# All Questions

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### Does magnetic poles exist for a magnetic field generated by straight current carrying conductor?

I read that a straight current carrying conductor generates magnetic field around it in form of concentric circles. If so, where would be the poles of this field.
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### What is the maximum net force of surface tension per gram of water?

I've always wondered how much force water exerted through surface tension. By maximum I mean the theoretical pulling/attracting power. Also, what would happen if you raised or lowered the power? ...
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### Instant centre of rotation for two connected gears

The two gears are have the angular velocities $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ respectively with respect to $Oxyz$. The task is to determine the angular velocity $\boldsymbol{\omega}$ of the arm ...
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### What is the pressure of falling water?

Imagine a breaking wave 10m high. The wave breaks onto a beach. What is the maximum pressure created by the wave on the beach, ignoring effects such as might be cause by air?
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### Tachyons and the Light Barrier

I read somewhere that if something breaks the light barrier, i.e. a tachyon, that it will take infinite energy to make it go slower than the speed of light. So, does that mean that the object will ...
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### How to cancel $\mathcal{N}_3$ in the hierarchy equations for the neutrino moments? (Dodelson, eq (6.107))

I was trying to understand the Boltzmann equation (B.eq) for massless and non-interacting neutrinos, principally to solve one datail in the exercise $6.2$ of Dodelson. Given the Beq for neutrinos in ...
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### Frictional force

a box of banana weighing 40N rests on a horizontal surface. the coefficient of static friction between the box and the surface is 0.4 and coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.2. a. if no horizontal ...
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### Object Pushed by Multiple Forces

If we have a general object and we have multiple forces acting on it at several points. Assuming we know the center of mass, mass and moment of inertia of the object: Will the object rotate only ...
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### Double slit experiment with animals as observers

I was searching about the double slit experiment, reading and watching videos, etc. If I understood correctly, when they try to measure the photon it turns into particle. On the Youtube video ...
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### Compression in a sphere due to a sectoral load?

I wish to know the net compression in a solid and hollow sphere when a radially perpendicular load is applied on a sector of its circumphery. Ex: on 2(pi)r/8 of the circumference. thanks
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### Optimal speed for the water wheel

The hydroelectricity plants extract the potential energy of highly deployed massive object (water) as it falls down. Without turbine, all that energy would be converted into speed (kinetic energy) at ...
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### When moving from one position to another at a constant velocity, how does the conservation of energy hold?

I know that this might be a duplicate question, but I have not found any satisfactory answers that clear up my lack of understanding. Here is my question. Say a sloth hangs on a tree in the middle of ...
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### How is partition function related to ordinary generating function?

Ordinary generating function can be used to solve combinatorial enumeration problems. Now if the energy levels are discrete, say $g_i$, and if one want to count how many ways one can add up $g_i$ ...
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### Oscillation of a Bose Einstein condensate in a harmonical trap

We were asked to try to make a theoretical description of the following phenomenon: Imagine a 2D Bose Einstein condensate in equilibrium in an harmonical trap with frequency $\omega$. Suddenly the ...
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### Approximating the moment of inertia of a quadcopter

I want to compute an approximated moment of inertia for my quadcopter: my idea is to take the frame and the electronics, approximate it as a sphere in the center of mass $M$ and radius $R$ (with ...
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### assuming $kT=1$ in $Z=\sum e^{-H}$ and $F=-lnZ$?

Some statistical physics book use: $Z=\sum e^{-H}$ and $F=-lnZ$ as defination for partition function and free energy. I think they should be $Z=\sum e^{-\frac{H}{kT}}$ and $F=-kT lnZ$ Are they ...
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### Capillary action meniscus height in a tube fitted inside another tube?

I was thinking about how would capillary action change in a tube (classic example) and in a tube fitted inside another tube (considering water as the liquid involved). Height of liquid column: ...
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### Why is the position space free particle wavefunction a function of momentum?

This is one of those little things that has always confused me. If someone said to you "in quantum mechanics, the eigenfunctions of a free particle are $\exp(ipx/\hbar)$" how would you know that ...
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### Validity of the static limit of a dielectric function

In general, the dielectric function $\epsilon(q,\omega)$ reflects the spatial and temporal response of a condensed matter system to an applied potential. If we put an electron into an electron sea, ...
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### Does Energy have a similar effect on time as Mass would when considering the gravitational field both exert?

I was thinking about light and the different frequencies. The higher the frequency the more energetic the photon. The higher frequency photon being more energetic seems counterintuitive when ...
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### Can the Cosmic Neutrino Background be detected from a lab moving near the speed of light?

If I've understood it correctly, the energy of an object depends on the reference frame, so when you accelerate, the CMB and CNB appear to gain energy (relative to your rest frame). So if you are ...
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### How to solve highly oscillating differential equation

The equation looks like: $$x''(t)+bx'(t)+c x(t)+dx^3(t)=0.$$ This is the motion of a particle in a potential $cx^2/2+dx^4/4$ with friction force $bx'$. In my case, the friction term is very small and ...
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### Can gravity be blocked or augmented?

If gravitons (or some other quantum particle) are indeed responsible for the effect of gravity, can gravity be blocked, defected or trapped somehow? Is there any evidence that a gravitational field ...
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### Photon: speed and mass

Is it correct to think that the speed of light does not depend on the speed of light source because photons have no mass, so they have no the kind of inertia that is associated with mass, so they can ...
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### How can I rearrange an equation to find a gradient for a capacitor?

If I plot R on the x axis and T on the y axis to give a straight line graph, and I am given that $V$ = $V_0$ * e^(-t/RC) then how can I prove that the gradient of the graph is equivalent to $C$ * ln3, ...
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### How to find the time evolution for two-component spinor? [closed]

I would like to find the time evolution for the given Hamiltonian, the initial state of the system we choose two spinor wavefunction $\psi_{+}(t=0)$ and $\psi_{-}(t=0)$ as given below: The effective ...
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### Why is the mechanical advantage of a wedge = length of slope/ width?

Mechanical advantage is defined as Force Output/Force Input For a symmetrical wedge with the length of the slopes being equal and the width being the distance between the end points, the articles ...
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### Incline plane problem [on hold]

A string carrying a $5\times10^{-2}$kg bob hangs from the roof of a vehicle. It moves down an incline at an angle of $30 °$ with the horizontal with acceleration of $3\mathrm{ms}^{-2}$. What angle ...
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### Choosing a term's sign — a rolling body question

https://prettygoodphysics.wikispaces.com/file/view/Rollin_and_Slippin.pdf In this link's first problem, top-spin is applied to a ball that slips; while the ball moves forward, it spins clockwise. ...
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### Another cold-fusion reactor scheme :) Is it feasible?

I have this idea rolling in my head for quite a while, but lately I got really interested to know if it's even remotely feasible. I am complete novice to the field of nuclear engineering and cold ...
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### What is the relationship between Force and Kinetic Energy?

I am an Middle-School (Grade 8) student, who is self-learning classical mechanics. I saw this equation from Classical Mechanics: $\vec F=m \vec a$, the following equation is pretty straight forward ...
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### Intensity of a sound radiated from a moving source

Let A be a point source (or vibrating sphere small enough - don't worry about the Dirac functions) moving along x-axis with constant speed of v. Determine the intensity $I=I\left(\vec{r},t\right)$. ...
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### Problem on Einstein - de Haas experiment

I am a Physics student (4th year) and I'm trying to study the Einstein - de Haas effect in laboratory. That is what I got: a suspended Iron cylinder with about 5 cm height and a radius of 0.8 cm is ...
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### Why can I see a light flicker when it's in my peripheral vision? [migrated]

When I'm looking at an old CRT monitor or a worn fluorescent lamp, but not directly in the center of my gaze, the light from it seems to flicker. When I focus my gaze onto the monitor or lamp, the ...
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### The unreasonable effectiveness of the partition function

In a first course on statistical mechanics the partition function is normally introduced as the normalisation for the probability of a particle being in a particular energy level. ...
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### Where is all the Dark Matter? Theoretical Question

In my Physics Class we had to look into possible areas where Dark Matter could be "hiding." Such as Black Holes and so on. Dark matter really can be "seen" through its gravitational effects, and we ...
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### Is battery the supplier of charge in an electric circuit?

In a simple electric circuit consisting of wires, battery and a bulb... Are the charges which flow in the circuit provided by the battery or are they coming from somewhere else?
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### Increase contrast on the image taken by CCD camera

I project a pattern on a reflecting object and I capture the reflected pattern (reflected via the object) using a CCD camera. However, the reflected pattern has a very low contrast (due to volume ...
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### How can I add a rounded trailing edge to an airfoil?

I have an airfoil coordinates file (NACA 65(4)-421) with a sharp TE. I need it to be rounded. It doesn't seem that there are any tools available to help with this, so I've tried making my own Python ...
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### Necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be the Wigner function of state

For any quantum state defined with a continuous position, the Wigner function is a quasiprobability distribution on phase space. It has many properties, such as that its marginal are probability ...