# All Questions

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### What happens at lambda point?

When Boson gas approach lambda point (no matter from superfluid side or liquid side),the heat capacity tend to diverge, doesn't this mean that we can never drive the gas through lambda point?(cause we ...
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### Is it dangerous to use the water tap/bathe/shower during a thunderstorm?

As the title says, is there any danger in touching the water tap or sitting in a bath tub etc. inside the house during a thunderstorm? I heard that it is dangerous, as the lightning could hit some ...
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### Is the Earth the center of the Solar System? [duplicate]

Alright guys, so I attracted you with the title. Now, to preface the question, I am fully aware of the work of Copernicus, as well as the concepts of Heliocentrism and Barycentric Coordinates. I have ...
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### Two masses attached to a fixed vertical spring

The problem statement, all variables and given/known data Two mass-less springs with spring constant k = 1000 N/m each have 1 block attached (Spring A is fixed to the ceiling and is attached to ...
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### Is the first excited state of a superconducting qubit a stationary state?

A superconducting qubit is essentially an anharmonic oscillator with uneven spacings of the eigenstates. These states are eigenstates of the overall hamiltonian, which should mean that it is an energy ...
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### Can infrared lasers still do damage to things if they are powerful enough?

So I get that infrared light is not visible to the human eye without some sort of device to assist in helping you see it, but I was just wondering how that plays into things like lasers. I know you ...
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### The notion of fixing a gauge

I don't understand the notion of gauge fixing; can we choose any gauge or are there some restrictions? For example why can we choose $\nabla\phi = 0$ here: Determine the Electric field using ...
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### What instruments are used to determine the degree of water in the atmosphere of Mars?

More precisely, how does one go about measuring the small amount of water vapor in what is almost a vacuum by terrestrial standards?
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### Creation and annhilation operator in the Heisenberg picture

I am trying to calculate the time evolution of the creation/anni. operator in the Heisenber picture. On this webpage http://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes/node191.html, they used the ...
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### Relationship between phase velocity and group velocity with De Broglie postulates

If I have to show that the group velocity of a free particle is twice the phase velocity, is the following argument correct (avoiding to use the wave function and the momentum operator): For a ...
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### Why is $U(1)$ special when defining global charges?

For gauge groups like $SU(2)$ and $SU(3)$ etc. we know that observable states such as mesons or baryons must be charge neutral. However, for a $U(1)$ gauge group we can have charged initial states in ...
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### Ground state energy of Bose Einstein gas

I am wondering why BE gas ground state contribute no energy.if so, then dose it mean that if we drive the Bose gas to absolute zero,then it doesn't own any energy?
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### Experimental evidence of two neutrinos in muon decay?

We know that the pion decays into a lepton/neutrino pair while the muon decays into a muon neutrino, electron and electron neutrino. How do we distinguish them experimentally? Would the muon decay ...
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### Decay chain governed by first long-lived particle?

Suppose we have a decay chain reaction A->B->C-> ....Z Why is it a good assumption that the decay rate of all species in the chain is governed by the rate of the first long-lived one? Suppose B -> C ...
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### Log of a quantity and graphs in log-scale

Is there any difference between taking the logarithm of a quantity, and plotting a quantity in logarithmic scale?
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### What is the heaviest stable element in the center of the sun due to Photodisintegration?

Source that got me curious (page 5): http://astro1.physics.utoledo.edu/~megeath/ph6820/lecture27_ph6820.pdf High energy photons can cause larger, less stable elements to undergo fission. Uranium ...
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### What is the acceleration due to Earth's rotational and orbital movements?

What are the accelerations due to earths spin and orbital motion around the sun? It must be negligible otherwise humans would have been feeling it, are there any instruments that can measure it? would ...
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### Is there any other superfluid element except helium?

Is there any other superfluid element except helium? Everywhere we see and speak about superfluidity, we just speak about superfluid helium. but is't there any other element or material or system ...
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### Why is the elemental volume of a sphere equal to $4 \pi r^2dr$?

I was doing this question on calculating the electric field at a certain point in a sphere (length $r$ away from the centre), where the charge density is given by an equation. When I checked the ...
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### Part/Object Geometry

Given Inertia Tensor, Principal axes vectors, Center of Gravity, and the Moments. Is it possible to obtain object/part dimensions?
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### Expansion of solids on heating

I read that when we heat a solid, it expands! Based on circumstances it can expand in area, length and volume! My question is , that do they expand to a certain extent or keep on expanding, if we ...
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### Differences between empiric laws of Galileo and Kepler

Although in both cases we encounter empiric laws, as far as I know Galileo's laws of motion differ in some way from Kepler's laws of planetary movements. In what way?
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### How to write magnetic dipole transition hamiltonian using ladder operator?

The magnetic dipole transition Hamiltonian is $\hat{H}=\frac{e}{2m_ec}\hat{\mathbf{B}}\cdot\hat{\mathbf{L}}$ How do I express it in terms of ladder operator $\hat{L}_+$, $\hat{L}_-$, and the ...
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### Mermin Inequality

Suppose I want to calculate the maximum of Bell inequality for three parties system. In this case I will have 6 measurement directions (unit vectors). It has been done in the paper PHYSICAL REVIEW A ...
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### Why can't our universe be spherical? [duplicate]

if we happen to follow the bigbang singularity hypothesis, when he explosion occured shouldn't it expand in all directions. Seemingly our universe shouldn't have any boundaries. I searched for the ...
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### Why are we not able to visualize Dimensions beyond 3 (or maximum 4 including time)?

We consciously know and feel the first three dimensions and with some thinking time as well. But according to literature like String theory etc., we have many many more dimensions. We can readily ...
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### Normal coordinates for harmonic approximation (classical lattice vibration)

I am reading Jenő Sólyom's "Fundamentals of the Physcs of Solids" vol. 1. and i am very much stuck at this point (chapter 11.3.2 in the book): In the harmonic approximation the potential energy of a ...
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### Electrostatic potential due to two charge system

When we calculate electric potential energy of a two particle system, say first I bring $+q_1$ and then I bring $+q_2$ against $q_1$'s electric field. Say I get that $q_2$ charge to a point $r$ ...
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### What is a good book to learn AP Physics C? [duplicate]

I am looking to learn AP Physics C (if you are not acquainted with the curriculum see here), both the mechanics part and the electricity/magnetism part. I have not had much exposure to an AP-style ...
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### $H$ field in Faraday's law problem?

In my textbook it says, Consider a rectangular loop in the vicinity of an infinitely long wire carrying a current $I(t)$. To calculate the magnetic field, we can use the quasistatic approach, which ...