Unanswered Questions
48 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How is this question "about engineering"?
Why was this questionWhy is the ground warm during winter and vice-versa?deemed to be "about engineering" and closed, when the OP clearly stated he was not asking about how to employ the ...
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The gamma^5 question
The question Can one show that ${\gamma^5}^\dagger = \gamma^5$ directly from the anticommutation relations? was recently closed as homework-like. I agree that this is in somewhat of a grey area as far ...
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Can I "steal" a question from the Chemistry Stackexchange that I think would do better here?
Specifically, I think this question on the Chemistry stack is really more appropriate here. As best as I can tell, the physics stack also doesn't have this question yet, and I would be interested in ...
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Can you help me to make question 483886 more specific?
I did this question but they say it's too broad, I modified but I think they consider it still to broad. I don't understand why, can you help me?What is the approach to the mathematical modeling?
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Prematurely closed "duplicate"
This question, asking why oceans look blue but rivers don't, was closed as a duplicate of another question, which was answered with a good explanation of why large masses of water, including oceans ...
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Reopening a question about the recent LIGO event
My recent question about the significance of further LIGO events was appreciated, it appears, by all but five people. I'm lobbying for reopening. This question is not too broad--it's exactly ...
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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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Wrongly marked duplicate about why decay is random
I am not sure how to raise this issue, but I was looking for an answer to the question How do we know that nuclear decay is truly random and spontaneous?. This is an important question because we don'...
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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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Review - Question closed as non-mainstream physics?
My question was closed as not "mainstream physics". Could I ask for this decision to be reviewed please?My question was dealing with the very real nature of combustion, not in any pseudo ...
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I am not able to understand what should I do on this question to avoid it from being downvoted?
Please help me understanding about How I should improve my questions like this-How does torque operate? What will be going on with disc?from being downvoted?I think I have given the specific ...
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Question doesn't appear to be a duplicate
This older question Is the magnetic field zero inside an ideal conductor carrying a current? is explicitly about a regular conductor, but has been marked as a duplicate of a question about ...
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Should /q/59448 be reopened?
The questionHas there been a proposed explaination to the observation of wave-particle duality?has been closed as not a real question.While the posting isn't particularly well formulated, the ...
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Question wrongly closed for being a homework question
Trouble with formula $F_{net} = m*a_{com}$This is, to me, clearly not a homework question. While it does include a homework problem, it's pretty clear that the question Abel is asking is not copied ...

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Why was q721019 closed?
If you know what Poiseuille's equation is then Physiology question about velocity and radius is perfectly clear and a straightforward answer solves the questioner's conceptual difficulty. Yet the ...
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