# All Questions

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### Enlightening experimental physics books/resources

Most book recommendations I've seen are usually geared toward theoretical understanding. It would be nice to know at least one or two classic experimental physics books. e.g. from Carl Brannen's ...
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### Can I calculate the maximum concentration of sucrose that will dissolve in water at STP using physical constants?

I am interested in identifying the maximum solubility of sucrose in water. Can this value be estimated based on the physical properties of sucrose? Eventually I will need this in degrees Brix (%w/w). ...
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### Can someone explain the science behind MIT's 230% efficient LEDs?

I was reading Gizmodo the other day and I didn't quite understand the Physics behind this. Could anybody shed some light on how this effect actually works?
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### Can CMEs disturb a planet orbit?

Yesterday (March 6), a massive X-class solar flare erupted from the Sun. I was wondering if this kind of solar flares can affect in some way the orbit of a planet if aimed directly. Let's say, for ...
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### Turbulence forming between the coaches of rail

is there any specific reason why rail coaches are connected by a rubber sheet; not of any other material ? I watched a documentary on trains (Discovery Channel) which said it connecting coaches by ...
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### How do I calculate the induced metric in the Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term?

This question concerns the expression for the induced metric in the explicit variation of the GHY boundary term. Just how is that expression derived in detail from the definition of the induced metric ...
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### What's the difference between “evidence of a new particle” and “discovery of a new particle”?

Today’s exciting press release from Tevatron on the Higgs boson keeps its head cool and say that physicists saw a “hint” of the Higgs boson because the signal is barely above the two-sigma level. In ...
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### Does existence of magnetic monopole break covariant form of Maxwell’s equations for potentials?

Absence of magnetic charges is reflected in one of Maxwell's fundamental equations: $$\operatorname{div} \vec B = 0 \text{ (1).}$$ This equation allows us to introducte concept of vector potential: ...
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### Is it possible to see satellites with the naked eye?

Every now and then I notice some very bright "stars" in the sky. They tend to be very few (one or two, usually), and are quite much brighter than any other star out there. Often they're perfectly ...