Scale Definition and 759 Threads

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/weighing-buoyancy/So I was wondering if both the scales would show the same weight value? (the scales are marked black in the picture) The object on the left is a pyramid and the object on the right is a cube. They are both...

Hopefully this is in the right sub-forum. Anyway, we all know the Planck length placed a limit on how small something can be and still make physical sense. Is there a macro version of this? Is it possible that the universe/multiverse, or some other macro object, can only be so big before it...

In Morse & Feshbach (P512 - 514) they show how 10 different orthogonal coordinate systems (mentioned on this page) are derivable from the confocal ellipsoidal coordinate system $(\eta,\mu,\nu)$ by trivial little substitutions, derivable in the sense that we can get explicit expressions for our...

Homework Statement On a Temperature scale, the ice point is 25.6°I and the steam point is 155°I. If the temperature reads 66.6°I what is the equivalent in °C? The Attempt at a Solution 25.6°I = 0°C 155°I = 100°C 1°I = 5/647 of the interval between boiling and freezing. 1C° =...

I have performed a small experiment to obtain the VI characteristics of a semiconductor diode using ANALOG DISCOVERY circuit design kit. I have connected the arbitrary waveform generator (function generator) to a series combination of a 1N4007 diode and a 1 kilo ohm resistor. To obtain the...

Hi, Are Einstein's field equations without the cosmological constant scale invariant? If so does the addition of the cosmological constant break the scale invariance? John

Homework Statement Hello all, I saw a picture today of a physics problem which is really a head scratcher in my opinion. See the attached photo. You have two columns of water on a scale. In the left column, you have a ping pong ball, attached by a string to the bottom of the container...

I'm struggling to understand the implications and origins of the 2nd law. Entropy is such a slippery subject. Wikipedia has many many definitions of entropy. I've been studying Professor Susskind physics lectures, so I'm most interested in his favorite definition: that information is...

This is the first time I post anything here, so, if I am doing anything wrong about the rules (it is possible that I didn't correctly understand a topic or two), please let me know. This one is a somewhat classic problem of damping, and I can't understand the basic concepts, so I tried to do my...

Iron ball hanging from a scale and suspended... 1. Iron ball hanging from a scale and suspended in a glass of water filled to the rim, what happens to the reading of the scale, volume of water, and weight of the glass of water? 2. FB = weight of removed water by the ball 3. there's a FB...

Iron ball hanging from a scale and suspended... Iron ball hanging from a scale and suspended in a glass of water filled to the rim, what happens to the reading of the scale, volume of water, and weight of the glass of water? The attempt at a solution: there's an FB that's equal to the...

http://scaleofuniverse.com/ Have a play with it, you can mute the sound in the top right. It's such a cool app.

Hello everybody, I have a short question about the renormalization scale. For dimensional regularization we introduce a scale μ with mass dimension to preserve the correct mass-dimension for the coupling and so on so that it is independent of the value of d = 4-2ε. But why can that μ have any...

So, I was wondering if a conducting loop was placed in orbit around the Earth would it be able to generate a current?

Homework Statement If we multiply all of the design dimensions by a scaling factor f, it's volume and mass will be multiplied by f^3. (a) By what factor will its moment of inertia be multiplied? (b) And if a 1/48 scale model has a rotational kinetic energy of 2.5J, what will be the kinetic...

I have always understood Planck time as being the the smallest amount of time that has any physical significance and the Planck scale as being the region where space and time collapse on each other and all of our mathematics fail. Why are these seemingly magic numbers the end all be all of...

Meaning of "Scale" of an events/process in MonteCarlo Hi there I do have this question - I often hear that "this depends on the scale of the process" for example when it comes to match the matrix-elements with a parton-shower program (I am new to MonteCarlo world) so, what does "scale"...

Homework Statement Below is some values of the observed values of pressure P of a gas in a constant volume gas thermometer at an unknown temperature and at the triple point of water as the mass of the gas used is reduced. ##P_{TP}## (torr) | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 ##P## (torr)...

Hi, I volunteer for a small group who try and help the families who live in the rural parts of Sri-Lanka We have built and donated a large number of solar powered lanterns but during the rainy season (or even on cloudy days) we don't get enough sunshine for the lights to work for their...

Homework Statement A 65-kg woman descends in an elevator that briefly acclerates at 0.20g downward when leaving a floor. She stands on a scale that reads in kg. (a) During this acceleration, what is her weight and what does the scale read? Homework Equations ƩF = ma mg - Fn =...

In MS-bar scheme, the mass m is not the physical mass but runs with scale. The physical mass should however be constant. In that sense it seems you can't just regard mass as another coupling constant. Physical coupling constants must be defined at some scale, while the physical mass is...

The first stars formed when distances were 9% of their present size. The solar system began forming when distances were 70% of what they are now. Andromeda galaxy will make a first pass through Milkyway when they're 129% of present. Which do you find more meaningful and intuitive for...

Switch to scale factor "time" (universe its own clock) In a sense the universe is its own clock and the pointer-hand is the scalefactor, as in: "when distances were 0.1 what they are today" "when distances were 0.3 what they are today" "when distances were 0.9 what they are today" For some...

Gday all, ive been trying to find out why electrolysis isn't used / less feasible than RO in sea water desalination? The chemistry for NaCl electrolysis is well understood and thus works, so why is it not feasible/less feasible than say RO whereby we are essentially pumping water through a...

Hi. I have observed that Ryder in his book on QFT before doing dimensional regularization introduces a scale ##\mu## in order to keep the coupling constant dimensionless in the lagragnian. However in two other books; Weinberg and Peskin and Schroeder, they do not introduce this scale in the same...

Not sure if this is the right category but i need help. On a map of a school, 3 inches represents 9 feet. How many inches would represent 1 foot 6 inches?

Homework Statement I have to design a scale to weigh something under 1kg and all am given is a yard stick, 10 ft of fishing line, a 500g known standard mass, and a protractor. Use an angle measurement for weight. Don't just balance weights on a see-saw Homework Equations - The...

So the probabilistic studying of Quantum statistics of Böse-Einstein suggests that we permutate the number of objects (objects, are the blocks (Gi-1), and the particles in the boxes Ni) and divide those by Ni! And (Gi-1)! Because these particles are identical. But the case of Fermi-Dirac, where...

Wondering if anyone has developed a scaling heuristic for the relationship between size of accelerator and smallest size that can be probed with it. With so many data points, something ought to emerge, perhaps a modified power law. Adding a time axis could make a Moore's "law" projection for...

Just watching tweets come out of the conference, apparently there is a large scale anomaly that has come out of PLanck . One tweet says challenge to inflation, another says could be pre big bang physics. Obvioulsy I am just reading tweets, so not sure what's real yet. But this could be exciting...

Hello this is my first post, so if I am supposed to move this to another forum section please advise I would be happy to http://foryourwater.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/3_gallon_dispensing_water_bottle_lg.jpg As for my question, I am referencing the example of a water dispenser above, after...

Are there stringy candidates for reproducing the SM and dark matter etc without low scale supersymmetry?

Hi, I am trying to understand how electroplating works. With help of this wikipedia diagramm (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Copper_electroplating.svg/471px-Copper_electroplating.svg.png) I have already figured out (correct me if I am wrong) that it works something...

Homework Statement Harold has a mass of 72.2 kg, and is standing on a scale in an elevator cab. What will the scale read if the elevator is moving downwards at a constant 0.050 m/s?Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Since the scale has a normal force upward and Harold has an...

Just a quick question. When you are given two vectors, let's say 5m (E32N) and 6m (S23E) and we are to find the total displacement. Do you draw the first vector and then attach the second vector to do the head of the first vector? or have both vectors start a the origin.

So here is my problem: I'm very bad when using coordinates others than cartesian ones, and I know taking Mechanics of Lagrange and Hamilton and I fin difficult to find the velocities expressions in curvilinear coordinates. So here is my question: is there anyway to relate the scale factors...

Hi everyone, and thanks for reading my very first post in Physics Forums! I have been researching a way to construct a single person aircraft with vertical take-off and landing using a propulsion system similar to that of an RC-blimp. I found a video on youtube that illustrates the principle...

Part of my basic understanding of the holographic principal is that the amount information in a given area of space is less than the surface area that surrounds that region (measured in Planck units squared). The exception being that in the case of a black hole the information stored within an...

this is not actually for homework, I am no longer in school, this is for a small application I am trying to write that compares dimensions. However, I believe this is the appropriate spot to post after reading the rules. Homework Statement okay, so let's say you got a shape, for example a...

Please can someone tell me if my thinking here is right... I've got a planet with an atmospheric pressure at 6km of 0.5 P0 and at 8km of 0.4 P0 (P0 = pressure at the surface). I want to work out the scale height of the atmosphere. Given scale height = λ and for height above surface...

I was thinking about olbers paradox and how I could apply it to gravity. We assume that their are an infinite amount of planets and that they are all about the same mass or we will just pick a minimum mass. And we assume they are evenly distributed. So the gravitational field falls off...

If at very large scales of matter our intuitive logic fails to explain it (Black Holes) and at very small scales of matter untuition again fails (Quantum effects) then is there a connection between those two groups of phenomena?

This video puts forth the idea that an institution the size of the US (in terms of population) is unmanageable as a republic as the concept because a republic was designed for a smaller scale.

Just a thought experiment. Imagine you made scale models of the sun and the planets with the relational standard of measure being a sun the size of a basketball. Now assume that the sun and the planets were all built to scale with the appropriate diameters, densities and masses of the actual 8...

Hello, I am reading a paper in which the author describes how he scales the velocity profile of a car. He is doing this so that he can compare the velocity profiles of cars. This is an extract from the text: The first methodology consisted of evaluating the similarities between...

Homework Statement Show that by using the Friedmann-equation you can determine the scale factor for a Universe in it's early stages (starting with the Big Bang) to: Homework Equations The equation for the scale factor: Where r(t) is the distance from us to a given galaxy to the time t...

This paper - http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3816 - by Beckenstein is fascinating. I would like to know if the experimental test proposal is realistic.

This may seem like a really dumb question, but I can't figure out what the answer is, so please just bear with me. Why does a balance that is equal come out straight? If one side is tilted slightly lower than another, shouldn't it just stay that way since the masses are the same on either...

My math is a little weak, so I'm having a hard time finding the elastic and plastic regions on this curve. Any further help will also be appreciated!

I am unsure how bathroom scales work. Does your weight compress or depress the spring? Do scales measure the upward or downward force? Please explain in detail.