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Does a negative and a positive charged body repel vs. attract a suspended negative charged ball with the same strength?

In this question I'm in trouble about my statement, that the measurement instrument does not influence the electron's electric field. It seems to me that only the repelling force between negatively ...
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Chi Square Minimization [migrated]

In my data analysis I've found that my $\chi^2$ is turning out to be very small $\sim10^{-3}$. But this can't be true, for the errors in the fitting variables themselves are of the order of ...
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Does a source emitting visible light also emit infrared, microwave and radio waves?

I have a bulb which is hot enough to emit visible light and obviously it's hot enough to emit radiation which lies before the visible light temperature i.e. radio waves, microwaves, and infrared ...
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Is the electron's magnetic dipole moment influenced by the measurement method?

The electric charge of an electron at rest is a constant value and is not influenced by the measurement instrument. The measurement instrument by itself can give more or less accurate result, but does ...
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Why does the light instantly disappear when we switch off the source?

For example i take a box which is completely covered by the most perfect mirrors possible inside and inside that box i have a bulb whose bulb holder is also covered with the most perfect mirrors ...
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What are the reactions that take place inside battery at the quantum level?

I was just studying about how a battery works on the internet and found out that there are reactions of chemicals which make the electrons move. But what exactly happens inside a battery (lets take a ...
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Difference between a light wave in space and a wave in a pond

Apart from their nature and the medium utilized, what are the differences between an EM wave and a wave we see in a pond? When we throw a stone into a pond, can we imagine we are observing light ...
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What will be the final temperature of water when heating at a a rate 10J/s?

If I supply heat of rate 10W to water of mass 250g and initial temperature of water is 29 degC then what will be the final temperature of water when steady state is reached. **Water is heating in open ...
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About environmental lapse rate [on hold]

On a spring day a middle-latitude city about latitude 40N and a temperature of 10°C has a surface (sea-level) environmental vertical soundings reveal a nearly constant lapse rate of 6.5°C per ...
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Understanding wave packets, in particular matter waves, dispersion and point particles

Here is what I have gathered so far: Particles like an electron (i.e. with rest mass) can be represented as matter waves (deBroglie). The matter wave of a particle can be modelled a wave packet. A ...
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Do physicists theorize an origin to the big bang?

Do we have any theory that covers a possibility of the big bang's origin? This seems like the most difficult question of all. Logic tells us that every effect has a cause. But every cause must be the ...
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Is a big bang capable of producing infinite outcomes?

I hear commonly about the (perhaps silly)idea of there being an infinite number of universes, a new one for each possible difference. For example there would be a universe where I'm a millionaire. ...
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Is it possible to make an electromagnetic shield?

Is it possible to make an electromagnetic shield to protect something (or ourselves) against things like bullets, human attacks, metals thrown on us or simple dust particles to protect a spaceship ...
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Angular velocity formula for a particle?

I know that when the motion of a particle is circular about the origin then: $$\vec v=\vec \omega \times \vec r$$ But that this does not hold for any motion with a radial as well as tangential ...
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Does the microgravity environment in highly elliptical orbits differ from circular orbits?

I think everyone understands the microgravity environment broadcast from the ISS. But the ISS stays in a fairly circular orbit, the acceleration of gravity should be fairly uniform, the altitude and ...
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Travelling through a worm hole

In every documentary I've seen about worm holes, I have noticed that they usually say that according to the General Theory of Relativity, there could exist worm holes called traversable wormholes; ...
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What algebraic structure does the collection of all physical quantities form?

What algebraic structure -- by which I'm referring to abstract algebra theoretic ones such as ring, field, module, etc. -- does the collection of all physical quantities form? An related and/or ...
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Is this the reason why acceleration is said absolute?

I've seem sometimes people saying that although uniform motion on a straight line cannot be detected and hence it is not absolute, acceleration is indeed absolute in Classical Mechanics (I don't know ...
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Converting $F^2$ to $C^2$

I'm trying to convert Fahrenheit squared $F^2$ into Celsius squared $C^2$. I know how to convert a value $x$ in $F$ into $C$ with: $\frac{5}{9}(x - 32)$ I also know how to convert a value $x$ in ...
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Form of the S matrix for interacting scalar field [on hold]

The solution for the equation $S^{-1} c_k^{in} S = c_k^{in} + f_ k$ is S= $exp(f_k^{*}c_k^{in} - f_kc_k^{in*})$. Here $c_k^{in}$ is an operator and $f_k$ is a c number. This is the equation for ...
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First principle band structure calculation

In many literature, we see plots of the energy band structure from DFT simulation. How these eigen-energies are obtained as function of k within the DFT framework? Are they the physical quasiparticle ...
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Is density functional theory a mean-field theory?

Is density functional theory exact or just a mean-field theory?
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Fourier Transform and Canonical Transform

According to a book I'm reading, Fourier transform is a canonical transform. Anyone can prove that?
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Force and lions

Alright. So me and some other people right now need an answer to this. If you have 1 trillion lions traveling at 81 kilometers (top speed of a lion) towards the Sun in a pretty dense ball. (As dense a ...
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What is the terminal velocity of a tungsten cylinder 20ft long and 2ft wide? (if it had a more aerodynamic end) [on hold]

I read somewhere that the drag coefficient of a sphere is 0.5. so I tried calculating with that and got 4150 MPH. I don't know if 1 would be a flat end or not. However I would assume if you were ...
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Are nuclear processes the only processes that release more energy than is input?

Are the nuclear processes of fission and fusion the only known processes or events that release more energy than is input to create those processes? I know I am being a little vague; I do not know the ...
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Question about a car on a banked turn with no friction

A popular physics page explaining how a car can make a banked turn even with no friction : gives the following free body diagram and then says In the vertical direction there is no ...
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Translation of the Mechanique analytique [on hold]

Is there an English translation of the Mechanique analytique by Lagrange that is free? I have tried searching up online, however I only get French originals. The English translations seem all to be ...