# All Questions

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### What does it mean to “wrap” a D-brane around some manifold?

I am getting quite confused with this terminology when I read the papers. Like while constructing the near horizon $AdS_3$ in the $D1-D5$ system one considers $IIB$ on $R^{1,4}\times M^4 \times S^1$ ...
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### What happens if I throw a battery into water?

Today I have by accident thrown a AAA battery into a bucket of water. I fished it out of the water immediately (within 20 seconds or so) and nothing notable had happened and the battery is still full ...
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### How does this particle behave in the magnetic field?

I have the above question and I have though about it every way and can't seem to find out. So what I have concluded (ignore the answers on the img) Is that the force is on the z axis because the ...
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### Imagine a 50-mile tower spanning from desert floor to the Karman Line

CORRECTION: The structure weighs 1.568E15 kg.s Does the structure effect the equilibrium of earth's rotation? Would momentum from Earth's rotation apply lateral force to the structure? What else do ...
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### What happens if a body free-falls at a certain speed?

It is known that a body falling to the ground is affected by gravity, and its velocity increases by 9.8 m/s per second. But when this body is falling, and it reaches the speed of 340 m/s (the speed of ...
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### Calculate trajectory of projectile with gravity from disk planets in 2D?

I'm making a 2D game where you control a spaceship and fly between disk-formed planets of differing size (mass/pull). The planets are small and you can fly near several at once. I need to calculate ...
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### Inhomogeneties in gravitational acceleration at the surface of the Earth.

I am looking for data sets which clock the time and precise location of free falling bodies in a vacuum. I have been told that the acceleration of gravity is not absolutely 100% uniform, and I would ...
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### Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple) Sap & Freezing

This may or may not be the appropriate scientific discipline to ask this question of, but I'll give it a shot. I'll happily invite chemists to chime in as well. It's time to tap sugar maples in the ...
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### How does band narrowing (heavily doping the emitter) affect the alpha F and alpha R in the Ebers-Moll model of a BJT?

I think that when the emitter is heavily doped, the bandgap is reduced which increases the reference forward current(current flowing through the E-B junction ) but the alphas themselves do not change. ...
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### Measurements for thermal diffusivity of graphene?

We have known for a long time that graphene has in-plane thermal conductivity ranging between 2000 and 4000 $W m^{-1} K^{-1}$. But in order to model heat transport on a sheet of graphene, we need more ...
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### what determines the wavelength of waves on the open ocean?

Looking at the picture below, you can totally see that these are tiny boats. The water is practically washing over the hull of these boat models. But the water has boundaries that are very far ...
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### A question to clarify the use of divergent series in calculating the casimir effect

Some time ago I posted a question here on this forum. I would like to ask some questions regarding the way the energy per unit area between metallic plates is calculated. The full calculation is on ...
I'm working on a problem where a particle of mass $m$ is confined to the surface of an inverted half cone (and is circling downwards due to gravity), with the cone's half angle $\alpha$. I chose to ...