Forum Guidelines: Rules and Expectations for Scientific Discussions

[physicsgirly]

How did you find PF?

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Hello! My name is Eleonora but you can call me Leo. I'm a girl. I love mathematics and physics and I aspire to become a theoretical physicist one day (or maybe this will change someday, but for now it's my biggest life goal). I still go to school. I want to self-study physics and find fellow people who love discussing all things science. If you can speak german, talk to me in german, because I live in there and I can speak it fluently. But I don't have a problem communicating in english. I would love to find some new friends and we could support eachother on this long learning path.
Love y'all!

 

[phinds]

Welcome to the forum.

Just FYI, we don't do posts on this forum in any language other than English.

 

[physicsgirly]

Welcome to the forum.

Just FYI, we don't do posts on this forum in any language other than English.

Got it.

 

[fresh_42]

Hello and , Leo!

Have fun and stay curious!

Here is a post where I have collected what we have for self-study:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/self-teaching-gcse-and-a-level-maths.933639/#post-5896947

Maybe there's even more by now, at least we have more interesting insight articles.

 

[physicsgirly]

Hello and , Leo!

Have fun and stay curious!

Here is a post where I have collected what we have for self-study:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/self-teaching-gcse-and-a-level-maths.933639/#post-5896947

Maybe there's even more by now, at least we have more interesting insight articles.

This is very helpful, thanks!
I also have a question: is there a guideline for this forum because I didn't find one yet?

 

[berkeman]

Yes, under INFO at the top of the page.

[EDIT] Direct link -- https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/physics-forums-global-guidelines.414380/

 

[fresh_42]

I also have a question: is there a guideline for this forum because I didn't find one yet?

It is not very complicated. The main rules are:

• if it looks like homework, then we treat it as homework
• if it is homework, we require some effort from your side because we want to teach, not solve homework problems; and it helps us to figure out where the difficulties are
• no politics, no religion, no philosophy, no speculations

The speculation part is a bit tricky. We require some effort from our members, e.g. Google or Wikipedia searches for questions about facts. Users sometimes display their own (usually wrong) theory of a certain subject as a statement, which would be speculation and thus not allowed.

"Do black holes rotate?" is allowed, "Black holes do not rotate." is forbidden. However, I think it is more a male thing that they phrase their "questions" as "statements" in expectation of an argument instead of admitting to being clueless.