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### Special Relativity and Gravity

As Eistei was seekig a relativistic theory of gravity, he thought that special relativity should be upgraded to general relativity thus promoting the Minkowski space to curved Riemannian one. Does ...
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### Proving the following cycle is equivalent to Carnot cycle

I want to investigate whether the following cycle I'm about to describe is equivalent to Carnot cycle or not. By equivalent I mean, giving two reservoirs($A$,$B$) with temperature $T_1$ and $T_2$ ...
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### Does magnetic induction produce potential across zero resistance wire?

If magnetic field is increased at a constant rate inside a zero resistance wire loop, then, according to Faraday's law , $$\varepsilon = \frac{dΦ}{dt}$$ Thus, a potential difference is produced. ...
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### Does a changing magnetic field impart a force on a stationary charged particle?

Does a collapsing and re-establishing magnetic field impart a force on a stationary charged particle ? Does the charge particle get repelled and or attracted ? Does it move or spin ?
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### How Did the Universe Manage to “Explode”? [duplicate]

I'm taking a slightly different "look" at the Big Bang. I do not question the Big Bang's validity but there is one oddity about it I don't think I've ever seen adequately addressed. Our universe is ...
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### Bernoulli equation as an energy conservation equation

I don’t want to learn and apply Bernoulli's equation. It is complicated and you need to remember a lot. I instead want to apply energy conservation. But I don't always find it easy. For example, when ...
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### Does the poisson bracket $\{f,g\}$ have any meaning if neither of $f$ or $g$ is the system's Hamiltonian?

Say one has a mechanical system with hamiltonian $H$, and two other arbitrary observables $f,g$. $H$ is super useful since $\{H, \cdot\} = \frac{d}{dt}$. But does $\{f,g\}$ give any useful information ...
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### Higgs to $b,\bar{b}$ decays

To compute the amplitude for the process bottom-antibottom to Higgs in quantum field theory. This amplitude is a scalar, i.e. Lorentz invariant. So far I have the $S$-matrix which is  S = ...
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### How do electrons jump orbitals?

My question isn't how they receive the energy to jump, but why. When someone views an element's emission spectrum, we see a line spectrum which proves that they don't exist outside of their orbitals ...
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### Heat and work are not the state functions of the system. Why?

Heat and work, unlike temperature, pressure, and volume, are not intrinsic properties of a system. They have meaning only as they describe the transfer of energy into or out of a system. This is ...
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### Why does water sometimes form bubbles when I pour it into a glass?

Sometimes when I'm filling up a container with water from the tap, bubbles will form on the top of the water. They look a little like soap sud bubbles, but there's no soap suds present. I notice, ...
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### What makes a lens a lens?

I am asking about the way that a convex lens works. All the lenses I have ever seen were solid glass or solid plastic. If I have a convex sheet of clear glass or of clear plastic, shaped into a ...
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### Tight binding on sawtooth 1D lattice

I am reading the paper "Bose condensation in flat bands" (arXiv). The authors consider a tight-binding model on the one-dimensional "sawtooth" lattice, comprised of two sites A and B in the unit cell ...
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### Relation of spring constant with mean radius of spring

My teacher says that spring constant depends on its radius. I tried to understand it, and checked many questions in this site and other sites. All of them say that spring constant depends on number of ...
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### Educational benefit of putting units outside of variables?

When I studied physics (both in high-school and university), in all of the worked examples, variables would be used to denote physical quantities, and thus include dimensional units. For example, ...
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### What are the cosmological ramifications if we probabilise and continuify the order of differentiation in $F=\frac{d(mv)}{dt}$?

Newton's second law of motion states that $F=\frac{d(mv)}{dt}$. This is a first-order differential equation, in which the order of differentiation of momentum is 1. So we can write it ...
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### Torque on a rotational cylinder in viscous fluid

I've been stuck on what I'm pretty sure is a simple part of a larger question. It's a cylinder (radius a) spinning in a viscous fluid. It's rotating at rate $\Omega$ .During this question we get that ...
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### Understanding measurement based quantum computing

I am currently reading M. A. Nielsen's review on Cluster-state Quantum Computation (Nielsen, Michael A. "Cluster-state quantum computation." Reports on Mathematical Physics 57.1 (2006): 147-161.). ...
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### Do Events Take Place Inside Black Holes?

As you approach a black hole, the universe you observe slows down. When you see someone from outside approaching a black hole, you see how they freeze in time as they get closer and closer to the ...
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### Half-atwood machine with accelerating pulley

This is a follow-up to my previous question, in which I am now trying to calculate the acceleration of the cart (as before, the block surfaces are frictionless). The mass $m_2$ is attached to $M$ via ...
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### Can meters measure a distance in higher dimensions?

Consider meters as a unit of measurement. Meters can, of course, be used to express distance across a two-dimensional plane. E.g. The distance from your chair to the door is 2 meters. Meters can also ...
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### How does color (or reflection in general) work?

I'm confused, does the absorption and emission determine the color of something? Or does that only happen when something is emitting energy? When light hits an object, the photons get absorbed, then ...
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### How does thin film interference work?

So thin film interference is when light is half-reflected half-refracted then the reflected and refracted wave interfere with each other to produce another color. What I don't understand is that the ...
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### Error in total counts

I'm performing a radioactivity experiment where I measure a specific number of counts in some time period t. Later on I take the total count rate. (Number of counts/time: $N/t$) I'm supposed to find ...
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### Why does ice melts faster near the surface of water?

I had a few frozen bottles and while they were melting I saw this: in all of the bootles, the ice seems to get thiner near the surface. I have searched a bit and I've found this video that shows ...
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### how to scan a diode laser wavelength in certain range?

Is it possible to scan a sacher diode laser in certain wavelength range? For example, when piezo offset is 0 volt, the wavelength of laser (read from a wave-meter) is x. When I set the piezo offset ...
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### Relative displacement of a point in a deformed object

I have a 3d model (nodes and elements) and it undergoes translation and rotation at different time steps Ti. I want to know the displacement relative to some point in the model which is kept as fixed ...
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### Physics problem about velocity [on hold]

I have to ask you a question about a physics problem that I can't solve. The track says: A child throw a ball vertically and pick it up after 1,26 seconds. What is the initial velocity of the ball ...
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### Refraction of light based on the principle of conservation of momentum and energy [on hold]

Can we deduce Snell's Law of refraction by applying principles of conservation of Energy and Momentum taking into account the particle nature of light ?
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### Determine time over known distance, constant acceleration and starting speed [on hold]

Problem: I have an object covering a specific distance (say 100m) at a starting speed (say 10m/s) and a constant acceleration of 1m/s/s. Which equation can I use determine how long it will take the ...
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### How to calculate the heat transfer through a fiber mantle?

I have a silica fiber with a polymer cladding. The fiber core is generating a certain amount of heat which should be transported through the cladding to the outside. The general formula is ...
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### Bernoulli's equation and pressure in a (mostly) sealed container

Let's say that I have a large soda bottle. I drill a small hole through the side of it, put my finger over it to seal the hole, and fill the bottle up with water. When I let go of the hole, water ...
I'm working through a problem in a special relativity textbook (Woodhouse) and I'm having some difficulty. I have to show that if I have a particle of rest mass $M$, total energy $E$ colliding with a ...