My understanding is that it's the application of physical methods to biological problems, and the Wikipedia page seems to back that up
Anyway, the main question is whether there are any questions related to biology which are related to physics (so that they are in scope for this site) but for which the biophysics tag would be inappropriate. I don't think there are.
I was thinking that user in Physics.SE or other SE sites should know the current status for their eligibility for a badge.
For eg. say the gold badge Marshall, which has a silver counterpart Deputy. But as i don't know the my current status that after how many useful flags, I need more to get th...
Oh please please, can this ugly episode meta.physics.stackexchange.com/q/976/5724 in the history of our nice site not be closed for good such that it finds it's final rest in peace?
It is really annoying to see it popping up every time a latecomer decides to belatedly put in he's twopenn'orth ... Please, please, please, please , ... :-(((
@Nemo I closed the question, hopefully that will discourage people from answering frivolously. But if people think the issue still needs to be discussed, it could be reopened in the future.
Thanks @DavidZaslavsky, it seems that everybody has calmed down since this was acute. Things are now appropriately regulated by the community as @Manishearth says and as it should be. So this question is hopefully no longer needed :-)
@David doesn't the current system take care of it? I've gotten downvote/commented/edited whenever I post something wrong, whether by accident or my own misconception. So I feel that the system takes care of the main issue.
I have a question about the $ \hat{n} $ in this formula $\sigma = P \dot{}\hat{n}$.
Why do sometime in my book they get $\sigma = P \cos{\theta}$ for a sphere. Isn't $\hat{n} = r$ ?
And then in another problem, where $P = \cfrac{k}{r}\hat{r}$ and r = a (inner) and r = b (outer) they get $\sig...
@Manishearth Not really... the problem is that for higher-level topics, we don't have people who are qualified to judge the correctness of answers, and so anyone can get away with posting anything (and even get it upvoted) as long as it sounds fancy enough.
The few people who are qualified to judge such answers don't like the fact that anyone can post something fancy-sounding and have it upvoted. So they conclude that SE is not a good place to disseminate physics knowledge, and they leave.
That's the main problem, that we've lost almost all of our experts, and any new ones who may come across the site are not inspired to stay
I have a question about the $ \hat{n} $ in this formula $\sigma = P \dot{}\hat{n}$.
Why do sometime in my book they get $\sigma = P \cos{\theta}$ for a sphere. Isn't $\hat{n} = r$ ?
And then in another problem, where $P = \cfrac{k}{r}\hat{r}$ and r = a (inner) and r = b (outer) they get $\sig...
