Recent content by lennon

Hi, I was watching a tv show and I found an optical phenomenon that puzzled me. I´d say it´s related with the bokeh produced in the out of focus range, but I still can´t figure it out. I guess what makes it so weird is that the effect happens in relation with an object in the foreground (infront...

Well, thanks for pointing all this out, seems that there´s much more than I can chew. I´m just often not confortable with all that "trust me I´m a scientist" thing, (I´m sure you know the feeling). I thought the spin didn´t affected the overall shape, that it only meant the particle needed to...

So would you say that I shouldn´t use this type of orbit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/HAtomOrbitals.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#Orbitals_table What would you recommend instead? You confuse me a moment when you said "CGI modeling": the display that you...

Well, you´re right in part: I´m no expert, I´am a visual artist. BUT I need very precise representations. For what I see in youtube, the program that you suggested doesn´t meet the requirements: it doesn´t show the sub-orbitals at all instead it shows this poor representation of atoms that flood...

I´m looking for a software that would allow me to test atom interaction acurretly in 3D, with public variables (i.e. customizable parameters) like the pressure and the temperature. I´m looking for something that takes into account S, P, D orbits with their real shape and the real numbers of...

Ok, I´ll try to examine all this a little bit further.

Question: Our society draws the X positive axis as going to the right. But this IS a human convention, isn´t it? If the convention were instead that the X positive axis would go to the left side of the origin then the torque force here would go into the opposite direction (and it wouldn´t match...

So, this is what I understand of your epxlanation

Well, if you explain this thing up to a level like the quoted one, I´d be glad enough. There must be something, generating the asymmetry. It seems to be the flowing current. Perhaps the electrons are also making a movement in this fashion, like some helix. There must be some reason, I don´t...

First let me say that I know that this is quite tiring and a little frustrating, and that I appreciate the answers DaleSpam My question was why one of the poles goes ALWAYS in one direction with respect to the current flow and not to the other you say you can explain why this happen with this...

I see. Both equations describe the realtionship between the current (J) and the magnetic field (B) -with Ampere´s law taking into consideration the permeability of air (μ0)-. I can also see the curl operator there (∇), which implies the crossproduct you were talking about (the crossproduct that...

As long as I know, if I were to place a bunch of magnets around a conductor at 90 degrees with a current passing through, I´d see the positive pole of each magnet pointing in the direction described by right hand rule. If I were to use my left hand with my thumb pointing to the current, my...

Well, the answers where pretty useful. Again, I wasn´t asking about the conventions at all but rather the property of nature and I don´t agree with the epistemological subject that was brought later (but that would be a different topic altogether). Thanks a lot for clarifying these points.

What I meant was "why is there a counter clock wise direction, and not a clockwise one?" Why should electrons favor a direction over the other.

It kind of makes me wonder: is there a known explanation for the counter clockwise direction stated in the right hand rule? (sorry I know that´s a different question)