# All Questions

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### Vibrational anharmonic coupling and noise-induced spontaneous symmetry breaking in a hexagonal finite mechanical lattice

Happy holidays, everyone! The following is part question, part visual gallery, and part classical mechanics problem. Inspired by snow over the weekend I began simulating the vibrations of the ...
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### How to measure resistance of a piece of wire?

My son is doing a science experiment on how varying temperature and diameter of wire impacts the resistance. We are assuming we can accomplish this by using different gauge wires, a home thermometer, ...
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### Is there a minimum mass is required for light to be noticeably bent?

The sun bends the trajectory of light slightly. And a black hole will bend the trajectory entirely. This is all dependent on the proximity to the source of gravity. For a given angle, is there some ...
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### Conservation of Mathematical Constraints when deriving Energy and Momentum from F=ma

Background: Starting from $F = ma$, integrating with respect to time, and using basic calc, one can derive $\int Fdt = m (v_f - v_i)$ Starting from $F = ma$, integrating with respect to distance, ...
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### Doppler effect question [on hold]

I have this question regarding the Doppler effect. I have been trying to do this question for the longest time, but I cant seem to solve it. Imagine you are standing between 2 ambulances, one ...
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### Calculation of linear / angular velocity via force and distance [on hold]

I have a force and distance vector. I know that linear velocity and angular velocity depend on how much it goes through the CM, and how much it doesn't respectively. I know that the cross product of ...
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### What is the importance of the Odderon?

From hep-ph/0001149v1: (1) an Odderon contribution is absolutely necessary to reproduce quantitatively well the data; while its presence is not explicitly needed at $t = 0$, its inclusion is ...
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### an Abelian complex statistical phase from exchanging non-Abelian anyons?

We have some discussions in Phys.SE. about the braiding statistics of anyons from a Non-Abelian Chern-Simon theory, or non-Abelian anyons in general. May I ask: under what (physical or mathematical) ...
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### What is the reasoning behind the Hill Sphere?

According to Wikipedia, Hill Sphere is : the volume of space around an object where the gravity of that object dominates over the gravity of a more massive but distant object around which the first ...
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### Spring problem? [on hold]

I came across this problem in physics "Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Serway" A block on the end of a spring is pulled to position $x = A$ and released from rest. In ...
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### Specify the Stress Energy Tensor and Calculate the Curvature

I have a simple question about general relativity and the Einstein field equations, I wonder if you can specify the stress energy tensor, i.e. specify some mass distribution in space and then ...
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### Heat transfer by radiation and glass absorptivity [on hold]

Does glass absorb infrared radiation significantly? That is, what is the absorptivity of glass to infrared radiation in general?
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### The expansion of a function in powers of a parameter

In the perturbation theory for non-degenerate levels, the energy $E_n(\lambda)$ of an eigenstate $|\psi_n(\lambda)\rangle$ of the hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}=\mathcal{H}_0+\lambda \mathcal{H}_1$ (where ...
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### Collection of histories vs. collection of momentary configurations

For a given Hamiltonian, is the space of histories of a classical system the same as the symplectic manifold? Do I have to take care of gauge equivalences and if so, is this only an issue for fields ...
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### Thermal expansion and conductivity

When thinking about how the lattice constant of silicon can be given up to eight decimal places without a remark for the temperature I realized that, it seems most insulators and semiconductors seem ...
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