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Why is the period of a geostationary satellite not exactly 1440 minutes?

When reading about Astra satellites on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_1KR), I saw that the period of the Astra 1KR satellite, positioned at 19.2° E, is 1,436.1 minutes (source: ...

Asked on 07/05/2021 by fbitterlich

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Velocities in an elastic collision

My teacher keeps saying that, in a head-on elastic collision of two bodies of equal masses, the velocities get exchanged. But consider two balls of equal mass moving with the...

Asked on 07/05/2021

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Can we use electrostatics in place of the Pauli Exclusion Principle to crudely model "touching"?

I know similar questions have been asked before, but I was thinking about this and curious if it's a valid way to approach the question -- especially when we are...

Asked on 07/05/2021

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Hilbert-Schmidt distance positive semi-definite

Given two density matrices $rho_1,rho_2$ (let them be finite dimensional). I try to show that $mathrm{Tr}((rho_1-rho_2)^2) = 0 implies rho_1 = rho_2$. What I tried is the following....

Asked on 07/05/2021

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Variational principles for approximating thermodynamic potentials in the inverse Ising problem: How to go from double to single extremum?

I'm trying to wrap my head around section 2.2.6 (on variational principles) in the following paper (on the inverse Ising problem): https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01522 Here the authors explain how...

Asked on 07/04/2021 by Gauss57

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Question on Gauss's law

This question is from Griffiths' Electrodynamics, Chapter 2, question 49, part e). The question is as follows:Problem 2.49 Imagine that new and extraordinarily precise measurements have revealed an error in...

Asked on 07/04/2021

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Difference between reverberation and echo? And the factors affecting both of them (unique as well as common)?

Is reverberation caused by echo? Is echo the thing that we hear inside of our rooms? Or is it reverberation? Once such definition states that -Reverberation is the persistence of...

Asked on 07/04/2021 by Ashvith Shetty

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Travelling slit in double slit experiment

In the double slit experiment, the interference pattern depends on the wavelength of the light. But if I run at the light source really fast shouldn't the light blue shift...

Asked on 07/04/2021

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How we can explain bending of electromagnetic waves in a different optical media?

How can we explain the bending of light when it moves through different optical media by Maxwell's equations treating light as an electromagnetic wave?...

Asked on 07/04/2021 by Ganesh Khadanga

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Carlo Rovelli's analogy of gravity as running down the beach into the sea where the resistance of water makes us fall down into the waves

In "The Order of Time" (page 12), Carlo Rovelli explains how things fall due to the slowing down of time and uses the following metaphor:"Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary...

Asked on 07/04/2021

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