# All Questions

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### Why does Philae have only three legs?

Can anyone explain why comet lander Philae has only three legs? Isn't it obvious that it now has problems that it would not have had if it had four legs arranged as a regular tetrahedron - or even ...
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### What is “Lifetime Intensity” in photoluminescence?

I'm reading an article "Surface plasmon enhanced Förster resonance energy transfer between the CdTe quantum dots". Link The reasearchers are writing about increase in "lifetime intensity" and even ...
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### Is it possible to propagate a relativistic system of particles in time using Verlet?

The Verlet algorithm and its derivations are very popular methods to integrate Newton's equations of motion in time and obtain a trajectory for a system with $N$ particles. I work with classical ...
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### Path integral derivation of the state-operator correspondence in a CFT

Below, I paraphrase the path integral derivation of the state-operator correspondence in David Tong's notes on CFT (see pdf here). This is my interpretation of the text in that pdf, so please correct ...
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### force acting perpendicular through a rotational axis

This seems rather basic to prove mathematically but i am second guess my intuition. Say you have an object in rotation and a force acts on it through the axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of ...
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### Hamiltonian symmetry Lie algebra

What is the connection between complete set of commuting observables and generators of the Lie group? I have a Hamiltonian written down in second quantized formalism and I also checked that it ...
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### Force and Energy in robots

There are two similar and hypothetical robots that move with wheels powered by motors, Robot A and Robot B. Robot A has a gear ratio of 3:1 (The gear connected to the motor is three times larger than ...
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### Does water diffuse trough rubber of car tire of when liquid or only as gas [closed]

Does Water difuse trough rubber of car tire when its liquid or only when its a gas. Can also be that is diffuses but slower when liqiud. I want to know this for my argumentation that filling car tire ...
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### Circumference of a circle in a co-rotating frame of reference

According to Einstein it should be greater than $2 \pi R$ for a co-rotating observer, i.e. $L' = \gamma L$ where $L = 2 \pi R$ in a non-rotating frame and $\gamma$ is the usual Lorentz factor, which ...
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### Chemical potential for nucleons

Do you know if the concept of chemical potential can be properly defined for nucleons in the nuclei? I mean, if I can picture the nuclei like an interacting gas of nucleons, then may I think of a ...
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### Property of $Cu$ so that it is used as target in in X-ray diffraction (XRD)?

Why only $Cu$ is used as target element in X-ray diffraction (XRD)? Why not other elements? And which rays has high intensity $k_\alpha$ or $k_\beta$?
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### De Donder Weyl theory

Im trying to get my head around what the difference is between a symplectic and multisymplectic manifold is. My understanding currently is that on a symplectic manifold time is the parameter that "...
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### Describing a single photon with creation and annihilation operators

Since I am not fully aware of the creation and annihilation operator formalism for single photons, I want to ask, if the following is correct: I am considering a photon in the vacuum which travel ...
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### Introducing time-dependent drive into the Hamiltonian of quantised electric circuits

Suppose I have the schematic of a superconducting electric circuit composed of (quasi) lossless linear inductances and capacitances and some non-linear inductances, eg. Josephson junctions. The ...
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### What symmetry operation mixes states with different $\ell$ in hydrogen atom? [duplicate]

We can mix states with different $m$ in hydrogen atom by rotating it around some axis (not coinciding with $z$). Thus rotation is the symmetry operation which mixes states with different $m$. As ...
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### Could Galileo ever prove that $g$ is the same for a feather and a hammer?

Do you think he could have possibly found a way to make a feather and a hammer touch ground simultaneously, as they should, according to gravity? Can you make up a device that avoids air resistance? ...
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### Have we proven that higher dimensions exist? [duplicate]

Have we proven higher dimensions exist?
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### Is uniform circular motion an SHM?

I know the projection along a diameter is an SHM but is circular motion itself an SHM? If we consider the mean position to be the center of the circle then the centripetal acceleration is proportional ...
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### Why does material change electrical property based on frequency of input electrical signal?

I was investigating whether dry soil would conduct electricity. What I found was that at 60 Hz frequency (i.e. power line fell to the ground), dry soil is a very good conductor. But if you increase ...
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### How would the Sun's gravity affect us if we weren't in orbit?

So since we're in orbit around the sun, we are basically in free-fall. From what I understand, this means that we don't feel the gravity of the Sun like we do the Earth. Just like astronauts on the ...
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### How do traffic waves travel downstream?

How do traffic waves travel downstream (traveling in the same direction as the flow of traffic)? i.e. How can the flow of traffic in a particular location be affected by the flow of traffic behind ...
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### Mixing liquids when applying a voltage

I'm thinking in the following experiment: A) Two (non mixable (like water and oil)) liquids are going to lie in a container, in the extremes of the container there are two electrodes, those ...
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### if you're wearing goggles, will the light beam appear to travel straight?

if person A is outside a pool and person B is inside a pool with goggles, won't the light beam travel closer to the normal inside the pool but then away from the normal when it enters the goggles (due ...
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### Ballistic Pendulum question?

I am answering a question regarding the ballistic pendulum, and the teacher gave this worksheet. I have figured out both t (time) and the change in y. Where I am getting confused is where he wrote out ...