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Short answer is "no." A freezer pumps heat from the inside chamber and exhausts it externally in its refrigeration cycle. The outside of the freezer gets warm. It would be better to have the watersupply going into a water heater jacket where the incoming water is cold, and put your peltier...

In many vortex's, the center has low pressure, from the center of a stirring cup of tea to the centere of a hurricane or storm system. I'm trying to crudely model how this might apply to the center of a spiral galaxy. If the behavior is similar, and the center has a low pressure void...

If you take 2 .5" x .5" cylinder neodymium magnets, and attach them sideways with N of first closest to the S of the 2nd and vice versa, they are attracted. However, when one is held stationary, and the other is rotated around, its seems that there is a perpendicular magnetic field that...

I am trying to code a java applet to give a physical representation of an EM wave, and how it will react in a resonant cavity. However, I am having a very hard time finding a good physical representation of what an EM wave actually looks like. For example, If I take a 2 meter wave, place it...

Regarding the doublesplit experiment, I have been reading about it, and the conclusions that are drawn are not what I would expect. In the experiment where a single electron was injected in just one of the 2 slits, and it is "detected" that 1 electron exits from both slits, it begs the...

Sorry, yes I did mean dilation. I am reading Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time, and on page 43 it talks about 2 clocks on a water tower, and how Einstein's prediction was tested and the findings agreed with general relativity. It doesn't say that the above clock was accelerating. I...

I have been thinking about the the experiment of 2 accurate clocks, one at ground level, and one elevated a the top of the tower, to show time dialation. I am a much better musician than I am an amateur physicist. And I understand the impact of pressure, rigidity, air pressure, and...

Would you elaborate on this? I am looking at the very small variation. If the average of the isotopes is the case, why would they publish the periodic table of elements with averaged weights, and not weights that were derived from the absolute atomic weights of protons, electrons and neutrons...

I am trying to find a clear answer as to why elements' weights vary, when their makeup are of the same protons, electrons, and neutrons? For example, H = 1.0079 atomic weight, 1 proton + 1 electron Li = 6.941 atomic weight, 3 protons + 3 electrons + 4 neutrons If a neutron = 1 proton + 1...

I gotcha. Here is what is confusing. a permanent magnet, is that moving? How can I related a moving charged particle with a magnetic field to a permanent magnet, like lodestone, or rusted iron? what is causing the magnetic field? Wouldn't these particles have to be moving? If that is the...

So, I have been reading various sources, and I am getting a little confused as to what electrons, protons, and neutrons generate when moving. Do they generate photons, or a magnetic field? I guess what I am trying to understand is, do any of the particles listed above have a magnetic field...

Lets say they don't exist near the protons' proximity. I would hate to be around if they ever showed up. :D

I can see what you are saying. It is rather frustrating to read in books, primarily classical physics, where the electron is what emits and absorbs photons, because of the electronic cloud. I can appreciate the idea that protons can emit photons. But it is still confusing to me to envision...

I have been thinking about this for a while, and I am not sure about how I can visualize this. Lets imagine that there can exist clouds of primordial matter, far away in space. 1. Can it be possible for a cloud to exist and be made out of strictly protons at 0 kelvins? I don't...

Wow, a picture is worth a thousand words. I understand what you are saying now.I guess this is what I was visualizing: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/news/lens_fig1.gif I got it from this link: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/grav_lens.html I believe I was visualizing...