# All Questions

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### Is it possible for oxygen in the ocean to undergo nuclear fusion?

Could the oxygen in the ocean undergo oxygen burning (uncontrolled self-sustained fusion) if struck by a very large meteor or exposed to a similarly devastating cosmic catastrophe? Is it possible for ...
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### What is the difference between accelerating and boosting?

My professor claimed in class that there was a difference between an acceleration and a boost. I don't really understand the distinction. If you want to go to a different inertial frame of reference, ...
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### How do you compute pressure at a pipe inlet if the pipe is leaking between the inlet and the outlet/pressure measurement point [closed]

This is a real world problem: I have a vertical pipe (a well ~800' deep); I have an unknown but reasonably fixed (artesian) pressure at the pipe inlet; I can only measure pressure at the pipe outlet; ...
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### Effective resistance across 2 adjacent vertices of a dodecahedron with each edge $r$

What will be the effective resistance across 2 adjacent vertices of a regular dodecahedron (12 faces) with each edge having resistance $r$? Here is the source for the problem, it's problem 20. on ...
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### How should speed be expressed in Frenet-Serret frame of reference? [closed]

I'm looking for the equation of motion of the ball on a vertical plane with a cylindrical profile. I guess that means I have to use the frame of reference of Frenet-Serret here. Why is the speed of ...
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### Redshift due to a static gravitational field and the conservation of energy [duplicate]

I am standing on the surface of some planet. Gravity is described via General Relativity with some static metric (e.g. the Schwarzschild metric, so static means no time dependence, but the metric may ...
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### Reflection of light on semi-infinite solid

The following statement is often made concerning reflection on glass: "When light is normally incident on a glass surface, about 4% gets reflected and the rest is transmitted. The reflected wave is ...
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### Mass and friction

Assume I have a block of mass $m$ on a rough surface. Let's say I apply a force $F$ to the block to get it sliding. Common sense tells me that the heavier the block, the more force it takes to keep ...
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### Thermodynamics and Newton's second law

Is it correct to say, that the Newton's laws (or a Newtonian system) is reversible if the friction isn't considered (the fact that the time is of second order $\frac{d^2x}{dt^2}$) and an isolated ...
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### What is the real cause of the boiling (forming of bubbles) of water?

I've got a question about the boiling of water. I'm a first year physics student and from the Netherlands. I've searched alot about the boiling of water and this confused me. Everyone said something ...
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### Is my expansion of the state $| x \rangle$ correct? [duplicate]

In my quantum mechanics textbook it says that the relation between the basis $|x\rangle$ and $|p\rangle$ is given by: $\langle p | x \rangle = \Large \frac{e^{-ip x/ \hbar}}{\sqrt{2\pi \hbar}} \, .$ ...
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### Approximate cloning of a qubit, given multiple starting copies

Suppose I'm given several clones of a qubit in a pure unentangled state. That is to say, I'm given the state $(a \left|0\right\rangle + b \left|1\right\rangle)^{\otimes n}$. My goal is to make $d$ ...
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### two object connected by a spring : momentum/energy topic [closed]

Here is my question below: Question Two objects A and B, connected by a light elastic spring with elastic constant 5.0 N/m, are initially at rest. The mass A is 2.0 kg and the mass B is 1.0 kg. ...
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### What does it mean for a particle to be subjected to 'more than one' simple harmonic motion? [closed]

Also what can we say now about its --> Resulting Energy? -> Resulting Amplitude? -> Maximum Velocity? Please help as I am not able to understand the process going on. I also tried to represent this ...
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### Energy of a relativist electron [closed]

I need to find a way to obtain $E = mc^2(\gamma -1)$ by starting with : $E = mc \cdot p = mc \cdot v \cdot \gamma$ with $\gamma = \frac {1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}$
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### Basic PE question about moving a planet.

If you lifted enormous masses (eg. many gigantic rocks) at one point (A) of the planet's equator. Then after 180 degree planet rotation, released the potential energy by lowering the rocks (B). (*...
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### can we bend EM waves with any fundamental force except with gravity

can we bend EM waves with any fundamental force except with gravity....like a machine invented by nikola tesla actually,wat my question is there is a auto biography of nikola tesla....he says that ...
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### Meaning of “realism” in quantum mechanics

When physicists doing work in quantum measurement, decoherence, Bells' inequalities etc. use the term "realism" what exactly do they mean? I'm looking for answers targeted towards, say, someone whose ...
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### Can we determine the location of a radio station if we know the wavelength and frequency of radio wave emitted by that radio station?

let say that we can detect the wavelength and frequency of radio wave then can we detect that from where these radio waves are coming or from how much distance these waves are coming?
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### Quantum mechanics of electron beam and measurement

I'm trying to understand the following phenomenon quantum mechanically: Problem statement If I'm shooting an electron beam (using a vacuum tube for example) and I have a measuring device at a ...
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### Is energy related to work or is it an entirely different thing?

I was reading about work done and energy, and I got to know some things. Let's take a simple example: Suppose I move an object to a certain height. Here, I apply a force against the force of gravity ...
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### Why can't the entropy of an isolated system decrease? [duplicate]

I read that heat cannot flow from cooler body to hotter because for that entropy of the system becomes negative. Why is that so? Why we cannot have negative entropy?
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### How to estimate wind speed from a pressure difference?

Does a formula (or a rule of thumb) exist to estimate the wind speed between a high pressure area and a low pressure area given the pressure difference between the two areas? Only the wind resulting ...
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### Coherence of pressure and mass flow in a pipe [closed]

What is the coherence of pressure and mass-flow in a horizontal pipe? Let's assume I have just one pipe with pressure = 1.5 bar at the input and through pressure-losses 1.2bar at the output. Is there ...
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### Intuitions for the simplest model in which the evolution of the laws of nature arises from the natural selection of structures [closed]

The problem I’m trying to solve can be described as To create the simplest model possible in which the evolution of the laws of nature arises from the natural selection of structures. This approach ...