# All Questions

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### Motional emf and ohm's law

Suppose a thin, closed loop of wire is in motion in a static magnetic field. Let's define a few things $$\vec{F_B} = \vec{w}\times\vec{B}$$ $$\Phi = \int_S \vec{B}.\vec{dS}$$ ...
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### Why does this ball have potential energy at its lowest point?

A ball of radius $r_0$ starts from rest at point $A$ on the inside of a track of radius $R_0$. The question is what will its speed be when it reaches the lowest point of the track, point $B$, ...
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### Newton's Second law of Rotation

In my book (Halliday Resnick Walker) there is a solved example which is as follows There is a uniform disk with mass $M$ = 2.5kg and radius $R$ = 20cm, mounted on a fixed horizontal axle. A block ...
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### Should gravitational waves be discovered already?

Gravitational waves are not discovered directly (yet). But does this have any consequences? Should we suspect out theories are wrong or not yet? I found some data about gravitational waves suspected ...
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### Sphaleron interactions erase baryon asymmetry?

The sphaleron interactions in the standard model is $(B-L)$ conserving and $(B+L)$ violating. Each sphaleron transition causes $\Delta B$ and $\Delta L$ to change by the same amount so that ...
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### How hot is Plutonium-238 in Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs)?

As I understand it, Plutonium-238 is used to provide power through heat generation in radioisotope thermoelectric generators. My question is... how hot is a pellet of Plutonium-238? Does the heat ...
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### Probe/Sensor-design for pulsed electromagnetic field

So I have a wire/coil, acting as a sender, which has a pulsed signal as described below. I would like to build a sensor/probe that can detect the electric field at a distance, where the primary goal ...
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### Equations of motion in Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory [closed]

I've started with the Maxwell-Chern-Simons lagrangian (in 2+1 dimensions): $$L_{MCS}=-\frac{1}{4}F^{\mu \nu}F_{\mu\nu}+\frac{g}{2} \epsilon^{\mu \nu \rho}A_\mu\partial_\nu A_\rho$$ From this ...
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### Why does moving near light speed keep you young? [duplicate]

As was shown in the movie Interstellar, when you go close to a black hole or move near the speed of light in space, then your clock runs slower than a clock on Earth. In the movie, Matthew ...
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### Rolling without slipping and friction

When a ball rolling without slipping along an inclined plane reaches the bottom, it has a linear velocity $v$ and angular velocity $\omega\ =v/r$ at the bottom. Then it continues its motion on the ...
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### Bowling Ball Sinking Rate - Variable or Constant?

In today's (Jan. 16, 2014) xkcd What If?, Randall Munroe discusses how fast a bowling ball will sink to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He calculates the drag on the ball, and then plugging in the ...
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### Is electron interference because of energy transformation from wave to particle and vice versa?

I read about electron interference that in presence of photons there are no fringes formed but in its absence fringe patterns are formed. Can it be explained like this. An electron travels free as a ...
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### Spatial coherence of SLED light (width of active region?)

As far as I know, super-luminescent diodes (a.k.a. SLEDs) have a very similar structure to laser diodes, except that the front faces of the active region are tilted to prevent the sort of reflections ...
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### Why is the isothermal compressibility of the ideal boson gas larger than of the classical ideal gas?

Recently I came across (or well, derived in a lecture) the isothermal compressibility for an ideal boson gas. This was done in the context of statistical physics, using the quantum version of the ...
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### Group notation $\otimes$ and $\oplus$ used for representations of quarks and mesons

I've been trying to figure out this statement from the PDG quark model summary (PDF). Following $\mathrm{SU}(3)$, the nine possible $q\bar{q}′$ combinations containing the light $u$, $d$, and $s$ ...
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### Physical interpretation of diffeomorphism from $SO(3)$ to $\mathbb R \mathbb P^3$

I am not good at picturing either $SO(3)$ or $\mathbb R \mathbb P^3$, the latter denoting the real projective space. Can someone give me a rough physical understanding of the geometry and implication ...