# All Questions

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### Long time deviations from exponential decay in radioactivity

Are there any examples of common substances whose decay is not exponential? We're used to thinking about radioactivity in terms of half-lives. This is a concept that makes sense only for a decay that ...
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### how to convert 1atm to kj/m3

i am trying solve similar questikn like this myweb.loras.edu/cm418218/EGR334/HW%2019%20Solutions%20Spring%202012.docx 13th slide but in si unit thanks
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### Can an arrangement of particles be duplicated precisly?

Is it possible to teleport or clone someone or something? After watching this TED talk by Max Tegmark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCvlFRISIM I find myself wondering if it is then possible to ...
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### How can light travel at speed of light?

I am well aware that the speed of light is a universal constant at which nothing but light can travel. But why? Why can even light travel at such a speed? Our maths tell us that anything with rest ...
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### Can you please tell me what's wrong with my calculation? [on hold]

I'm taking second level physics at the university. Here's an exercise I've been working on and wasn't able to get the right answer for: In the figure take $q_{1} = 69μC$ , $q_{2} = -32μC$ , and ...
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### Can someone explain effects of time dilation on expansion of universe

I'm not a physics guy, but this is something I have always wondered about. If a clock flown by an object of high mass runs slower, what is the effect of this in regards to the density of the universe. ...
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### World-sheet energy-momentum tensor and OPE

On p43 of Polchinski's book, it says that under the world-sheet translation $\sigma^a\rightarrow\sigma^a+\epsilon v^a$, $X^\mu\rightarrow X^\mu-\epsilon v^a\partial_a X^\mu$. And $$j^a=iv^b T_{ab},$$ ...
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### What exactly happens to an exposed human body in space?

I know that space is a vacuum, has no air and is very, very cold. from what i have seen in movies and TV shows when a space suit is exposed the oxygen will escape will escape like a visible gas and ...
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### What are the mechanics by which Time Dilation and Length Contraction occur?

What are the mechanics of time dilation and length contraction? Going beyond the mathematical equations involving light and the "speed limit of the universe", what is observed is merely a phenomenon ...
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### Does a current-carrying wire running through the centre of a solenoid experience force?

Imagine looking at a solenoid from above. Current passing is through it in a clockwise direction. The direction of the field lines therefore is towards the bottom of the solenoid. Now pass a straight ...
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### Algorithm of Patankar for Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow [on hold]

I look for the algorithm of Patankar (for exemple: SIMPLE, SIMPLER, ...
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### Circular motion and time dilation

Einsteins' time paradox was shown when two atomic clocks were synchronized and one was sent in a super sonic plane and the other kept at rest. When the two where then checked it was shown that yes ...
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### Realistic calculation of heat loss for pipe

Good day everyone, I am new on this site and I hope to find here help, since I am not going anywhere with the literature I have found. I try to calculate realistically the heat loss of a hot, ...
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### What would happen if a bowling ball near absolute zero suddenly appeared in my room?

How cold would the room get? Would I die? My initial estimation is that it one bowling ball at 0K (i.e., 300K below room temperature) would have about the same effect as 10 bowling balls at 270K ...
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### Could the Schrödinger equation be nonlinear?

Is there any specific reasons why so few consider the possibility that there might be something underlying the Schrödinger equation which is nonlinear? For instance, can't quantum gravity (QG) be ...
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### Minkowski spacetime vs Euclidian space

Two questions marked in bold: What is the magnitude of a Minkowski spacetime four vector? I'm deducing that it is c for all observers, and that it is a velocity vector. In Euclidian space, a ...
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### Disconnected aileron/surface deflection in terms of speed?

Would a disconnected surface, especially aileron, deflect upwards as you slow down due to increased alpha? I figure out it is more likely to deflect upwards as you increase your airspeed, thus having ...
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### Misaligned Mirror on Michelson Inferometer

If one of the outer mirrors on a Michelson interferometer was to be misaligned by a small angle of theta, what would be the shape of the interference pattern in the detector plane? What would happen ...
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### Microscopic understanding of Brewster angle

The textbook explanation is that, at Brewster's angle, the electric dipoles excited by the incident light can't reradiate to the reflection direction since it's aligned with the dipole moments. Is ...
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### Circularly polarized light incident at Brewster's Angle

If a perfectly circularly polarized wave of light is incident on a dielectric medium (coming from air) at Brewster's Angle, what will the polarization state of the transmitted wave be? I am aware ...
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### Convention about delta x in Waves Interference

http://imgur.com/oxFF7q8 They seem to adopt a convention that delta x must always be positive. Otherwise, there is no way to know what the phase difference of the sources actually means. Does a ...
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### Would equations for a spinning top be an (x,y,z) vector

I am following the equations on this page, and for torque it is $mgr\sin\theta$, but I am curious about $r$. I am working on a game and I want to correctly model the top, and am curious if $r$ should ...
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### Reflected waves and phase changes

If a wave passes from a lightweight string to a higher density string, we say that the reflected wave has a pi phase change. Can we say that it has minus pi phase change? If yes, why would that not ...
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### Pipe in a flowing river problem

I'm working on a certain problem in fluid mechanics, which isn't really my strongest area. The problem is as follows: Curved pipe is partially submerged in a flowing river so that one end is pointing ...
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### How quickly should a fluid come to hydrostatic equilibrium?

Let's say I'm holding a one-liter water bottle, full of water, which I then drop. Before dropping the water bottle, the equilibrium is for there to be a pressure gradient in the water canceling the ...
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### Supergravity solution, metric for the total space, and connection

In supergravity solutions, one sometimes encounters the case where the manifold may be a bundle over some base space, and one has to write down the explicit metric regarding such bundle. I would like ...
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### Refractive index of dielectric in different frames of reference

The setup A transparent isotropic dielectric medium moving in the negative $x'$ direction at speed $v$ in frame $S'$ is stationary in frame $S$, where it has refractive index $n$. In other words, ...
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In AdS/CFT, the story of renormalization has an elegant gravity dual. Regularizing the theory is done by putting a cutoff near the conformal boundary of AdS space, and renormalization is done by ...
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I'm studying the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) in this paper (Ryu-Takayanagi, 2006). In section 6.3 they compute the HEE for a segment in a 2D CFT. To do so, they obtain the corresponding ...
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### Rotation speed measurment

Could anyone please explain with simply how we can measure the rotation speed of an object using the Sagnac Interferometer ?
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### Speed of light in general relativity

My question has a few parts concerning the speed of light in general relativity. Firstly, time changes in response to gravity and speed. Therefore, as gravity effects time in an area of space, should ...
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### internal conversion and the electromagnetic force

I have read that the mechanism behind internal conversion, in which a nuclear transition leads to the ejection of an electron in one of the lower atomic orbitals, is related to the fact that the ...
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### Intense of liner polarized wave: with a polarizer vs. without a polarizer differences

We had this experiment in which we measured the intense of linear polarized wave - with and without a polarizer. I noticed that without the polarizer the intense was slightly lower than with the ...