# All Questions

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### Probability of Millikan's drop gaining or losing charge during the experiment

I performed Millikan's experiment with latex drops. I did not get the "step graph" that I wanted (though the precision of the experiment was really bad as seen in the figure). My first drop is ...
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### How do I use a free body diagram in this case? [on hold]

In the above cases I want to find the acceleration $a$ for $m_1$. I can do it by considering $m_1$ and $m_2$ to be a system, which would give me $a = F/(m_1+m_2)$. How can I use a free-body diagram ...
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### Does a photon follow a straight trajectory in a thin transparent film?

Does a photon follow a straight trajectory in a thin transparent film if the source has emitted a photon inside the film with impulse parallel to the film surface. (lambda greater than thickness)? ...
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### Derivation of generation of time between two subsequent particle enters into computational domain

I have problem with understanding derivation of one equation in following problem. You have 1D computational domain (it is not 1D but because it is symmetrical and we are watching only radial ...
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### What happens if I slowly lower a dangling object into a black hole?

I could've sworn I've seen this question before, but I couldn't find it. Suppose I have an object on the end of a really long string. I can slowly lower it near the event horizon of a black hole, ...
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### Change in Q factor on tuning external magnetic field in Electron spin resonance experiment

Does the Q factor of the cavity resonator show a dip at the resonant value of the external magnetic field while performing an ESR experiment?If so, what is the physical reason behind it?
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### Lorentzian nature of reflected microwave power in Electron Spin Resonance

Reflected microwave power has Lorentzian shape when plotted against frequency in ESR. How to mathematically prove this?
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### electron in magnetic and electric field

I have this problem where i should find the direction and magnitude of the electric and the magnetic force on the electron. And then I'm supposed to find the direction and magnitude of the ...
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### Derivation of Biot Savart law for a curve

I'm ok with the following expression for Biot-Savart: $${\mathbf B}({\mathbf r}) = \frac{{\mu _0}}{{4\pi }}\int\frac{{{\mathbf J}({\mathbf r'}) \times {(\mathbf{r-r'})}}}{{|\mathbf{r-r'}|^3 }}dV'.$$ ...
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### Internal Resistor in a Diode

When we talk about the resistance of a diode (of the P and N region), is this resistance like the one inside an Electro-Motive Force or it acts like a normal resistor (external electric field exist)? ...
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### Is multiplication in physics purely mathematical or is there a physical explanation to it?

Here is what I mean: We always use mathematics in physics, which is pretty powerful, but I still need to ask whether multiplication in physics has a better explanation to what I already think. For ...
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### Is Phone-Charging Plant Product Even Possible?

Bioo, a new company making the rounds in the press, claims to produce "electricity from plants' photosynthesis." Specifically, their website claims that a single potted plant with their integrated ...
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### Defy gravity torques with gyroscopes?

Context On the following drawing, a platform is hung from the ceiling not exactly from its centre of gravity. Because of this it can't sustain an arbitrary orientation for long; I want to increase ...
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### Using $\sqrt{-g}$ in integrals of proper volume

I am a little confused over integration using proper volume element. When do we use $\sqrt{-g}$ in calculations? For example, in many calculations involving stars, say when using TOV equation, this ...
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### Understanding electric potential in the context of gravitational potential?

I'm trying to understand the concept of electric potential and the significance of an electric field being related to the gradient/derivative of an electric potential. I found this question that ...
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### How many observations over an atom can be made?

In order to determine the orbitals of any unknown atom , is it possible to make and record direct observations of electrons around the atom without disturbing the atom ? How many observations can one ...
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### Continued Fraction Algorithm in Shor's Algorithm

I am just trying to make the final link of Shor's algorithm clear. Here $r$ is the order of $x$ modulo $N$. We have a number $\psi$, which for a rational number $\dfrac{s}{r}$ satisfies ...
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### Fine structure constant and unit conversion

In a paper I'm reading, the author writes down the following formula: $$\Gamma=\dfrac{\alpha^2}{576\pi^3}\dfrac{\left(4+z\right)^2}{z}\dfrac{m^5}{m^2_\pi f_\pi^2}$$ $\Gamma$ is a function of $m$ (in ...
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### Why is hot wood ash more fluid than cold ash?

When I remove ash from my fireplace I do so by scraping it away through holes about 5 millimeters wide in the fireplace floor. Whenever the ash is hot, it definitely feels much more fluid than when it ...
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### Voltage - Energy drop

I'm having a hard time understanding the nature of voltage and am hoping you guys can help. The main issue is the concept of the voltage drop. Take the following circuits : In regard to the first, ...
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### How to motivate the importance of the spacetime interval

The spacetime interval is a rather important thing in Special Relativity. It allows us to define the separation between any two events as spacelike, timelike or lightlike and more importantly, the ...
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### Lowest energy product state of a local hamiltonian

Lets consider one-dimensional spin chain with periodic boundary condition and $N$ sites. We are given a translationally-invariant local hamiltonian $H$ which is defined as $H=\sum_{i=1}^N h_{i,i+1}$, ...
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### Is there a preferred mode of exchange of gluons?

Red , Blue and Green quarks are colorless when put together and thus the color of the proton remains colorless.In principle quarks can exchange colorless gluons to keep quarks together. Quarks can ...
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### What processes create or destroy information?

From a classical standpoint, it seems pretty clear that information can be easily lost. If you knock over a bookshelf and the books fall out, it seems like their initial order on the shelf cannot be ...
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### How does frost form above freezing temperature?

This is a follow-up to the best answer linked below: Why does ice form on bridges even if the temperature is above freezing? I've witnessed that phenomenon, recently. The temperature was above zero ...
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### Exponential decay of correlation in PEPS

PEPS (Projected Entangled Pair State) is a tensor network that plays the same role in two dimensional lattice as MPS (Matrix Product State) plays in one dimensional spin chain. A good introduction can ...
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