# All Questions

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### Spring motion that involve the calculation [on hold]

A 100 g mass hangs on the end of a spring suspended vertically. When 40 g are added the spring stretches an additional 5 cm. With this extra mass, the spring now set into vertical oscillation with ...
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### Tensor product of Hadamard Operators

The Hadamard Operator on one qubit is: \begin{align*} H = \tfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left[\,\left(\color{darkgreen}{|0\rangle + |1\rangle}\right)\color{darkblue}{\langle ...
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### Cart on Ramp with Varying Acceleration

For a lab that I have to do, the teacher has given me a data table of the displacement of a cart on a ramp after successive intervals of time. I have used this data to derive the velocities and ...
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### How was this dot identified as a mystery planet originally (Pluto in this case)?

I was watching a documentary on a mission to study Pluto. At 21:11, an image is presented with an arrow mark pointing a small dot which is now identified as Pluto. As there are hundreds of dots on ...
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### Why do we require the generators of $\mathrm{SU(N)}$ gauge theories to be $N \times N$ matrices?

I have often read that the generators for $\mathrm{SU(N)}$ gauge theories must be $N \times N$ matrices; see for instance these notes at the top of page 3: ...
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### Seiberg-Witten theory and Superconductivity

There seems to have some (deep) relation between Seiberg-Witten theory and superconductivity. e.g. this Witten paper. Q: Could someone introduce the relations between the twos both physically in ...
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### Fractional quantum number induced in a soliton profile

It has been known there is fractional quantum number induced in a soliton profile, such as this Jeffrey Goldstone and Frank Wilczek paper and many works of Jackiw. For example the electric charge ...
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### Collision between electron and photon viewed from the center of momentum [on hold]

I have difficulty with the following problem: In the laboratory system, a photon with frequency $\nu$ is launched on an electron at rest. Find the velocity of the center of momentum system defined ...
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### Aurora Effect from Galactic Wind?

The Solar Wind creates auroras due to interactions with Earth's Magnetic Field. Do we witness any similar effects from the Galactic Wind interaction with the Sun's Magnetic Field?
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### What does the electric field caused by a charged cylinder look like?

I am talking about a cylinder with a large enough radius:length ration that it cannot just be treated as a line. I would think that the electric field lines come out the curved and flat surfaces ...
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### Quadrupling Power in a Circuit

If I have a heating wire with resistance $R$ to be connected across a constant potential difference $V$, it would seem like cutting the wire into two (thus each having half the resistance) and ...
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### 1+1D Bosonization on a line segment or a compact ring

I have been informed that 1+1D Bosonization/Fermionization on a line segment or 1+1D Bosonization/Fermionization a compact ring are different - Although I know that Bosonization can rewrite fermions ...
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### Saturation of an iron core?

Lets assume we have a 1 kg iron core, and a 100 kg iron core. Now saturation is defined as how much that core can absorb the magnetic field, since they are different sizes, don't they saturate at ...
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### Second Rank Tensors [duplicate]

I'm a little confused, for the twentieth time, on what tensors are. I thought they were a generalization of matrices-but then they have special transformation rules. I'm looking for a concise ...
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### How do magnetic objects exhibit attraction/repulsion across empty space?

Magnets will attract or repel over a distance before physically touching each other. What makes this effect possible? My best guess is that the forces generated by the angular momentum of the ...
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### Techniques to cool gas to -100 celsius degrees

I am planning to design a scrubber system to separate CO2 and some other gases from a gas mixture. For this purpose, I thought to cool the gas below CO2's boiling point which is -57 Celsius. There are ...
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### How do you calculate the air and water pressure inside the bell siphon during and after the vacuum is formed?

I am interested in the math/physics behind the simple bell siphon. In this YouTube video, the presenter says that the space in the top of the bell becomes a vacuum when the water flow eventually fills ...
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### Derivation of existence of energy band gap in semiconductor (solid State)

I am looking for both a mathematical and a physical reason for energy band gap in metals. For Physical reason, I was told that at each reciprocal lattice, you could have Bragg scattering, that would ...
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### Difference in chemical potential in supersaturated solutions

I have been more or less struggeling to understand an equation that is apparently used in almost all books covering crystals in any way. Basically every book that I have found explains the following: ...
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### Positive Mass Theorem [duplicate]

I'm a third year maths undergrad doing a project on minimal surfaces. However I'm really struggling to understand what the PMT is trying to explain? Could anyone help explain this (as simply as ...
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### Numerical: Work Power Energy [on hold]

A particle moves along a straight line. A force acts on the particle which produces a constant power. It starts with initial velocity 3 m/s and after moving a distance 252 m its velocity is 6 m/s. ...
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### quasiparticles resembling monopole energy generator

Is it possible using quasiparticles that superficially resemble monopoles to make a generator providing a sustainable source of power
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### Spring Damper System for a Vibrating Motor

Good day people of SE I have a friend that has a final year project and is stuck. He has a motor with a small weight at the end of the shaft that causes vibrations. This motor is on a thin plate. ...
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### Zeno’s Paradox of the Arrow

Premises And the Conclusion of the Paradox: (1) When the arrow is in a place just its own size, it’s at rest. (2) At every moment of its flight, the arrow is in a place just its own size. (3) ...
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### When light scattering become isotropic and diffusion theory

I'm coming from a totally different background so first all sorry if this question is malformed or with mistakes. I'm studying the subsurface scattering in the context of the computer graphics. In ...
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### What is a temperature gradient? What's it's SI unit? [on hold]

What is a temperature gradient? What's it's SI unit? Temperature gradient has a si unit or not, definition of temperature gradient and state it's unit
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### Prerequsites for Zee's QFT [duplicate]

What would be a good book or books for a sufficient prerequisite for Zee's book QFT in a nutshell? I have had a course in QM and relativistic QM, but I think there are some gaps that needs to be ...
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### Change in focal length of lens inside water

I read it on Yahoo Answers (link below) that the power of lens changes when the lens is placed inside water. But then, if we consider the formula f=c/2 , the radius if curvature of the lens still ...