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What's the temperature distribution of a plane wall insulated on one side with no internal heat gen.?

Let's say we have a plane wall that is insulated on one side, exposed to a fluid on the other side, and has no internal heat generation. Would the shape of the temperature distribution be a constant? ...
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What are the limitations of the FLRW metric?

I was wondering, given how in any other area of life making an explosion spherically symmetric is more or less impossible is there any reason to expect that the universe is? I appreciate that the FLRW ...
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What is it called when a fluid will “jump” to grab onto an object that comes very close?

I'm doing an experiment where I bring a probe very close to a well full of fluid and then very slowly lower it to obtain some force deformation values. The material behaves very much like a fluid and ...
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Speed of a dynamic hydraulic system

We all have noticed that changing the temperature of the water in the shower is not instantaneous, rather the result is felt when the water that was in the tap works its way up to the showerhead. ...
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How to test whether galaxies are moving away from each other in a static background or whether space is being created beween them?

Observations show that galaxies are moving away from one another on the macroscopic scale. Now, scientists interpret this by saying this happens not because galaxies are really moving away from each ...
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momentum conservation question involving a rocket and a spaceship [closed]

With the engines off a space ship is cruising at a velocity of 230m.s It fires a rocket straight ahead at the enememy vessel. The mass of the rocket is 1300kg and the mas of the ship (not including ...
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Problem on nuclear physics radioactivity [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do we know that C14 decay is exponential and not linear? Please help me solving this problem. Find the half life period of uranium-238,if one gram of it emits ...
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Proposed Closing of Alcator C-Mod Fusion Tokamak

So I have friends at school who are petitioning against the proposed closing of the tokamak (refer to the recently released FY 2013 Administration Budget). I told said friends that before I signed the ...
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Does inducing a current in a wire have any effect on the strength of a permanent magnet?

Does inducing a current in a wire result in any changes in the strength of a permanent magnet? Specifically, what would the results of the following controlled experiment be? You set up two ...
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Increase of threshold current by temperature in a laser diode

I read somewhere that if we increase the temperature of the material in a laser diode the threshold current for lasing also increases. Can someone explain to me why is this happening? What is the ...
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What is the definition of precession (in the context of Spinors)?

What is the definition of "precession"? How is it applicable to abstract objects such as Spinors? I understand the mathematics, but don't understand what one means by "precession angle" etc when it ...
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Calculating Kramers-Kronig using Mathematica

First of all, I know there is a Mathematica group in beta, but I don't think the problem of the following is directly a Mathematica issue. I am trying to calculate the change of the refractive index ...
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How to make a moondial?

A question came up on Outdoors StackExchange, How to tell time at night. I wrote an answer to that question, and in my answer I said that a standard sundial wouldn't work without some fiddling, but ...
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Rough diffusion rate of sugar water through a larger volume of water

I hope this a question that can be answered and isn't too vague. I'm also only after a very rough answer. I'm adding a small amount (~500mL) of sugar solution into a carboy with a much larger volume ...
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Visualizing Ricci Tensor

By definition Ricci Tensor is a Tensor formed by contracting two indices of Riemann Tensor. Riemann Tensor can be visualized in terms of a curve, a vector is moving and orientation of the initial and ...
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Why are continuum fluid mechanics accurate when constituents are discrete objects of finite size?

Suppose we view fluids classically, i.e., as a collection of molecules (with some finite size) interacting via e&m and gravitational forces. Presumably we model fluids as continuous objects that ...
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Connection between momentum and energy

What is the connection between momentum and energy? Which of the answers is the correct? A particle can have zero momentum but energy. A particle can have zero energy but momentum. ...
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Image charges, laplace equation and uniqueness theorem

Consider a well-known problem of the electric field generated by a system composed of a point charge in proximity of a large earthed conductor. It is said that the potential due to an image charge ...
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Putting Special Relativity into the General Relativity category as is current practices submerges important aspects of Einstein's 1905 paper, which I recently read in a 1952 Dover paperback (The ...
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What specifically are the measurements that correspond to fixing the infinite number of counterterms in quantum gravity?

I understand that quantum gravity is nonrenormalizable because there are an infinite number of counterterms. In QED the counterterms correspond to the loop corrections to the vertex function as well ...
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Work and Area under a Curve relating to Hooke's Law

If it takes work W to stretch a Hooke’s-law spring (F = kx) a distance d from its unstressed length, determine the extra work required to stretch it an additional distance d (Hint: draw a graph and ...
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Case 1: two people wake up in spaceships accelerating at 1g. They can measure or observe anything inside the room but not outside. They couldn't determine if they were on a spaceship or on earth. ...
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Finding distance when the force is a function of time

I'm having trouble with this homework question A mysterious rocket-propelled object of mass 49.0 kg is initially at rest in the middle of the horizontal, frictionless surface of an ice-covered ...
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resonance frequency [closed]

A string has a mass per unit length of 9 10–3 kg/m. What must be the tension in the string if its second harmonic has the same frequency as the second resonance mode of a 2m long pipe open at one end? ...
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Polar ice deposits on the Moon - dispersed in permafrost loose rubble, or also massive/layered?

Water has been discovered on the Moon with remote sensing methods. Read the press release Diviner results indicate presence of widespread ice on the Moon on the "Diviner" infrared instrument on the ...
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M1 vs M2 on a frictionless surface

I was wondering, if I had a frictionless surface and I had an M1 that was 100kg and an M2 that was 1kg and I pushed each separately with an equal force F would they move at the same speed or am I ...
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AGN accretion disk vs. torus

The torus is the donut of dust encircling the Active Galactic nucleus. The accretion disk is inside the torus. Is there a boundary between the two? At what point does a torus become an accretion ...