Distance is a numerical or occasionally qualitative measurement of how far apart objects or points are. In physics or everyday usage, distance may refer to a physical length or an estimation based on other criteria (e.g. "two counties over"). Since spatial cognition is a rich source of conceptual metaphors in human thought, the term is also frequently used metaphorically to mean a measurement of the amount of difference between two similar objects (such as statistical distance between probability distributions or edit distance between strings of text) or a degree of separation (as exemplified by distance between people in a social network). Most such notions of distance, both physical and metaphorical, are formalized in mathematics using the notion of a metric space.
In the social sciences, distance can refer to a qualitative measurement of separation, such as social distance or psychological distance.
I have a leaf blower that states the sound level is 75dB. My question is, at what distance is this measured. It seems that as you get closer to the source, the dB number will increase drastically. If I double the distance from the source, then the power should go down by a factor of four or 6...
Attempt : I start by compying and pasting the problem as it appeared in the text. Please note that for reasons of clarity, I replaced landing station ##\text{K}## with station ##\text{N}##.
Let me draw a picture of the problem situation. The landing stations M and N are shown in red and the...
Lets say I formed a traversible wormhole with one mouth on each end of my garage. If I picked up one of the ends and drove it to the park, would the distance inside the wormhole increase or otherwise be effected as well?
This is my first post on physics forums - Hi everybody...
The distance covered by the first box is :s1max=v²/2|a|=v²/2μg where a=-μg by second newtons law
Similarly S2max=(2v)²/2|a|=4v²/2μg
It gas to be s1max+s2max≥S => v²/2a +4v²/2a ≥s => 5v²≥2aS =>v²≥ 2μgS/5=> v≥√(2μgs/5)
But this is in the possible solution, am I wrong somewhere? I appreciate your help
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Imagine a helicopter view of a Polo ground. It's length & breadth are known.
Now you are seated where the blue dot is. Your view is such:
How do mathematicians calculate the distance travelled by a ball from the second perspective?
From the top view, this would be...
Referring to this statement:
"Proxima Centauri is approximately four light-years away. For any particular event on Earth, there is an eight-year span of events on Proxima Centauri that could count as simultaneous with it, depending on your reference frame."
How does the distance between Earth...
The equation at the bottom is me attempting to solve for the distance. Without knowing the mass of the box and truck my approach to this problem isn't possible?
Statement of the problem : I copy and paste the statement of the problem to the right as it appeared on the website. Given below is the graph of the ball as its distance from a fixed point with time.
Attempt : Where does this fixed point, say ##\text{P}## lie?
Imagine the fixed point lied...
Here is the exercise:
Which one seems logical and correct ?
this one:
[ Normally when we increase distances, the velocity of sound decreases?]
Or this one?
You might wonder why. Well, my friend in class told me that the second table could be correct because the experiment was conducted at...
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I have a pandas dataset in python which has n+1 columns and t rows. The first column is a timestamp that goes second by second during a time interval, and the other columns are the names of the people who log in the server. The t rows of the other columns indicate if the person...
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I was looking at my physics lab manual... There is a table reporting time and distance data which were both measured and collected (see below). My understanding is that the uncertainty for different and measured time instants should be the same because the time was measured with the same...
TL;DR Summary: Find horizontal velocity?
I have no idea how to solve the problem, the question only provide distance 16cm(h),3.6cm(v) and acceleration = 0
In my approach i have distance as ##(x)## and velocity as ##(x^{'})##, then,
##(x^{'}) = kx^2##
where ##k## is a constant, then acceleration is given by,
##(x^{''}) = 2k(x) (x^{'})##
##(x^{''}) = 2k(x)(kx^2) ##
##(x^{''}) = 2k^2x^3##.
Correct?
I am currently studying Newton's laws and mechanics. I have this question: Why is distance=half a*t^2? Where did the 1/2 come from? Can someone explain this without using calculus?
Space must have properties, it's not just empty nothing, and one of those properties is distance. When an object moves through space at a velocity V information has to be transferred between the object and space. The object has the information that it is moving at velocity V which is...
Data and graphs here (the time is measured every 1/30 of a second, but for some reason, Google Sheets thought 1/30 wasn't a number so its in decimals!!! very confusing!!! so sorry about that!). why is the slope only 4.68, should it not be 9.81m/s^2? is the slope of m/s^2 not supposed to be...
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What happens to the force when the particle are kept at 1 light year distance. I agree practically the force would be very weak because of inverse square law, theoretically what happens to the force?
When you are calculating the gravitational force between two masses and one of them is a black hole, do you still use the distance to the center of mass as you would in Newtonian gravity to find the force? Or is the distance measured only to the event horizon? Is the inverse square law modified...
I’m an absolute beginner and I need someone to show me where I’m wrong.
Knowing the formula of acceleration ∆v (change in velocity) / ∆t (change in time) where ∆v = ∆x (distance) / ∆t, a common way of relating acceleration to distance is to say a (acceleration) = (distance/time)/time =...
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It's often stated (for example in Wikipedia) that spooky action at a distance would violate SRT. But how, exactly?
As far as I understand, SRT does neither assume nor predict that the speed of light is an upper limit (it even allows for hypothetical tachyons, but that's not the point).
I...
I understand that many of the extreme distance objects were incorrectly calibrated for their distance and subsequent age. I have been trying to track down the related articles detailing the error with the applicable mathematics. If anyone knows where I can get the related calibration papers it...
edit: I don't know why my latex isn't rendering, any help would be appreciated.
Edit 2: The question was due to a misunderstanding I had, I thought integrating instantaneous velocity would give me average velocity.
I have attached what I have tried so far. I had a doubt. Can you calculate the...
according to the figure, it's look like d is the distance between the center of two adjacent atoms, and so it should be simply L. I don't understand what d represents in the figure.
that's the solution:
Even if d is half the distance between two adjacent atoms that positioned diagonally (I...