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Why aren't there more natural satellites orbiting the Earth than just the Moon?

Considering that there's a lot of debris in space and that impacts fling out rocks into space all the time, why do we only have one large natural satellite - the Moon? Shouldn't there be all kinds of ...
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Does the equivalence between inertial and gravitational mass imply anything about the Higgs mechanism?

For example: the role it might play in a theory of quantum gravity (ie causing space-time curvature)? I realize that inertial mass can result from binding energy alone. Has the equivalence principle ...
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Does frequency f = $\frac1T$ if there is non-periodic signal

Through what I learned from school, frequency $f=\frac1T$ while $T$ is the period. However, things get harder in college where there are non-periodic signal. That means they have no period or their ...
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The speed of light, objects moving against each other and the effects of a clash

Physics is a hobby interest of mine, so I may be asking a senseless question, but there is something I cannot get my head around when it comes to relative frames, the constant speed of light (as a ...
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Is this constraint non-holonomic?

I am working on a variational problem involving elastic stability of a beam. The deformation of the beam is given by six functions of the material coordinate along the beams longitudinal axis. The ...
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Calculating electric potential from a changing electric field

Assuming that I calculated the electric field in a single point between a uniform charged positive sphere and an infinite long wire charged positive uniformly. Now, I want to calculate the velocity of ...