# All Questions

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### Hitting a skateboard while riding it

I am rigidly sitting on a skateboard, the skateboard and I have a total mass of 100kg. I have a hammer that weighs 50 kg. If i swing the hammer and hit the skateboard parallel to the ground with a ...
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### Sol Lagrange points

Where are the Sol-Sagittarius A* Lagrange points, what is located there, have we ever focused a telescope to look? And the larger question, could the existence of these points offer some explanation ...
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### How can I measure the ability of sunglasses to block UV radiation?

The most important function of sunglasses is to protect the eye against UV radiation. When they don't adequately filter ultraviolet (UV) light, it may even be worse to wear them than not to, because ...
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### Is the Universe a 4D elastic shell that is contracting with time, where particles are traveling waves or standing waves of energy density? [on hold]

In gravitational red shift, “the phenomenon known as the red shift of a photon is really the blue shift of an atom.” This conclusion also applies to Galactic redshift. According to Hubble’s law, when ...
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### Free fall motion of a body [on hold]

A ball is projected vertically upwards with an initial velocity of 100m/s. Find the speed of the ball at its maximum height Take g=10metre per second square.
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### Average velocity of a clock [on hold]

The minute hand opf a clock is 4 cm long Find the average velocity of the tip of the minute hand between 11:00 a.m to 11:30a.m and 11:00 a.m to 11:30 p.m
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### Motion of particle in $T$ seconds [on hold]

A particle starts moving from rest position ($v = 0$) under a constant acceleration $a$. If it travels a distance $\Delta{x}$ in time $T$, what distance will it travel in the next time $T$?
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### What fills the space between the galaxies, stars and planets? [duplicate]

What fills the space between the galaxies, stars and planets with the exception of gas clouds, dust, atoms, elementary particles and electromagnetic radiation? What the authoritative opinions exist on ...
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### Shear flow in J section type beam

What does the distribution of shear flow look like in a J section type beam. I'm only interested in a qualitative picture of it. I'm not interested in the calculations themselves. It is the top of the ...
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### Heat equation with heat loss to surroundings

I am trying to model one dimensional heat diffusion within a uniform copper rod with insulated ends. In addition, I am including a term that models the heat loss to the surroundings from the lateral ...
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### Can a photon have little to no energy and/or speed?

Can a photon move more slowly than the speed of light and behave 'non-relativistically,' so to speak. Perhaps another way to express my thought is: could we stop a photon from moving?
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### Does a free electron, one that's not either in an atom or a wire, have an associated wave-function?

Would a free electron, one that's not either in an atom or moving through a wire, but moving through empty space on its own, have an associated wave-function? Or, is an electron described as a ...
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If I have an infinite plate with the surface charge of sigma. I know that my electric field is constant $2\pi\sigma$ (using Gauss's law). If I build the Gaussian surface above the plate the charge ...
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### Can tachyons escape the gravitational pull of a black hole?

Anything that crosses the event horizon of a black hole cannot escape the pull since it has crossed the Schwarzschild radius and thus, the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light, and since ...
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### Expanding free scalar field in terms of ladder operators

I'm having some difficulty with the finer points of expanding a field in terms of ladder operators. Note that this is not identical to the other related question I asked. From Peskin / Schroeder; ...
I was thinking about the nature of the atom, specifically, why electrons do not spiral into the nucleus. My physics book says the principal quantum number $n$ must be an integer number of wave ...