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Does $R=\dfrac{4q^2}{\pi^2a^2gH^2}$ suggest a square root relationship?

I did an experiment involve how R scales with q (the other variables are constant), and I got a relationship like $R\ \propto \sqrt q$ I have been told to evaluate my findings with those in ...
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calculating electrostatic force [on hold]

I am trying to answer this question: Calculate the electrostatic force on a metal ion carrying a charge of $3.2$x$10^-$$^1$$^ 9\ \text{C}$, and which is in an ionic solution between two parallel ...
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How do photon emitters and photon detectors work?

The interpretation of the double slit experiment is very strange and i want to understand how they did it before I give up my concept of reality. With the double slit experiment a interference pattern ...
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Could a fourth dimension be “spatially simulated” one point at a time by using movements?

I wonder if time and movement can be translated into a simulation of an extra spatial dimension. At least in one point at a time. I'll try to explain. Imagine a fixed probe which measures the ...
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How to calculate the electrostatic force applied on an object that is along the axis of a charged tube?

Let's say there is a charged tube(a cylinder with no top and bottom) with radius r and length l, charge q1 which also made out of insulating material. And also if there is an object with charge q2 ...
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Positivity for the level of Chern-Simons theory

In many classical papers about Chern-Simons theory (see, e.g. [1]), it is claimed that the Chern-Simons theories with gauge group $G$ are classified by an element of $k\in H^4(BG,\mathbb Z)$, the ...
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Capacitor-like-thing for controlling temperature of fluid?

I want to minimise the Gibbs' phenomenon like thing i.e. sudden peaks (temperature peaks here) in a container. Assume you have a cone where you want to block the transmittance of the temperature into ...
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probability of sequence for given rate constants

lets consider a copolymer, $C_{r,s}^A$ containing r number of A monomers and s number of B monomers with A at the reactive end of the polymer. The equilibrium constant for A-A, A-B, B-A, and B-B bonds ...
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calculating distance traveled - I do not have anyone to teach me this [on hold]

Find the resultant displacement of a bear searching for berries on the mountain. The bear heads 55.0º north of west for 15.0 m; then it turns and heads to the west for another 7.00 m.
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Interaction of ocean waves and currents

I was on a small island recently near high tide. As the tide started to go out, a tidal pond emptied into the ocean through a narrow channel with a strong outgoing current. There was also wind on ...
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Dark Matter as possible an explanation for Coronal Heating

It's my understanding that the mechanism behind Coronal Heating - why the Corona is so much hotter (> 1,000,000 K) than the surface of the Sun (6,000 K), and the mechanism by which the energy gets ...
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Can lightly-ionized atoms be accelerated to relativistic speeds with current technology?

I know there're lots of various particle accelerators, which can accelerate particles to TeV's of energy, but it seems they all work on electrons or nuclei or other elementary of tightly-bound ...
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Are there any good physics jokes? [on hold]

I've noticed some other SE sites have a canonical "what's you're favorite joke" question in them: Math Overflow's "Do good math jokes exist?" Cross Validated's "What is your favorite data analysis ...
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Concepts in Gabriel Kron's later papers

Gabriel Kron was an important research electrical engineer known for applying differential geometry and algebraic topology to the study of electrical system. Towards the end of his career he published ...
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How much power you might need to generate dangerous EMP shock?

While playing with voltage multiplication and capacitors, I began to think if my experiments could damage my electrical equipment (eg. mobile phone) by creating strong magnetic fields over a short ...
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Physical applications of matrices and determinants

Other than notation devices, I don't see any direct application of matrices/determinants in physics. For example, they are just a different way to write a partial derivative and determinants find if ...
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Given the spring constant & maximum kinetic energy; length of spring extension? [on hold]

I need to understand the following question before i right my exam tomorrow. A body attached to a spring with spring constant 100 N/m executes simple harmonic motion. The maximum kinetiv energy of ...
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Is there a difference in handwritten nabla $\vec{\nabla}$ with an overset arrow and typeset nabla $\nabla$?

According to some physicist at KIT it is usual to write the following when using pen and paper: whereas in typeset texts you write $\nabla$. Is that true? Are there sources for this convention?
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Simple Conduction Simulation

What is the simplest way to simulate heat conduction on a 2D plane? What I want to do is have 1024x1024 2D plane of uniform temperature 0°C and specify the temperature of a cartesian coordinate. ...
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Calculating height and evaluating the vicinity of a peak in a multiplicity function for a two-state paramagnet

I have to calculate the height and width of the multiplicity function for a two-state paramagnet. I'm supposed to do this analogously to the method in the text book, which I will try to outline below. ...
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Physical reason for magnetic mirroring?

I understand the mathematical derivation of magnetic mirroring, which usually starts from the conservation of the magnetic dipole moment (e.g. in a plasma). But physically: a mirrored particle is ...
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Indirect band gap and additional momentum?

For indirect band gaps, an electron needs both energy and momentum in order to be excited from the conduction band. I am not sure I understand the momentum requirement. What does it mean physically? ...
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Poynting Vector Volume Integral Inside a Cavity

Given an electromagnetic wave in resonance mode in a vacuum cavity inside a perfect conductor, on the boundary, the parallel component of $E$ field vanishes, and the perpendicular of component of $B$ ...
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Moment of inertia of half a thin disk around oo' axis [on hold]

How do I calculate the moment of inertia of this object around the oo' axis. I know how to calculate a whole disk (with or without the hole) around: 1. the center axis 2. the oo' axis (using the ...
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Universal speed limit [duplicate]

Is there any reason the universe has matter not being able to exceed the speed of light, or why there is a speed limit in the first place? I know why it can't, meaning the basic physics of it. I ...
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who can help me and guide me [on hold]

i am mphil physics and my thesis is on design and simulation of micro needle.now i want to start research from where i will start and currently i am not attached with any university but my teacher ...
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Green's function for moving solidification front

Consider a liquid solid interface $z =\zeta(x,t)$ moving at constant speed $v$, for a two dimensional problem. Due to solidification interface is changing it position. For simplicity heat ...
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Hill's and Mathieu's equation [on hold]

I am supposed to apply Hill's and Mathieu's equation to parametric pendulum. Can you tell me what is the difference between them? Why are they used? What do they describe?
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Eigenfunctions corresponding to degenerate spectra

It is well knwon that an eigenstate can be obtained by superposing wavepackets. In other words, if $\Psi({\bf x},t)$ is the solution of the time dependent Schroedinger equation for an initial ...
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What is the relation between the lifetime of a particle and the probability of decaying that particle? Here it says that the probability of survival is exponential if the decay process is a Poisson ...