# All Questions

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### How can quantum tunnelling lead to spontaneous decay?

I have never understood what measuring process (if any) is supposed to be continuously polling the quantum state of an unstable bound system subjected to decay via quantum tunnelling. The reason I ...
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### Force against mg when block is connected to block and held horizontally

In the image attached, what would be the force that would balance out the gravitational force $mg$? The block is also not accelerating downwards so there should be some force acting on the block to ...
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### Frame dragging VS Mach's principle: rotating body in an empty universe

What I understand about Mach's principle VS modern physics: According to classical physics, there are ways to distinguish weather a body is rotating or not. For example if it is rotating, the ...
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### Do AGN produce protons that are relativistic enough to collide with the CMB and make pions?

AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) produce protons in their jets and they are relativistic. I was reading about photo-pion production, where a proton and photon annihilate to produce a pion. Could this ...
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### Are we approaching Bremermann's Limit, or running from it? [on hold]

Is computational density increasing, or decreasing? Or, more generally, is the computational density of a given region of space know to strictly to increase with time? (Is it linked with entropy and ...
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### Why is the magnetic unit twice the electric one in CGS?

In CGS system the electric unit is the esu or statcoulomb equal to 2.08*10^9 charges and two such units repel with a force of 1 dyne. Magnetic force ratio is v^2/c^2, therefore the magnetic unit is ...
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### PDF from number of standard deviations plot

I must consider plots like these where the bounds on $x$ (in this case $\sin^2\theta_{12}$ or $\delta/\pi$) are shown in terms of the number of standard deviations $N\sigma$ from the best-fit value. ...
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### Does the definition of the metre have to take into account spacetime curvature?

The definition of the metre is: The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second Does this have to be modified in a ...
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### Carnot engine basics?

A line in my textbook says.. ' if we employ any other process that is not adiabatic, say an isochoric process, to take the system from one temperature to another, we shall need a series of ...
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### Is Entropy Maximized, or Just Increased?

Do different real processes involve different rates of change of entropy? (Is the rate of change of entropy constant with time throughout all regions of space, or perhaps in other words, constant with ...
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### Can potential energy exist in the absence of gravity?

Can other forms of potential energy exist that use forces besides gravity, such as magnetism, or simply the pull provided by a moving body to which the object whose potential energy is being measured ...
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### Determination of the electric field of charged object using Gauss's law

when we determine the electric field of a charged rod of infinite length,we consider a circular cylinder to be the gaussian surface for convenience.In the case of a charged sheet we choose the ...
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### Standard Minimal Reference Set of Poroelastic Parameters

I am coding a poroelastic reservoir simulator which requires the input of poroelastic parameters of the reservoir rocks. Detournay and Cheng, "Fundamentals of Poroelasticity" (1993) state that: ...
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### Is there one wavefunction per field? [on hold]

Is the big picture of quantum field theory that: There are fields (EM, electron, Higgs, gravity, etc.) A field can be described by a wavefunction indicating the probability density of 1 or more ...
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### Coupling a spinor field to a preexisting scalar field?

So I'm not a physicist, but I'm thinking about a mathematical problem where I think physical insight might be useful. We're working on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ (positive definite metric) with a ...
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### why was necessary the discovered of electromagnetism? [on hold]

Need to know much more for the necessity of electromagnetism. http://www.ck12.org/physical-science/Discovery-of-Electromagnetism-in-Physical-Science/lesson/Discovery-of-Electromagnetism-MS-PS/
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### Springs, elastic potential energy, kinetic energy

If a ball with some kinetic energy collides with a spring, the ball doesn't lose its kinetic energy in an instant, right? it loses kinetic energy as the spring gains potential elastic energy. Right? ...
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### Eigenstates of 2D harmonic oscillator in a constant magnetic field

I want to find the eigenstates of the 2D harmonic oscillator in a constant magnetic field $\vec B = \vec B(x,y)$. My Hamiltonian reads $H_0 = H_{xy} + H_z$ where $H_{xy}$, is the hamiltonian of the ...
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### Experiment to determine the specific heats of a gas using a resistance heater [on hold]

Can anyone explain briefly how this experiment will be conducted and what measurements i need to take and record?? i need a brief idea to start doing it. Can anyone here pls help me??
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### Vacuum chamber in a space rocket? [on hold]

FYI I am a complete noob in the field of rocket design. Question: Why don't space rockets that take off vertically from the ground have a vacuum chamber in the rocket during takeoff? Also, is the ...
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### Why do TM and TE modes coexist in glass fiber?

I have read that TM (transverse magnetic) and TE (transverse electric) modes of the electromagnetic field of light travelling in a glass optic fiber cable coexist. I want to know the precise ...
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### Force at the centre of gravity

If we somehow apply a force direct to the center of gravity (existing inside an object ) , does it increase the angular velocity of a rotating object as it does in normal case ?
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### Soft question - Why do theoretical physics ? and what is its motivation? [on hold]

Okay some background - I am a Theoretical physics graduate student (and i would go even further calling myself a math person) and quite recently I have been into this question and am finding it hard ...
A tau lepton mass's is $1.8$ $\frac{GeV}{c^{2}}$ and has a life time of $0.3ps$. Find $\frac{\Delta m}{m}$. My first idea was calculate the energy uncertainty, then I tried to find $\Delta m$ but, I ...
I'm trying to use the velocity Verlet integrator to simulate a damped driven pendulum (with unit mass) described by $\ddot{\phi}+\gamma \dot{\phi}+\omega_0^2 sin\phi=Acos(\Omega t)$ The Verlet ...