# All Questions

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### What's an “Action” and what does the Lagrangian equation mean exactly?

How and why would a particle take the shortest path? $L=KE-PE$? What's the $KE-PE$ mean in English? I understand the 'mechanics' but not the idea itself. Please explain simply, I do know Calculus ...
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### Does strong interaction care about mass? (+ Isospin question)

So in the journey of trying to understand more about the strong interaction I have encountered some passages linking mass with strong interaction. Like from Greiner and Müller Quantum Mechanics - ...
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### Operator on Function of Momentum (QM)

I have exactly 0 clue on how to start this problem, but I would be forever grateful for a hint in the right direction. Given the operators $\hat x=x$ and $\hat p=-i\hbar \frac{d}{dx}$, prove the ...
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### Lack of symmetry of the canonical stress-energy tensor

Why in the general case of classical field theory canonical stress-energy tensor doesn't have symmetry of the permutation of the indices? For explanation, let's have a "derivation" of an expression ...
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### How does an optic-mechanical laser read and send binary bytes to a CPU?

Thid greatly concerns physics, since a more refined version of my title will be rehearsed below: How is the physical structure of the mechanical eye use a laser to read binary bits held on an optical ...
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### Is pressure invariant under Lorentz transformations?

In an article from the reference there are following words (page 2): "...pressure P is a Lorentz invariant... the result follows from standart properties of the relativistic stress-energy tensor...". ...
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### Is Newton's universal gravitational constant the inverse of permittivity of mass in vacuum?

Is it possible to consider Newton's universal gravitational constant, $G$, as inverse of vacuum permittivity of mass? $$\epsilon_m=\frac {1}{4\pi G}$$ if so, then vacuum permeability of mass will ...
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### conceptual doubt in method to find moment of inertia about an axis

I asked this question before about whether I can take a component of angular velocity along another axis and say that the body spins about that axis with that component. Now I have another doubt: ...
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### Temperature in a calorimeter [closed]

A closed calorimeter of negligible water equivalent contains 1kg ice at 0 degree Celsius. 1kg of steam at 100 degrees Celsius is pumped into it. Find the resultant temperature of the mixture. I ...
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This question is concerned with a thermodynamic paradox for radiating bodies and radiation in a cavity of a specific shape. Consider two nested shells that are axisymmetric ellipsoids with the same ...
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### physical difference between A and B

We all know that when we say A it sounds different than when we say B. I was wondering what exactly can be the difference between saying A and B in terms of physics. I first thought that it may due ...
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### Negative Energy and Wormholes

Apparently to create wormholes you need negative energy/matter. Say you had negative matter/energy, how would it be applied towards making a wormhole?
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### Gravitational Field from Irregular Object

How does one calculate the gravitational field of an irregularly shaped object? I was thinking specifically of the gravitational field due to a human, and tried to see if modeling a human as an ...
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### about laser wavelength and wave form

I watched a short introduction video online. There are few concepts which are a bit confusing. 1) The video said the laser is single mode (monochromatic), the wavelength is 780nm, so what is that ...