# All Questions

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### Hipothetical universe history with power law distributed matter [closed]

As every physicist knows that the history of universe has been dominated from light, matter and vacuum. All of three are supposed uniform distributed at very large scale. What would been happened to ...
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### How does Lunar Orbit Injection (LOI) work?

Just what the title states. I read that LOI was used by the Apollo program (and possibly others) to achieve escape velocity. How does it work? Is it merely a matter of centrifugal/centripetal force?
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### Fundamentals of Physics vs Classical Mechanics book and physics undergraduate course

There are books like Halliday Fundamental of Physics and there are books titled Classical Mechanics. To me, these two types of books seem to cover the same thing. Is there any difference? (If ...
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### Vortex street and Reynolds number

Its been stated in Wikipedia regarding Reynolds number(Re) that "laminar flow occurs when Re<2300 and turbulent flow occurs when Re>4000. In another wiki file related to Kármán vortex street it has ...
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### If I lift a submerged hose over 35 feet above the water's surface, what's in the top foot?

I've been arguing with a friend about the whole "perfect vacuum" concept. He and I agree that the most powerful vacuum pump in the world couldn't pump water more than ~34 feet above the surface of a ...
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### Help me understand the first equation in Landau & Lifshitz's Quantum Mechanics

While I've covered a basic course in Quantum Mechanics, I'm self-studying Landau & Lifshitz's book to help me understand what's going on. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the very first equation in ...
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### Why are coordinates and velocities sufficient to completely determine the state and determine the subsequent motion of a mechanical system?

I am a Physics undergraduate, so provide references with your responses. Landau & Lifshitz write in page one of their mechanics textbook: If all the co-ordinates and velocities are ...
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### are there any resource for the Abundance ratio of nuclear isotopes in early earth

The abundance ratio of a nuclide is the ratio of the number of atoms of one isotope to the number of atoms of another isotope of the same chemical element. It may also refer to the ratio of one ...
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### Critical bathymetric profile to maximize surge and minimize breaking?

Reading about storm surge, I found it fascinating that the gradual slope of the Gulf Coast of Florida resulted in a much higher storm surge but much lower energy release in breaking waves. Is there ...
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### Why is the thomson cross section constant over cosmological time?

In all astrophysical calculations I'm aware of, the thomson cross-section (for electron scattering) is taken as a constant in time, why is this the case? I have only weak experience in cosmology and ...
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### Is the escape velocity at Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 0km/hr?

Follow-up question to How long must escape velocity be maintained? Is the escape velocity at GSO 0?
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### Space station gains enough mass to lose orbit?

I.S.S is constantly being improved (add-ons). Will the space station need to be moved to a higher orbit at some point?
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### How long must escape velocity be maintained?

Escape velocity from Earth's surface is 11.2 Kilometres/second. How long would one need to maintain this escape velocity to actually escape Earth's gravitational pull? Must this 11.2 km/s velocity ...
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### Proving angular momentum is conserved for a particle moving in a central force field $\vec F =\phi(r) \vec r$

A problem I am trying to work out is as follows: A particle moves in a force field given by $\vec F =\phi(r) \vec r$. Prove that the angular momentum of the particle about the origin is constant. ...
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### On Bolte's semiclassical law

i have seen on internet the following, for $E >> 1$ the Eigenvalue Staircase can be approximated by $N(E)= \frac{1}{\pi}argZ(1/2+i \sqrt E )$ ...
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### Complex Atom Manipulation?

Is it theoretically possible for humans to manipulate Atoms to the extent that we can recreate anything we want? e.g. 'Computer, Milky Way Bar please [or other].' (out pops a Milky Way Bar after some ...
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### Do any naked-eye stars have planets

Are there any known exoplanets around naked-eye stars? I know that Fomalhaut has a planet, and Vega has a dust belt that may be a protoplanetary disk or even analogous to our Kuiper belt. What else is ...
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### Can human push earth away from the sun?

It's said the earth is approaching the sun. Can we push it away little by little? Although we can emit rocket towards the sun, but it's too expensive to make a rocket: So I think maybe we can ...
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### Density of universe during recombination

How can I calculate the density of the Universe at recombination?
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### Why is the mass of even the upper limit of the possible Higgs boson is less than the top quark?

On 7 March 2012, the DØ and CDF collaborations announced that, after analyzing the full data set from the Tevatron accelerator, they found excesses in their data that might be interpreted as coming ...
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### What is the Lie algebra of the Galilean group and what is the structure of it?

I read Freeman Dyson's article Missed Opportunities, in which he talked about the mathematical attractiveness of the Lorenz group compared to the Galilean group. I am reading Florian Scheck's book on ...
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### Finding acceleration for a car after finding torque

I am trying to calculate the acceleration of a vehicle after finding the torque $\tau$. Assuming my Horse Power is 130 and my RPM is 1000, I calculated torque as: \tau = \frac{130 \times ...
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### SOC and the butterfly effect

We knows that in a critical system and self organized criticality we have long range interaction due power law decay in correlation. Is this fact equivalent to the butterfly effect?
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### Who added $\frac{3}{2} \partial^2 c$ to the virasoro BRST current (and why)?

I've been looking at the literature on quantizing the bosonic string, and I noticed that there was a change made in the definition of the BRST current around 1992. However, I haven't found any ...
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### Geometry as Physics [closed]

What would be good introductory and follow-up references to understand the close ties between physics and geometry. I'm a retired engineer with the math background to handle Shankar's Principles of ...
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### Some more questions on conformal spinors of $SO(n,2)$
This is somewhat of a continuation of my previous question. I had stated there that a conformal spinor ($V$) of $SO(n,2)$ can be created by taking a direct sum of two $SO(n-1,1)$ spinors $Q$ and $S$ ...