# All Questions

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### Personalized “anthropic principle” and many-worlds divorce between Shroedinger's cats

Anthropic principle, at least in laymen explanations that I have encountered so far, sounds something like "the physical universe suits us exceptionally well because among all the possibilities we, ...
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### Different phase in capacitively coupled RLC circuits

I was trying to work with some data for a lab report I'm writing about capacitively coupled RLC circuits. The setup is pretty simple and looks like that: Where $C^{'}$ is the coupling capacitance. ...
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A loaded die has an uneven mass density distribution. A given die is constructed from a square pyramid of material with mass density $\rho_1$ whose bsase lays on the face marked "1",with the rest of ...
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### Orbital angular momentum selection rules for three identical particles

I'm trying to figure out if there are selection rules for the total orbital angular momentum for a system of three identical particles, say bosons. For two identical bosons one can argue that the ...
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### Vacancy Generation / Annihilation Time (Relaxation Time)

Vacancy Generation/Annihilation Time, Recombination Time and Relaxation Time ($\tau$) are all synonymously used in atomic physics literatures. They're defined as the time that it takes for vacancies ...
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### Bottom magnetic levitation

There are many decorative devices, that keep a small metal sphere levitating in air by attracting it to a top electromagnetic coil while monitoring their height by optical sensors. There is also the ...
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### What would Planck's Radiation Law look like if there were only two modes of oscillation, $n = 0, 1$?

I have an idea that the law (since it's based on average energy, number of modes per volume, and a constant) would be shortened to something that would eliminate the summation terms in average energy. ...
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### What is the physics associated with climbing a space elevator?

Suppose you have a space elevator and you use it to lift weight to orbit. Obvious this is pulling down on the counterweight. So doesn't this mean that you need to apply appropriate acceleration ...
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### How much can a thin layer of hi-speed material within a low-speed volume block a wave due to total internal reflection?

Consider a block of isotropic material with compression wave velocity associated with it, $v_1$. Consider a thin flat layer of high compression wave velocity $v_2, v_2>v_1$ that is buried within ...
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### How the pressure of a system changes in terms of density?

I am modeling a closed natural circulation loop, filled with water. Some parts of the loop are heated, some are cooled and other are assumed adiabatic. As an effect of heating and cooling the density ...
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### Global anomaly for discrete groups

We know that: a global anomaly is a type of anomaly: in this particular case, it is a quantum effect that invalidates a large gauge transformations that would otherwise be preserved in the ...
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### How does the Lennard Jones Potential changes for interaction between particles of different sizes?

I am interested in incorporating a Lennard-Jones potential in a simulation. When the interaction only involves the same type of particle, with same characteristics, we can use reduced units, scaling ...
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### Melting ice in a tray in space shuttle

We have an ice cube in a tray in a space shuttle. As the ice cube melts, the centre of mass shifts downward, so the tray should move downward to maintain the position of the centre of mass. Now, some ...
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### Wald General Relativity, Chap 7.1

On page 166 of Wald's General Relativity book, he claims that the equation (7.1.20), $$0 = R^t{}_t + R^\phi{}_\phi = (\nabla_a t) R^a{}_b \xi^b + (\nabla_a \phi) R^a{}_b \psi^b,$$ yields (7.1.21), ...
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### Is energy lost in an elastic tunneling process?

Suppose we had two metal plates separated by an Angstrom. Now, apply a voltage $V$ between the two metal plates. There will be a tunneling current $I$ between the metal plates. Since $P=IV$, does ...
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### spread of fock state distribution and infinite revival time of rabi oscillation in spontaneous emission

In cavity QED for a 2-level atom, the revival time for oscillation b/w the states $\left|\ e\ 0\right\rangle$ and $\left|\ g\ 1\right\rangle$ (absorbing the same photon that is emitted) is said to be ...
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### electron spin separation

I am having doubt whether the electron's up spin moment and down spin moment can be isolated from one another. If it got separated, will each moment acts as magnetic monopole (stable or unstable). ...
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### Moment of Inertia in SR/GR & Calculating it in General

In classical mechanics you want to calculate the moment of inertia for hollow & solid: lines, triangles, squares/rectangles, polygons, planes, pyramids, cubes/parallelepiped's, circles, ellipses, ...
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### Electric potential on a uniformly charged tube

A hollow cylinder, with no top or bottom, of radius $R$ and length $L$ is uniformly charged with density $\sigma>0$. I have to find the point on space where a point charge $q>0$ has to be drawn ...
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### Why Transmission of electrical energy without wires was not practical even after Tesla's proposal

Why we couldn't transmit Electricity wirelessly even after so many proposals available proposed by Tesla ? Tesla tried to generate more interest in Wardenclyffe by revealing its ability to ...
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### POVM positive density matrix decomposition

I have to prove that given a density matrix $\rho$ in a finite d-dimensional Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_d$, it always exists at least one informationally complete POVM measure $\{E_i\}_{i=1}^{d^2}$ ...
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### Can (quantum) angular momentum $L$ be zero?

I am trying to calculate the orbital magnetic moment, $\bar{\mu}$, for Sodium, which has an electron configuration of $1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^1$. The full shells do not contribute to $\bar{L}$ and ...
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### Maximum temperature of an elliptical thermodynamic process

Given a heat engine made from the curve $$V(t)=V_0 +A \cos(\omega t); \qquad P(t)=P_0-B \sin(\omega t).$$ What are the hottest and coldest points of this cycle, and what are the temperatures at those ...
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### Mechanistic description of leverage

How would you describe how a lever is able to apply a large for to an object from only a small applied force without recourse to conservation of energy? Is there a purely F=ma type derivation? For ...
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### Electrostatic potential of a proton

I have been working on a quantum mechanical problem regarding the ground state of the Hydrogen atom. It appears that the best way to solve the underlying problem is to modify the electrostatic ...
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### Rolling in 3D using Torque, Angular Momentum/Velocity

I'm stuggling to get a simulation working correctly. Below you can see what I am attempting to do. You can also view it here. Can you spot where I'm going wrong? (Calculated at start) 1) Inertia ...
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### Morphisms between chiral CFTs

This is a question about terminology. Given two vertex algebras $V_1$ and $V_2$ (= chiral CFTs), there are two kinds of maps $V_1\to V_2$ that one might want to consider. 1) Morphisms of VOAs that ...
With the FLRW equations we can get solutions for a matter dominated closed universe in which the finale is an ultimate collapse, but this is only in terms of $a$ (the scale factor) and $t$ (time) and ...
Calculate the rms speed of diatomic Nitrogen ($N_2$) at an altitude of $600$ km, where the temperature is $1500$ K. I'm confused because only an altitude and a temperature is given, and I feel like ...