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Phase Space dimension of Lorenz Strange Attractor
It is often discussed in 3 spatial dimensions and the need for third dimension to prevent self intersection is mentioned. But shouldn't the phase space of the Lorenz system be 6 dimensional, i.e., the ...
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what's the difference between linear n-atom molecule and nonlinear n-atom molecule?
I am reading a material about the degree of freedom for linear n-atom molecule and nonlinear n-atom molecule. Here is my analysis for a diatomic molecule, if there are two atoms, we have to use 3 ...
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The number of degrees of freedom of a monatomic gas
Suppose that I have a monatomic gas sample consisting of $N$ atoms (e.g., $N$ argon atoms); thus there are no vibrations or rotations. How many degrees of freedom does the system have?
Does the ...
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Modeling a two-mass, spring, damper system
I'm trying to model a system with two masses, two springs, two dampers, and one applied force using transfer functions. I'll then be inputting it into Simulink.
The system looks like this but there ...
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Degrees of freedom in the infinite momentum frame
Lenny Susskind explains in this video at about 40min, as an extended object (for example a relativistic string) is boosted to the infinite momentum frame (sometimes called light cone frame), it has no ...
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Dark matter: degrees of freedom
I'm afraid this question could sound a little too vague. I don't even know if dark matter (DM) can be genuinely described by quantum field theory, or if quantum field theory should be somehow ...
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Clarification on “central charge equals number of degrees of freedom”
It's often stated that the central charge c of a CFT counts the degrees of freedom: it adds up when stacking different fields, decreases as you integrate out UV dof from one fixed point to another, ...
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degree of freedom of a rigid body 5 or 6?
I'm confused here. I have a three particle (rigid) system. What would be the degree of freedom? I found out five. 3 coordinates for center of mass and 2 for describing orientation.
But we have only ...
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Counting degrees of freedom in presence of constraints
In a $N$ dimensional phase space if I have $M$ 1st class and $S$ 2nd class constraints, then I have $N-2M-S$ degrees of freedom in phase space. How can I calculate the degrees of freedom in ...
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Equipartition theorem for flowing gas
If an ideal gas is flowing with a velocity $v$, how is the equipartition theorem applied.
Normally, we can say that $\frac{1}{2}mv_{x,rms}^2=\frac{1}{2}k_BT$. We can do the same thing for $v_y$ ...
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Degree of freedom paradox for a rigid body
Suppose we consider a rigid body, which has $N$ particles. Then the number of degrees of freedom is $3N - (\mbox{# of constraints})$.
As the distance between any two points in a rigid body is fixed, ...
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Violations of Dulong-Petit rule as an upper limit to heat capacity
Does any known substance have a heat capacity at constant volume ($C_V$) per mole of atoms greater than $3k_B$ ~ 24.94 J/(mol K)?
In order to count, the substance must actually be made of atoms, that ...
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What is the definition of how to count degrees of freedom?
This question resulted, rather as by-product, the discussion on how to count degrees of freedom (DOF). I extend that question here:
Are necessary1 derivatives such as velocities counted as ...
