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    I want to clear my doubts (friction and work)

    However the distance has a positive value, while the displacement does not.
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    B Unsolved Mystery: Where Do These X-Rays Come From?

    I read about this theoretical phenomenon in my A level physics textbook, OCR A Level Physics A 2015: Student book 2 (OCR GCE Science 2015).
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    B Unsolved Mystery: Where Do These X-Rays Come From?

    I have heard about some particles which can change to photons in a magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field. For example the particles axioms are theoretical particles that are produced by stars and supernova and when our sun produces them they are converted into X-ray photons in the...
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    I want to clear my doubts (friction and work)

    Is there an assumption of the work done being vector or scalar, as if it is scalar then this may infer that work has been done, while vector may not have a net work done.
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    Can Rain and Other Weather Effects Generate Electricity?

    Could you place as magnet surrounded by a coil of wire on a tube with the magnet attached to the bottom of a stretchable sheet that the rain would hit and then electricity could be generated. This would only work I imagine in heavy rain where large and frequent oscillations are common, but still...
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    Alkalis and bases differentiation

    I believe that they would still be considered as alkali when dissolved as it would result in a solution that had a pH higher than 7, it would be that OH- ions that would cause the alkaline pH which are from that hydroxide in this case.
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    I Beta Radiation: Quark Transformation & Charge Change

    Ok thank you that helps alot
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    I Beta Radiation: Quark Transformation & Charge Change

    Ok thank you for helping
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    I Beta Radiation: Quark Transformation & Charge Change

    Why would it be more energetically favourable?
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    I Beta Radiation: Quark Transformation & Charge Change

    my understanding of beta radiation is that an up quark in a proton changes to a down quark, forming a neutron and emitting an electron as the result of the change in charge. My questions are, 1. Why does the quark change? 2. How does it change and how does it change charge?
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    I Neutron Star Formation: Quarks, Protons, Electrons Explained

    So a programme that I watched on tv was talking about neutron stars and they said that the neutron stars neutrons were formed by protons and electrons combining to make neutrons. I was just wondering, how does this work, in the field of the quarks in the proton and how they are effected by an...
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    I Magnitude of the Second Derivative

    ok thank you for helping
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    I Magnitude of the Second Derivative

    ok I think I understand, just I am not sure what it is that you mean by a 2nd Taylor polynomial.
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    I Magnitude of the Second Derivative

    So to find the x values of the stationary points on the curve: f(x)=x3+3x2 you make f '(x)=0 so: 3x2+6x=0 x=0 or x=-2 Then to find which of these points are maximum or minimum you do f ''(0) and f ''(-2) so: 6(0)+6=6 6(-2)+6=-6 so the maximum has an x value of -2 and the minimum has an x value...
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    How to conduct electricity through water without electrodes?

    Other than any form of contact with the water I think that a high voltage arc would be the only other option.
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