Recent content by sruthisupriya

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    Undergrad Trying to understand tensors and tensor notation

    but, how can we physically define a tensor?
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    Graduate Quantum Gravity Explained: What It Is and Resources to Learn More

    can anyone tell me what quantum gravity is, and if possible some links on it?
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    Graduate Physical significance of othogonality condition?

    what is the physical significance of othogonality condition? or what is meant when we say that two eigen states are orthogonal?
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    High School How disintegration depends on temperature

    and also abt the valley of beta stability?
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    High School How disintegration depends on temperature

    can anyone tell me how disintegration depends on temperature or how it becomes important at high temperature?
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    Graduate Explain p-process in nucleosynthesis

    could anyone explain p-process in nucleosynthesis for me? i didnt find any suitable site.
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    Graduate Where Did the Electrons Come From in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?

    when we talk abt BBN, we only talk abt the nucleons. whr did th electrons come from? was it just beta decay or something else?
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    Undergrad Where Can I Find the Mathematics in Nucleosynthesis?

    hey, i don't know if this is the right place for this thread, but i would really be glad if somebody could pls help me out with this! i need a site which would give the mathematics involved in nucleosynthesis. searched the net and the library as best as i could, but i couldn't get any info on...
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    Tangential Accn: Particle Starting to Slide Down Smooth Sphere

    A particle starts to slide down a fixed smooth sphere from its top.When it breaks off the sphere,what is its tangential acceleration?
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    Graduate Explaining EM, Weak & Strong Interactions in 4D Spacetime

    Hi, this may seem like a ridiculous qn.but,we can explain gravity on the basis of the curvature of 4D spacetime.can we explain the EM,weak and strong interactions similarly on the basis of dimensions?
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    Graduate Spin: Fermions vs. Bosons - Explaining its Significance

    what exactly is spin? why is it half integral for fermions and integral for bosons?what is the significance of the values?
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    Graduate Mossbauer Effect & Photon/Gravity: How it Verifies Energy MGH

    i didnt quite understand the 'absorber tuned via mossbauer effect' idea.
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    Graduate Mossbauer Effect & Photon/Gravity: How it Verifies Energy MGH

    i read in my textbook that if a photon falls through gravity, the energy mgh manifests in an increase in frequency and that this result was verified using mossbauer effect. my question is how can mossbauer effect be used to verify this?
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    Graduate Why Does 238U Not Spontaneously Decay by Proton Emission

    why doesn't 238U decay spontaneously by emitting a proton?