# All Questions

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### What causes the recessed blade of some folding knives to emerge in a kinetic opening? [on hold]

KINETIC OPENING OF FOLDING KNIFE (FK) Several legal jurisdictions around the World, including Australia, have assented legislation/regulation which attribute the emergence of the recessed blade in the ...
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### Determining flexural modulus by performing 3 point bending test using hollow cylindrical tube

I would like to decide the flexural modulus of the material of plastic tube by performing 3 point bending test according to the ASTM D 790 procedure. In ASTM D 790, the form of the specimen is ...
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### Mathematical Reasoning for Fluid Pressure as a Scalar

This question from a while ago and answers/comments to this question from earlier today both make heavy mention of the fact that fluid pressure is a scalar. Although this information was surprising ...
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### Flea jumping question [on hold]

During takeoff, a flea develops an acceleration of $3m/s^2$. It reaches a max height of 36mm. How long does this acceleration last? Finding the initial velocity was fairly easy, but finding the time ...
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### Projectile Aiming [on hold]

I'm having a but of trouble with a game I'm programming. What I have is an enemy who periodically shoots a laser at the player if they're close enough. I've been trying to come up with a way to make ...
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### At what velocity does space no longer equal a vacuum? [on hold]

In Dr. Alistair Reynolds's book (Revelation Space), he mentions that space only equals a vacuum at low speeds. At which velocities would space no longer count as an almost vacuum?
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### Leptons slide between quarks? [on hold]

I wonder if one of particles (maybe quarks?) are constructors of highways in 3d field for others floating around re/distributing energy by some (leptons?), restricted to laws set by (bosons?). If ...
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### No length contraction!

Suppose a person standing on a platform were to observe and measure the length of a train passing by. Instead of the usual approach involving a clock and knowing the speed of the train, the person ...
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### Role of the crystallographic point group on properties of tensorial elasticity

If a space point group for a crystal is known, does this automatically define the elastic tensor symmetry of the material? What further implications can be found? The crystallographic subgroups: ...
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### Fruit flies in a bell jar [duplicate]

You place a bell jar on a scale and the scale registers x grams. You then trap y grams of flying, non-landing fruit-flies in the bell jar. What does the scale register? x grams? x+y grams? Something ...
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### Latent heat of solidification

What is the heat release mechanism involved in solidification from liquid phase? Is the energy transferred to nucleation centres?
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### Evaporation of water at room temperature

Could anybody refer me to some literature (textbooks or research, although preferably textbooks!) dedicated to explaining quantitatively the phenomenon of evaporation of fluids? I understand that it's ...
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### Hooks Law and acceleration [on hold]

A 435 gram sharpened piece of iron rebar into a spring loaded device. It takes a force of 355 Newtons to compress the spring by 27.5 cm. With what speed does the rebar shoot out of the device? ...
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### What is the speed of times arrow [on hold]

If the maximum speed of time in a vacuum is C you would have included time in relativity theory and have a definition of space time, Or the mass-time equivalence. A thought experiment.
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### How non-invasive blood glucose concentration measurement work? [migrated]

Diabetes patients need to conduct the “fingerstick” a few times a day. One of the mechanisms of "fingerstick" is to take small amount of blood sample and put it onto a test strip. The enzyme on the ...
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### Do we exist in multiple dimensions?

I have heard that there are 12 spacial dimensions. Does this mean that this many are possible,or that 12 dimensions actually exist? If the ladder, then do the same things that exist in 3 dimensions ...
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### Determine which circuits are parallel and which are in series

I need to find the Equivalent Resistance across A and B. The problem is, I don't know which one's are in series and which ones are in parallel. How do I identify which ones are parallel or series?
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### Sound diffraction through a single slit

When sound waves diffract through a single slit, do they produce an interference pattern which is mathematically identical to that of light waves in the corresponding experiment?
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### Two Particle System with Identical Particles

I'm studying for an exam in quantum mechanics and tried to calculate the ground state and the first two excited states of two identical bosons (spin 0) in an infinite one dimensional potential well. ...
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### Pressure and variation in pressure due to depth

In my class, we were shown the following problem: Using the equation $P_1$ = $P_0$ + $\displaystyle\rho$gh, where $P_1$ is the pressure at Superman's mouth and $P_0$ is the pressure at the surface ...
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### Uniform motion - need help with this problem [on hold]

Body A is moving towards body B (which is moving to A) with speeds v1 (for A) and v2 (for B) on the road s.Body B starts moving after time Δt compared to the body A (so t2 = t1 + Δt).I want to know ...
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### Law of conservation of linear momentum is a consequence of Newton's forst law substantiate [on hold]

Law of conservation of linear momentum is a consequence of Newton's first law substantiate.
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### If Earth starts moving when attracted by an object, where does the energy come from?

Suppose a body(very big but not bigger than Earth) moves against gravitational force of Earth. The force will do negative work on the body decreasing its kinetic energy. The decreasing energy is ...
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### Topology of phase space

Context: From Liouville's integrability theorem we know that: If a system with $n$ degrees of freedom exhibits at least $n$ globally defined integrals of motion (i.e. first integrals), where all ...
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### What wilI I observe when travelling at almost the speed of light? [duplicate]

If I and a group of friends are travelling at or just below the speed of light - can I see myself, can I see them, or they me? Would we see anything at all?
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### Difference in “momentum” names in Lagrangian mechanics

In the context of Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics, the following names keep occurring in most textbooks, which confuse me a lot, are they different in any way? Momentum Generalized ...
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### Variational Theorem proof

I have been trying to prove variational theorem in quantum mechanics for a couple of days but I can't understand the logic behind certain steps. Here is what I have so far: ...
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### Metric with 5D signature: +---+

From a paper that a friend sent to me (on inflation theory which I am still in learner mode) a 5D signature +---+ was specified with the 5th dimension being a velocity dimension. I didn't know that ...
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### (Optical) Coherent states being all orders coherent

I recently read that coherent states $|{\alpha}\rangle = e^{-|\alpha|^2/2} \sum_{n=0}^\infty{\frac{\alpha^n}{\sqrt{n!}}|{n}\rangle }$ are all orders coherent, according to the definitions given on ...
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### How to calculate the $g$ degeneracy factor for alkali metals and their singly ionized species?

The Saha ionization equation is $$\frac{n(X_{i+1})}{n(X_{i})} = \frac{(2\pi m k T)^{1.5}}{n_e h^3}\frac{2g_{i+1}}{g_{i}}e^{-\chi/kT}$$ where $\chi$ is the energy difference between the two ...
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### Index notation with Navier-Stokes equations

This is an index-notation question rather then the NS one: For incompressible flow and Newtonian fluid, the continuity equation is denoted with: $$\frac{\partial u_i}{\partial x_i} = 0,$$ which ...
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### Uncharged Gluon Representation

I'm currently learning for an exam and in an old exam the question was posed: If Gluons were uncharged, under which representation would they transform? The ...
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### For a massless pulley moving upwards with acceleration, is the upward force equal to the downward force?

Imagine a massless and frictionless pulley with two weights hanging either side of the pulley by a massless string. Like this except not attached to a ceiling Rather than being fixed to a ceiling, ...
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### Direction of pressure in fluids

ok so my friend told me that in a container, the pressure exerted by the walls on the liquid in the container act in the upward direction.Is he correct ? so what I am imagining is a cylindrical ...
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### Why aren't classical phase space distribution functions always delta functions?

The phase space distribution function (or phase space density) is supposed to be the probability density of finding a particle around a given phase space point. But, classically, through Hamilton's ...
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### Recent important observations on dark matter [on hold]

I would love some suggestions about my undergraduate research, thought it may be improper to ask here. I apology if I break the group rules. My undergraduate research topic is dark matter. My plan ...
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### Semiconductor band diagram with a doping gradient

What does the Energy band diagram in a semiconductor look like if we introduced a doping gradient? What would it look like if after we added the doping gradient we introduced an electric field? I ...
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### How would the transactional interpretation “bootstrap”

I have an interest in quantum physics and have been trying to educate myself here, other places on line and by reading "The Quantum Universe". During this process I became quite drawn to the ...
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### Two different transformation laws for Quantum Fields

I found a nice answer to a problem that was bothering me for quite a while in a lecture script (unfortunately in german). The first step of the answer, is what remains unclear to me. The script states ...
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### Graphene has a honeycomb lattice - true or false?

In my grand ignorance I would state that graphene has a honeycomb lattice. Some tend to agree with me and some others do not. I'm curious to know what members of the SE community think is the right ...
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### Is there a relationship between the diameter of a copper wire and the bandwidth it can carry?

I'd suspect intuitively that the bandwidth should decrease as the diameter decreases, but I don't have any reasoning to back it up. Secondly, would the actual wavelengths that it can carry, also ...
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### Black hole “no hair” theorem

The "no hair" theorem (or conjecture), suggests that black holes can be entirely described by their mass, angular momentum and charge. All other details of the BH formation are lost. Is there a ...
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### These two operators commute…but their eigenvectors aren't all the same. Why?

The Hamiltonian $$H = \left[ \begin{array}{cccc} a & 0 & 0 & -b \\ 0 & 0 & -b & 0\\ 0 & -b & 0 & 0\\ -b & 0 & 0 & -a \end{array} \right]$$ commutes ...
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### J-coupling constants and nuclei with zero total angular momentum

The Wikipedia page on J-couplings states that Scalar or J-couplings (also called indirect dipole dipole coupling) are mediated through chemical bonds connecting two spins. It is an indirect ...
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### What is $g$ when traveling quickly around a planet?

I am trying to model a rocket orbiting a planet. I want to simplify the problem so that the rocket is travelling along an infinitely long flat surface with a $g$ along the $y$-axis. This is what ...
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### Does a superconducting state change in a Type 2 collapse the whole superconductor?

If (say) we have a 1m length bar of a Type 2 superconductor in a superconducting state and something is done to one end of it to collapse the superconduction there, does the state of the whole bar ...
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### How does lattice field theory relate to string theory?

The former is sort of a "mapping" technique with the goal of making quantum fields computable, while the latter wants to act as an underlying system of it. (as far as I know) What is their relation to ...
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### A flight attendant on a plane - special relativity problem [on hold]

the question goes like this: on a plane, flying at 0.8c which is 100m long (in plane system), at the back of the plane there is a flight attendant moving at 0.55c (relativitly to the plane system). ...