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Jun 30 |
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On a bicycle, why does my back tyre wear so much more quickly than the front? @bubble: No, it was the incorrect physics that persuaded me. |
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Jun 30 |
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On a bicycle, why does my back tyre wear so much more quickly than the front? Sorry but there are a couple of incorrect assertions and even more spelling mistakes in this, hence a -1 I'm afraid. |
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Jun 29 |
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What makes sound when a huge wave is coming in an ocean? I realise English might not be your first language but could you perhaps try to improve the grammer and punctuation in this question. As it stands it is quite intelligible. |
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Jun 29 |
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Collision between a rod and a bullet @Willie: I see what your saying, I hadn't thought of it that way but now you mention it I agree that two collisions could be possible. |
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Jun 29 |
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Collision between a rod and a bullet Interesting question. My 'hunch' would be that if the rod is indeed considered "rigid" (which is obviously not physical) the maximum number of collisions would be one. That said, I'm not sure I personally am capable of showing this using conservation of linear and angular momentum. I'll try a little back-of-an-envelope calculation later this afternoon.. |
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Jun 28 |
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What if the LHC doesn't see SUSY? Very interesting reading @Lawrence (+1.) @anna I just wondered if you had an opinion on 'proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerators'? See pg 18 on the slides of this recent talk for example: c-ad.bnl.gov/pac2011/proceedings/talks/tuobn5_talk.pdf Could this scheme ever be implemented in the main LHC tunnel in the years to come, and what energy lepton beams might this offer? |
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Jun 24 |
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Why is the decay of neutral kaons (violates CP invariance) seemingly not sufficient enough for certain people to describe matter-antimatter imbalance? +1 for "..this is a family site." Haha |
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Jun 24 |
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Does particle indistinguishability and quantised enery levels (in bound states) violate the Pauli Exclusion Principle? @Gigacyan: Sure is, duly accepted. Cheers |
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Jun 22 |
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electron orbits Hyperphysics has a nice exposition on this: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hyde.html |
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Jun 22 |
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electron orbits @dmckee: I did say it was a simplistic answer ;-) |
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Jun 22 |
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Ascent rate and size of balloon @Cameron: You could calculate a rough estimate by doing a little experiment - Get one of the balloons you intend to use and inflate it until it pops. If you know the pressure difference between inside and out when it pops, you could predict at what height this same pressure difference would occur. Since measuring the pressure in the balloon may be difficult in practise, you could calculate it if you measured the size and (negative) weight of the balloon, up until the moment it bursts. |
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Jun 22 |
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electron orbits A simplistic answer: if a single electron, bound to a proton, absorbs a photon, the electron will be excited into a higher energy state. If the photon absorbed is higher than the ionization energy, the electron will be liberated from the atom. Therefore the highest energy state the electron could occupy, without being ionised, would be the state closest to the ionization energy (from below.) |
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Jun 22 |
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Function of electric water pump That just depends on which way around you connect the two pipes to it. |
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Jun 21 |
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Energy produced by a swing? Hi @Seb, the GPE and KE are the two forms the energy could be in. The total energy available in the system is $E=GPE+KE$. When the swing is high it is changing direction, which implies the velocity is zero and therefore the KE is zero. All the total energy is therefore all in the form of the GPE at this moment. When the swing is low, the velocity is maximum, and therefore so is the KE. The GPE is necessarily zero at this point. All of E, GPE and KE are energies - so yes, they are all measured in Joules. |
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Jun 19 |
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a question on Lagrange's equation when the time derivative of the generalized co-ordinates is constant I see what you're getting at but this is too brief to be an answer. Perhaps you could change it to being a comment or edit your answer to elaborate. -1 until then I'm afraid. |
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Jun 18 |
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Formulas for ball rolling in a bowl? @Dane: See also this question physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11227/… |
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Jun 18 |
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Analyzing the motion of a ball rolling without slipping inside a hemispherical bowl Closely related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10798/… |
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Jun 16 |
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Does particle indistinguishability and quantised enery levels (in bound states) violate the Pauli Exclusion Principle? @gigacyan: Having just finished another read-through of this page I wondered whether you would edit your answer to include the essence of our discussion in its comments. After which, I would be happy to accept it :) |
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Jun 16 |
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heliocentricity and the theory of relativity I would go as far as to say this is a duplicate of the question in @Qmechanic's comment. @statichippo: regarding your last paragraph - indeed, no need to worry about that here :) |
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Jun 15 |
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What happens when two D-branes annihilate? @Hiatus: To my mind, your comment seems sufficient for an answer. |
