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jbriggs444 reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets? with
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And speed too. E.g. the clock rate on the Earth surface is equal to the clock rate when in circular orbit at around an altitude of half... -
jbriggs444 replied to the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets?.It is not gravitational field strength (local gravity) that matters. What matters is gravitational potential. Or, almost equivalently...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread Motion in 2 dimensions.If one takes the limits ##\lim_{t \to \infty} x(t) = \infty## ##\lim_{t \to \infty} y(t) = 1## ##\lim_{t \to \infty} \frac{x(t)}{y(t)}...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain
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jbriggs444 reacted to Herman Trivilino's post in the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion? with
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Yes. Along with a background that doesn't include completion of the university-level introductory physics course. Over 100 posts in... -
jbriggs444 reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion? with Like.
There is a reason why Google AI and other LLMs are not acceptable sources here. Stop quoting them, stop wasting your time trying to...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.I see no contradiction. I see consistency. The probability that ##10^{23}## independent samples drawn from a normal distribution with...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.I read this as "given any distribution which is symmetric about zero, the distribution mean will be zero". That is a true statement...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.1. Google AI is not an acceptable reference. [See the rules here. Search for "ChatGPT and AI-generated text"] 2. If Google AI says this...
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jbriggs444 reacted to Steve4Physics's post in the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion? with Like.
I'd like to add this to what @jbriggs444 has said. No. You are wrong! Try working through the following carefully. Step-1...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.How is it possible? Why should it not be possible? Why the surprise? It is very difficult to respond to an open ended question like...
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jbriggs444 reacted to Steve4Physics's post in the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion? with Like.
@Mike_bb, can I throw this in... Suppose you have ten 6-sided dice, each marked with the values: -3, -2, -1, +1, +2, +3. You throw...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.But what are you integrating over? Are you "integrating" over a small finite sample (e.g. [-6, 1, 2, 3]) That would be ##\frac{(-6)^2...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.That tells us the sample size. It does not tell us the distribution from which the samples are drawn. Google ("what is the distribution...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread I What does equiprobable mean in the context of thermal motion?.The x and y components of some set of velocities, yes? What set of velocities? You have claimed that the components are "uniformly...