaps related to popularization of a site?
Can a question be "front paged" by staffers for reasons that are not closely related either to significant developments in physics or to edits (either to the question itself or to the ...
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How can I start a conversation with a specific user (in chat or otherwise)?
Say I provided an answer to a question, and then another user commented on my answer pointing out some mistakes. I realise my answer has serious flaws and decided to delete it.
Now, I want to talk to ...
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Automatic rejection of edit where I only added tags
To my surprise, I tried to add a couple of tags to this question but the edit was automatically rejected with an error message about how the changes must be at least 6 characters long, pointing to the ...
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How to find a missing post?
Earlier this month I gave a very good answer to a question about the twin paradox. Yet now I can't find the question or answer, either in my page, which supposedly lists all my answers, or by ...
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Questions held for being opinion based
I just posed a question in causal set notation (in general relativity), referencing papers 50 years old and 5 years old, seeking to know whether notation has changed or usage is a matter of personal ...
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Why do I keep getting logged out all the time these days?
In the old days, I used to stay logged in to Physics.SE (and other Stack Exchange sites) for many weeks at a time. Only very occasionally would I find myself mysteriously logged out, and have to log ...
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More rep has changed than I can account for
Yesterday I had 1693 rep, but when I logged on today I had only 1689 left. I went in to see if I'd gotten any downvotes. There weren't any, but I did have a "post was removed" notice - I ticked the "...
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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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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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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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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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Where should I ask a question about Anatoli Bugorski?
I want to ask about Anatoli Bugorski, the scientist who accidentally put his head in an active particle accelerator. My question is about the shape of his wound, and I don't understand why it was ...
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How Can I Ask for an Expert Opinion Without Getting My Question Put On Hold for Soliciting Opinions?
Recently this question about the von Neumann Interpretation of QM (a.k.a. the Consciousness Causes Collapse Hypothesis, CCCH) was put on hold within days of being asked. The reason given was that it ...
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Answer incorrectly deleted
My answer to the question, "effect of fiber optic on NA" was deleted with the reason given being, "Please don't post complete answers to the underlying problem in homework-like questions."
I believe ...
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Is there a badge for giving a highly up-voted recent answer to a very old question?
I have this theory that an answer today given to an old question is unlikely to be up-voted highly, if at all. I believe this is because people tend to lose interest in old questions, and can't be ...
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MathJax not working in some cases
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'm experiencing rather strange behavior of MathJax in Google Chrome. On some stackexchange sites the LateX equations don't render. On ...
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User feed and Question feed
Do we have User feed and Question feed by emails notification?
If we do not, can we promote to have these features?
PS. It is NOT asking about off-site service. What I wonder is whether there is an ...
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Tag for 'general-relativity' does not load in rss feeder
I'm using the latest version of RSSOwl and the tag [general-relativity] does not load any questions. The feed sits next to the other feeds I have and actually looks for questions every time I try to ...
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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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Where are the community guidelines in dealing with plagiarism?
Plagiarism online is something of a plague.
What guidelines does this site set itself in detecting and dealing with such cases?
Are there any?
And if so, can someone point me towards it?
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What is , "You haven't cast a vote to undo"
I want to upvote an answer, I previously down voted. It shows
"You haven't cast a vote to undo".
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How do I cast one?
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Starting a chat, including existing comments
There are a few features in Stack Exchange that I can never remember how to do.
How do I move a discussion that has started in an exchange of comments to a chat, while copying the existing discussion ...
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Persistent error logging into physics.stackexchange.com with OpenID (Unable to log in with your OpenID provider)
OS - Windows 7
Browser - Firefox v26.0
For the past few days I have been unable to log into physics.stackexchange.com using OpenID. The error I get is below. Strangely, I can log in by browsing to ...
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Stackexchange General login problem (meta)
I can not login through mobile view of stackexchange website.
when i click over login, why there is no login option through some mobile browsers?
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