Recent content by Silverious

I'm just saying that if you have particular difficulty with math, you may want to switch to a field you may find more enjoyable and natural. Of course that's a stupid thing to say on a calculus forum...

I get that feeling once every week. If there's a physics problem or something I can't figure out, I feel like such a failure. But if I do figure something out on my own, it's the greatest feeling in the world. I guess it balances out. You just have to remember your self-worth, and if you do...

New Question: How about when they are reflected off a mirror? Does acceleration not occur then?

I don't know why but I just don't really buy it. There's got to be something else going on. Photons also have energy though. How is this effected by it's speed? And how does that effect vary as it moves between mediums?

I just wondered, that our view of how the universe is is ussually WRONG. We've made zero-viscosity fluids, materials with no electrical resistance, and just all together "non-sense" things. Is anyone willing to suggest then that there are materials that do not provide friction(when...

When a photon changes mediums it's speed wrt to c changes correct? So dv/dt = a (d as in delta). So how long does it take a photon to "pass through" one medium into another, and is this considered acceleration. Also if it doesn't "pass through" one medium to another(meaning it isn't like...

Maybe I should consider it more and post a more detailed question. I'll do that.

Does anyone know anything about perpendicular functions? I just kinda stumbled onto it thinking about perpendicular tanget lines. Could anyone shed light on the situation?

Well okay ignoring relativity. :/ should have put that in my original post.

Wouldn't it be weird to see the universe as a photon sees it? I mean, assuming that photons think they're traveling in a straight line(of course photons don't think!) and traveling at c the whole time, the world would look really strange. Pools would be a lot deeper, mirrors would be warped to...

Heh this remind me of a story my physics teacher in high school told me. He was heading to school one winter morning, and he had left 2 bottles of water in his truck over night. One was frozen, and the other one wasn't. I guess they were different brands(assuming). Anyways, one was purified...

So the fermions form basically cooper pairs and behave as bosons? If that's true, then are they bosons, or fermions when they condense?

I just finished reading a book by Nick Herbet called "Faster Than Light." In it he says that there are things in the universe that actually do travel faster than light. But most of these are either completely random, or completely monotonous. Meaning that we cannot encode them in order to...

Bosons' spin consists of interger numbers(1,2,3..) while fermions are of halves(1/2,3/2,5/2...). Also, I for one would like to know more about fermionic condensate. Anyone care to elaborate?

I was reading the lectures compiled in "Six not-so-easy pieces" by the great Feynman. He was trying to explain the curvature of space(and subsequently space-time) through varying temperatures on a hot plate. Much like the curve of a sphere. Anyways I'm going to assume most of your are familiar...