Classical Physics

I am wondering if a Gyroscope if built as tall as Mount Everest and also is able to be spun like a small Gyroscope can, will it function the same as a small Gyroscope will it balance in the air like a Gyroscope? What happens if you keep building it bigger and bigger?

Does a polarized lazer source produce fringes in the double slit experiment?

can i put a capillary pump like the illustration? my home is far from the farm.

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The air parcel expands as it rises and this expansion, or work, causes the temperature of the air parcel to decrease. Imagine that parcels of dry air go up inside the pipe that goes vertically from 0 to 5000 meters. Suppose that they go up because they are slightly warmer that the air outside. Situation 1 The pipe internal diameter grows from bottom to the top so the area of cross-section grows proportionally to the decline of pressure outside. In this case the speed of parcels is constant along the pipe. The parcels expand sideways. Which mechanical work will they do and will their temperature decrease ? Situation 2 The pipe internal diamete…

To describe the device more easily, the drawing shows the plates as if they were transparent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To avoid complications, let's suppose ideal conditions. - Insulating cylindrical tube. - Rigid plates of conductive metal, with negligible mass. To simplify, we will assume that the mass of each plate is equal to zero. - Equal and opposite charges in the plates. - The only thing that keeps the plates attached to the ends of the tube is the electric force of the capacitor. - Both ends of the tube are sealed by the plates. - An ideal gas has been injected into the tube, unt…

We did an experiment in Lab with a Pascal Timer and a Free Fall device with one small sphere and one larger. I was wondering how mass could influence the results calculated using the accepted value of Earths acceleration in our area. Would the mass of the spheres affect the acceleration? I know that all of this has to do with Newton's second law. I just need help understanding this.

Fermat found that light in its propagation, reflection and refraction follows the trajectory with the least time, that could be expresed as a proto-action S* (not defined by Fermat) S* := Integral[(1/v).dl] S* = (1/c).Integral[(c/v).dl = (1/c).Integral[n.dl] = (1/c).Lo Where Lo is the optical path, so minimizing S* is equivalent to minimize Lo, besides … S* = Integral[(1/v).(dl/dt).dt] = Integral[dt] So minimizing S* is equivalent to minimize the time used in the trajectory. On the other hand, originally, Maupertuis indentified the action for light as S = Integral[v.dl] How it can be reconciled?, being S* # S, is this an er…

Do gravitational force and escape velocity have a direct and constant relationship, specifically is the gravitational force at the schwarzild radius the same for any body? If so what is it?

Ok so I remember asking this a while back in speculation, however, I never got a response so I am posting it here because the reason why I posted in speculation was that I did not think it was fully physics related. So my question is again, are our models of reality based on probability because we cannot observe the universe at certain scales due the things that we need to observe messing up measurements like light and atom particles. Or is it the other way around? Being that we cannot observe things at such small scales because of the probability and uncertainty of the universe as a whole?

Hello everyone! Hope this isn't a silly question, or misplaced, but this is my first post, so please excuse me! Say you are compressing two spheres. The only difference between them being their volume. Would one (ideally, at least) expect the force required to compress the material to have a linear relationship with the volume? Thanks, in advance!

I have a question, does air molecules move the same way water molecules do. So I vape and when I exhale I watch how the concentration of the vape cloud moves. I feel like it moves the exact same way the water molecules move if you dyed water and pour it into a clear thing of water.

Hi. First of all I beg to be apologized, in case of creating the thread in the wrong section. Maybe you can help in a question that causes me doubts. - Ideal conditions, all theoretical, as simple as possible, mental experiment, everything happens in a vacuum. - Device formed by an electrically charged spherical body and a radiation detector, rigidly connected by an insulating connection. - Fixed to the planet there is another radiation detector. - Condition A: Initially the device is at a distance from the ground and there is no relative movement between the device and the planet. - Condition B: The device is in free fall towards the planet. …

I watched a short video where it said most simple it is when a magnetic field effects the flow of electrons and makes it more charged on side than the other producing a voltage. He explained that there a various types of hall effects but this one was most simple one to explain. Please explain for a layman.

At what rate does escape velocity diminish?

Hi there, my physics is a bit rusty but here goes: Object A is attached to an axis of rotation, such that if you apply force to it (e.g. a punch), it spins around the pivout / axis that it is attached to. Example: imagine it is a roundabout in a kids' play area. Give it a push, and it turns about its axis. Ok, so imagine Object B strikes Object A at 90 degrees to the radius connecting Object A to the axis. What is the momentum and the velocity of Object A by the time it travels 90 degrees of arc around its pivotal axis? Has Object A done work by the time it travels 90 degrees of arc? A mathematical expression would be fine, …

Would a box made of this enhance an external magnetic field? https://peswiki.com/powerpedia:antimagnet

Also how accurate was the experiment?

In another thread a forum member linked to a video that displays the behaviour of smoke in a vacuum chamber*. I had some off topic doubts about the setup and the displayed effect and I wish to discuss** in a fresh thread. Focus is on a scientific explanation of the generic case rather than possible errors, cheats etc in one specific movie. Situation: We have a commercially available vacuum chamber*** operating as specified. The vacuum pump has created the best vacuum it can. Inside the chamber there are small items capable of generating smoke (matches, a piece of fuse etc) without requiring oxygen. In all cases the smoke seems to settle in the bottom of the chamber. …

Below attached is how Fresnel approximate the eponymous "Fresnel Integral". What are the values for q, p and a with which he compute the integral table?

I understand it has been said that light does not require a medium to propagate . However I have also come across the idea that it propagates as a disturbance in the em field. Are these two interpretations complimentary or is there any contradiction between them ?(apart from possibly semantic) Can the em field be condsdered a medium of any kind or is it simply an ordered set of measurements?

So a object gains mass when in motion, and the gravitational pull of a object is based on its mass.....so I am curious as to how fast must we spin a solid metal disk (say it weight is 500 pounds) before its mass increases enough to a point in which its gravitational pull matches the earths pull of gravity perfectly? I am imagining this disk being stationed above a room, in theory, if we can spin it fast enough, then it should be possible for its gravity to cancel out earths gravity, thus, we would just float around in the space between the earth and this disk. so how fast does a 500 pound disk needs to spin to do this?....I am pretty sure its impossible to spin a disk fa…

Suppose one creates artificial gravity in a rotating space craft, is it possible to show that geometry aboard the craft has been curved? For instance if there were different decks representing different gravity levels and students (on different decks) were to be doing regular (Euclidean) geometry lessons on graph paper with gridlines that they had made themselves, would the otherwise identical drawings appear the same when they were compared side by side at a later date? Would it be possible to say ,by looking at the drawings on which deck the drawings had been made? Or would perhaps the drawings need to be animated for this to be possible?