# All Questions

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### What would happen to a diamond if it was exposed to near vacuum at room temperature?

I know that coal (graphite) turns into diamond when a high enough pressure is applied, but I guessed it would stay as a diamond unless it was incinerated by a high enough temperature. However, I ...
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### Finding the angular velocity of a rod hit at a distance from its pivot [closed]

A 1m long, 2kg stick is nailed to the wall with a single nail, allowing it to pivot and freely rotate at the end. A 1kg ball, with speed 3m/s makes contact with the stick at some distance x (unknown) ...
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### Symmetry argument for a toroid?

When using Ampere's law for a toroid (in the toroid and around a circular path) please can someone explain the symmetry argument (or an alternative argument) which allows us to assume the field is ...
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### Why the whole object cannot be observed to vibrate when energy is transferred through conduction (solid)?

Conduction is the transfer of thermal energy when particles in an object vibrate and collide with neighbouring particles thereby transferring their kinetic energy to them, why doesn't the whole object ...
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### How is the the lower-limit of the proton lifetime measured experimentally?

Wikipedia says : Recent experiments at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov radiation detector in Japan gave lower limits for proton half-life, at 90% confidence level, of 6.6×10^33 years via ...
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### Auto spinning turbine generator

This might be dumb question but I'm so curious to know if this actually works or is impossible. I was researching how you could generate electricity from magnets and copper wire and also have read how ...
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### Reference about probability to study statistical mechanics

I've started studying statistical mechanics but I feel that I need to understand probability better. There are tons of books on probabilities out there, but some of them just talk too much, with tons ...
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### Do photons have acceleration?

Photons travel at the fastest speed in our universe, the speed of light. Do photons have acceleration?
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### Space is expanding so what is time doing? [duplicate]

Space is expanding and as we know space and time are intrinsically linked to be now known as spacetime. What is happening to time during expansion? Is there more time, longer time or is the time part ...
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### Why are there dust particles on TV screens?

My professor gave us the following reason: The screen is positively charged. When dust particles fly near it, the positive charges in the screen induce a charge in the dust particle, pulling the ...
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### Timing of photon emission by electron in bound state

A photon is emitted by an electron (which is in a bound state). Is the energy of the electron lost immediately, or is the energy emitted during the complete transition time? I think my second ...
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### A naive question about topologically ordered wavefunction?

Topological entanglement entropy (TEE, proposed by Levin, Wen, Kitaev, and Preskill) is a direct characterization of the topological order encoded in a wavefunction. Here I have some confusions, and ...
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### How do we know particles exist? Aren't they just waves?

In the book "A Briefer History of Time" Stephen Hawking wrote: The unpredictable, random element comes in only when we try to interpret the wave in terms of the positions and velocities of ...