# All Questions

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### How do Zener diodes maintain the potential across their terminals?

My physics book has a topic about Zener diodes being used as voltage regulators in the reverse bias. Well, I'm curious to know how does a Zener diode maintain the potential across its terminals after ...
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### Escape velocity of a rocket standing on Ganymede (Moon of Jupiter)

I want to calculate the escape velocity of a rocket, standing on the surface of Ganymede (moon of Jupiter) and trying to leave Ganymede. My thinking was, the kinetic energy $E_{\text{KIN}}$ must be ...
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### Resistance of a cylinder contacted by two smaller circular faces

Suppose we have a solid homogeneous cylinder with radius $a$, heigth $h$ and conductivity $\sigma$. The top and the bottom face is contacted with a smaller circular face with radius $b$. How can I ...
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### Prove EM Waves Are Transverse In Nature

Why we say that EM waves are transverse in nature? I have seen some proofs regarding my question but they all calculate flux through imaginary cube. Here is My REAL problem that I can't here imagine ...
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### Can someone please explain the “infrared catastrophe”?

In my readings I've run into this idea of an "infrared catastrophe" associated with 1/f noise. As far as I can tell it is because when you graph the periodogram of the 1/f signal you see the PSD goes ...
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### Are there forces which do not involve a change in momentum?

I am familiar with the equation $$\vec{F}=m \vec{a}$$ I am wondering as to whether it is possible for something to exert a force on another object without changing the momentum of said object. My ...
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### No-answers-found Li-Ion battery questions [closed]

Background Ive spent almost 7 hours researching about li-ion batteries because my Galaxy S2 only lasts 2 hours with all turned off and only 40 apps installed (removed system apps and bloatware) and ...
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### What is the place of an electromagnetic field in the electromagnetic spectrum? [closed]

What place should I give an electromagnetic field (produced by a current conducting coil) in the electromagnetic spectrum? What will its wavelength and frequency be?
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### Fluid Temperature as a function of Mass and Ambient Temperature

Problem I am trying to create an equation to calculate fuel temperature based on ambient temperature, heat exchange rate, and mass. The idea is very simple; when the mass is heated, depending on how ...
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### Human and Ultraviolet light

As I know, ultraviolet light can be created from burning something at high temperature. So I have a question: Can a human body become a source of ultraviolet light at high temperature? If the answer ...
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### Modal analysis with aerodynamic damping

I'm using modal decomposition to predict the steady state response of a beam structure to harmonic loading. The structure itself is very lightly damped, but we know from experiments that the ...
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### Regarding derivation of Probability Current

The question for the full derivation of Probability Conservation -> Probability Current was already asked here: Probability current. I apologize for not retyping it out, but it's already beautifully ...
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### Work-Energy-Power Relations

A wind-powered generator converts wind energy into electrical energy. Assume that the generator converts a fixed fraction of the wind energy intercepted by its blades into electrical energy. ...
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### Characteristic x-ray in energy spectrum

Context: Monte Carlo simulation of a linear accelerator photon beam. The energy spectrum for photons as calculated from the phase space files found in here has a peak somewhere near ...
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### Space time curvature due to electric charge or magnetic charges [duplicate]

since we know that gravitational force is nothing but a curvature in space-time. I have a similar analogous for the electric or magnetic charges. Similarity is that both electromagnetic and ...
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### What does library number 539 mean in physics books? [closed]

Every book I borrow have have this number in them. Even my library categorizes them with this number. Is it a universal particle physics book number?
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### Number of blades in a helicopter rotor

I was wondering how it is possible to determine what is the optimal number of blades in a helicopter rotor. I think that the length of the blade is involved as a longer blades would have to spin ...
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### Would anyone suggest me usefull web resources on lie groups and lie algebra and a good book to start with? [duplicate]

Would anyone suggest me useful web resources on lie groups and lie algebra and a good book to start with?
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### Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity?

It is fine to say that for an object flying past a massive object, the spacetime is curved by the massive object, and so the object flying past follows the curved path of the geodesic, so it "appears" ...
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### Can mu-metal reduce the negative effect of metal close to low frequency RFID antennas?

I have an 134.2 khz RFID antenna for sport events which is basically a 1x1 meter square sheet of rubber with 3 loops of antenna cable embedded. The problem is that the transponder recognition range is ...
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### Shielding magnetic field without mu-metal

I need to shield my device from magnetic interference, including earth magnetic field (if you move device around, it might be enough to cause slight currents i guess) and magnetic field caused by ...
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### What is Photoproduction

I wonder what photoproduction means in the context of pion decay and vector meson dominance? What is the reaction formula, Feynman diagram for such a photoproduction thing? Is it simply a reaction ...
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### Why aren't space probes like New Horizons sped up in space?

So the New Horizons project is sending a probe out to image Pluto and Charon. As they're pretty far away, it will take the New Horizons probe nearly 10 years to get there (in 2015, having been ...
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### Why is it easier to glide on sharp ice skates than on dull skates?

There have been previous questions (e.g. here and here) on Physics.SE about the mechanism that makes ice skating possible. Reviewing these, as well external references, it seems pretty clear that the ...
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### Phase Plot for Harmonic Oscillator

This is probably gonna be a dumb question but I don't know exactly where I am making the mistake. I have been taught in highschool that simple harmonic oscillator phase plot is the $sin(\omega t)$: ...
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### What is the equivalent of a eutectic point for a (two-liquid)+solids system?

I deal with complex phase equilibria involving solid and liquid phases at high temperature. Below is a simplified temperature-XH2O diagram for a multicomponent system at constant pressure. (Note: ...
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### It's commonly said that the existence of antiparticles “saves causality”. How? [duplicate]

The way I've always thought about is something like this: If measurements of space and time are essentially indeterminate (indeterminacy principle), then an entity "traveling at less than the speed of ...
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### Why is mass renormalization insufficient to explain electron mass?

In the Standard Model, I understand that the mass of the electron is assume to arise from two effects: A bare mass given by Yukawa interaction with the Higgs field, and A mass correction from mass ...
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### Calculating the energy of an electron given the wavelength

Okay, so I know that the wavelength of an electron is 5e-7m and I am asked to calculate its minimum velocity and hence minimum energy. Calculating the minimum ...
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### Auxiliary fields in supersymmetry

I know that auxiliary fields can be used to close the supersymmetry algebra in case the bosonic and fermionic on-shell degrees of freedom do not match. Could somebody please elaborate on this concept ...
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### Was Einstein wrong when he said nothing can go faster than the speed of light? [duplicate]

If the universe is constantly expanding faster than the speed of light, how could Einstein be right?