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Questions that ask about some aspect of physics research or study which doesn't involve the actual physics. In general, soft questions can be answered without using physical reasoning.
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What are the best open-access journals in physics?
arXiv
Though it is not a journal in the classical meaning (it is a repository of preprints), to some extent it serves as such. So when you care for the open-access, advisable it to upload your paper …
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Length of publication cycle for peer-reviewed journals [closed]
Is there any data of the expected length of publication cycle with respect to different peer-reviewed journals in theoretical physics?
I know that the length depends on many things, including the ref …
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Where can we find information of International Physics/Astrophysics conferences?
There is a number of sites which lists conferences, e.g.
Conference Listing in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry - Mandl (this one is good and aesthetic; once I attended a conference I had found th …
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Is there a recognised standard for typesetting quantum mechanical operators?
As you see, there are different notations for quantum mechanical. Typically, even within a journal there is no one typesetting (style guides usually don't touch this topic).
Besides the ones you ment …
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'Getting in' to research physics?
First of all, if you consider science as an ordinary career choice, then the effort and the risk is not worth it.
But if you are genuinely interested in science, and really want to do research for yo …
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How to write a paper in physics?
In addition to the Joe's answer, a bunch of good advices is here:
G. M. Whitesides, Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper (Adv Mat 2004), doi:10.1002/adma.200400767
Its two main points are:
Start w …
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Best example of energy-entropy competition?
One example I know is so-called Brazil nut effect. When you place balls in a container of two different sizes and shake it, the larger ones will go up (even if they are denser than the smaller ones). …
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Is there a nice tool to plot graphs of paper citations?
Some static ones:
Zotero Firefox plugin for Visual Understanding Environment
CiteSpace
Thesis visualization
There are dynamical ones:
PaperCube by Peter Bergstrom (it's a pity the program is wor …
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Is physics rigorous in the mathematical sense?
Some parts of physics are rigorous in the sense of mathematics - i.e. they are treated as mathematics, with physically-motivated entities. And it is not that uncommon that for some papers to make it r …
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What software programs are used to draw physics diagrams, and what are their relative merits?
To start with, for scientific drawing usually vector graphics is more suitable - scalable, convenient to modify and produce less bulky files.
For simple general-purpose graphics I use OpenOffice.org …
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Books that develop interest & critical thinking among high school students
If it do not need to be a book, I recommend
Michael Shermer's Skeptic Column in Scientific American Magazine.
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How should a physics student study mathematics?
The question is way too broad. Different areas of physics requires different level (and area) of maths.
One general list is here:
Gerard ’t Hooft, Theoretical Physics as a Challenge.
Also one approa …
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Why does the BB84 paper "Quantum cryptography: Public key distribution and coin tossing" hav...
The original paper proposing quantum key distribution protocol (now known as BB84):
Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Quantum cryptography: Public key distribution and coin tossing
seems to hav …
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Searching books and papers with equations
You can perform $\LaTeX$ search - that is, write formula in LaTeX in an appropriate search engine:
http://www.latexsearch.com/
However, as one can type the same expression in different ways and wi …