When I studied special relativity for the first time, I encountered the exemple
of a infinite neutral wire in the laboratory frame of reference, R, through which a constant
current is running. In this frame of reference, the electrons in the wire are moving
with a velocity +v and the ions...
What is the result of the following experiment?
We put an amount of water in a uniform electrostatic field. We get a polarisation.
Keeping the polarizing field, we cool rapidly the water until it became solid.
We turn off the polarizing field.
Do we obtain a permanently polarized piece of...
Starting from a gas state and reaching the liquid state by getting around the critical point in a p-T phase diagram, what happens (qualitatively) to the molecules (or atoms)? Does a fraction of them start to form bonds?
This concept of "indistinguishable" liquid and gas is new to me.