Experiment Definition and 1000 Threads

Is there any way that I can find concentrations and then find the rate constant, k? And, using them, make an Arrhenius graph to find activation energy (including the catalyst)? Any help would be much appreciated. Change in pressure was found using a Vernier Gas Pressure Sensor. The starting...

I would like to conduct a thought experiment. If some form of medium exists, what would it be made of? What form would any constituent parts take? Would those parts exhibit any properties? How would they function as a medium? What relation would the medium have with atoms and other particle...

Ok, so we know that if one were inside a donut-shaped spaceship that is rotating around it's axis, that the passengers will experience centripetal force. It seems obvious to say that the ship is rotating relative to the nearby stars and planets. So far, so good. But... what if we removed all...

Hello, My question concerns the (improbable but possible...?) results of the GBAR experiment at CERN which should resume in May 2021, according to my latest information. (delay due to Covid 19). Most scientists (and me too) believe that antimatter behaves the same as matter in a gravity field...

I keep seeing that it's assumed that photons interfere with each other, and there are other points of proof for this like destructive interference, etc., but I've never seen an experiment in which a constant beam is used but both slits are analyzed or the energy required for measurement is...

Imagine I hang a mass from the ceiling of a building using a rope. The mass is hanging 2m above the floor. Also tied "in line" with this rope, and between the weight and the ceiling, is a scale that measures the weight of the mass. Let's say the scale reads 10 Newtons. Now, between the...

Dear all, could you kindly recommend Physics Demo home kits (mechanics, Optics, Sound, Electricity/Magnetism) for secondary school level, to practice and learn at home? many thanks

How is the measurement of which path the particle took done for the double slit experiment? When electrons are being sent through the slit. Or when photons are being sent through the slit. Is it an active process or a passive process? I haven't seen an explanation for this and perhaps this...

Background: self-studying. Very confused. Here are some initial questions I have about the photoelectric experiment. Some more may pop up later. 1. The book says we know photons exist due to energy considerations (such as emission or absorption). They also say that this photon energy is...

I am a big fan of Ballentine's book on QM and was reading the discussions about the Ensemble Interpretation. Although, I am not an expert on these matters I reject the idea of the wave function collapse as a fundamental postulate of QM. Instead, I've come to the conclusion that we don't...

I arranged the masses in ascending order: 11.0 g 11.1 g 20.6 g 21.4 g 21.5 g 25.7 g 25.8 g 25.9 g 31.6 g 31.9 g I found the average mass of the marbles: 22.65 g I found the difference in masses of the marbles: 0.1 g 9.5 g 0.8 g 0.1 g 4.2 g 0.1 g 0.1 g 5.7 g 0.3 g I found the average of the...

Background --- Consider the following thought experiment in the setting of relativistic quantum mechanics (not QFT). I have a particle in superposition of the position basis: H | \psi \rangle = E | \psi \rangle Now I suddenly turn on an interaction potential H_{int} localized at r_o =...

Fermilab's E989 experiment is conducting the first precision measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (muon g-2) since the Brookhaven lab did so fifteen years ago. It is currently collecting Run-3 data for this experiment, and said that it would be releasing preliminary Run-1...

In a diffraction grating experiment, what can be the sources of error and also what effect do these sources have on the unknown quantity (wavelength) in the experiment?

Hi, I’m new here and I signed up to ask for some help with a physics problem. I’m not trained, nor am I receiving training, in physics. I’m a bachelor of Geoscience student halfway through my course. The problem I have is with understanding and testing the law of uniform motion (I think that’s...

Hi, Could you please help me with the queries below? Thanks in advance! Question 1: I was watching this video. Between 8:36 to 9:44 the following is said: "But only firing particle by single particle at this barrier with the 2 openings and by recording dot by single dot where each of those...

This is going to be controversial and might even be taken down, but I think what I will say is absolutely true, and I'm sorry if it offends people. I'm applying for the second time to condensed matter PhDs. I was in a group that did a lot of device fabrication as part of their experiments and...

mass: 1.57x10^-19 kg voltages: 400, 457, 384, 369, 400, 355, 369, 436, 384, 369 distance: 0.1m gravity: 9.81 m/s^2

I am not too sure how to approach this, initially I thought it may be more of a calculus and related rates of change problem, i.e. finding an expression how the volume and height of water change with respect fo time. I do not know whether this is the right idea or how to progress any further...

I am trying to understand a thought experiment I just posed, which is: if an observer is traveling near the speed of light, and sends out two photons; one in the direction of travel and one in the opposite direction, how does general relativity account for time dilation? The photon "in front"...

I'm trying to think of a how the double slit experiment can detect a photon without interacting with it in theory. In principal (not reality of course) does a photon have a gravitational signature which could be used to detect which slit it traveled through during the double slit experiment...

In the diagrams illustrating the double-slit experiment, I see waves extending longitudinally towards the the metal sheet. What if the waves were modeled differently so that they extended transversely in the diagrams? I've got the feeling that this can say something different.

Hello, Its been a while since I'm trying to understand the concept of the pilot wave theory and it's relation with the deBroglie wave. What is the fundamental difference between the two? My confusion comes from the double slit experiment. The velocity of the deBroglie wave is c^2/v so I...

With the double slit, experiment we show the double nature of light and matter as wave and particle. In particular, the so called "which way" thought experiment illustrate the complementary principle. In my book, this experiment is analyzed putting a series of particles in front of one of the...

For Example: Trial 1: 5.36 ± 0.03 Trial 2: 5.42 ± 0.04 Trial 3: 5.35 ± 0.01 Trial 4: 5.38 ± 0.03 Trial 5: 5.45 ± 0.02 What I did was take the average of the best estimates and the uncertainties. Best Value 5.39 ± 0.03 (0.03+0.04+0.01+0.03+0.02)/5=0.026=0.03

hi guys i saw this experiment in an old book that uses the gas vacuum tube "thyratron" for determining the hydrogen ionization energy , the idea i guess is straight forward : we set the filament current to a specific value then the electrons starts to emit from the cathode traveling its way to...

Hello! When I google about the CMS magnet I see that there is a 4 T magnet. However in the diagrams with muons, like this one, it seems to be another 2 T magnet beyond that. Where is that placed exactly. I assume it doesn't go around the whole detector, as that would affect the central region...

Summary:: Not sure how to My question is what is h2o , because ts is for example : 48,25 and what is ps . Is h20 the 0,99708? 48,25

Consider the following experiment: we have an open bottle, with a hole where we put a straw. We burn the outer side of the straw. We see smoke ascending outside and descending inside. Why is that? I would say the smoke has lower density than air outside, that's why it goes up. Inside the bottle...

Consider the following experiment. 2 coins are put in the position shown above, with a match above them. A boy scrubs a balloon on his hair and takes the balloon near the match. The match follow the balloon. The balloon will be electrified by friction, and it will induce opposite charges in...

I'm having trouble coming up with a experiment to investigate for my IB Extended Essay as well as formulating my research question. Does anyone have any recommendations on similar (in terms of classical physics & abundance of background theory) physics experiments that can be done?

Total acceleration equaled = -9.81

I have met statements that Stern-Gerlach experiment can be seen as idealization of quantum measurement: we start with random direction of spin (continuous), end with parallel or anti-parallel alignment (discrete). Is it a proper analogy/idealization of measurement? How to characterize the...

I read in the article in Quanta magazine about an experiment with oil droplets that dooms Bohmian Mechanics, but I didn't understand why. Does anyone knows this experiment and why it dooms Bohmian Mechanics? The article is in the link...

Quantum mechanics has argued for years that space is not a vacuum. Arguments attempting to brush aside quantum mechanics vacuum theory claiming, it's 'just a quantum mathematical theory' can now put to rest. In this article, laboratory experimentation demonstrates that the Casimir Effect can...

I have been thinking about the Violation of bell inequalities , trying to justify how non locality can be determined from violation of bell tests. I have been through Dr. Chinese page which has partially convinced me that there can be no hidden variables , but I need to understand what...

If you take copper wire and wrap it tightly around a bolt will that alone create and hold a magnetic field? I add an image for clarification

i recently read about the stern-gerlach experiment and found out that they did it in the first place to verify the principle of the "space quantization " introduced by Bohr , and they thought they did detect the quantization of the orbital angular momentum of ( L = 1 , m = 1,-1 ) neglecting the...

I'll like to know if the 1964 Bertozzi experiment was repeated by others.

How did you find PF?: A quick Google search of Physics forum gave me a link to this site. I have a good background in science (BSC Mathematics), but not specifically in Quantum theory. That happened after I left University. I have read lots, know a fair bit but wouldn't dare to claim I...

I am looking to this picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#Double-slit_experiment it seems that fringes only appear on a screen when it is not too close to the fringes. and that the electron near the screen would give a pattern as when the path is known. Is it right?

Question 1. i Suggest a reason why any uncertainty in the values of u can be neglected. I am really rather unsure how to answer this question but I have produced my opinion nonetheless. One could assume that the uncertainty in object distance u, i.e., the distance from the lens to the light...

##\frac{1}{f}=\frac{1}{u}+\frac{1}{v}## ##f = \frac{u.v}{u+v}## Let: u + v = w → w = 250 mm ± 8 mm Percentage uncertainy of v = (3/50) . 100% = 6% Percentage uncertainty of u = (5/200) . 100%=2.5% Percentage uncertainty of w = (8/250) . 100% = 3.2% Percentage uncertainty of f = 6 % + 2.5 %...

In the original experiment a photon 45 degrees polarized goes through two beamsplitters and comes out 45 degrees polarized and if you measure the individual path, you measure vertical or horizontal. I was just wondering, has the experiment below (or something simular) ever been done? Do we...

Here is the article: https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/21_august_2020/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1611119#articleId1611119 If 2 experimenters (or people) cannot agree on a single observation does this mean that science which depends on many observers agreeing on...

If the two slit experiment is performed with one slit half the width -- or 1% or 0.1% the width -- of the other, how is the interference pattern affected.

If Evangelista Torricelli truly created a vacuum, then there would be nothing in it, yet you can see through it which means light is obviously still in there (and who knows what else), right? If there was truly nothing in it, and glass is a highly viscous fluid, and fluids conform to fill empty...

suppose suddenly the sun disappears at a time t. at this arbitrary time t, the Earth should fling off tangentially to the point in its orbit at time t as there is no centripetal force keeping it in orbit. we know light takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth. so will humans on Earth experience...

I was conducting an experiment with a tone generator (330 Hz) in boxes of different sizes with a glass plate placed on top of the box. There is a receiver about .55 meters away. Without any interference, the receiver registered -41 db +/- 1 db. When the tone generator is placed in the box and...