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Of course. This rule is designed to be used by a human, who can distinguish between a common speech and the content of an assignment, biology related in this case.
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Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Here is a conceptual explanation of the mechanics of this phenomenon: -
In the school that I've mentioned in the OP, the definition was simple and technical: four or more consecutive words without citation - plagiarism.
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Newton knew that his law of gravity is not final
Genady replied to Genady's topic in Classical Physics
"in GR, geometry is the field" is said repeatedly by Zee in "Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell" (I think, there.) -
Sorry @swansont , I don't understand. What I have in mind is, take 5 kg of water around me, convert it to 5 kg of something dense, and use this something dense as my diving weight.
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Back to physics now. Or, maybe, chemistry (?). Is it impossible to have a light something such that one turns it ON in the water and it converts, say, 5 l of water into 5 kg of a dense solid material? Is there a law prohibiting such thing?
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Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
This is just a question, How. On the other hand, maybe it was a Law professor ... -
Where I live and dive now I don't need a suit and thus don't have this problem. This is the best solution. Also allows to use smaller tanks for the same time under water. But it was an issue back in NE of USA.
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As a SCUBA diver, the one of the most irritating aspects of the activity for me is a need to carry weights when out of water. I've noticed that there are quite a few SCUBA divers here, they might agree. Is it possible to solve this problem, or it would be against the laws of physics?
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Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Quote: A UCLA professor bet $10,000 that the video was wrong, saying it broke the laws of physics. I wonder, which laws of physics it supposedly broke? -
Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
One more question (for now): Should it do it continuously as long as the wind is there? Or, it is OK if it moves in some "stop and go" manner? -
Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Perhaps the puzzle also requires the vehicle to be self-contained or autonomous in some way. Otherwise, it could have two parts: one converts the wind into, say, electricity, the other uses it to go wherever it wants. -
Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Oh, I didn't realize that it has to be straight in the wind direction. -
Brain teaser: travelling faster than the wind.
Genady replied to Arthur Smith's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Isn't it equivalent to travelling against the wind? Sailboats do it. -
Being an atheist, I wouldn't say, Thanks God for SFN. But I sure am glad it is here and a little bit sorry for not finding it sooner.
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Newton knew that his law of gravity is not final
Genady replied to Genady's topic in Classical Physics
I agree with everything @MigL says here, with two small additions: what I refer to as "propagation of the field" is an idealized situation of a change from zero field to non-zero field = from no-field to field = from flat to curved; this is perhaps semantics I don't know if the answer to GR is necessarily Quantum gravity -
Newton knew that his law of gravity is not final
Genady replied to Genady's topic in Classical Physics
Newton didn't ask for an explanation of gravity or for its fundamental underlying mechanism. My point is that we got the answer to what Sir Isaak asked for. The answer is GR. @Markus Hanke says, that GR is not final in its own right. Susskind, Zee, and other authors say that many, or most theoretical physicists think so. Just 150 years more, since 100 years have already passed ... @geordief says, that it is wrong to think of gravitational field as a physical object. I don't know what physical object means in this context. Are gravitational waves detected by LIGO "just a set of measurements in space and time" or a physical object? Didn't these waves mediate between those colliding stars and us? Gravitational field, "like any field" ( @geordief ), propagates with finite speed and carries energy. Doesn't this tell that it is (they all are) more than just a set of measurements in space and time? -
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Ahh, that problem... (my emphasis.)
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The entire Analysis vs. Synthesis topic in this lecture takes 2 minutes, between 21:00 and 23:00. You can jump straight there: Stanford Engineering Everywhere | EE261 - The Fourier Transform and its Applications | Lecture 1 - Previous Knowledge Recommended (Matlab)
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What problem?
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Now go ahead and listen what he says about this topic.
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I have already answered the point regarding the Fourier transform. Copying it here: The whole section about the Fourier transform. -- You don't like to call it a concept. Just cross it off my list of examples. It is not too dear to me. I will not reply any more to your questions about me, my knowledge, my education, etc. It is not your business, neither it is the purpose of the forums.
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And I apologize for that. Yes, I took the course. I know that it was the only thing the prof referred to in Lecture 1.