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Oct
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comment Light orbiting a massive body
Thank you, much clearer than the answer of the duplicate.
Oct
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Oct
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asked Light orbiting a massive body
Sep
26
accepted How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
Sep
26
comment How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
Is 3 Poisson's equation, a generalisation of it or a subdivision of it? And thanks for the answer- not too unfathomable.
Sep
26
asked How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
Sep
25
accepted What IS reflection?
Sep
16
comment In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
Excellent, thanks so much for your time.
Sep
15
comment In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
And, remembering the forgotten, why do some materials' electrons condense at higher temperatures (or: what mechanism DO they use, then, if not a BEC, to superconduct?)?
Sep
15
comment In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
I have, bar the mathematics, understood that far. But what stops the electrons from doing this at relatively high temperatures (i.e. forgetting high temperature superconductors)? It can't just be the disruptive thermal motions, as not all materials superconduct. Or are the electrons which demonstrate this effect in the conduction band beforehand in superconducting materials, even when hot, and just need to have the thermal motion removed to begin condensing?
Sep
15
accepted In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
Sep
14
comment In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
You truly have overestimated my aptitude, yet thanks, however, for the bits that I could understand.
Sep
14
comment In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
How do they actually 'stick together', though? Is it essentially the way that all BEC stick together, and I need to read into it more?
Sep
14
asked In what way do Cooper pairs of electrons bond and stay bonded in superconductors?
Sep
6
comment Why do hydrogen atoms attract?
Thanks for that- but also- why is it more stable (or with less potential energy, same thing)?
Sep
6
accepted Why do hydrogen atoms attract?
Sep
6
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Sep
6
comment Why is the $\langle v_{x}^{2} \rangle=\frac{1}{3} \langle v^2 \rangle$?
Because they don't cancel? Thank you both!
Sep
6
comment Why is the $\langle v_{x}^{2} \rangle=\frac{1}{3} \langle v^2 \rangle$?
I'm having trouble with $\left \langle v_x^2+v_y^2+v_z^2 \right \rangle=\left \langle v_x^2\right \rangle+\left \langle v_y^2\right \rangle+\left \langle v_z^2\right \rangle$, essentially
Sep
6
comment Why is the $\langle v_{x}^{2} \rangle=\frac{1}{3} \langle v^2 \rangle$?
Then why is $\left \langle v_x^2+v_y^2+v_z^2 \right \rangle=\left \langle3 v_x^2 \right \rangle=3\left \langle v_x^2 \right \rangle $? I could see why$\left \langle v_x^2\right \rangle+\left \langle v_y^2\right \rangle+\left \langle v_z^2\right \rangle=3\left \langle v_x^2 \right \rangle $, but not how this leads to the first equality. I'm probably being very slow, apologies.