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Can someone please explain impedance matching and wave reflection?

I'm reading Wikipedia's article on impedance matching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_of_signals_on_conducting_lines) and this just seems so foreign to me. 1) What does it mean for a ...
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Calculating time to reach certain velocity with drag force

I was given a problem for homework where we needed to calculate the time for a falling object to reach a certain velocity when accounting for drag force. I did it by setting up acceleration as a ...
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How is it possible to accelerate a neutron?

It is possible to accelerate a charged particle in an electric field, how is it possible to accelerate a neutron? How can we control its velocity?
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Matter and Electrical Impulses

The human brain is composed of about 100 billion neurons; with trillions of synapses. These synapses transmit signals, which is obviously made of some sort of matter. This is what creates thought and ...
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Gravitiation force of a sphere

Was wondering about Shell Theorem, specifically about the immediate results. Force (on a point mass) inside a shell is 0. Force (on a point mass) outside a shell is GmM/r^2 From what i know the ...
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Drag - Dimensional Analysis / Buckingham Pi

Dimensional Analysis / Buckingham Pi Theorem I'm working on dimensional analysis and I'm having trouble. Here's a problem from my book I'm working on for practice. I'm suppose to consider a small ...
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3DAnisotropic oscillator in Spherical Harmonic basis-States with $L_z=0$

I've been trying to prove a rather simple looking concept. I have a code that calculates states of a 3D anisotropic oscillator in spherical coordinates. The spherical harmonics basis used to expand ...
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How to separate different CP eigenstates?

Someone can tell me how to separate different CP eigenstates(even and odd) using angular distribution of B meson decay?
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Quantum ring and Dirac Quanitzation

I had a small question. If you look at the energy eigenvalue problem for a particle restricted to a ring, you get $$E_n = \frac{\hbar^2n^2}{2mR^2}.$$ If you then put a solenoid inside the ring, then ...
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How does the temperature in a bucket of water with ice change over time?

I'm curious what happens to the temperature of the water in a bucket of water with ice in it. Let's start with a bucket with just ice in it, and we add water, in a room which is room temperature. It ...
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How many wavefunctions are in a minimal basis set for benzene?

I am reading Modern Quantum Chemistry by Szabo and Ostlund and on page 62 he says "A minimal basis set for benzene consists of 72 spin orbitals." I tried to understand this number but failed. ...
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Does a pulled rubber band contain as much energy as a twisted rubber band?

lets say I take two similar rubber bands. One of them I pull until it almost reaches its breaking point. The other I twist until it almost reached its breaking point. Do both of these rubber bands ...
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Is there a way to measure the energy stored in a twisted rubber band?

I am building an energy storage device using rubber bands. It contains 24 bands which are twisted by a set of gears. I would like to measure (or predict) the amount of energy that the device can ...
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How to meaningfully describe the practical effectiveness of one large bomb versus a series of many small bombs, all else constant? [closed]

Background: Given two sets of conventional bombs (constituted of fuel which explodes by way of chemical decomposition reaction) : Set 1 - One shell of a given volume encasing a given amount of fuel. ...
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Can quantum vacuum carry entropy?

So, we know that the state of quantum vacuum does carry energy, as it was measured in the Casimir effect. This energy comes from particles almost instantaneous creation and annihilation. Even if they ...
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Permeability and magnetization of soft iron at various fields

I'm curious as to the magnetic permeability of soft iron (and other materials if available) under different fields. I know permeability of materials changes with field (that is why we have saturation ...
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Effective refractive index calculation of fiber core

Can someone pls explain what is effective refractive index of fiber core and how to calculate it theoretically? Suppose the fiber core refractive index=1.4446 and cladding refractive index is= ...
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Do different density objects in liquids affect net weight [duplicate]

I would test this but I have no tools to test it with. If I have a beaker of water and weigh it on a measure. Then I stick my fingers in the water (it doesn't over flow) does the weight change or ...
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Can these two terms cancel out?

In trying to prove that $$\Gamma_{\mu\nu\lambda} = \eta_{ab}J^a_bJ^b_{\nu\lambda}.$$ The author canceled out while expanding the first equation $$J^a_{\mu\lambda}J^b_\nu$$ with ...
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Which constant is required to calculate the energy in a thermal analysis?

I want to calculate the energy in a thermal analysis. I want to do it in analogy to the electrostatic field, because I'm interested calculating the $H_1$ error in a Finite Element analysis. For ...
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diamagnetism in constant magnetic field

"The diamagnetic materials repel the materials which produces magnetic field, so putting these materials in the proximity of the magnetic field generating materials produces the effect of the ...
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How to calculate resources taken up in quantum computation

Suppose I have $n$ qubits namely $\{|\psi_{1}\rangle,|\psi_{2}\rangle.....|\psi_{n}\rangle\}$. I apply a series of unitary operations $U_{1},U_{2}...U_{n}$ (applied in order) to these qubits. Each ...
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How to calculate the photoelectric effect with photon efficiency?

I am not sure exactly where to go with this problem. The problem states: "A $1.3 \, \mathrm{mW}$ laser ($\lambda = 545 \, \mathrm{nm}$) shines on a cesium photocathode ($\phi = 1.95 \, \mathrm{eV}$). ...
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Perpetual Mobile and Gravitation

I have fundamental question about what is called the “law of conservation of energy”. We all hear about the tidal power stations which using the tidal power. The source of the tidal power came from ...
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I have an RC circuit to which I am going to apply voltages of 5V every 100ns. So every 100ns, the capacitor will change its "state" from charging up to uncharging. I have been trying to find the a ...
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Looking for binning software [closed]

I'm looking for a software which should do the following Take a set of data $X$ and $Y$: Procedure A Finds the max and min in $X$ Divide this interval in a number of bins chosen by me For each bin ...
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