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### Cellular automata rules for quantum mechanics

My limited understanding of quantum theory is that a quantum system is completely described by its wave function, which deterministically evolves according to Schrödinger's equation until wave ...
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### Is it possible to make use of paper/bill permeate by chemical compound to became a paper-made bullet-proof vest?

Is it possible to make use of paper/bill permeate by chemical compound to became a paper-made bullet-proof vest? This is inspired by Greece and Italy tend to have more riot than rest of the Europe ...
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### How do I integrate the Poisson equation to determine the electric potential along a particular direction (e.g., $z$)?

This question is a sequel of sorts to my earlier (resolved) question about a recent paper. In the paper, the authors performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of parallel-plate supercapacitors, ...
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### Proof of charge existence on a grounded conductor

A question regarding the existence of charge on grounded conductors is confusing me. Could there be charge on a grounded conductor? How does this not contradict Gauss's Law? Since every conductor ...
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### How can one know if one has a Majorana fermion?

If the Majorana fermion is a fermion that is it's own antiparticle and exactly the same as its fermion counterpart, then how do they know that it's not just a fermion?
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### Can the equation $v=\lambda f$ be made true even for non sinusoidal waves?

The known relation between the speed of a propagating wave, the wave length of the wave, and its frequency is $$v=\lambda f$$ which is always true for any periodic sinusoidal waves. Now consider: ...
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### Why are objects at rest in motion through spacetime at the speed of light?

I read that an object at rest has such a stupendous amount of energy, $E=mc^2$ because it's effectively in motion through space-time at the speed of light and it's traveling through the time dimension ...
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### How do aerospace engineers choose a landing system? (Curiosity rover)

The Sojourner rover with the Mars Pathfinder used a entry, descent, and landing system involving airbags to land on Mars. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers each used more-or-less the same system ...
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### Calculating impact force for a falling object?

Good evening, I'm trying to calculate what kind of impact force a falling object would have once it hit something. This is my attempt so far: Because $x= \frac{1}{2} at^2$, $t=\sqrt{2x/a}$ $v=at$, ...
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### event horizons are untraversable by observers far from the collapse?

Consider this a followup question of this one In the classical schwarszchild solution with an eternal black hole, the user falls through the event horizon in finite local time, but this event does ...
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### Constraining two-point functions of boundary operators on the disk

I'm trying to understand the constraints on the disk CFT correlation function $\langle O_1(y_1)O_2(y_2)\rangle$, where the $O_i$'s are boundary operators that are not necessarily primary. It's a ...
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### Creating a fair 3 sided coin

I want to make a cylindrical three sided fair coin, with sides: heads, tails, and edge. What should the area of the edge be in relation to the area of the head of the coin? Assume it is all made of ...
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### The Stern Gerlach Experiment Revisited

Is it possible to provide an explanation to the observations of the Stern Gerlach Experiment using the classical theories? Some Considerations: We consider the standard set-up for the ...
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### Entanglement of qubits circuit- Bell states

I know that the quantum circuit $\text{CNOT}\; (H \otimes I)$, where $\text{CNOT}$ is the controlled-not gate and $H$ the Hadamard gate, takes the computational basis of two qubits ...
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### The ideal trampoline

Suppose we have a mass attached to the top of an ideal (linear and massless) spring oriented vertically in a uniform gravitational field, and on top of that mass there is another mass resting on it. ...
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### Variational Calculus or Tensor Calculus? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Learning physics online? I'm a high school student, and I got fives in AP Calculus, Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism exams, and I've taken Linear Algebra and ...
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### The appearance of volume $V$ in the Fourier series representation of a periodic cubic system

In the textbook Understanding Molecular Simulation by Frenkel and Smit (Second Edition), the authors represent a function $f(\textbf{r})$ (which depends on the coordinates of a periodic system) as a ...
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### Does the speed of light vary in noninertial frames?

The speed of light is the same in all inertial frames. Does it change from a non-inertial frame to another? Can it be zero? If it is not constant in non-inertial frames, is it still bounded from ...
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### Carnot efficiency, coefficient of performance for a refrigerator

I was reading that a new type of refrigerator might reach a coefficient of performance (COP) of 10. This seems quite the achievement and the authors state that their approach might achieve a Carnot ...
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### Base states with hamiltonian matrix

It is better for you to have studied "Feynman lectures on Physics Vol.3", because I cannot distinguish whether the words or expressions are what Feynman uses only or not and in order to summarize my ...
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### Mechanism of Pair Production and Annihilation of Matter

Pair production is where an energetic photon on its interaction with strong electric field surrounding a nucleus produces electron-positron pair. Annihilation of matter is its converse where an ...
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### Can the Klein-Gordon Equation represent Particles with non-zero spin?

Every Solution of the Dirac Equation is also a solution of the Klein-Gordon equation. So the K-G equation does not necessarily represent particles with non-zero spin. Would it be incorrect to ...
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### what is wrong with the following argument about stokes law in compact universes?

I want to understand what is wrong with the following argument: in a topologically compact spacetime, a closed 3D boundary separates the spacetime in two connected components, because of this ...
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### What is the Zero-dispersion wavelength?

There are a decent number of complex mathematical descriptions of the zero-dispersion wavelength online, but I can't seem to find any basic explanations. So to be redundant, what is it?
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### The electron jumps and lets loose photons

Where is the source of the photon. If the photon propagates from within the electrons transit does this point to some sort of field? Does the energy come from a boundary being broken in laymens ...
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### How to charge an object with electricity

I know this is a rather basic question, but how do you charge an object? Not a battery, an object. I'm guessing it involves static electricity, but I'm not sure. Some resources I've been reading talk ...
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### How is acceleration computed in the leap-frog algorithm in computer simulations of particles?

I am reading the book Computer Simulation of Liquids by Allen and Tildesley (here is another link). On page 80, the authors describe the leap-frog algorithm, which is used extensively in molecular ...
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### Is temperature an extensive property, like density?

I was thinking about it some time ago, and now that I've discovered this site I would like to ask it here because I couldn't work it out then. I know that the higher temperature the air in my room ...
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### Triple slit experiment

If the experiment is done with single photons and a "detector" at one of the slits the interference pattern breaks down. What happens if three slits are used with single photons and a "detector" at, ...
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### Bohr's model of an atom doesn't seem to have overcome the drawback of Rutherford's model

We, as high school students have been taught that-because Bohr's model of an atom assigns specific orbits for electrons-that it is better than Rutherford's model. But what Rutherford failed to explain ...