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Very cool. I had no idea that say in the instance of the battery and the heating coil that the battery would be losing mass. Out of curiosity if you were to talk about the example of the battery and the heating coil if you were to recharge the battery, after it having been used for some amount...

Thank you all for your replies. PAllen's explanation did go a bit over my head but I appreciate PAllen's act of putting it here. I may not quite comprehend it that well yet but with time I'm sure I will. And thank you Bandersnatch, SteamKing, and mfb for breaking it down for me. That helped...

Hi, I recently did a homework problem for my introductory Quantum Mechanics course and in the problem we were given the sun's temperature in Kelvin as well as the diameter of the sun and instructed to calculate the rest mass lost per second to radiation by the sun. I was able to solve the...

bhobba: I apologize for being unclear. Though your question is a bit ambiguous regarding what one would consider to be an observer. From what I've been reading the particle detector would be an observer. I did answer whether or not I think the Geiger counter is an observer in my previous post...

DiracPool: You are partly correct and partly incorrect I think. The collapse of the wave function (if that is what happens some different interpretations would disagree) is not caused by some random air molecule bumping into it. I know this was but a part of a statement regarding a range of...

Nugatory: Saying it's not that interesting seems a bit subjective. But interesting reply though. DiracPool: How is it you can know that what would occur in the situation I described would behave so deterministically? From the point of view of anyone in the universe it would be thought that the...

My knowledge of Quantum Mechanics is not nearly as complete as may be needed to address this problem but I am still curious as to what would happen. As I understand it if we go along with the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment we can say that the cat is in a state of superposition. And that...

Yeah sorry. F'μv=BμρFρσBσvT . I was wondering what all those subscripts meant and what exactly the equation was saying. When is it you usually first learn to do Lorentz transforms? I've taken all three levels of Calculus as well as Ordinary Differential Equations and I have yet to see them...

What are the different subscripts on the B and F in the first equation of that link? Also one of the B in that equation is to the power of T. What is T?

Thank you. Lorentz boosts? I'm afraid I'm not all that familiar with them. I've heard before that electric fields and magnetic fields are one in the same i.e. electromagnetic fields. A previous professor of mine even described magnetic fields as relativistic electric fields. How is it that one...

I believe this delves into relativistic physics so I put this here. If I am incorrect I apologize. I've been learning about magnetic fields and how they are generated by moving charges. If a charge is moving at some arbitrary speed it generates a magnetic field. This is what I've been taught...