# All Questions

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### Which function denotes the energy of thermal motion within a system?

In thermodynamics, the heat $Q$ is defined as a type of energy in transfer, and is not a state function, which function denotes the energy of thermal motion within a system? 1) $TS$, (there is a ...
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### What is the difference between configuration space and phase space?

What is the difference between configuration space and phase space? In particular, I notices that Lagrangians are defined over configuration space and Hamiltonians over phase space. Liouville's ...
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### Should the weaker of two air conditions be switched off?

We have two airconditioning systems in the office. For the sake of this question, let us assume the following current conditions: AC1 (old) outputs air of 26°C AC2 (new) outputs air of 18°C Office ...
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### Two glass bottles of water warming by different temperatures

A friend posed a question to me yesterday: if I have two glasses of 60 F water, would they heat at a different rate if one were in a 70 F room and one were in a 90 F room. Myself having some ...
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### Dispersion in crystall for a random direction

Lets say one get a dispersion of electrons or phonons from this website: http://www.matprop.ru Usually dispersion in particular directions is drawn: as for wurtzite crystall it is A to L, L to U and ...
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### Difference between Enzo & Gadget astronomy simulation codes

Enzo and Gadget are simulation codes used in astronomy. What are the largest differences between them both in terms of physics they simulate and in their implementations?
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### Can the math for physics be expressed without any uncountable sets at all?

I am wondering about this and have wondered about it for a short while. Usually physics is modeled using things based off of the Real Number Line $\mathbb{R}$, which is uncountable. (E.g. we may use ...
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### What is the reason that EXAFS are done with monochromatic x-ray light?

Why is the light incident on the samples in EXAFS experiments monochromatic? What would happen if a broad bandwidth hits a grating and then all the diffraction spectrum goes through the sample and is ...
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### How to experimentally identify the exposed face of a crystal?

After depositing a material (e.g, TiO2) on a substrate, what methods can I use to check whether the material is crystalline, and what face (e.g, 001, 101, etc..) of the crystal is exposed?
Professor Susskind proved conservation of energy in one of his lectures by taking the classical definition of force ($F = ma$) and by showing that its time derivative is zero. How can we do that with ...