Cause Definition and 566 Threads

So I got a is elongation. For part b and d, I am unsure where to start. For c, i got compression and for e, I put that the dotted line is the red block

Hello, I looked everywhere and elsewhere for an answer to this. And I can't seem to find an answer. If a High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse was detonated, Would this set off the Northern Lights? While a solar flair is due to a stream of electrons and ions(I hope that I got that correct). A...

Since the EM wave travels at the fastest speed could we say the fastest cause and effect interaction could be the change in electric field generating the magnetic field ?

A fusion reactors releases a lots of energy. Most of this energy will end up as thermal energy after it has been used by the consumers. Wouldn't this heat up the earth? People use the energy to run cookers, drive cars, light up houses, etc. This energy (99%?) will end up as thermal energy where...

OK so, I was wondering could the reason that our universe was in a hot dense state prior the the Big Bang Be because of it was actually a huge singularity that had no more mass to swallow up? And what caused this is that a type of matter or subatomic particle interacted with a different...

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I'm armchair knowledgeable about GR, but I've come up against something I can't eloquently explain (to someone who asserts otherwise and wants an unassailable answer). What property results in time dilation even when net gravity is zero?The net gravity at the centre of the Earth is zero, but...

I already have made the thread "Can a defective DRC [Dual Run Capacitor] on a heat pump cause the fan motor to go bad?" Earlier today I told my father how a defective DRC on my heat pump caused the run winding on my fan motor to burn up. My father asked me if a defective fan motor can cause a...

I noticed that the outdoor fan on my residential, split-system heat pump stopped working in mid-October. I don't know for sure exactly when my outdoor fan on my heat pump stopped working. It might be that my outdoor fan did not work for months before I noticed that the outdoor fan did not work...

Hello I must do a report on Chernobyl: before, during and after. I have all I need except for a clear and simple explanation of how steam explosions work in this regard. All the online sites I've been on provide information that is too advanced, and as a non native English speaker, the...

Hi, As far as I understand spin orbit coupling is the interaction between proton of atom and electron. Proton's motion(from the frame of electron) around electron creates magnetic field. Hence electron experiences magnetic field. Does this magnetic field produces a Zeeman effect which cause...

Hey, I'm designing an HVAC system for a laundry building. I have vacuum equipment (Vacuum press and Vacuum Ironing boards ) in the space which have a vacuum outlet the is taken outside the building through individual ducts. When all machines are operational, 877 l/s of hot air and moisture would...

Quoting Resnick and Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics (page 912) on polarization by reflection: It is also known that when light is incident at the interface at a particular angle θb, the Brewster angle, the reflected light is completely plane polarized. Why does light get polarized when it...

- The wavelength of light doesn't change at all in the galaxies because the space of the galaxies doesn't expand. - The wavelength of light should be different when it passes through the galaxy or not. However, this is contradictory to the observed result. So, the big bang theory is wrong.

I know that having both high superheat and low subcooling on an Air-Conditioner (A/C) is a strong indication that an air-conditioner does not have enough refrigerant. When the charge on an A/C is low, there is less refrigerant that enters the evaporator. When there is a lower amount of...

This is assignment related, however it’s not really a problem solving question. So we were to take darks from our school’s CCD. The manual for the CCD says there should be ~1000 ADUs/pixel for the bias, my graph (as well as many other people- they had similar numbers) says that the bias should...

On my laptop the power plug that goes to the mains is US type (3 Pin B). My country uses Type D socket at the mains. The charger is universal 110/230V 60/50 Hz I opted for both options. A. I bought a simple converter whose female end plugs into US type and Male end plugs into Socket D. So I...

Time dilation can be shown mathematically but what is the physical phenomenon due to which it occurs?

In many deficiency-related diseases doctors prescribe to supplement, that which is deficient. For example, if insulin is found deficient they replace with insulin. Similarly the case with vitamin deficiencies, calcium deficiency, thyroid deficiency etc. I have a few doubts on this regard, 1)...

I just googled to see if this was a known thing and saw there was a closed topic on the subject. Usually I like to think of myself as a creature of logic and love to point out when other people distort reality to support their emotions but now I am all alone and trippin' about what follows. For...

I am looking at a couple of very interesting papers, published in MNRAS, that deduce, that the accelerated expansion of the Universe we observe can be attributed to gravitational waves, produced by a very distant merger of two or more universe-mass-scale black holes. The last one is on the...

When an object with a net charge is connected to the ground by some conducting material the net charge disappears. The only answer I was able to find was that the net charge gets spread out, which will clearly cause it to become negligible. What causes this to happen?

Am I correct in saying that water pressure (in typical domestic heating system pipework) is achieved by deformation of the pipes rather than compression of the water? I believe water to be virtually incompressible, so the 3 bar (or whatever) pressure must come from the elastic stretching of the...

I would like to know what causes bugs, on the software side. Bug was not at all the term used for software but over time, it has evolved into what I think is the result of carelessness, poor development and lack of knowledge. In modern computing, bugs occur in software all the time. But why does...

Hi I have 2 questions. There are 2 planets and one clock on each of them. One of them has a bigger gravitational field strength. And two clock have same distance from the core. 1-) Does time dilation occur between two? Which clock ticks slower? 2-) If time dilation occurs, which formula...

I just read an article about the hazards of the keyless feature on new cars (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/deadly-convenience-keyless-cars-and-their-carbon-monoxide-toll.html). Apparently, it can be easy to not know a car is still running in the garage even though one might think...

Quantum mechanics replaces the classical concept of cause and effect with probabilities. The best explanation: it just is. While the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles hold in quantum field theory does QFT offer a different interpretation to this concept? Or at least mitigate some of the...

I'm reading "Bang!", by Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. On page 40, they say: "So one [observer] may believe A preceded B by a minute, and another that A and B were simultaneous, it is impossible for any observer to see B preceding A. Hence cause and effect are preserved..." But in...

Hi, I've been wondering what causes a magnetic field, current or an electric field. If you had a material with extremely low susceptibility and extremely high permeability then what would cause a magnetic field in this material, a current or an electric field (as long as whatever is causing the...

Hello all, I am a senior electrical engineering student at Purdue University and I am working on my senior capstone project. One of the aspects of my project is to measure voltage and current waveforms as well as the relative phase shift between them. I need to get these waveforms into a data...

Hi all, I'm wondering how, for each peak in an x-ray spectra from a material (and using a crystal analyser), it is determined which energy level jump the peak corresponds to? How would you figure out the correct value of n to substitute into Bragg's Law to find the energy of the beam? Thank you!

question: The gas pedal and the brakes of a car are used to change the velocity by accelerating the car or decelerating it. Could a steering wheel perform either of these two actions? Explain. P.s: Of course velocity is a vector quantity and if the direction of car change there is an...

I have a friend who argues that her car creates enough downforce to cause other cars to veer towards it as they pass. I can understand cars behind it being affected, but I can't imagine 4 door car creating a force similar to that felt while driving alongside a semi truck. For what it's worth...

I have a tube light at my home which produces this sound: The sound can be heard for a long time every time the light is switched on, but it stops after about half an hour of switching on the light. What is the cause of this sound?

I read an article today stating that the possible explanation for the near total absence of heavier elements such as gold and uranium in many galaxies may be due to those galaxies not forming around a central black hole that has in absorbing one or more neutron stars causing fusion of neutrons...

hello guys i saw a slayer exciter circuit , witch is the crude more simpler version of the tesla coil and i made it , it works quite well but i have some questions. some questions : 1 - how strong is the magnetic field caused by this tesla coil ? it can ionize neon gas , or argon ? 2 - i...

In a spectrum from an MCA (that is hooked up to a scintillator and PMT), does an increase in amplifier gain cause the peak to shift towards higher channels? I have a source and its really weak so while calibrating my detector, I had to turn the gain up way high to see a peak, but I'd preferably...

Hi, I wonder is it possible sound wave heat material that high that the material goes up in flames? Or what other type of frequency can make some materials burn?

There are some plastics I am using that when melted, pull apart in a stringy way. My best comparison is like melted cheese in a sandwich. I want to know more about this, but other than looking up 'polymer rheology', I'm not sure what I should call this type of flow. I want to know what causes...

I remember reading recently that in the Antebellum American South, part of the reason that white southerners wanted to expand slavery westward is that cotton agriculture would cause soil exhaustion. After growing cotton on a given piece of land for a few years, the soil would be degraded in...

In the derivation of Navier Stokes equation there is a term for normal stress acting on the fluid element. While the cause of normal stress is the static pressure which is already present in the equation doesn't this mean that the same force on the fluid element is repeated twice with different...

Could a particle move through and displace a Bose-Einstein condensate, causing it to wave?

Hey everyone, I seek help regarding the Faraday-effect (change of the polarization angle of a linearly polarized wave in an electric field). I have asked my professor about the topic and learned a lot, but I think I am still lacking one or some crucial points. Here is how I understand the cause...

I have been involved in a fairly furious debate about a fluid dynamics experiment regarding the pressure of air passing through a tube attached to a moving car. It is similar in concept to the issue of whether or not an opening in an aeroplane fuselage would suck people out, where the opening...

Hello. I am inquiring about how a pressure difference between a hot room (roughly room temperature) and a cold room (roughly the temperature of a standard refrigerator) can cause a force inside the cold room when exposed to its hotter counterpart. More specifically, I would like to apply this...

Light can get red-shifted due to expansion of space, this leads to a loss of energy. Would it be possible that this energy is what's causing the universe to expand in the first place?

Is it possible that the reason why gravity is the weakest fundamental force is because it is disappearing into the distant future? Similar to string theory's notion that gravity dissipates into other dimensions, only in this case it is time it dissipates through? Radon 220 and radium 224 nuclei...

Its my understanding that relativistic length contraction l = l0√ 1-v2 also applies to the space itself in the moving S' system. For example a rocket traveling at .6 c. A distance that is 1000 meters in S frame is contracted to 800 meters in rockets frame. (1000/γ) Therefore the elapsed time /...

I tried to show a link between chicken consumption and obesity. What I came up with is on a web page. You can see it here: http://www.maverickexperiments.com/chicken/chickenFat.html My question is does the scatter chart at the end of this page valid?

I just found that applying an axial load of magnitude σ on both sides of a ductile rod will produce a max in plane shear stress of magnitude σ/2. Why is this? How can there be shear stress if only a normal force is applied?