# All Questions

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### Water compressibility and pressure

I am so sorry if I am missing something, but for some reason I am very confused on how water can have pressure but not be compressible. If pressure is created by individual molecules bumping into the ...
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### How much time a ball stays at rest when throw up?

You throw a ball straight up in the air. The ball attains its maximum height when it is momentarily at rest,(v=0). How mutch time is this moment? If we take time has continuous it is an infinitesimal ...
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### Net acceleration of an object if too many forces are acting on it? [on hold]

Consider an object thrown upward with a force which is much greater than its weight. Obviously the object will stop after a certain interval of time due to air resistance. But what if there is no air ...
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### Time ordering of Fermion operators

If $A$ and $B$ are fermion operators then the time ordering is defined as \begin{eqnarray} T(AB) = \left\{ \begin{array}{rl} AB, & \mbox{ if $B$ precedes $A$}\\ -BA, & \mbox{if $A$ precedes ...
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### Electric Flux in a Gaussian Surface

Why is electric flux of a charge everywhere inside a Gaussian Surface constant? I want explanation ( not from any equation ).
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### Ampere's law for a rectangular plate?

If a conductive wire was carrying current $I$, it would create a magnetic field: $$B=\frac{\mu_0I}{2\pi r}$$ However, if it's not a wire, but instead a plate how would the expression change/adjust ...
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### Why an object with double length have the same friction?

I didn't really got the highlighted part.
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### How do we determine if a certain physical quantity is a vector?

For instance in Newtonian physics we treat position of objects, displacements, velocities, forces, momenta, angular velocities etc all as vector quantities (little arrows in space which have a certain ...
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### Eddy current damping heat generation

Background According to this source (page 7): https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/109373/me450w10project16_report.pdf?sequence=1 the "braking" torque a magnetic field on a ...
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### How does one compute the maximum height reached by the water droplets in this experiment and what is the theory behind such phenomenon?

Hot Water Fountain - Partially fill a Mohr pipette with hot water. Cover the top of the pipette with your thumb. Turn the tip upwards and observe the fountain exiting the tip. Investigate the ...
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### Is it possible to find the G forces of one of the axis rather than the total?

I am investigating the g-forces and acceleration experienced on roller coasters and have data for $x$, $y$ and $z$ acceleration every $0.2$ seconds of the ride as well as the total acceleration and ...
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### How does the area of illumination affect the numerical aperture / optical resolution of an optical system?

I have been reading an optics paper in which they designed a microscope with the following setup. A light source passes through a small pinhole, illuminates a sample, which then forms a diffraction ...
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### Quantum Mechanics: Rotation operators

How do I know what direction of the rotation operator to use on the initial state of a spin-1/2 particle? For example, a spin-1/2 particle initially in the $\lvert y \rangle$ state enters a SGz ...
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### What is the relationship between potential energy and electrical potential?

I actually always thought this was trivial, now I am not so sure. For a potential $\phi$ the potential energy is $V=q\phi$ where q is a test charge. Now I am thinking this may work differently in two ...
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### Momentum of a rack and pinion gear system excited by a time variant force

Background I have a rack and pinion gear system as shown in the image below The pinion gear is attached to a flywheel at the back. The first state of the system, none of the gears or the ...
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### Frames of reference, relativity, and a ball thrown in the air

Ever since my high school physics days I found relativity fascinating but I don't think I have great insight even into special relativity. For example, in almost every lesson or video they give an ...
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### Can an accelerometer be used to determine orientation of a rocket under power?

I saw a project on Hackaday featuring a model rocket with moveable fins to stabilize the rocket's trajectory: Hackaday. The goal was to arc the rocket to a horizontal trajectory and keep it there. In ...
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### How can I prove that the Euler-Bernoulli beam PDE is Hamiltonian?

How can I prove that the Euler-Bernoulli beam PDE is Hamiltonian? I'm having trouble with the above. I have the Hamiltonian: how can I prove this is Hamiltonian in structure?
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### Net force equal to mass multiplied by acceleration of centre of mass [on hold]

$F=ma$ if $a=0$ then definitely the net force applied will be also zero (0). then, in this case $m=F/a$. If both net force and acceleration(of centre of mass) is equal to zero (0). then, isn't mass ...
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### Rotation of a vector

Is a vector necessarily changed when it is rotated through an angle? I think a vector always gets changed because its projection will change, and also its inclination with axes will always change. ...
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### How do I model the motion of a particle changing acceleration vector (2D)?

I want to model a particle with an arbitrary initial velocity, and estimate the time it takes to reach a final point given a constant magnitude of acceleration. It should take the quickest path to the ...
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### How fast should 6 liters flow out of the sink through a 6cm pipe?

I had 6 liters in the sink when I pulled the plug. It took the water about 30 seconds to get through a pipe which has about 5cm in diameter. I think the pipe might be blocked a bit, causing it to have ...
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### Formation of nucleus [on hold]

Is it even remotely possible for a nucleus to be formed in the following way? Consider two nucleons approaching each other at extreme speeds. Could the relativistic increase in mass be so high to ...
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### What is quantum foam?

Can someone please explain me what quantum foam is? Is it the space-time fabric or just any other field? Also please explain this image