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Given that distance is path-dependent and displacement measures only the net change, how do we define speed?
I have seen speed defined as 1) distance over time, and 2) the magnitude of velocity. I recognize that these are two different things because distance is path-dependent while...
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In my physics textbook they discuss work done by ideal gas processes. The equation they give is Wgas = pΔV. I'm trying to figure it out if this is work done ON the gas by the surroundings, or work done BY the gas on surroundings.
From a previous chapter, they presented the...
Wow, interesting, thanks!
I think I should have re-phrased my original post; I was wondering if it's possible for a system to have an energy change WITHOUT a net force acting over a distance.
I actually don't have my own example of where that would be possible, I was just purely curious...
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I was wondering if it was possible to have energy without an associated force. More specifically, can there be an energy change in a system without a net force? From what I know, this SHOULD be impossible because energy is the integral of the work function which depends on force...
Hi, I have a simple semantics question.
I have been reading some literature that seems to consider RNA Primers as part of Okazaki fragments, but this should not be so because Okazaki Fragments by definition are just the DNA portions synthesized on the lagging strand. Any...