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    How Does AC Current Flow Despite Oscillating Charges?

    Just to be be clear about what I am asking, I would like to ask a few different questions 1st: Are these assumptions correct: 1) In DC, current flows through a circuit due to the movement or flow of electrons. So in a DC circuit anyone electron will do a complete lap ( or circuit ) of the...
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    Physical meaning of a Metre-Second? [or (Kg · s) or (N · s) ]

    would the force acting over a period of time not be Newtons per second ( N/s )?
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    Physical meaning of a Metre-Second? [or (Kg · s) or (N · s) ]

    We all understand what metres PER second (m/s) physically means... but, What I was wondering was what does a 'metre-second' actually mean? Or does it have a physical meaning at all! As an example: If we take the units for Dynamic viscosity we have: Kilogram per metre second ( Kg /...
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    Divide number into 3 parts with each part being 1.6 times greater than the last

    A friend posed this just for fun but now its really annoying me. how do you divide 90 into three parts so that each part is 1.6 times greater than the last. i.e: the second value should be 1.6 times greater than the first and the third value should be 1.6 times greater than the second? Im...
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    What is the physical makeup of an electron?

    HI, Firstly I'd like to open with I know what an electron is and I know all about its charge and the role it plays in electricity, current, free electron model etc etc. My question is what is an electron 'made' out of? My reasoning is that it can't be made out of anything physical as its...
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    Plotting a Kurie Plot with a PHA

    Hi... I have to measure the end point energy of a beta minus particle being emitted from a Sr-90 radioactive source. Part of this is plotting a Kurie plot. I am using a pulse height analyser (PHA) to get the beta spectrum (which counts how many beta particles are detected N,on the y-axis and...
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    Calculating Sound Velocity in Diamond Using Debye Approximation

    Diamond has a Debye temperature of Dt = 2000 K and a density of 3500 kg/m3. The distance between nearest neighbors is 0.15 nm. Determine the velocity of sound using the Debye approximation. I have no idea where to even start with this question. Most books don't even mention the Debye...
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