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Hello everyone!
Events in my current webnovel have reached the limit of confidence in my physics reasoning, so I'm here to ask for confirmation of my estimates of what would happen from experimentation with force fields. While the setting is fantasy/magic based rather than superscience, I still want to maintain as much realism as I can.
Tools currently in use:
WolframAlpha Ideal Gas Law
Aqua-Calc volumes to weight conversions
Current questions:
1) Assuming a force field of
how would this object react to an unsteady surface - specifically, resting on the deck of a docked sea ship?
How easily would it tip over? Since it contains an amount of air equal to what it displaces, I have the amateur impression that it would be very unstable.
What would happen as it fell over? My amateur impression, again, is that some of its radial downward momentum would be converted into forward gliding as it closely approached the deck, due to compression of the air beneath against said deck, while dragging its back bottom edge along that surface. Am I correct?
2) When calculating ideal gas law changes, does a decrease in the size of the volume not alter the original pressure constant within the container? That's what I think has been tripping me up when I try to calculate the temperature increase of the air inside when the main character shrinks one of these force fields.
3) More generally, how would a decrease in volume to 20% of the original force field affect the air inside it?
Any help will be gratefully appreciated!
Events in my current webnovel have reached the limit of confidence in my physics reasoning, so I'm here to ask for confirmation of my estimates of what would happen from experimentation with force fields. While the setting is fantasy/magic based rather than superscience, I still want to maintain as much realism as I can.
Tools currently in use:
WolframAlpha Ideal Gas Law
Aqua-Calc volumes to weight conversions
Current questions:
1) Assuming a force field of
- negligible material mass
- with dimensions of 1m x 4m x 9m, for 36 cubic meters volume (yes, a metric scaled 2001/Space Odyssesy Monolith)
- filled with room temperature air at 1 atmosphere, thereby
- massing/weighing 46.54 kg -
how would this object react to an unsteady surface - specifically, resting on the deck of a docked sea ship?
How easily would it tip over? Since it contains an amount of air equal to what it displaces, I have the amateur impression that it would be very unstable.
What would happen as it fell over? My amateur impression, again, is that some of its radial downward momentum would be converted into forward gliding as it closely approached the deck, due to compression of the air beneath against said deck, while dragging its back bottom edge along that surface. Am I correct?
2) When calculating ideal gas law changes, does a decrease in the size of the volume not alter the original pressure constant within the container? That's what I think has been tripping me up when I try to calculate the temperature increase of the air inside when the main character shrinks one of these force fields.
3) More generally, how would a decrease in volume to 20% of the original force field affect the air inside it?
Any help will be gratefully appreciated!