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Here is the answer I got: From a survival/evolutionary standpoint, for single celled organisms to survive (such as a bacteria in a pond), it needs to be able to identify a potential source of danger (by some sensing mechanism) and transmit that information to the CPU of that cell in order to...

This question was a lecture discussion topic during my Biophysics course at university. I missed the lecture and the question is bothering me. "Eukaryotes (multi-cell organisms) evolved into very large sizes whereas prokaryotes (single-cell organisms) remained quite small (about 1...

Aha! So the resistance force due to the spring is F = -kx where x = 250mm - 207mm and k is as given. I feel like they are giving me a little more info in the picture than is necessary. Specifically the 400mm diameter of the tank (not the discharge hole) and the 25mm thickness of the walls. My...

Homework Statement A valve for a pressure system has a discharge hole whose diameter is 50mm. The spring has a free length of 250mm (if you stretched the spring out), a coiled length (measured top to bottom while spring is coiled) of 207mm and a spring constant of 120kN/m. At what pressure...

Homework Statement Show that the Hamiltonian operator (\hat{H})=-((\hbar/2m) d2/dx2 + V(x)) is hermitian. Assume V(x) is real Homework Equations A Hermitian operator \hat{O}, satisfies the equation <\hat{O}>=<\hat{O}>* or ∫\Psi*(x,t)\hat{O}\Psi(x,t)dx =...

Hi, I am aware that due to the three body kinematics of beta decay, the energy spectrum of the electrons emitted is a continuous spectrum (where at one extreme the electron gets all of the disintegration energy and the antineutrino none, and the converse at the other extreme) I am doing an...

What the hell is a Johnson V Magnitude? Is the Johnson V Magnitude the same as the Apparent Magnitude? I don't think it is. Are they related?

so because the two particles have the same energies, it is obvious that the smaller particle must be moving at a higher velocity than the larger particle and thus have a greater uncertainty in position than the larger particle and therefore a greater probability of tunneling?

ummm sorry still a bit confused. I thought maybe is had something to do with the uncertainty in positon of each particle? I read somewhere that the smaller the mass of the particle, the larger the uncertainty in position and thus a higher probability that tunneling will be successful? Not...

Howdy, Can anyone explain qualitatively (without using any maths) why a particle with a smaller mass has a greater probability of tunneling through a potential barrier than another particle with a larger mass but of the same total energy? Thanks