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Q: Is it possible to know where the Sun is just by looking at the Moon?

Viktor K.A nine year old child asked me if it is possible to know where the Sun is located just by looking at the Moon from the Earth. I said I don't know, that I only know that the lunar surface reflects the Sun's light in a mirror-like way. But I am curious, is it possible?

 
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Q: What is the criterion for oscillatory motion?

Agam SinghA ball bouncing (consider ideal elastic collisions) moves to and from about some point, but there is no equilibrium position. This motion sure is periodic... but is it oscillatory? What is the criterion for a periodic motion to be oscillatory? Consider another example... A body moves on $x$ axis ...

...it's perfectly standard
again, if you haven't seen this, probably you should not pretend to be able to help people asking for help with probability distributions
@ACuriousMind what do u mean
@RyderRude Obliv comes here asking for help with some confusion, and instead of letting people who understand the material clear that confusion, you flood the chat with guesses and vague half-truths, never once indicating that you don't really have any expertise in the area, either
@ACuriousMind i haven't said anything vague or half-truth
@ACuriousMind and i haven't seen what?
i have seen what nickbros gave in physics
@RyderRude the whole $E_{P(i)}$ bit above is not really how anyone would write this and you keep saying thinks like "you can derive this" without giving any useful pointers; all the useful formulae in this discussion came from nickbros
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@ACuriousMind i cant type formulas fast, which is why i haven't been writing them. but i did help Obliv with a few things
I beg you to consider that the people who ask questions here are usually looking for someone to clear their confusion, not to add to it
Like, instead of stuff like "I'm not sure what that theorem is called it is easy to prove" you could use the time you spent writing that looking up what it's called
i did help a bit before in the discussion
it's just useless information that you don't know the name but that you're sure it's easy to prove, who is this supposed to be useful for?
it was just two msgs. but i will only write helpful messages from now on
such promises had been given before.
16:03
please don't flood the starboard by starring an entire side of a conversation you agree with; pick one or two statements and leave it at that
please un-star this message. naturallyinconsistent is targeting me, as ways
starboard shouldn't be used to target other users
@RyderRude ACM removed a lot of stars, but left that one up.
@RyderRude If people agree with my criticism of you, that's not "targeting", not any more than I'm "targeting" you - and I'm telling you these things because you continue to behave in ways I think are detrimental to the chat room as a whole. Yes, you're not breaking any rules or doing anything that would usually lead to suspension,
but you are one of the most prolific posters here and you should take a bit more responsibility for the impression your messages evoke towards others, particularly newcomers
@ACuriousMind if the entire starboard is filled with these criticisms all the time, it is being used to target me
@nickbros123 the most general application is simply that you can do all proofs in the continuum - as long as they're valid for distributions (in the functional analysis sense) and not just functions, you then automatically prove everything for both the discrete and continuous case
16:20
And in no scenario does "I ought to change how I behave" a possible reading of the starboard.
@RyderRude well, yes, you're being "targeted" in the sense that you continue to do things worth criticizing and some people are rightly fed up with it; I advise you to perhaps focus more on not doing something worth criticizing every other day, then there would be nothing to star
also, talking about insulting others and bad behavior, naturallyinconsistent has engaged in that with at least 5 users
@RyderRude If you see other users behaving badly, feel free to tell them to stop or to flag it; this is not an excuse for your own behaviour
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Q: If the conducting wire isn't isolated (connected to battery)

عمر علي محمد الحسيني التلبانيIt is said that if a conducting wire is isolated charges will redistribute itself on the surface of the conductor i.e no internal $E$. what if the conducting wire is connected to a DC battery (do electrons still distribute themselves on the surface only?) Do we define relaxation time for isolat...

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just seperating the behavioral discussion from the more topical discussion in the h bar, we use the backup room too rarely anyway :P
sure, but why invite us here?
oh, sorry, I forgot about that - if a message of yours is moved to a room you get automatically invited to it :/
oh, ok. Would you also move the message speculating about stochastic processes?
it used to be funny when the h bar got too rowdy, a bunch of messages got moved to a room called "Trash" and then everyone involved got a message "You have been invited to Trash"
Is the h Bar still considered busy as of right now?
17:04
According to MWI?
The stars are very old here, almost like we are looking at different constellations, HA :)
 
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