# All Questions

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### Write down equations for the electric field and magnetic fields components of a linearly polarized plane wave [closed]

A linearly polarized plane wave at 100 MHz is propagating in the $z$ direction. The electric field vector makes an angle of 30° with the $x$-axis. Its peaks amplitude is measured to be ...
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### Variational principle

In the LMTO method, the interstitial region is approximated by plane waves and the muffin tin region of the potential by solutions to the radial Schrodinger equation. In using the variational method ...
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### Photons are packets of electromagnetic radiation (wave) what about other particles? [duplicate]

Photons are packets of electromagnetic radiation (wave), what about other particles? Are other particles, say electrons, really just packets of waves?
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### The sound when boiling water [duplicate]

One can hear some sounds when boiling water, and usually the sound is loud initially, then it becomes quieter. When the water is about to boil, the sound starts to be louder again. Also, one may ...
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### Tetrad formalism: getting back to coordinate basis

Let $\omega^{\hat{a}}$ be an orthonormal basis, and $\theta^{\hat{a}}_{\hat{b}}$ be the associated connections. From Cartan's second structure equation, we may compute the curvature 2-form, i.e. ...
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### Using an electric winch to compress a spring and launch an object

I'm having trouble grokking the relationship between a winch's pull/torque and a spring's potential energy. I would like to compress a spring using an electric winch and figure out how far it will be ...
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### How to get discretization coefficients of matrix $A$ in Finite Volume Method (FVM)? [closed]

First we have Discretization of the Transport Equation $$\frac{\partial \rho \phi}{\partial t} + \nabla(\rho U \phi) - \nabla (\rho \Gamma_\phi \nabla \phi) = S_\phi (\phi)$$ In Finite Volume ...
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### Finding the initial vertical and horizontal velocity [closed]

Basically I need to get an initial vertical velocity to make the ball reach a specific height, but also I need to get a horizontal verlocity so that the ball will travel the distance. For an example ...
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### Power dissipated through resistor in RC circuit with charged Capacitor [closed]

so here's the problem: A simple RC circuit where the capacitor has been charged, and two resistors are in parallel configuration. How does one find the power (as function of time) through any of the ...
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### Current through two inductors after a long time

I'm having trouble with visualizing the following problem, which is asking me for the final, steady current in both inductors $L_{1}$ and $L_{2}$. I was thinking that after a long time, essentially ...
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### Can or does the Casimir effect play a role in solving the electron self-energy problem?

The Casimir effect is usually derived for parallel plates, with the pressure going as the inverse fourth power of the separation. It strikes me that this implies that a tiny spherical shell of charge ...
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### How does $\bar{r}\times(\bar{\nabla}\times) - \bar{\nabla}\times(\bar{r}\times)$ relate to the orbital angular momentum operator?

When I attempted to calculate the following by hand $$\bar{r}\times(\bar{\nabla}\times\bar{F}) - \bar{\nabla}\times(\bar{r}\times\bar{F}),$$ I noticed some of the terms I extracted looked similar to ...
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### Can the short-time dynamics of an open quantum system be approximately unitary?

Considering the physics of an open quantum system described by a Hamiltonian $H=H_S+H_E+H_{SE}$, where the subscript $S$ refers to the system of interest, $E$ to the environment and $SE$ to the ...
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### Including special relativistic effects in momentum in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

I've been told that an electron is somewhere within the space of $10^{-10}m$ and am supposed to find the uncertainty in its velocity. Simply applying $m\Delta x \Delta v \geq \frac{h}{4\pi}$ results ...
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### Should water cool faster if is inserted metal canister with ice inside either mix only with ice?

Let's say that we have two canister first bigger (metal canister 2l) with 1l of water at 100C, and second smaller (metal canister 1l) with 1l of ice. And we want to cool down boiled water to 50C. So ...
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### self-adjointness of an operator containing functional derivatives

I have given a Hamlitonian in curved spacetime containing a functional derivative and I wonder whether there exist techniques to find out if this operator is self-adjoint or not?! Any ideas? Thanks.
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### Topology of spacetime in 2+1 dimension

In the book Quantum Gravity in 2+1 dimension by S. Carlip, in the second chapter (section 2.1), he comments that a compact 3-manifold with a flat time orientable Lorentzian metric and a purely ...
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### 't Hooft duality

I've studied something so I'm able to explain better what I'm thinking about. 't Hooft duality states: In a gauge theory with fields in the adjoint representation in presence of a mass gap only the ...
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### How to calculate tortuosity of a signal? [closed]

Not sure which stack exchange forum to put this in. Moderators feel free to migrate it. One definition of the tortuosity $T$ of a curve is: $$T=\frac{C}{L}$$ Where $C$ is the chord length ...
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### Is there a way to quantify how similar a polycrystal should behave to a single crystal?

So in solid state classes we learned about phenomena like band structure and others arising from a periodic potential. Then we get to doing actual experiment and find out that materials being single ...
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### Electrical resistance of a metallic conductor in a gas

A long time ago I learned that the electrical resistance of a metallic conductor, when surrounded by a gas, varies with the pressure of said gas. • What is the name (if any) of the law involved? • ...
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### Do black holes exist? [duplicate]

Do black holes exist from our point of reference? From our point of reference nothing actually goes inside the event horizon right? So is there anything inside the event horizon from our reference? If ...
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### Explanation request for flashes of light [closed]

I have observed what I believe to be the same phenomenon on two occasions and wanted to ask for possible explanations. Both times, I saw flashes of whitish light, near the ceiling of a room. They ...
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### Space time curvature due to electric charge or magnetic charges [duplicate]

since we know that gravitational force is nothing but a curvature in space-time. I have a similar analogous for the electric or magnetic charges. Similarity is that both electromagnetic and ...
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### Can Somebody give me Questions [closed]

Can someone give me questions on physics because I have my Examination tomorrow Class 9th (CBSE) topic : - Fluids(Density,buoyant Force , Archemedis Principal) , Work Power Energy(Work Basics, ...
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### Breatheability of atmosphere above 3000 meters [closed]

I would like to offer you a slight correction on your statement that 3000 m is about the limit of breathable atmosphere. Unless I misunderstood you, I need to point out that many people live in ...
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### How do I prove the equivalence of chirality and helicity operators acting on a massless Dirac spinor?

I have massless Dirac equation and chirality and helicity operators which are given as  \hat {P}_{ch}\Psi = \gamma_{5}\Psi, \quad \hat {P}_{h}\Psi = \frac{(\hat {\mathbf S} \cdot \mathbf ...
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### How are symmetries defined mathematically? [duplicate]

I have started working on differential geometry very recently. I am little bit familiar with mathematical concepts such as manifolds, differential forms and associated concepts. As I was speeding ...
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### Need to use lasers,mirrors and prisms for a project.How to make the light visible and presentable at the same time? [closed]

Alright so I really want to put some art into science for my project.project. I'm thinking of creating a beautiful image,preferably in air.I read about the visible lime-green lasers but i still want ...
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### Oscillations and Majorana Neutrino

In neutrino oscillations, neutrinos can convert from one flavor to another. This implies individual lepton number is not conserved. Doesn't it also imply that, if the neutrinos have mass, the mass ...

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