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    Why Do Pepper Particles Stick Only Behind the Print on a Glass Shaker?

    So we have this pepper shaker made of glass with a print on it. One fine dinner, it ran out of pepper, so I opened the lid to fill it in and noticed a peculiar thing – small particles of pepper dust were stuck to the inside glass walls but only in places, where the print wasn’t present on...
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    Oil volume required to rise the piston

    Okay, I finally got it right. The first mistake was that 4 in and 1 in are diameters, not radii... Here's how one can look at it: Now, obviously the "additional" oil that must be poured is the whole blue one, so both on the left and right. V_{oil} = V_1 + V_2 We know that, because the...
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    Oil volume required to rise the piston

    Do you mean the additional volume of the 1-in layer in the cylinder? Yes. It's weight is: W_1 = π \cdot (4 in)^2 \cdot 1 in \cdot ρ \cdot g = 6.87 N Then we have: \frac{V_{oil o}}{A_o} = \frac{W_1}{A_p} And solving it I got V_{oil o} = 3.14 in^3
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    Oil volume required to rise the piston

    Homework Statement The piston shown weighs 11 lbf. In its initial position, the piston is restrained from moving to the bottom of the cylinder by means of the metal stop. Assuming there is neither friction nor leakage between piston and cylinder, what volume of oil (S = 0.85) would have to...
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    Feynman diagrams - electrical charges

    Is it already known in physics what is happening in the electric field between the electrons? And I mean at the subatomic particles level. Can someone share some materials from where I could learn to use and read Feynman diagrams in a more or less easy way?
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    Feynman diagrams - electrical charges

    Fair point, my error :D But they must have something to do with the reality. Photons must be really emitted, right...?
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    Feynman diagrams - electrical charges

    I have a request for some explanation in Feynman diagram concerning repelling/attraction of electrical charges. I have been told that when two charges (say, e1(-) and the e2(-)) repel each other, a photon is being emitted from one of them, and the other charge is later being hit by this photon...
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    SPH4U University Grade 12 Physics - Coulomb's Law?

    Can you attach a picture or describe how q1 and q2 are situated?
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    Circular Motion in a Roller Coaster

    What about Ek at the top?
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    Calculating Young's Modulus of Elasticity for 0.1% Carbon Steel

    Your calculations seem fine, what is the unit of the area? You can also make sure that the force is in N, not in kN or something.
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    Detemining the mass of water vapour in air (Ideal gas law)

    Probably it's best if you use SI units. You can take ρ = \frac{m}{V} in \frac{kg}{m^3} and pressure in Pascals.
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    Experiment with forces - Formula question

    You mean the ball was in a free fall from this height? The simplest equation you can get is h = \frac{gt^2}{2}. Your equation h = \frac{Ft^2}{m} is exactly this (after simplification), and the acceleration of gravity is hidden in the force: h = \frac{Ft^2}{m} = \frac{mgt^2}{m} = gt^2, though...
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    Calculating maximum load and counterweight of a tower crane

    Do you have any picture of this crane?
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    Does the Pivot Exert a Moment Reaction for Equilibrium?

    Yeah, it's not quite intuitive. Here happens to be the critical condition, any more or less load on either side would rotate it. Remember that less force is required on a longer arm and more on the shorter, to produce the same moment :)
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    Does the Pivot Exert a Moment Reaction for Equilibrium?

    Whether it is in equilibrium depends on the type of pivot. If it's a pin support, then there is no bending moment in the pivot but the beam could still be in equilibrium if the moment of the resultant force acting on the left side = moment of the resultant force acting on the right. If it's a...
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