# All Questions

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### Can an asteroid/meteroid/meteor/meteorite be stopped in its way to Earth?

I was just studying meteorology and had a doubt about the motion of meteors towards earth. Can a meteor be stopped while it is still under under the gravitational influence of Earth? As far as I know ...
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### Does a Force on the block $M_1$ in this diagram have an effect on the block $M_2$?

Suppose we have two blocks: There is no friction. Does $F$ has the same effect on $M_2$?
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### Does dark energy have gravity?

So I keep running into this idea on the Internet that only mass has gravity, but isn't mass simply contained energy? Energy bounces around, or travels at the speed of light, because it is not in the ...
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### Why Does Gravity Work? [closed]

I'm trying to work out if energy has gravity, because if it does, then it will all get sucked into black holes, including dark energy, meaning that there will be no pushing effect left, and that the ...
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### Time dependency of the phase of a single photon

I am wondering if a wave packet of a single photon in the time domaine $$\psi(t)=|\psi(t)|\; \text e^{\text i \varphi(t)}$$ can have a different $t$ dependence in phase than the simple phase ...
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### Why isn't water running faster hotter?

I was running the washing up water this morning, and started to think about why the cold tap isn't hot, and why the water doesn't get hotter the faster it is flowing (if anything, the cold tap gets ...
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### power counting and (superficial) non-renormalizability

Comment: This stuff is new to me so it doesn't entirely make sense (yet). Question: As I understand from Peskin and Schroeder chap 10 if you have a theory with interaction terms $\lambda \phi^n$ in ...
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Today, I tried creating a very basic Faraday cage by surrounding a radio with two baking trays made out of iron. It didn't seem to affect the radio's signal (AM was being used, not FM). In theory, ...
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### Entropy as a state property

The usual "proof" entropy is a state property is like that: "Consider a system which undergoes a reversible process from state 1 to state 2 along path A, and let cycle be completed along path B, ...
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### Eigenvalue spectrum of $L_x+iL_y$

Is it possible to find out the generic eigenvalue spectrum of the non-Hermitian operator $L_x+iL_y$, without using any representation?
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### Help explain how direction change relates to acceleration [duplicate]

I was doing some simple harmonic motion problems and I came across this picture describing the position, velocity and acceleration of a linear oscillator. At the moment in time when v is 0 the ...
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### Why can't the work done by a non-conservative force be zero?

Why can't the work done by a non-conservative force be zero? The displacement along a closed path is always zero. So, whatever be the type of force, variable or constant, the work has to be zero. Why ...
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### Question about Atwood Machine and Changing Masses

Say we have an object of X Newtons on the ground called object 1, and it is connected to another object called object 2. If we change the mass of object 2 in intervals until object 1 < object 2, ...
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### Will a prism widen a monochromatic beam?

The representation of the experiment which demonstrates that white light consists of many colors, invariably shows that the beam of white light is broadened inside the prism and is some what more ...
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### Green functions in QFT

What is the sense of Green function $$\langle | \hat {T}(u_{1}(x_{1})...u_{n}(x_{n})\hat {S})|\rangle , \quad \hat {S} = \hat{T}e^{i\int \hat {L}(x)d^{4}x} ?$$ How is it connected with scattering ...
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### Velocity change of objects

Is it possible for small object (small mass, let's say bullet) to hit large object (big mass, let's say rock) and still move forward (or stop) instead of being reflected (let's say objects don't crush ...
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### A circuit with no voltage difference, but current flowing

From Michael on Skeptics Stackexchange: How about a wire that's grounded? Safe to touch, right? WRONG. ...
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### Determining fluid flow velocity from experimental volumetric flow rate data

I would be very grateful if someone helps me with my issue. I have a pump pumping water into a tube. My goal is to find velocity of the fluid flow in another tube that will be connected to the first ...
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### Electric Potential of a sphere given electric field

I'm studying for a course in electromagnetism, and I've been given an electric field for which I need to find the associated scalar potential. The field is the field generated by a sphere of radius ...
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### Can a difference in the “speed of time” introduce acceleration? [closed]

Hypothetically, lets say we have a space divided equally into two adjacent areas where (somehow) in one of the areas time goes by at half the speed as the other area. Or specifically, when a clock in ...
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### Forces and acceleration due to an angle that varies over time [closed]

I'm having difficulty figuring out how to set a problem up. The problem is as follows: A $5\ kg$ block is being pulled along a frictionless floor by a cord that applies a force of constant magnitude ...
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### Measurement of heat in electrons

Is there any method to measure the heat of an electron and if there is; then is it a constant or a variable.
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### When things sink?

Why a heavy object over a less dense medium doesn't fall always to the bottom? Think: stone on balls of polystyrene. Why do the balls stick together and don't let the stone sink to the bottom? - ...
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### How do you levitate a foam rock? ('Endless Second' artwork)

I saw this in an art museum: How is this possible? The materials used to make this were foam, wood, stone dust, paint, electromagnets, and metal. I would like to know how this was make and how I ...

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