# All Questions

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### What causes the light spectrum to appear on oil surface? [duplicate]

I have observed that when petrol or oil leaks, the light spectrum appear on it. What causes light to split into its constituent colours?
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### Importance of periodic orbits

In the study of dynamical systems, one often talks about solutions that repeat themselves after a certain time, hence their name of "periodic orbits". Then one moves to the distinction of "stable" ...
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### Since no current flows, the voltage is 0?

I didn't understand that , "Since no current flows in the ammeter the potentioal difference is 0 " How did they conclude that? I made this example So i made this example in paints , (R square ...
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### Can time be Quantised? [duplicate]

Can time be quantised? Would it be the smallest distance between two photons moving in the same direction or the shortest wavelength?
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### Light angles measured in moving reference fame (SR, homework)

I've managed to get through all of this question without trouble until part d). The full question is given here: I've calculated the "true" angles of Star A and Star B as 71.57 degrees and 45 ...
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### Is the continuity (discontinuity) one of the intrinsic properties of all physical objects?

Is the continuity (discontinuity) one of the intrinsic properties of all physical objects? How do we define continuity? Which of the definitions of continuity are used (and why) in physics? This ...
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### Why don't objects following a geodesic maintain their rotational state?

If I throw a ball into the air, it comes back down because that is the shape of spacetime and the ball is just following it. But if I paint a spot on the ball and throw it upwards with no rotational ...
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### What will happen to a human if he/she falls down into particle accelerator? [closed]

I saw a TV series The Flash which is about physics fiction. What happens if a human comes into contact with a bombardment of particles in a particle accelerator?
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### Is $E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2$ correct, or is $E=mc^2$ the correct one?

I have been having trouble distinguishing these two equations and figuring out which one is correct. I have watched a video that says that $E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2$ is correct, but I do not know why. It ...
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### Clausius statement of the 2nd Law

I'm slightly messed up with the Clausius statement of the 2nd Law. I've seen at least two versions, which seem to be conceptually different. a) It is impossible to transfer heat from a colder body ...
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### Why are we not able to move at the speed of light again? [duplicate]

In many many answers here and papers everywhere, it's often stated that no object can move faster than light. Why is that again?
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### Most efficient way to cool a two story house with two fans?

Suppose I have two fans in my two story house, one in an upstairs window and another in a downstairs window. I want to cool my whole house; it is cooler outside than inside. Is it more efficient for ...
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### Can the strings in string theory be thought of as troughs in a field?

I figure that string theory is a new breed of QFT which looks at fields in terms of a network of strings and also incorporates gravity into its module, however my question is that since elementary ...
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### How much further can I throw a baseball (148 grams) than a grenade (453 grams)?

Question: Over a flat plane, how much further can I throw a Major League baseball than I can an M67 grenade? Major League baseball: 148 grams M67 frag grenade: 453 grams For a baseline of how ...
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### How does the Darma - Smart Cushion work? Explanation of the new fiber loop ring-down spectroscopy

How does the Darma - Smart cushion monitor your sitting position and obtain the breathing rate, body movements, and BCG (Ballistocardiography) signals? The creators say that they accomplish this by ...
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### What does an excitation in a field mean?

The term "field excitation" is used a lot especially when I hear about the Higgs boson. However, I cannot find an explanation of what precisely that means. I have a few questions relating to this. ...
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### Why is electricity so successful (how to explain the variety of transducers we have discovered)

From piezoelectric crystals, to loudspeakers, microphones, hydrophones, strain gauges; electricity possesses the amazing ability to transfer energy/information to and from so many different media. I ...
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### Time dilation: faster or slower?

I was wondering about Time-dilation in Special Relativity. I am still a middle school student who wonders so please excuse me if I missed any important aspects. Let us assume we have a system of ...
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### How to prevent water droplets becoming larger on the tip of a nozzle?

I use an ordinary syringe to generate a single water droplet. However, it is not usually able to make a droplet smaller than 1 mm (because of surface tension forces, inner diameter of needle, etc.) ...
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### Applying the time evolution operator as a form of molecular dynamics

I had a kind of weird idea. In molecular dynamics, long timescale simulations (like protein folding) are a really hard problem because you can't "skip steps" of the simulation without huge ...
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### Problem Boltzmann distribution [closed]

I am trying to solve a problem about boltzmann distribution. If(A)=0.74 Uf(V)=0.037 Ia(A)=0.130 I have to find ...
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### Solving kinetic energy exercise through electrical work formula instead of voltage formula?

While studying electric potential, I run into an issue on exercise 43 of Chapter 24 of Fundamentals of Physics 8th ed. Vol. 3 (Halliday et al.). The exercise states the following, paraphrased: A ...
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### Boltzmann Distribution [duplicate]

I am trying to solve a problem about boltzmann distribution. If(A)=0.74 Uf(V)=0.037 Ia(A)=0.130 I have to find ...
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### Is it a postulate or a well proven fact that speed of light remains constant w.r.t any observer?

We usually heard that speed of light in vacuum $c$ remains same no matter how observer is moving? I am wondering whether is it taken as a postulate or a proven phenomenon that $c$ is constant ...
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### Pair production and initial separation

I was looking at the wiki article on electron-positron pair production (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production) and have a question. The article states that the photon energy needs to exceed ...
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### Distribution of current of a rotating cone

If I have a hollow cone (surface with no bottom cover ) as the one in the picture. The cone has surface charged density $\sigma$. It rotates around the symmetry axis with an angular velocity ...
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### What type of energy is Dark Energy?

What type of energy is Dark Energy? Just as the title says. Is it kinetic/potential or some other type?