# All Questions

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### Test for Many Worlds Hypothesis

If one actually ran an experiment similar to the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment, and ran it enough times (with the same cat) to get the confidence interval good enough, could one say that ...
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### How is extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation collected by a submarine antenna?

The U.S. Navy Project ELF managed to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation at down to $\approx 76$ Hz (implying a wavelength of $\approx 3,945$ km!). I was curious, what kind of receiving ...
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### Questions about spacetime curvature and gravity

These are some further important queries regarding the question here Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity? Q1. Explain the statement “Everything in spacetime moves at the speed of light”. Is ...
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### Error analysis and how values in references are determined

Question 1:Most science textbooks have appendixes that have a value for some physical property of some object. This includes diameter of electrons, viscosity of fluids, boiling points, etc. My ...
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### Determine pipe outlet temperature without length?

Let's say I am flowing a fluid through a pipe that has a constant surface temperature. Is it possible to determine the heat flux on the inner surface without knowing the pipe's length when the only ...
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### How many physical degrees of freedom does the $\mathrm{SU(N)}$ Yang-Mills theory have?

The $\mathrm{U(1)}$ QED case has two physical degrees of freedom, which is easy to understand because the free electromagnetic field must be transverse to the direction of propagation. But what are ...
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### Dark matter and tides

As I understand, "dark matter" is what they call a theoretical substance which is only known by it's influence upon velocity curve of the galaxy. If indeed the gravity of "dark matter" is so strong ...
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### Signal strength drop-off from a geosynchronous satellite as a function of angular pointing error

If we have a compact antenna used to communicate with a satellite in geosynchronous orbit somewhere between the $K_u$ and $K_a$ bands of the spectrum (for high broadband applications where we can't ...
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### Can Event Horizon be created without actively involving Gravity (Spacetime curvature)?

The definition of Event Horizon I took from Wikipedia: An Event Horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. From the definition, I can abstractly ...
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### Why doesn't the electric field inside a wire in a circuit fall off with distance from the battery?

We studied electric fields due to point charges. The magnitude of these fields decreases with the square of the distance from the point charge. It seems to me that we could treat the positive ...
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### Direction of friction for object that rolls with slipping

Let's say you hit a cue ball with a pool stick that causes an impulse. If the pool stick hits the ball above the ball's center of mass, is the direction of friction different than if the pool stick ...
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### Calculating the Potential from the E-Field

I find that often times I'll be tripped up by questioning whether or not I can do something mathematically, and be unable to come up with a satisfying answer. This is, unfortunately, one of those ...
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### Container divided in two parts with ideal gas

I wanted to ask your help with the following problem: Consider a closed container, that is, with insulated walls impervious, and rigid. The container is divided into two parts by a wall having the ...
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### Detecting radiation from tritium keychain

I am measuring radiation from 6 tritium glow keychains. Usual gamma detector does not detect anything (this is expected), but on beta detector with thin window I am getting about 5 counts per second. ...
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### Why does Se-82 undergo double beta decay?

Looking at the decay chain, I saw it undergoes double beta decay. How is it feasible for something to undergo a simultaneous double decay?
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### How does time dilation work in this situation?

It is my understanding that when moving near the speed of light, time slows down relative to other things not moving so fast. Based on this principle, would it be theoretically possible to travel a ...
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### Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity?

It is fine to say that for an object flying past a massive object, the spacetime is curved by the massive object, and so the object flying past follows the curved path of the geodesic, so it "appears" ...
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### No-answers-found Li-Ion battery questions [closed]

Background Ive spent almost 7 hours researching about li-ion batteries because my Galaxy S2 only lasts 2 hours with all turned off and only 40 apps installed (removed system apps and bloatware) and ...
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### Two ways of calculating the expectation value of momentum

The expectation value of momentum is given by: $$\langle p\rangle = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\psi^{*}(x)\left(-i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\right)\psi(x)dx$$ How can I show that the above ...
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### Phonon scattering process in raman spectroscopy

I am trying to understand diagrams that involve showing phonon scattering processes that contribute to raman spectroscopy peaks. For example, I drew the one at the bottom of this post. This is ...
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### Getting nonphysical results when solving for the index of refraction of a slab?

I'm trying to computationally find the refractive indices (real and imaginary) for a thin slab suspended in air (so the only indices to deal with are air and my material's). I've experimentally taken ...
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### Two masses connected to a spring separated are charged to q Coulombs

I am working through Yale's Physics 201, and on the first problem set there is a question that is puzzling me. From my reasoning, I think the answer they provided is incorrect hence why I am here. The ...
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### Increase thinking capability through relativity

As Einsteins relativity suggests that everything slows down along with the speed of light. So, if we were to live in space would our thinking capability (essentially speed) increase or decrease (due ...
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### What is the current of a capacitor when the derivative of voltage is undefined?

This is from the textbook I am reading: I know this equation for capacitors: $$i=C\cdot \frac { dv }{ dt }$$ Here is my question: how can diagram (a) be allowed if the derivative of the voltage ...
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### Can two media have same refractive indices?

Can two mediums placed under same conditions* ever have same refractive indices? *Pressure, temperature,etc.
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### Why do floating objects attract? [duplicate]

Objects floating on the surface of calm water seem to be attracted to one another and tend to come together in a drift. Is this attraction like gravity?
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### Mutually unbiased bases

This question can be formulated in two ways. Let there be two $d$-dimensional orthonormal bases $B_{1}$ and $B_{2}$. I refer to the elements of $B_{1}$ by $\lvert\nu_{i}\rangle$ and to the elements of ...
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### Mirror Transportation

Why do people transport mirrors in inclined position? I frequently find people carrying mirrors in slant position on mini trucks.I guess it has some advantage of carrying them without breaking,and I ...
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### Occupation probability in grand canonical ensemble

I have a system with energy spectrum which has two groups of $N$ degenerate levels (the gap between them is $E$). There are $N$ non-interacting fermions in the system. What is the occupation factor at ...
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### Applied / environmental question: direction of exhaust fumes

I'm not sure the Physics StackExchange is the perfect place for this environmental/applied physics question, but as I found no forum more fitting I ask my question here. Otherwise please move my ...
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