# All Questions

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### Gravitational Time Dilation Formula? [on hold]

What is the equation for calculating the dilation of time at different levels of gravitational force?
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### Is work done on a fluid in a communicating vessel necessarily equal to work done by the fluid inside it?

During the explanation of Pascal's law the argument that work done by a force to move the fluid inside communicating vessel is equal to the work done by the fluid at the other end of the vessel was ...
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### Is acceleration caused by curvature or space or time or both?

I'm trying to get a hold of the idea of gravity in general relativity and spacetime. I've seen plenty of demonstrations of the rubber mat analogy to describe gravity and spacetime curvature. Is this ...
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### Calculate the attenuation constant on a lossy transmission line [on hold]

$\nu$ = 10 [kHz] $L$ = 600 [nH/meter] $R$ = 50 [mOhm/meter] $C$ = 80 [pF/m] $G$ = 0 So the question on my test was what is $\alpha$, the attenuation constant? The answer is $\alpha$ = 0.25 [1/km] ...
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### What are the hypothetic cases when entropy of a closed system may decrease? [on hold]

What are the hypothetical possibilities that entropy of a closed system may decrease? I would accept plausible but hypothetical setups. For instance, Non-trivial timeline topology (closed timelike ...
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### Extreme temperatures, relativity and kinetic theory

According to kinetic theory, average kinetic energy is proportional to temperature. Supposing $k_BT/2$ per particle, can we use relativity and kinetic theory to calculate, e.g., the temperature and ...
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### How did Rayleigh and Jeans apply the Equipartition of Energy in determining the energy distribution of blackbody - radiation? [duplicate]

I am reading the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and have come across this law. Here , it is written They applied the statistical physics method to the waves by analogy with Maxwell's gas particles using ...
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### Why does the blackbody radiate even at thermal equilibrium?

Everytime, I read about blackbody, I always get confused at the point where it is written Under thermal equilibrium conditions , the blackbody radiation depends only on temperature. ..... . At ...
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### Why need for 96kHz, 192kHz audio? [on hold]

Human can hear 20-20,000 Hz waves, so by Nyquist theorem it's sufficient to sample audio with 40 kHz. Indeed, 44.1 kHz widely used. But what do we need higher sample rates for? 96 kHz, 192 kHz are ...
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### Which foods provide a human with most energy per gram in weight? [on hold]

I just read about an astronaut who took 5KG of Caviar into space (not related to cost as far as I know) but it got me thinking, since it costs so much money to send things into space, which foods ...
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### Why doesn't the electron lose or absorb energy while remaining in a selected orbit?

Postulate 2: When an electron revolves in any selected orbits, it neither emits nor absorbs energy . The energy of an electron in a particular orbit remains constant. Thus, Bohr, by postulating ...
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### $E=mc^2$ what is unique about the speed of light? [duplicate]

What unique property of light, makes it the conversion factor between energy and mass? It has to be more than a coincidence that the speed of light, just happens to be the correct number number to ...
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### Weight of a hemispherical bowl and a mass $m$ [on hold]

A particle of mass $m$ is A hemispherical bowl of mass M rests on a weighing scale. The inside surface of the bowl in frictionless. A particle of mass m is released from rest at the top of the bowl ...
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### Why did “tickling the dragons tail” by Louis Slotin not cause an explosion?

I have been reading the excellent Command and Control by Eric Schlosser and discovered more about Louis Slotin's experiment with "tickling the dragons tail" and the infamous Demon Core. What I don't ...
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### What does this depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar mean?

I was expecting a whirlpool in 3D and the matter glowing from friction as it nears the center, as I expected a event horizon to be negligible visually. How does this depiction work? How big is the ...
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### $E=mc^2$ is incomplete? [duplicate]

So I was going through youtube and I found out these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkiCPMjpysc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMIhxWRGNw Can anyone here explain to me (with derivation if ...
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### Why can we inflate the balloon?

I have an elementary question: I know from experiences that human can inflate (or fill with water) the standard ballon or latex medical glove. But I know also that in rubber/latex there are a pores. ...
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### Why an undoped heterojunction causes potential barrier?

In this image (source) a potential double-barrier was created using GaAs and AlAs lattices (undoped). Why would any potential barrier be formed, if all the bonds are electrostatically balanced (i.e. ...
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### What are the boundary conditions for EM waves normally incident on the interface between two dielectric media?

An EM wave, amplitude $E_0$, frequency $\omega_0$, is incident upon a material with relative permittivity (dielectric function) \varepsilon \left( z \right) = \left\{ \begin{gathered}{\varepsilon ...
Actually my study on tight binding method from Solid state physics- Kittel is in totall mess. There are couple of points I would like myself to clarify on -How $\boldsymbol{<\phi_{m}|\phi_{j}>}$ ...