# All Questions

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### Electrolysis of liquid hydrogen

say i used electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water, then froze the hydrogen into a liquid and then again used electrolysis. What would happen ?
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### Lagrangian description of Brownian motion?

I'm interested in the existence of a Lagrangian field theory description of Bronwnian motion, does such a thing exist? Given a particle of some spin $\sigma$, which has a Lagrangian associated with ...
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### Can life exist in intergalactic space?

A terrifying idea I think, to be so utterly alone. Do you recon life could exist in intergalactic space? A lot of cosmic radiation is shielded from us by the Milky Way's magnetic field, but the ...
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### For a planet which has a temperature gradient, hot in the center and cooler on the surface, why do we get absorption lines?

For a planet which has a temperature gradient, hot in the center and cooler on the surface, why do we see absorption lines? Similarly, why do we see emission lines if the planet is hot on the ...
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### Possible intergalactic celestial objects

We know there are rouge stars floating in intergalactic space, thought to be caused by galactic collision. What other other classes of celestial object could be found floating around in intergalactic ...
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### Is Red-Shift experiment correct?

I been reading: http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/omei/gr/chap5/node2.html. The website seems credible with its contact details & location being extremely accurate and easily verified, and its mathematics ...
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### Gravitational atraction of fast object [duplicate]

Let's imagine a asteroid that travels with 0.99999999999999999c. (I know it's impossible). Anyway... Relativistic mass of such object would be almost equal to earth's stationary mass. Now let's ...
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### What actually Dark energy is ? [duplicate]

I recently read an article on dark matter and I could understand this things given as follows All the ordinary matter we can find accounts for only about 4 percent of the universe. We know this by ...
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### Argument for symmetry of potential of a spherical capacitor filled with dielectric

A spherical capacitor with inner radius $r_1$ and outer radius $r_2$ is filled with dielectric material with permittivity $\epsilon=\epsilon_0+\epsilon_1\cos^2\theta$. $\theta$ is the polar angle. ...
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### Electrodynamic multipole expansion

I am reading Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, and I have a question regarding the electrodynamic multipole expansion (with page numbers I refer to the 3rd edition). So on page 409, he gives in ...
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### how to measure the age of light?

We measure distances in universe by the units of light year/s or parsec. Which means distance traveled by light in one year equals one light year. Thus the lights we receive from the distant stars or ...
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### Geophysics with earth science [closed]

I am a communications engineering student. I am interested in doing a project on geophysics. The concept is for a hole-digging robot with a camera and sensors and wireless transmitter that is made of ...
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### I don't get band structure of solids

If the energy levels of bound electrons are discrete, why do band structures in solids arise?
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### Do radio waves interact with electrical wiring?

AFAIK radio waves can be influenced by magnetic fields (when not traveling through a vacuum). Electrical wires create a magnetic field perpendicular to the length of the wire, as a function of the ...
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### Unpolarized Light

Suppose I had a ray of unpolarized light, and I was sitting inside the beam and looking at the electric fields oscillating, then , if I am looking at a point how would the oscillations look like? I ...
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### Schottky Barrier - Why energy band levels at interface are assumed to remain the same that bulk

I have been chewing up some time ago the Schottky-Mott theory of Schottky Barrier height (which ignores the surface states). All the deduction seems to ground on fundamental thermodynamical principles ...
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### Total internal reflection and waveguides

I'm looking at a model of a planar dielectric waveguide along the lines of this picture: For the wave inside the $n_1$ dielectric slab to totally internally reflect $\theta_M$ needs to be smaller ...
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### Not-so-hot black shirt

As it is getting warmer here by the minute I was asking myself: Are there materials, that are black (in th visible range) but reflect (most) invisible light? Furthermore, I asked myself what ...
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### Lattice Gas Cellular Automata - HPP model square lattice

In the HPP model of LGCA, a square lattice is used and there is only one collision configuration as mentioned in figure (taken from the book Lattice Gas Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann models ...
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### Is there any model in statistical physics which has the ratio of specific heat exponent to correlation length exponent, $\alpha/\nu \approx 2.44$?

I am simulating a disordered ising-like model in 2d whose phase transition is expected to be continuous, whose universality class is as yet unknown. By plotting the Specific heat scaling function, ...
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### Sum of Green's functions in condensed matter

I am working on the Ginzburg-Landau model for Charge density waves, and I am carrying out the sum of Green's functions to calculate the terms in the GL model. Is the sum's order over $\vec{k}$ (or ...
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### What determines whether a pool ball will bouce backwards after colliding with another pool ball?

I'm no knowledgeable pool player, but I've noticed that sometimes when the cue ball hits another pool ball, they roll together; and sometimes the cue ball bounces back. And I have a very, very rough ...
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### Basis in quantum mechanics

My quantum mechanics textbook (Primer of Quantum Mechanics, by Marvin Chester) says that both the momentum space and the position space are basis spaces. It also says that the momentum space is ...
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### If there were fundamental forces weaker than gravity, would we know about it?

We know that gravity is a very weak force compared to electromagnetic forces and the nuclear forces. We know about the other forces because they're necessary to explain atoms, and we can detect ...