Time to consolidate topics. So if you go to the normal physics group you'll know there are probably a couple questions per day, nothing as quick as the math section. But did you know there are about 7 physics sections, most of them with unanswered questions and less than 5 active members at a time?

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kainui · Answer

http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/MIT%208.02%20Electricity%20and%20Magnetism%2C%20Spring%202002 http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/OCW%20Scholar%20-%20Physics%20I%3A%20Classical%20Mechanics http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/OCW%20Scholar%20-%20Physics%20I%3A%20Classical%20Mechanics http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/Physics http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/MIT%206.002%20Circuits%20and%20Electronics%2C%20Spring%202007 http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/MIT%208.01%20Physics%20I%20Classical%20Mechanics%2C%20Fall%201999 http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/HippoCampus%20Physics

kainui · Answer

All I'm wondering is, why? Why not just have one big physics section and cut the rest?

amistre64 · Answer

I believe there there are some groups which are formed as a result of sponsered schools.  Others may be the result of when we had the "create whatever groups you want" fiasco.  And the general physics, to me, is the catchall for people who are neither associated with the school groups, or the "other" groups.

farmdawgnation · Answer

So, amistre is partly right, although the term I would use is "parters" - not "sponsored schools". We have a working relationship with MIT's OCW and HippoCampus that are for providing groups specifically centered around those individual classes.

amistre64 · Answer

lol, you said "parters"  ;)

farmdawgnation · Answer

Er. Partners. Coffee hasn't quite kicked in this morning, it seems.

kainui · Answer

I guess, would it be possible in the plain Physics section that all those other physics sections questions are also shown in there too? Questions are fairly infrequent in those categories and studying them and checking them all is kind of time consuming. This wouldn't get rid of the other topics, it'd just allow their question to be seen in two topics at once for ease of access.

farmdawgnation · Answer

This is an option that we could explore after the subtopics are implemented and proven to be working in Math. Of course, we haven't managed to start working on that yet, so that's a ways out.

kainui · Answer

I guess I'll close this because... Well yeah. lol