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If you are accelerating while running on Earth, actually you are also accelerating Earth in the opposite direction. However for a given force, the acceleration is inversely proportional to mass, th...
No, going deeper into the moon would reduce gravity. This is covered by the shell theorem of gravity, proved by Newton centuries ago. If you have an evenly-distributed mass shaped as a hollow sph...
There seems to be some confusion about decibels here. "Decibel" stands for deci⋅Bel, meaning 10x of a Bel. A Bel is the log10 ratio of two powers, named for Alexander Graham Bell. Since a Bel is...
Inflation in cosmology refers to a phase of the early universe where the universe expanded extremely fast. And the universe expanding quite literally means the space getting bigger. As you noticed...
That is the number of downvotes you have cast, not the number you have received. Therefore, it means, that you have downvoted one other post.
I'm assuming that what's happening is that, for $t<t_0$, there's no gravitational field, then it's mysteriously instantaneously turned on at $t=t_0$. We can perform a Taylor expansion of $x$ ar...
Homework and exercises questions are generally allowed (currently anyway) under the Problems category, although there is the requirement that you need to 'show your working/attempted solution'. I d...
We don't need to, it just makes life easier (at least some of the time) As $\mathbf{k}$ is a 3D vector and $x$ a 4D vector, the answer doesn't appear quite as simple as 'Fourier Transforming makes...
A stuntman jumped from $1.25 \ \text{m}$ height and, landed at distance $10 \ \text{m}$. Find velocity when he jumped. (Take $\text{g}=10 \ ms^{-2}$) I had solved it following way. $$h=\fra...
It depends on what the failure was. Working the hinge could possibly make the little screw come loose quicker. This is the screw that acts as the shaft of the hinge. If the hinge actually broke,...
This looks like something the soldiers are being trained to do, or were trained to do. This means procedures were likely worked out that mitigate most bad effects most of the time. The top pictur...
In Srednicki's proof of the spin-statistics theorem for scalar fields ("Quantum Field Theory", section 4), he considers interaction terms, added to the free Hamiltonian, that are Hermitian function...
All refractive lenses are approximations of the ideal. This is particularly the case of single-element lenses such as in eyeglasses. It so happens that the centers of such lenses are closer appro...
The center of thrust is effectively the weighted average of all the thrust locations. The weighting for each location is proportional to how much the thrust from that location contributes to the o...
If I have a rocket with some known number of engines $n$, each producing thrust with arbitrary direction $T_n$ and center of thrust $r_n$, the total thrust amount and direction $T_{total}$ is equal...
Change in momentum is force times time. On the other hand, change in kinetic energy is force times distance (more accurately, the component of the force along the movement times distance; a force p...
Your analysis seems pretty good. To take an equivalent but more traditional example, imagine we throw a ball upwards. Ignoring air resistance and approximating the gravitational force as constant, ...
Momentum is proportional to an object's velocity, and kinetic energy is proportional to the square of its velocity $\dfrac{mv^2}{2}$. It's pretty intuitive that if object B is going twice as fast a...
I know that equation for parallel resistance is $$\frac{1}{r_{tot}}=\sum_i \frac{1}{r_i}$$ But i wonder to see equation of series spring constant. If we add multiple spring in series. Then their ...
What is "disorder" in entropy? Entropy is measurement of "disorder". (Some says it's not "disorder") I had read "disorder" and "order" of entropy in my book. But I was wondering what "order" ...
The spring constant specifies force per compression distance. When you put multiple spring in series, the force on each spring is the same, which is also the overall force on the combined spring. ...
Back when what light is and how it propagates was poorly understood, people naturally related it to sound. Sound propagates thru a medium, like air. Light was therefore assumed to propagate thru ...
I want to write some code to control my whole house humidifier. I want my code to calculate the percentile relative humidity above which dew will form on my windows. I have sensors for air tempera...
The electrons by themselves don't absorb or release this energy. They do that within the context of the atom they are within. The discrete energy levels available to electrons are only there due ...
I was reading about Ether, Maxwell and Young-double-slit experiment. I got a question about Ether law. Let me say what I read about Ether Law. Suppose, a boat is traveling with Adverse of Water ...
