In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties such as volume, density or mass. They vary greatly in size or quantity, from subatomic particles like the electron, to microscopic particles like atoms and molecules, to macroscopic particles like powders and other granular materials. Particles can also be used to create scientific models of even larger objects depending on their density, such as humans moving in a crowd or celestial bodies in motion.
The term 'particle' is rather general in meaning, and is refined as needed by various scientific fields. Anything that is composed of particles may be referred to as being particulate. However, the noun 'particulate' is most frequently used to refer to pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere, which are a suspension of unconnected particles, rather than a connected particle aggregation.
(a) Let the center of the concentric spheres be the origin at ##r=0##, where r is the radius defined in spherical coordinates. The potential is given by the piece-wise function
$$V(r)=\infty, r<a$$
$$V(r)=0, a<r<R$$
$$V(r)=\infty, r<a$$
(b) we solve the Schrodinger equation and obtain...
a proton is confined to an infinite potential well of width ##a=8fm##. The proton is in the state
$$\psi(x,0)=\sqrt{\frac{4}{56}}sin\Big(\frac{\pi x}{8}\Big)+\sqrt{\frac{2}{56}}sin\Big(\frac{2\pi x}{8}\Big)+\sqrt{\frac{8}{56}}sin\Big(\frac{3\pi x}{8}\Big)$$
(a) What are the values of energy...
The rod itself should have 3 translational+2 rotational DOF.
The particle on top of the rod has one additional DOF.
So total should be 6. But answer given is 4.
What I'm thinking wrong?
Hello! This is probably something simple but I am getting confused about it. Assume we have an electric field along the z axis given by ##E = -kz##, with ##k>0##, so the field on both sides of the xy-plane points towards the origin. Let's say that we have a positively charged ion at the origin...
Hi hi, I would like clarify this, I'm looking for models that can support to a particles have several properties, I know classic physics, my main problem, if we have a fluid with movement forces and heat, the classic model don't support this, only independent from each other...
So, a lot of ppl...
Here are the quotes https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/show-your-affection-with-physics-valentines , I find them funny except for the last one is hurtful, I shouldn't say such a thing for someone on a valentine's day because they would care about the valentine's day, personally I find it...
(a) I guess I should find ##C_n## by normalizing ##\psi_n##.
$$∫_{∞}^∞|C_nψn(x)|^2 dx=C_n^2 \frac{2}{a}∫_0^a sin^2(\frac{πnx}{a})dx=1$$
$$C_n^2 \frac{2}{a}[\frac{a}{2}−\frac{a}{4πn}sin(\frac{2πna}{a})]=1⇒C_n=1$$
(b) $$Hψ_n(x)=\frac{-ħ^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial...
Suppose a particle is moving around a circular track of radius R at speed v. To bend around a circle some agency has to exert an acceleration towards the center of the circle. I analyze the forces acting on the particle, its weight and the normal force and there is no acceleration in the...
I tried 1. using the Lagrangian method:
From ##y=-kx^2## I got ##\dot y = -2kx \dot x## and ##\ddot y = -2k \dot x^2 - 2 kx \dot x##.
(Can I use ##\dot y = g## here due to gravity?)
This gives for kinetic energy:
$$T = \frac{1}{2} mv^2 = \frac{1}{2} m (\dot x^2 + \dot y^2) = \frac{1}{2} m (\dot...
Hi everyone,
I was hoping the internet would be filled with video lectures since lots of universities have been forced to conduct online teaching.
However, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Therefore I was hoping that some of you know of some great video lectures for nuclear and particle...
I have very little knowledge on engineering or electrical engineering at the moment, which is why I would like to learn more about it. I have read many articles on them but I am still unclear of some of the materials required for something like this. I am very unqualified to be discussing...
Suppose I have 100 identical boxes of length L and the coordinates are x=0 at one end of the box and x=L at the other end, for each of them. Each has a particle of mass m. V=0 in [0,L], while it's equal to infinity in the rest of the regions. If I make a measurement on position of the particle...
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I have a particle on a parabolic surface $$y = Ax^2$$ and I have to show that the frequency is $$\omega = \sqrt{2Ag}$$
I don't know how to deal with a parabola. I don't think I can use the polar coordinates like a circle.
I don't see how to start this problem and in which coordinates...
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Several times I encounter the argument that there is a "problem" with the masses in the Standard Model that we try to "understand". From the one side, you have people who ask why the neutrino masses are so small, and from the other side they ask why the top quark mass is so large. The...
Suppose we have two charged particles A and B released in the center of the Mirror (where the field is minimum). If A's velocity direction is parallel with the Magnetic field of the mirror and B's velocity is perpendicular with the field, then which one is going to get trapped, or escape, or...
While solving question 1.13(see the attachment) from Irodov, I was doing this: $$\int_{0}^{\tau}(\vec{v}-ucos\theta) dt=l$$, and $$\int_{0}^{\tau}\vec{v}cos\theta dt=u\tau$$. Solving this gave the answer. However, while solving these 2 equations, I only used the magnitude of ##\vec{v}##, and...
Here is the solution I have been given:
But I really don't understand this solution. Why can I just add these two exponential factors (adding two individual partition...
Hi all, I interested in how can I get low of motion in for orbiting particle in a uniform magnetic field
$$\frac{d\vec{r}}{dt} = \vec{\omega}\times\vec{r},\qquad
\vec{\omega} = \frac{e\vec{B}}{mc},$$
Of course, rotating about z' axis is very simple.
\begin{equation}\label{eq:K}...
I have done a bit of googling but cannot find anything in this regard at all.
It seems to all be "thought of" (rather than explained) by the Huygens–Fresnel principle and other spin offs.
Can anyone point me to a particle explanation of diffraction for sound waves? Or does anyone here have...
So first I did the vector stuff.
r2-r1= 1.3 i hat-47.5 j hat-14.5 k hat
magnitude = 49.68
magnitude squared = 2468.19
Now plugging it all in...
F=9E9*6.3E-3*2.8E-3/2468.19=64.322
y vector, -47.5/49.68=-0.956119 j hat
Multiply this by force and I get -61.499 but answer should be -36.14
During particle annhilation the rest mass of the particle pair gets converted into momentum with zero time component ie. light. As the pair is colliding do their rest masses decrease and get converted to momentum as a function of distance? Or do they instantaneous annihilate in a discrete interval?
There is something unusual about water. Without atmosphere, water can't exist. It's as if water is part of atmosphere. In vacuum, liquid water can't exist.
What other things like water where it needs other aspects like atmosphere to exist?
And what is the analogy of water in particle physics...
From one point of view the charged particle is accelerating and should emit electromagnetic waves.
But from the equivalence principle, I think, it should not.
Does anybody know the answer?
I couldn't prove the first one but i tried to find the period
F = -dU / dx
= - d( U0tan^2( x / a ) ) / dx
= - U0 ( ( 2 sec^2( x / a ) tan( x / a ) / a )
with F=d^2x/dt^2, tan(x/a)=x/a we have
d^2x/dt^2 + U0 ( ( 2 sec^2( x / a ) ( x / a^2 ) =0
from there i don't know how to handle the...
Hi, I’m wondering if someone can help me understand this question. I can find a resultant force/vector when given an initial angle but I’m stuck here when the only information is the two magnitudes. I think I’m solving for the unknowns but a little lost on how or what equation I should be using...
I'm reading this article on Dark Matter and at some point the authors say '' if the LKP [Lightest Kalusa-Klein Particle] is to account for the observed quantity of dark matter, its mass [...] should lie in the range of 400 to 1200 GeV, well above any current experimental constraint.''
My...
The Lorentz's force acting on a charged particle perpendicularly "hitting" a magnetic field will be directed upwards, and generally directed towards the center of the circumference traveled by this particle, and so will cause a centripetal acceleration to keep it in a circular motion.
By...
I have the equation but I am unsure of what my r min would be. Is it the sum of the radii or the difference? I am also confused on what z1 would be. I am fairly sure z2 is the atomic number of Fe(26) but I am unsure of this as well.
Edit: I just read that z1 could be 2, is this correct?
In my book it has the following example,
A particle confined to the surface of a sphere is in the state
$$\Psi(\theta, \phi)= \Bigg\{^{N(\frac{\pi^2}{4}-\theta^2), \ 0 < \theta < \frac{\pi}{2}}_{0, \ \frac{\pi}{2} < \theta < \pi}$$
and they determined the normalization constant for ##N##...
How would an observer's particle horizon and coformal time be affected by her traveling at very near c (relative to the CMB), both in and opposite the direction of travel (ahead and behind)? Also, how would Hubble expansion be impacted in her frame of reference? (I apologize in advance for...
Taken into account the transverse nature of the wave, I deduce the particle must move of harmonic motion from maximum amplitude ##A## to negative maximum amplitude ##-A##.
The period ##T=\frac{1}{f}## is equal to the time in which a particle travels a distance ##d=3\cdot A##. I then approximated...
Hi, I'm trying to prove a wave equation of particle in a box situation.
In many solutions, they used a equation like Eq = Asin(kx)+Bcos(kx).
Instead, I want to prove using Eq = Aexp(ikx) + Bexp(-ikx).
So, this is my solution.
However, the original (well-known) solution is without i. (psi =...
Here are the results from the python code:
Odd results:
Even results:
I tried to solve for energy using the equation:
I substituted the value for a as 4, as in the code the limit goes from -a to a, rather then 0 to a, and hence in the code a = 2, but for the equation it would equal to 4...
Open question: Can we be sure that a quantum model double slit doesn't create a carrier interference pattern around the slits, in the fields, already there? Relativity is such a big deal in physics but so many models only consider seemingly weird quantum particles going through normal classical...
Some background, I am an undergraduate electrical engineering student with a knack for physics. I plan to attend graduate school for physics but for the meanwhile I've only taken an undergraduate course in QM mechanics, which used griffith's book, and a modern physics course, which covered some...
This problem really confused me, since I can't get the link between particles emitted(alpha and beta, but which are the differences between those?) and changes in mass and atomic number of the isotope.
For this one, I can't really show you my attempt since there ain't one...
Starting with finding the probability of getting one of the states will make finding the other trivial, as the sum of their probabilities would be 1.
Some confusion came because I never represented the states ##|\pm \textbf{z}\rangle## as a superposition of other states, but I guess you would...
I just realized I'm having a problem in understanding this.
So let's take an example the CMB is around 160 Ghz and the blackbody temperature within this frequency range is 2.7K which is rather cold as it is close to absolute zero.
Then let's take another example, Iter plasma will achieve about...
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Instead of just describing my procedure and all my derivations, I really just want to ask if my approach makes sense (actually I have 2 options) to calculate the maximum energy. I am considering c=1 and the problem suggests to consider the neutrino massless:
For the first decay, ##Z...
At first I take the uniformly distributed charge and then divide it by the area of the carpet to get the surface charge density σ
-10E-6 C / 8m^2 = σ = -1.25E-6C/m^2
Then I divide the surface charge density by 2e0 to get the electric field strength caused by the infinite plane...
It was a long time ago I did these kind of problems so I’m a bit rusty. The only thing I can think of is divide it up to two parts one x and one y.
In y the acceleration is sin(a)*9.82? Then put that in the equation and solve for t.
In x the there is no acceleration so the formula is x=V0*t, I...
qvB=mv^2/R
R=mv/qB= p/qB !
As you can see, the difference between this relation and the relation in question is in 'c'.
Maybe my way is wrong. Maybe I should get help from relativity because the speed of light is involved here.
Please help. Thankful
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In the book, "Why does E= mc2" by Cox and Forshaw, while discussing time dilation, the example of a muon is given. The authors explain that muons when circulated in the 14 m diameter AGS facility at Brookhaven at 99.94% of the speed of light, its lifetime is increased from the value of 2.2...
Can anyone give a layperson guide to what the curvaton is ? There is a description of it in wikipedia. but It is not clear from the article why it was postulated. Is there any independent reasons for thinking this curvaton field exists other that to generate the right type of spectrum for...