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    Electric Flux Through the Surface of a Circle

    Pranav-Arora and TSny, Sorry I couldn't respond any sooner; quite a busy day I had today. Thank you for your responses! Although we are supposedly still at rudimentary work, it's reassuring to know that the solution to a difficult problem is correct when I good critical reasoning of...
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    Electric Flux Through the Surface of a Circle

    Homework Statement A sphere of radius ## R ## carries charge density ## \rho = ar^5 ## where ## a ## is a constant. Find the flux ## \Phi ## of its electric field through a surface of a circle with radius ## R ## if the circle lies in a plane tangent to the sphere and its center touches the...
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    Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses

    We are looking to illuminate a pre-mixed OH flame and collect the fluorescence emitted by the OH. This is a typical planar laser-induced fluorescence setup, which consists of an Nd:YAG, dye laser, and wavelength extender. The output is a ~300 nm laser beam with about. Take laser beam diameter is...
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    Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses

    Ah, I have never heard of this set up, but it should be interesting enough to consider. How wide is the image scanning range usually for an f{\theta} system? Does it only work for a specific wavelength as well as repetition rate of the laser, e.g. pulsed or CW? Thank you so much for your input...
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    Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses

    But then, how would that possibly aid in creating a thin laser sheet?
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    Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses

    By scanning, do you mean deflection of the beam so as to sort of steer it? Sorry, I don't exactly get what it quite means... :confused:
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    Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses

    Hello, I've been helping a graduate student out with his project which is planar laser-induced fluorescence. Part of the procedure involves generating a laser sheet with which to illuminate over the flame under study. Now, typically a usual procedure involves using a beam expander to...
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    Starship special relativity problem

    I wanted to point out, that nothing can go past the speed of light, in any inertial frame of reference. Either there must be something wrong in your calculations and the way you got to the correct answer or the correct answer you stated is wrong. You don't have to. It only makes sense to do...
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    Help finding the spring constant in a magnetic field

    Ah, but what is the length of the side of the current in which we are concerned with in opposing the spring?
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    Gravity and Rotation: Will the Top Segment Reach the Ground First?

    Indeed, I did not understand either when your professor said that there are contributions of acceleration from both rotation and gravity. Is rotation in this case not caused by the chimney's weight which is a gravitational force itself?
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    Gravity and Rotation: Will the Top Segment Reach the Ground First?

    The lower segment of the chimney can be taken as a rod rotating about its fixed point on the ground. We have Newton's 2nd law for torques: ##Ʃτ=Iα## ##mgr=(\frac{1}{3}mL^2)α## Assuming the center of gravity of the lower segment is taken to be at its geometrical center, ##r=\frac{L}{2}##...
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    IPA Potential Energy Approximation

    Thank you so much for your help!
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    IPA Potential Energy Approximation

    Alright, so I set ##(Z-1)e=∫ρ_0e^{-\frac{r}{R}}(4πr^2dr)## from 0 → ∞ because I want to evaluate the total charge distribution. I get ##ρ_0=\frac{(Z-1)e}{8πR^3}##. Is this correct by far?
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    IPA Potential Energy Approximation

    Yes, in part (b) when I apply Gauss' I will have to integrate the charge density with respect to ##dV## in order to obtain the total charge. And if I obtain the correct expression then my results should be consistent with part (c). Nevertheless I still cannot be too sure for the expression...
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    Mirrors, Polaroid Films, Light/Wavelength help needed

    Well, it's 4x smaller so what do you think? I'm sure you can figure this out. Other than that there seems to be nothing else wrong with your calculations.
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