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Displacement based on acceleration in km/h$^2$

For calculation of displacement based on acceleration and time, I have the formula below: $$x = v_0t + \tfrac{1}{2}at^2 .$$ If I get $a$ in km/h$^2$, and $x$ in km and $v_0$ in km/h and I suppose ...
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Help understanding work

I have this problem: An object with 800kg mass is lifted up 2.4m by a force $F$. How much work does the Force do on the object (gravity is the only other force acting on the object)? From what ...
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Derivative of kinetic energy

I read that the derivative of kinetic energy=$F\cdot v$. I tried to differentiate (1/2) mv^2 with respect to time but each time I am getting $m*v$ and not $m*a*v$ which solves to $F*v$. My efforts are ...
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Vectors and projectile [on hold]

Two particles A and B starts moving from a high point O at t=0 in the opposite direction with horizontal velocities 9 3 m/s and 4 m/s respectively. Due to earth's gravitational field the two particles ...
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Calculation of OPE in Polchinski

Consider Exercise 2.8 in Polchinski's String Theory book. We are asked to compute the weight of $$f_{\mu \nu}:\partial X^{\mu} \bar{\partial}X^{\nu}e^{ik\cdot X}:$$ I have carried out the usual ...
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Textbook on QFT in curved space-time via path integrals

I am looking for an introductory textbook on QFT in curved space-time via the path integral method. I want to understand the following: How to build a generic perturbative QFT in curved space-time ...
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Why is gravity so hard to unify with the other 3 fundamental forces?

Electricity and magnetism was unified in the 19th century, and unification of electromagnetism with the weak force followed suit, bringing into play the electroweak force. I've been told that ...
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Are the authors saying that the observer effect plays no role in Bohr's thought experiment of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?

Here is an excerpt from Eisberg & Resnick's Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles. Here is introducing Bohr's though experiment to establish a physical origin for the ...
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Axion strings and spontaneously broken symmetry

I have two question about axion strings: Why their appearance is connected with spontaneously broken symmetry? How to demonstrate that? Why they are stable topological configurations (look to the ...
Flavor symmetries of various kinds (for example, $\mu-\tau$ permutation symmetry, or the scaling symmetry, or $S_3$ symmetry) are sometimes assumed between neutrino flavours to "reproduce" the ...