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When I studied special relativity for the first time, I encountered the exemple of a infinite neutral wire in the laboratory frame of reference, R, through which a constant current is running. In this frame of reference, the electrons in the wire are moving with a velocity +v and the ions...

What is the result of the following experiment? We put an amount of water in a uniform electrostatic field. We get a polarisation. Keeping the polarizing field, we cool rapidly the water until it became solid. We turn off the polarizing field. Do we obtain a permanently polarized piece of...

Starting from a gas state and reaching the liquid state by getting around the critical point in a p-T phase diagram, what happens (qualitatively) to the molecules (or atoms)? Does a fraction of them start to form bonds? This concept of "indistinguishable" liquid and gas is new to me.