# All Questions

3answers
149 views

### Please explain this statement about Lorentz transformations

I'm reading Sternberg's Group Theory and Physics. I have a question about chapter 1.2 Homeomorphisms. Background: A Lorentz Metric is defined as $||{\bf x}||^2=x_0^2-x_1^2-x_2^2-x_3^2$ And a ...
7answers
4k views

### Entropy and Crystal Growth

I was reading about growing single crystals and I'm a little confused about this - In most crystal growing processes, a "seed crystal" is used, and the rest of the material crystallizes on the seed ...
2answers
146 views

### Can the speed of an electromagnetic wave be measured in the absence of neutrinos?

Let me explain better: from what I understand neutrinos are so pervasive they are literally everywhere. And since they have such a tiny electric charge they barely interact with anything and cannot be ...
1answer
58 views

### Is it possible to calculate chromacity coordinates using absorbance values?

I have absorbance values for blood plasma. Absorbance was measured in range of 380 – 600 nm every 5 nm ending up with absorbance values for 45 wave lengths. I was browsing through literature, and I ...
1answer
155 views

### Link between Earth and Mars

I am trying to the calculate the link budget for link between a ground station on Earth (with a particular latitude and longitude) and a rover at a particular location on the surface of Mars, either ...
4answers
533 views

### Why is linear independence of harmonic oscillator solutions important?

The equation of motion for the harmonic oscillator (mass on spring model) $$\frac{d^2x}{dt^2} + \omega_0^2 x = 0$$ with $\omega_0^2 = D/m$, $D$ and $m$ being the force constant of the spring and the ...
0answers
47 views

### Suggestions for a physics oriented book on Variational Calculus [duplicate]

I would like to buy a good book on Variational Calculus. Most of the books that I find seem to be rather formal in a mathematical sense, which is not necessarily bad, but makes the studying a bit ...
2answers
251 views

2answers
331 views

### Combining two finite number fock spaces into one

Say I have two separate systems of identical Bosons, one with N Bosons the other with M. System one is described by a state $|\psi_1\rangle$ the other with $|\psi_2 \rangle$ which are expressed in a ...
1answer
74 views

### Isotope exchange between heavy water and plastic container

It is known that pure heavy water will quickly get contaminated by light hydrogen atoms if exposed to air due to isotope exchange. Does the same thing happens when heavy water is stored in plastic ...
1answer
255 views

### Two-photon scattering: colours

Is there a particular conservation principle that necessitates that the outcoming photon pair has the same frequencies as the incoming photon pair? I'm thinking in particular of these Feynman-like ...
1answer
2k views

### What happens if object is thrown in empty space?

If I throw a object in empty space, I apply a force to throw that. Then it gains some acceleration and it's speed increases. So will it's speed keep on increasing, or it will get stable? If yes, ...
1answer
86 views

### Please provide the simplest example you can think of, of generators of time evolution and generalized coordinates

I was reading the Wikipedia article about Noether's theorem and this thing popped out: Then the resultant perturbation can be written as a linear sum of the individual types of perturbations ...
2answers
141 views

### Was the fractional model of quarks electric charge found before discovery of the $\Delta^{++}$?

From Wikipedia: Existence of the $\Delta^{++}$ , with its unusual +2 electric charge, was a crucial clue in the development of the quark model. the fractional model of Quarks electric charge was ...
11answers
5k views

### Are there still 'everyday' phenomena unexplained by Physics? [closed]

There are two very famous quotes from German Nobel Laureate Albert Abraham Michelson that are remembered mainly for being extremely wrong (especially since he said them just before two major ...
1answer
709 views

### Does this experiment on wave-particle duality and complementarity disprove quantum mechanics and prove the EPR viewpoint on it?

I recently read Photons act like they go through two paths, even when we know which they took, at Ars Technica, which reports on the paper Wave-particle dualism and complementarity unraveled ...
6answers
6k views

### Difference between torque and moment

What is the difference between torque and moment? I would like to see mathematical definitions for both quantities. I also do not prefer definitions like "It is the tendancy..../It is a measure of ......
0answers
120 views

### Photons interact with themselves

We know that photons are the antiparticles of themselves and if they interact with each other through higher order process do they annihilate and again produce photons? Here is the Phys.SE question ...
2answers
545 views

### In Dirac notation, what do the subscripts represent? (Solution for particle in a box in mind)

So the set of solutions for the particle in a box is given by $$\psi_n(x) = \sqrt{\frac{2}{L}}\sin(\frac{n\pi x}{L}).$$ In Dirac notation $<\psi_i|\psi_j>=\delta_{ij}$ assuming $|\psi_i>$ ...
1answer
1k views

### Why is the majorana particle a fermion?

My knowledge of quantum mechanics is rather limited, but what I always understood was that Bosons have integer spins and Fermions have half-integer spins. My question is very simple: the Majorana ...
1answer
2k views

### three-particle quantum entanglement

So I know that two particles can be entangled in a quantum way, but is it possible that more than two particles be entangled in a quantum way? Most descriptions provide with two-particles cases, so I ...
2answers
338 views

### Sound Wave Propagation: Why HF are more specular while LF are more omni

The propagation of high frequencies sound waves is more directional (specular), and they don't diffract as much as low frequencies. Low-frequencies diffract and thus propagate in a more omni-spherical ...
1answer
149 views

I am reading "Supercollision cooling in undoped graphene." There the authors write: Above $T_{BG}$ (the Bloch-Gruneisen temperature), only a fraction of acoustic phonons with wave vector $q\le 2k_{F}... 2answers 502 views ### How does locality decouple the UV and IR behaviour of a QFT? I came a comment in this paper: Scattering Amplitudes and the positive grassmannian in the last paragraph of page 104 which says: "One of the most fundamental consequences of space-time locality is ... 1answer 352 views ### Influence of air resistance in space Consider the following situation: You are locked inside a cylindric container allowing you to move around freely without being in contact with any of the items or surfaces aboard. The container is ... 2answers 162 views ### What symmetries does a lattice calculation need to preserve? I've heard that it is impossible to have a properly Lorentz-invariant lattice QFT simulation, as the Lorentz invariance is spoiled by the nonzero lattice distance$a$. I've also heard that there are ... 1answer 506 views ### Does the Standard Model have a Landau pole? I have seen the statement that the Standard Model has a Landau pole, or at least it its believed that it does at$\sim 10^{34}$GeV. Has this actually been proven (at least in perturbation theory, as ... 1answer 1k views ### Finding the Electric Field (and other information, besides) The problem I am working on is: Two parallel plates having charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign are separated by 29.0 cm. Each plate has a surface charge density of 33.0 nC/m2. A proton is ... 1answer 2k views ### Historic derivation of Wien's law Every book I've read, including a lot of websites, Wikipedia, etc, say that Wien derived this: $$\rho_\nu(T)=\rho(\nu,T)=\nu^3f\left(\frac{\nu}{T}\right)$$ Being$\rho_v(T)\$ the spectral enegy ...

15 30 50 per page