Experiment Definition and 1000 Threads

How did you find PF?: Google Is it true that the devices that quantify which slit do NOT produce wave collapse unless they actually record the light measurements rather than just detect them without recording?

Hi :) I just had a (most likely totaly unoriginal) thought and thought I should try to ask someone who's thinkings on physics are somewhat more refined than mine. So after thinking twice about private messaging Mr Tyson and Mr Cox :) I decided to google 'physics forum'. So here I am with my...

If anyone has an idea for an experiment or has any kind of manual containing experiments related to mechanics, that would really be helpful. If you have an idea like a new way to find moment of inertia of given object or anything like that, please do tell. I would really love to try it. Thanks

Hello, so I was reading bout the Hertz experiment in different text and they always say something about the Spark causing accelerated electric charge. So I was wondering, is the spark necessarily for the production of EM waves? If yes, why? Because as I recall, applying an ac voltage should...

Can the essence o the Mach-Zehnder experiment be resumed as shown, to emphasize the analogy with the double-slit experiment? When the beams are brought together on a screen they form an interference pattern (no which-path inormation; wave behaviour). If the screen is removed and replaced by two...

Given an EPR experiment such as the Alain Aspect 1982 test of non-locality using photons; if you modified the experiment so that the entangled photons first go through a analyzer loop (polarizer + inverse polarizer) before going to the polarizers in the experiment would you still see a non-local...

In the experiment, a pronounced diffraction pattern is observed at an accelerating voltage of 54 volts. Beyond and below 54 volts, the peaks are not pronounced. What is the significance of 54 volts ? Why does the peak become less high below and above the specific value of accelerating voltage.

I know that I am supposed to use the equation I wrote, but how do I find the maximum force of static friction and coeffcient of static friction if none of them are given beforehand? I can't have to unknowns in an equation. We then did the same thing, the only difference was then to measure the...

I'm setting up a Faraday/Lenz Law lab and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion on what gauge of wire I should use to get the best results. We don't have any wire here so I can't test it myself. Thanks.

7th grade sciences class I was given the job to bring burned bread to class for a science experiment. My idea of burned bread was burned toast so we never got to do the experiment. Teachers idea of burned bread was ashes. That was many years ago. What class experiment can be done with...

The other day my friend asked me a really interesting question regarding the scene from interstellar where they go down to Miller's planet, where every hour on this planet is 7 years of Earth time. He asked me if they were to send a signal to the spaceship where Romilly was, what would happen...

A very interesting experiment: Bell-type Polarization Experiment With Pairs Of Uncorrelated Optical Photons M. Iannuzzi, et al. in arXiv:2002.02723 [quant-ph] or Physics Letters A 384 (2020) 126200 The autor(s) conclude: "We may therefore understand that the measurement precedure adopted in the...

Hi all; This goes under the heading of experimental predictions... gone awry. Let me say from the start that I think I've got something wrong, and would have no problem having it pointed out to me. I'm a newbie, and I've been boning up on basic quantum physics phenomena on Youtube, and...

Hello there, I am a physics undergraduate and one trying to be very practical. I try to study a lot, to understand the principles and everything and get how all this knowledge came to existence. However, except for the little and not-very-modern experiments we carry out in our school I have no...

From what I understand, if the two-slit experiment is performed while observing a slit for particles, two distinct bands appear rather than interfering. This is a little confusing, as, from what I understand, diffraction is caused by measuring a particle's position (i.e. using a slit to narrow...

Does the following picture which I think shows the guiding field for electron in the double slit experiment have a corresponding image when the experiment is done with photons? Thanks for any help.

I am wondering what happens in the case of 100 entangled photons with a polarization angle of 0 degrees (or 0 and 90) that interact with Alice at 22,5 degrees and Bob at 45 degrees in a Bell Experiment. Do I get a count of 85 for Alice and 50 for Bob, which means a maximum coincidence count...

[Mentors' note - No template because this post was moved from the Relativity forum] Summary:: I'm trying to make sense of the trig/algebra in discussing the experiment. This is an excerpt from the textbook Modern Physics (Thornton/Rex) meant to further explain the set up, however I'm not...

Please refer to the image attached for the question.thanks.

I think that what happens is that the amplitude becomes sqrt(2)/2A in the slit filtered, as opposed to A in the other slit. I suppose we will still get constructive interference from the slits, so the value (1+sqrt(2)/2)A will be reached as opposed to 2A in the usual experiment. However, the...

Here it goes. I'm reading some notes on the Rutherford (gold foil) experiment and they first state what one should expect if the atom model was like the one described by Thomson (plumb pudding model). In order to somehow predict what the deviation should be when throwing alpha particles towards...

m × lambda for bright = (m - 1/2) × lambda for dark so: 2 × 708 = 2.5 × second lambda Second lambda = 566.4 nm But the answer is 495 nm. Where is my mistake? Thanks

I know that ydse is based on interference of light when it passes through an obstacle having almost same aperture as the wavelength of light. Also they should be coherent to have a constant phase difference at every point. But I don't get why the light beams should be parallel?

For my High School Physics course, I have been tasked to design an experiment investigating the properties of a CD diffraction grating, and we MUST make a graph. Unfortunately, we only have two lasers of different wavelength, so changing the wavelength and measuring ##theta## would be a bad...

Hi all, I'm reading an article describing the D0 experiment at Fermilab during Run II. Proportional drift tubes and mini drift tubes were used to detect muons: can someone explain me the difference between these two kinds of drift tubes? Thanks Federica

a) Let's first analyse the plumbline. When it is in equilibrium, it follows from the projectile equation on a rotating Earth that: $$\mathbf 0 = -mg \mathbf k + \mathbf T$$ Thus, the tension in the plumbline is ##mg## and the string is parallel to the apparent vertical. Let's now analyse...

Hello all! Having some problems understanding this question. From what I know, bright fringes means that there will be constructive interferences, whereby ##d\sin \theta =m\lambda## In this case, I know the d (separation of silts). However, what should I put in for wavelength? I went through...

I've been reading about the sophisticated double-slit experiments currently being conducted by a team of physicists led by Tom Campbell. It's no secret of course that Campbell hopes that the findings of these experiments will strengthen the argument that our universe is a computer simulation...

Afshar's experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afshar_experiment) sent a light beam through a double-slit to get interference, put wires in the places where there were dark fringes, then refocused the light with a lens get "image" the two slits. I'm wondering what entanglements would break...

In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger was looking at a concept called a "superposition." Superposition is when two waves meet and overlap and interact, which can lead to different results based on the circumstances. The concept can be seen in the regular-sized world as well, in...

Hi I am trying to safely setup an experiment to measure a chemical reaction with a spectral detector. I was wondering how to setup the experiment safely in front of the spectral detector? Do I have to perform some calculations based on the chemical reaction beforehand? Or what? This is an...

Does anyone know of any low-cost experiments that prove the compton effect?

The weight accelerating/pulling the trolley is changed and corresponding acceleration recorded. What I don’t understand is why the weight added/removed to the hanging weight is removed/added to the trolley

[Moderator's note: Thread spun off from previous thread due to topic change.] The thermal interpretation of the double slit experiment is very appealing alternative explanation to the Bohmian interpretation as I understood it from these discussions...

In Introduction to special relativity by Resnick,there is a thought experiment to compare lengths perpendicular to relative motion as given in the below image. What if we try to perform such an experiment to compare lengths parallel to relative motion? Suppose there are two horizontal rods...

I have always seen YouTube videos saying how an electron 'knows' when we are observing it but I always put that down to youtubers creating popular science (verging on science fiction) hype for more views. I suppose there is more science behind an electron behaving like a particle when we put a...

This is an experiment. I thought of a way to bridge the gap between the usual challenge threads. Of course we could shorten the monthly period, but given that there are almost always untouched problems, more of them might not be the solution. Today we had a thread "Is math a language" by...

Homework Statement: So i need to find equations to help me with a bifiler suspension experiment in which i will use a rectangular drop bar as the oscillating object, also any help with the method of this experiment would be greatly appreciated. The end goal is to find the moment of inertia...

I did an electrolysis experiment with 1.6M Barium Chloride solution and the electrolyte turned black after the electrolysis. I am fairly positive that Chlorine was produced at the anode from the smell. However, Ba(OH)2 is colorless. I used graphite electrodes for this experiment. Does anyone...

Hi just one question. Can someone point to me some resources on how to calculate the actual yield under experimental conditions? thanks.Adrian

Summary: Hello, I have a task to calculate the air drag coeficient experimentally. I have a cone which I had dropped from height of 1.5 m and measured the time. Then I derived the equation of of velocity and acceleration but they are very complicated. Is there any simpler method? a=g-k/m*V^2

Who invented the description of the scientific method as "observation, hypothesis,experiment conclusion"? I'm aware that there are criticisms of this description and alternate descriptions. My question only concerns who first described the scientific method word-for-word in those terms. Was...

The text showed if Fnet = 0 (with F from magnetic fields and electric field), then v = E/B . And we can measure m/e (last equation in the image). My question is, by assuming F = 0, change in y should also be 0 , so the denominator of right side of the m/e equation must be zero. And the...

If we’re looking through a telescope at a craft we launched from Earth that is now passing Mars and send a radio signal to our craft telling it to turn on one of its lights on and it takes thirteen minutes for the radio waves to get from Earth to our craft how long will it take before we see the...

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So, pretty much I want to make an experiment in order to get the speed of light. What I plan to do is to have a lantern in the dark(initially off) perpendicular to a wall, two sensors(one closest to the lantern and the other closest to the wall), then turn on the light making sensor 1 go off as...

I'm just a layperson with a keen interest a couple of notches above popular science. As far as I understand SpaceTime is an attribute where if you change one attribute (space or time) then the other attribute is affected. E.g. as you approach the speed of light, the time passing of other things...

The Eotvos experiment tests the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass. Some descriptions state that the experiment tests the equivalence between gravitational and centrifugal force, while others state that it is between gravitational and centripetal force. There is a significant...

Summary: Vacuum pump help I need advice on what type of vacuum pump would create max negative pressure in a very small area ( a space no larger than your pinky finger I guess) ? Maybe some kinda high suction low cfm pump? I don't know enough about vacuum pumps to know which type to...

This is the phenomenon of a photon simultaneously exist in many different spaces, experiment show that space does not exist and the distance is not real. This experiment bring a lot of sense in quantum research. I want to review again but forgotten the name of person that did it.