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High School Drop a ball - where does the energy go?
As mentioned by dauto the heat dissipates very fast, I don't think alcohol will be effective since the temperature will go below the flash point even before oxygen is supplied. -
Can you solve the pendulum with obstacles? Find the equation of movement!
I can note that the obstacle is a cycloid. This might help. http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/huygens/horologiumpart1.pdf- j824h
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Undergrad Understanding Wien's Law: Power Radiated & Wavelength
E in E=hc/λ you mentioned, seems to be the energy of a single photon with wavelength λ. What you're dealing with in Wien's law is the energy distribution for whole blackbody radiation - the number of photon is never distributed uniformly over the wavelength in blackbody radiation. That...- j824h
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- Forum: Thermodynamics
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Graduate Array of magnets around a sphere
How much 'uniformly' do you mean? You know, N discrete magnets cannot be in a uniform distribution. What are the exact locations of the magnets? To get quantitative result, we need more specific information than just that they are on a sphere. I think I can get some numerical solutions once I...- j824h
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- Forum: Electromagnetism
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Is the speed of a wave dependent on the speed of the source?
We need to clarify what the speed of wave is. Generally, speed of wave is the constant c which makes the wave equation \frac{\partial^2\psi}{\partial x^2}=\frac{1}{c^2}\frac{\partial^2\psi}{\partial t^2}, holds in any reference frame. And you should note that it's the reference frame what...- j824h
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help