# All Questions

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### Derive drag coefficient of plate

There is any analytical way to derive drag coefficient of flat plate aligned perpendicular to the flow? Wikipedia says it's between 1.98~2.05 but I want to get this value in calculation, not ...
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### Is near light speed travel possible? Likely?

I was contemplating the possibility of sending an interstellar probe that can produce results in a reasonable time frame. For such a mission to be realistic, the spacecraft would have to travel at ...
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### Calculating force of impact

Since $\text{force = mass}\times\text{acceleration}$, is it right to say that an object traveling at a high constant velocity (zero acceleration), exerts zero force upon impact with a stationary ...
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### What am I missing about the interaction between electromagnetism and Lorentz length contraction?

I was recently reading this short article: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/rel_el_mag.html It explains how magnetic and electric fields are related because in one frame of reference where ...
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### Fermi estimate for ice nucleation timescale

My friends in a Cryo-EM lab freeze their very samples quickly, a process they call vitrification. The timescale for this process is milliseconds (from wikipedia): The production of amorphous ice ...
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### What symmetry gives you charge conservation?

This is a popular question on this site but I haven't found the answer I'm looking for in other questions. It is often stated that charge conservation in electromagnetism is a consequence of local ...
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### Selection rules in a finite quantum well

I have a finite quantum well made of two different semiconductors with different bandgaps and I want to calculate the different transitions between the energy levels possible that I calculated in that ...
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### Time dependance of oscillating sheet of charge

I am working on a practice problem involving maxwells equations. We have an infinite sheet of charge density $\sigma$ in the x-y plane and it is oscillating as x= $\Re [x_0e^{-i\omega t}]$. I want to ...
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### Existence of lagrangians at strong coupling

It is well known that some QFT do not admit a lagrangian formulation (like the $(2,0)$ SCFT in $d=6$). Up to my understanding, all the examples that I know of non lagrangian theories are always ...
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### How is a CCD able to collect images in drastically different lighting conditions?

I have read the basics of how a digital camera works. As much as I have understood, the digital cameras have a device called a CCD on which photons coming from the lens are incident. The CCD then ...
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### The temperature a liquid would boil: question incorrectly formulated or not?

I have met a question in a high school physics book which I think is incorrectly formulated. The question is this: In order to reach boiling temperature, a certain liquid requires twice the amount of ...
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### Hottest period in the history of the universe

Stack exchange's tagline is 'hot questions' - so here is one that will hopefully cause some heated debate. I remember hearing that the period immediately after inflation is theorized to be the ...
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### Why isn't the magnitude of the electric field in a circuit zero?

I've been re-reading my knowledge of circuits and how current flows as well as the surface charge distributions in the steady state, since it's been quite some time and we've just started studying ...
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### How far away must I stand to not hear sound (interference) [closed]

I`ve been trying for a while. I have two speakers with 4 meters between them with music playing on 250 Hz so the wavelength is 1.36 meters, How far away do i have to stand in front of one of the ...
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### Ball jumping from water

Few days ago I played with ball(filled with air) in swimming pool. I observed interesting phenomenon. When I released a ball from 3 meters depth the ball barely jumped above the water surface but ...
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### Can radio waves be stored in a device for future use? [closed]

Is it possible to store electromagnetic waves consisting of radio waves only without any other intermittent signals??
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### Why is the susceptibility $\chi(t)$ real?

So my question is quite simple I suppose, and perhaps trivial. It is known that the frequency domain susceptbility $\chi(\omega)$ is complex, and that the two parts can be related with the Kramers-...
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### Why is the top quark mass reconstructed too high when the bottom quarks were swapped (semileptonic decay of a ttbar pair)?

I use a dataset containing simulated events of semileptonic $t\bar{t}$ decays ($t\bar{t} \rightarrow W⁺b W⁻ \bar{b} \rightarrow q\bar{q}bl\nu_l\bar{b}$) at CMS, LHC. For each event, the four-momenta ...
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### If induced voltage (back-emf) is equal and opposite to applied voltage, what drives the current?

Suppose we have a circuit with a voltage source, a switch open and an inductor all in series. If we close the switch, the potential difference of the voltage source is instantaneously applied to the ...
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### Relation between dipole moment and polarisaton

In the Landau's book "Electrodynamics of Continuous Media" he derives the relation between the polarisation $\vec P$ and the dipole moment $\vec p$. Starting with the definition of the dipole moment: ...
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### Does the distance away from a plane mirror affect the Image seen by the eye? [duplicate]

Does the distance away from a plane mirror affect the Image seen by the eye? According to my textbook, it doesn't. However in real life, I see less of myself as I get closer to a mirror.
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### Why do electron emits energy in a LED when they transfer from the n type semiconductor to the p type semiconductor

after an electron moves from the n-type into the p-type silicon, it will combine with a hole and disappear. That makes an atom complete and more stable and it gives off a little burst of energy. But ...
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### Do the partial derivative and the creation operator commute?

Does the partial derivative operator $\partial^\mu$ commute with the creation operator $\hat{a}^\dagger$? My notation here is a_{\boldsymbol{p} }^\dagger|0\rangle=| \boldsymbol{p}\...
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### Can focused light be treated as a point source?

Imagine there is a uniform, collimated beam coming from a distant light source. This beam passes through a lens and is focused to a point at the focal length. Can this "point" be treated as a point ...
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### Thermostat in Dissipative Particle Dynamics

I'm doing a computational experiment about dynamics of a solvated line polymer, with dissipative particle dynamics(DPD). However when I try to measure kinetic temperature of the whole system(monomers +...
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### Theoretical implications of multidimensional Time [duplicate]

While the idea of extra spatial dimensions has been around for quite a while now, is there a possibility or any theory which proposes extra time dimensions? If so, what could be theoretical ...
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### Neutrino power plant

Suppose there is a material that interacts with 50% of high-energy neutrinos. To what temperature such material will heat up naturally here on Earth? What power can be extracted from it?
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### How should we understand the value of a recent theory published on Phys. Rev. D? [closed]

I would like to know what to make of this paper, published on Phys. Rev. D on the 11$^{th}$ of January: Quantum field theory of gravity with spin and scaling gauge invariance and spacetime ...
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### Available energy in centre of mass system

The problem given is "A proton of total energy 3GeV makes a head-on collision with a 5GeV electron. Calculate the available energy in the centre-of-mass system to create any new additional particles ...
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### Effectiveness of Layered EM wave shields [closed]

Which is best at shielding EM waves; a Faraday cage with sides made of blocks of metal, or layers of metal (with insulation ie plastic & without), or is there no difference between the three? &...
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### what is the function of Current Source in a circuit?

The voltage across current source is due to current itself or due to the circuit within which it is present.
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### Can a magnet pick up heated iron filings?

I heard that heat can destroy magnetism (somehow randomize the electrons orientation and reduce the magnetism), but I like to know if magnetism could affect heated iron filings? (Here heated means ...
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### Showing $\frac{d^3\underline{k}}{2\omega_{k}(2\pi)^3}$ is Lorentz invariant [duplicate]

Show $\frac{d^3\underline{k}}{2\omega_{k}(2\pi)^3}$ is Lorentz invariant. Hint: try to evaluate $\int dk_0\delta(k_0^2 - M^2)\theta(k_0)$ where $M^2 = \underline{k} + m^2$ My attempt is as ...
Given a space of states $|\rangle$, $|x\rangle$, $|x,y\rangle$, with the creation operators such as $\hat{\phi}(x)|y,z\rangle=|x,y,z\rangle$ for creating a particle at position $x$ and so on. How ...
The relativistic kinetic energy of a particle with mass $m$ and velocity $v_0$ is $$m c^2 (\gamma_0 - 1) \textrm{ where } \gamma_0 = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - \frac{v_0^2}{c^2}}}$$ I would like to know how ...