# All Questions

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### Understanding the Jacobian Matrix

Taking the example of a two dimensional system, desribred by the following ODE's: \begin{align} \frac{dx_1}{dt}&=f_1(x_1,x_2)\\ \frac{dx_2}{dt}&=f_2(x_1,x_2) \end{align} The Jacobian Matrix ...
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### Zamolodchikov's c-theorem paper

I am reading the 1986 paper [1] where Zamolodchikov proves the c-theorem and I would like to understand how equations (7a), (7b) and (8) are derived from the Callan-Symanzik equation. For ...
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### The concept of torque among other unknowns

Someone asked me this question and I am going to try to ask it as 'proper' as possible. Imagine there is a door and it needs a mass on the floor at the edge of the door to keep it from swinging shut. ...
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### How to accurately mark with arrows an electric circuit

As I understood, we choose to mark the current with arrows going from the plus pole to the minus pole (even though we know that in reality it is the contrary). As I'm looking at electric circuits, I ...
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### Defects of smart glass (electrochromic glass)?

Smart glass is a type of glass that uses electrochromic mechanism to change it's light transmission properties in response to voltage, and it's made by sandwiching certain materials between two panes ...
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### Can multiple lasers be concentrated in a circular area using some optical arrangements?

Can multiple lasers be concentrated in a circular area using some optical arrangements such as using a paraboloid surface? If yes, why do in high laser power systems do they use only 2D arrays of ...
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### Is the coefficient of restitution frame independent and energy conservation?

In this question I am ignoring relativistic effects. The following statements I think are true: change in Kinetic energy is not invariant under change of frame Force is invariant under change in ...
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### Weinberg QFT Chapter 5: gamma matrices consistency

Currently reading through Weinberg's QFT book (Vol. 1) [readable in parts here]. In his derivation of the causal Dirac field in Ch. 5, he chooses his gamma matrices as (5.4.17) \begin{align} ...
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### Energy without temperature

If you know the entropy $S$ of your system. Is there a general way to calculate the internal energy $U$ of your system? So the entropy $S$ is the only thing I know of my system. I have no information ...
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### 2 vacuum pumps in parallel [closed]

I have a problem with a vacuum pump that cannot generate enough vacuum to grip an uneven item. There is a spare vacuum pump in parallel which I will turn on and run at the same time to try and get ...
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### What is the four-dimensional representation of the $SU(2)$ generators?

Recently, I have been learning about non-Abelian gauge field theory by myself. Thanks @ACuriousMind very much, as with his help, I have made some progress. I am trying to extend the Dirac field ...
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### Bouyant force in air on hollow object

I understand that the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the air displaced by the volume of the object. I also know that if we had a perfectly solid cube or a hollow cube closed on all sides so ...
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### My idea on parallel universes [closed]

I have a question I've long wanted to ask somebody and I see no place better than here to do it! I am not a physicist in any way, Im just a big fan :) So, I have an idea of parallel universes in my ...
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### Switching from sum to integral

I'm specifically asking about an equation in An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Peskin and Schroeder. Example from page 374: $$\mathrm{Tr} \log (\partial^2+m^2) = \sum_k \log(-k^2+m^2)$$ ...
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### The influence of the antenna height

I am working on a model of a transmitter. The transmitter is attached to the wheel of the vehicle and thus constantly changes it's height. In other words capacitance between antenna and ground is ...
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### Is the Universe still believed to be flat?

I have read a handful of old articles from mid 2013 expressing that the Universe may, in fact, be curved. http://www.nature.com/news/universe-may-be-curved-not-flat-1.13776 ...