# All Questions

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### Why Light isn't like an Acoustic wave?

I just wanted to know why light isn't an Acoustic wave.Is it because light wave doesn't obey acoustic properties?
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### When you are standing in a running train if you jump means will you be in same place or will you be in front or back? [duplicate]

When you are standing in a running train if you jump means will you be in same place or will you be in front or back?
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### Ideas for physics-related simulations to code up as weekend (or monthly) projects [closed]

What are some good ideas for simulations that I could try to implement/code in my spare time just for educational purposes? I'm thinking that it would be a good way for me to delve into the underlying ...
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### What is difference between anisotropy and inhomogeinity of this type of composite material?

I am studying some types of composite materials having 2 phases - fibers and matrix. I have some questions and confusions. Any help is appreciated. The composite has fiber along length and I am ...
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### Want to know about divergence [duplicate]

Can anyone please explain how to know whether a vector field has divergence or not by seeing its diagram? I have read that a vector field must change for having divergence but why is divergence zero ...
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### Does varying centripetal force produce circular motion?

Centripetal force $\vec{F}$ is responsible for circular motion and is given by $$\left|\vec{F}\right| = \dfrac{m\left|\vec{v}\right|^2}{r}$$ If the linear velocity $\vec{v}$ varies, the centripetal ...
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### Length of Day and year on massive Earth

Say, a planet has the same orbital periods as Earth (365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, etc. with respect to Earth-bound clocks), but the planet has double the mass. So, time must pass more slowly ...
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### Why molecules in this potential have a common average distance $r_m$ to their neighbors?

A commonly used potential describing intermolecular interactions in liquids and real gases is the so-called Lennard-Jones potential. In this model the interaction of atoms and molecules with each ...
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### Why can the twin plane be uncoincide with the composition plane in reflection twin?

In the book Elements of X-Ray Diffraction, p67, I found the following sentence: In the case of a reflection twin, the composition plane may or may not coincide with the twin plane. But I think ...
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### Calculate the mass of a Schwarzchild black hole with Komar integral [closed]

In Wald's GR, Komar integral is Eq. (11.2.9): $$M=-\frac{1}{8\pi}\int_S\epsilon_{abcd}\nabla^c\xi^d$$ $S$ can be chosen as a 2-sphere, the boundary of a spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma$ such that the ...
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### Is it more difficult to create higher energy photons, given there is excess available energy?

Im not talking about pair production, I mean a single photon created from an energy transition between two electron shells. I'm studying K(alpha) and K(beta) fluorescence transitions in metals, and ...
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### Calculating estimated HP from velocity, auto weight, and constant acceleration

I am working on a simulation program that runs theoretical performances of different cars and was wondering if there is a way to estimate the HP at any running RPM? the problem is (and this may be me ...
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### Deriving an Expression for Helmoltz free energy

Given the equations of states for an isolated system: $$E=\frac32 pV$$ $$p=aVT^4$$ I was asked to find the Helmoltz free energy per particle, $F=E-TS$, as a function of $T$ and $V$. I began with the ...
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### How $Z_{2}$ topological order is introduced to distinguish states?

In the $Z_{2}$ topological order and the quantum spin hall effect:Here is what the authors said" the states withe zero and on flux quantum threading the cylinder...However, the two states are ...
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### A question over the reality of $\sin x$

Harmonic functions are in widespread use in physical descriptions of natural real phenomena. I am just wondering therefore how we can define $\sin(x)$ to be part of a real physical quantity (with ...
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### Books on special and general relativity? [duplicate]

I have idea about all the theories related to space and time and stuff. But I wanna dig deep into it and understand all the theories like special and general relativity to begin with for now. Can ...
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### What keeps electrons on a negatively-charged conductor from leaving?

Imagine a negatively charged conductor in a vacuum. The excess electrons will be spread out over the surface such that the net electric field inside the conductor is zero. What keeps these extra ...
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### Work-Energy theorem vs conservation of mechanical energy? [closed]

Bodies A and B are moving in the same direction in a straight line with constant velocities on a frictionless surface. the mass and the velocity of A are: 2kg and 10m/s. The mass and the velocity ...
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### Torricelli with constant vertical drain speed

Now I've been playing with this for some time but I can't seem to put things into perspective. I wan't to find out the curvature of the bowl so that the vertical drain speed of the liquid is ...
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### Is torque independent of choice of the point of rotation?

Is torque or moment of couple independent of choice of point of rotation? Torque is given by $\tau =\vec r\times\vec F$. It depends on r, which is its distance from axis of rotation to the point ...
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### What does it mean to say “a paramagnetic material is attracted to an external magnetic field?”

I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around what actually goes on when a paramagnetic material is exposed to an external magnetic field. I understand that the individual dipoles line up so ...
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### Why is the energy of particles in accelerators much higher than the energy of the particles they are trying to find?

I have been wondering. In the LHC, or other particle accelerators for that matter, they are colliding particles with energies above TeV. The LHC is going to be 14 TeV or something like that the next ...
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### Expansion rate in matter dominated era [duplicate]

Do physicists know what the expansion rate of the Universe was at the beginning of the matter dominated era?
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### Why is the value of the action integral in general relativity the same on all regions that are homologous?

In their famous paper Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity, Gibbons and Hawking argue that in order to avoid the singularity of a Schwarzschild black hole you can complexify ...
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### Melting diamond and cool down as diamond

Is it possible to melt diamond? And if possible while let it cool will it became diamond again?
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### What are Quarks made of and will they ever decay to this? [duplicate]

What is it that quarks are actually made of? Will they decay into this substance? As the up and down quarks are the lightest type of quark do they not decay? I was thinking that if this could happen, ...
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### Why are (most) solids periodic?

Is there a rigorous proof that periodic arrangements minimize the energy of a group of particles?
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### Integration of $e^{-it\sqrt{\mathbf{p}^2 + m^2}}$ for QM amplitude

My question might be more about maths than physics, but it originated in a Physics context. Take $\hbar$ = $c$ = 1. I was looking at the amplitude for a free particle to propagate from an initial ...
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### Scalar field in a Schwarzschild metric

I have found this article recently published in Classical and Quantum Gravity giving the exact solution of a scalar field in the Kerr-Newman metric. These authors also derived Hawking radiation for ...
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### Calculating speed of spheres in an asymmetric Newton's cradle?

If we assume there is an asymmetric Newton's cradle with 3 spheres of different masses and the first one is initialized with some certain speed can we calculate the outcome speed of the all the three ...
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### Einsteins idea about solving the ether problem [duplicate]

I'm struggling a bit with my Special Relativity course. Most exercises are quite trivial and can be done without much effort, but when you really start to think and analyse why and how certain things ...
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### Will an object rotate when we apply a force to it?

What would happen if the axis of rotation passes through the centre of mass of an object? Will the object rotate when we will apply a force to the object? Edit: The object is free, is not fixed to an ...
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### Is the world we are living in discretized? [duplicate]

I do not know how to use professional words to ask my question, so I will try to use a layman language. Please bear with me for a moment. A ROUGH GUESS The world our eyes are seeing every moment is ...
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### The physics behind capacitive touch sensing

Can someone explain the mechanism of capacitive touch sensing? According to http://www.planetanalog.com/document.asp?doc_id=527410&site=planetanalog&print=yes, it mentions "fringing fields", ...
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### Abstract concept of wave propagating on a string

I'm a real beginner in physics with a really basic doubt about waves. Suppose i have a string ( perfect elastic material ) whose left-end i can manipulate ( i can change its heigth ) and whose ...
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### Is there an applied force acting on the balloon? [duplicate]

A long string is running through a straw with a blown-up balloon taped onto the straw, and a penny taped onto the balloon. There should be a support force going up, gravity going down, friction force ...