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What is the Sun's affect on Earth's orbit
Sensei replied to Bluemoon's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
See thread where reactions on the Sun are described with more details http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/85656-solar-fusion-neutrinos-and-age-of-solar-system/ Every second Sun emits energy [latex]3.8651*10^{26} J [/latex] Multiply it by time, and divide by c^2, and you will have lost of mass caused by fusion. In 10,000 years it's 1.36*10^21 kg lost. Now include to it solar wind and coronal mass ejections. It's less than 1 per billion of Solar mass. -
6 years is ancient old..
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Relative, I have question. Did you ever see plasma in your life.. ?
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To check whether contamination is caused by salt you might simply run experiment with the same wires without any salt and leave it running overnight (because it will be going much slower).
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Metal electrodes that you used, or wires, dissolved.. Check volume of oxygen produced on positive electrode. It will tell much about reaction. You need f.e. gold metal electrodes to not produce oxides of metal on positive electrode. The most likely you used iron? Aluminum gives white gel full of bubbles Al(OH)3 (it can even float on water, when it's full of Hydrogen bubbles). Copper gives first aquamarine/turquoise Cu(OH)2 after a while it changes to dark color CuO + H2O (typically couple days) (once I had container full of nice aquamarine color Cu(OH)2, and accidentally while moving it hit other container, and within couple minutes it changed to dark color CuO) Iron gives yellow,red,brown color. Lot of salt will also change possible outcome.
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I win without computer algorithm.. Oh, no... you can continue playing.. Now I will be playing forever...
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Positive and negative - only words used to convey opposites?
Sensei replied to Sorcerer's topic in Classical Physics
Studiot, do you realize that AC on the 1st circuit won't be equal to 2nd circuit? They will be shifted 180 degrees in phase (like sin(t) and -sin(t)). -
Nucleus which has the same quantity of protons, but different mass (because it has different quantity of neutrons), is called isotope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope Answer whether chemical properties are the same, depends on which element isotope you have in mind. for instance drinking exclusively heavy water D2O causes death of the most of mammals within a week or so.
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It's kinda the same argumentation as with f.e. global warming.. Effects are after dozen years after event causing them, so it's easier to tell there is no evidence.. Isn't presence of cancer proof? Compare data of people before '45 and after '45.. or compare cancer presence in 3rd world countries and western.. Background radiation in USA, Russia, and other countries that performed nuclear weapon tests on their territory, are much higher than background radiation of 3rd world countries.. (image from background radiation wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation )
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See example uv photons. They have very few energy each. But they can cause skin cancer.
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No, it's not. There is needed info what is meant to be origin, normal amount of radiation. I can interpret it as "smaller amount than average Earth's background radiation". Radiation from radioactive isotopes we count in Becquerels (Bq), or Sieverts (Sv). It can't be smaller than 0 Bq. Bq per area, per volume, Sv per second, or per hour, per year etc. etc. Background radiation is higher value than 0 Bq. IMHO background radiation is also harmful, and causing cancers in long term (like 50 years), but you have to be unlucky. This process is random, this is what my 1st post was about in the first place. There are plans to use vertical DNA chains as particle detector: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/gold-dna-dark-matter/ When particle will be passing through DNA, they will be randomly cut. Now imagine ANY amount of radioactive isotopes (from natural abundant) doing the same in your cells for 50 years+.
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Positive and negative - only words used to convey opposites?
Sensei replied to Sorcerer's topic in Classical Physics
Imagine two vertical parallel wires. One wire made of Aluminum. 13 protons, and 14 neutrons per atom. Second wire made of Antimatter Aluminum. 13 antiprotons, 14 antineutrons per atom. Through first wire there are flowing electrons from "bottom" to "top". So current I is pointing from "top" to "bottom" (reverse to direction of electrons). Through second wire there are flowing positrons also from "bottom" to "top". What will be magnetic field lines created by these wires surrounding them, and detected by array of compasses around them.. ? Think about it. -
Did you? That question can be interpreted many different ways. Radiation can be non-ionizing (photons with small energies), or ionizing radiation (uv, x-rays, gamma rays photons, alpha, beta particles etc). OP didn't mention which one he has in mind (so I assumed he is interested in radiation caused by decay of radioactive isotopes). What does mean "too little radiation"? Less than background radiation? Or slightly more, but "small"? Does lack of non-ionizing radiation harmful? i.e. lack of light - check on Arctic..
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If you're unlucky. Yes. Some particle emitted by radioactive isotope can pass through your cells, causing ionization, and damaging cell's DNA in such way it'll become cancer. Then it'll be spreading damage to the next generation of cell and cancer will grow with time. Eating food containing unstable isotopes with short half-lives is dangerous as you introduce these atoms to become part of your cells. Breathing gaseous unstable isotopes might end up with lung cancer. Too much radiation, caused by nuclear weapon, or nuclear reactor, and so much cells will be damaged at the same time that whole organism will be malfunctioning, and death will be sudden and painful.
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Correct. Electrostatic force depends on distance from particular particle. If charged particles are not evenly distributed, one can dominate in particular direction. See example water. It can be attracted by external electric field, because on Oxygen there is negative charge, and on Hydrogen there is positive charge. They don't cancel each other to outside environment. Electrostatic forces keep molecules together. Do you mean radioactive decay? Radioactive decay, except electron capture, has nothing to do with electron's cloud. Decay happens in nucleus, far away from electrons. That is subject for completely different thread though.
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Positive and negative - only words used to convey opposites?
Sensei replied to Sorcerer's topic in Classical Physics
Electrons and other negative particles (f.e. pion-, muon-, antiproton) are turning in one direction in magnetic field, while positive particles (proton, alpha, positron, pion+, muon+ etc.) are turning in opposite direction in the same magnetic field. That's why we can tell what charges have these traces in particle detector chamber: Electrons move from negative electrode to positive electrode in external electric field, Positive particles move from positive electrode to negative electrode in the same external electric field. (negative electrode has abundance of electrons, while positive electrode has underflow of electrons) -
Neither one. Strong force is used to describe force that holds nucleus together. Weak force is used to explain radioactive decay of nucleus.
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When you log-in to your wifi router settings panel, don't you have option to see who is connecting to your wifi in Diagnostics?
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http://dclibrary.org/services/wifi (of course names appearing on the list will be different - it's your router wifi name that should be there, and you can configure in wifi router settings under what name it'll appear)
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It's electrostatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics
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Charged electroscope metal leafs have abundance of electrons i.e. more electrons than not charged metal. Electrons came from external source of electrons. If you have copper metal plate that has mass m, it has [latex]\frac{m}{m_{Cu}}[/latex] atoms. [latex]m_{Cu}=63.546 u = 1.05521*10^{-25} kg[/latex] mass of single Copper atom. (more info about mass atomic unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_mass_unit ) So 1 kg of Copper wire has: [latex]\frac{1 kg }{1.05521*10^{-25} kg}= 9.48*10^{24}[/latex] atoms. and [latex]9.48*10^{24}*29=2.748*10^{26}[/latex] electrons (when it's not charged). They are bound to atoms.
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Even a lot of electrons. Aluminum has 13 electrons per atom, Iron has 26 electrons per atom, and Copper has 29 electrons per atom. But majority of them don't participate in flow of current through metal.
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What is model name? The all wifi routers I was playing with had WAN, WLAN diodes, and 4+ diodes for 4 inputs/outputs. They should blink while transferring data. Do you know how to log-in to your router through web browser? Did you ever do it? Does wifi router appears in wireless neighborhood.. ?
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Nuclear reactor is application of quantum physics. Magnetic resonance imaging another application of quantum physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging 2nd and 3rd generation leptons and quarks and mesons are short living particles, that need tremendous amount of energy to create them in particle accelerator.
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Electrons from outside source gather on electroscope metal leafs and they're repelling which can be seen and measured. You could have electroscope inside of vacuum tube and it will work fine. How to make electroscope video: