Want to review a few that aren't in the queue? They've been taken out by bad reviews (because one's clearly not a physics question and the other's a duplicate that wasn't discovered until 4th vote but 3 have said keep open)
@KyleKanos Agreed, but I've never closed something like that (at least not for questions which are only separated by a day), as I personally feel bad about it, because we have a choice - we can edit the present question to a better form and close the new one (well, we should actually be encouraging the OP if he has some logic about what he's asking but can't express it clearly)
No, I'm just suggesting that it's probably a bad idea to close it as a dup. of something very new (I mean, the difference is only a day)
@KyleKanos Consider this situation: an OP who's got pretty bad English (but a wonderful logic) and someone who's got nicer English (but nothing much inside). If the second guy looks at our system and finds that we're closing poorly-worded questions just because the new one seems better, then he could simply repost the old question with properly chosen words (in an attractive manner) and we'll just close the old one as a dup. of the nicer one. I don't think that's the right way.
Consider a two-sided coin. If I flip it $1000$ times and it lands heads up for each flip, what is the probability that the coin is unfair, and how do we quantify that if it is unfair?
Furthermore, would it still be considered unfair for $50$ straight heads? $20$? $7$?
@Waffle'sCrazyPeanut Mods can grant exceptional chat access to users who don't have enough rep, I think. (at least that's what DavidZ clarified to me a week ago)
With zero torque the angular momentum of the body, as seen from the outside, must remain constant in direction and magnitude according to the general principle of conservation of angular momentum. With resepect to rotating axes fixed in the body, however, the direction of the angular momentum vector may change, altough its magnitude must remain constant.
I don't see first of all why this follows from conservation of angular momentum
I see that this will follow first of all since L is constant by direct integration
So I am currently reading fowless and cassidy there is something I am kinda of confused about in the section about geometric description of free rotation of a rigid body. I will present the stuff first that I am confused about and then I will ask my question.
First of all from the following we h...
I've had a number of discussions with individuals about electromagnetism. A recurring issue concerns the distinction between field and force, and seems to be associated with the lack of unification in contemporary teaching. As we all know, Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism a hundred and f...
Why doesn't current induced by changes in flux affect the flux, while current induced by a battery does?
Because electromagnetism features a "screw" mechanism. Take a look at Minkowski’s Space and Time:
"In the description of the field caused by the electron itself, then it will appear that th...
According to relativity, If magnetic field is just an electric field viewed from a different frame of reference...
Relativity doesn't quite say this. Take a look at Minkowski's Space and Time: "In the description of the field caused by the electron itself, then it will appear that the division o...
Now, from Coulomb's Law we can find a vector for the electric field due to this electron at all points in this space.
When you read about Coulomb's law, you can see that it describes the force between two charged particles. When you set them down such that they have no initial relative motion, ...
How can really a field exert force on the charges that created the field?
See section 11.10 of Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics where he says "one should properly speak of the electromagnetic field Fμν rather than E or B separately". Now think of a single electron, just sitting there in space...
How are electrons responsible for magnetic field around a wire?
Via the "screw" nature of electromagnetism. Minkowski referred to this in Space and Time, as did Maxwell in On Physical Lines of Force: "a motion of translation along an axis cannot produce a rotation about that axis unless it meets...
I am having some conceptual difficulties with energy and momentum stored in the EM field.
Maybe that's because there's some conflation between field and force. See Minkowski's Space and Time:
"In the description of the field caused by the electron itself, then it will appear that the division o...
Because at the fundamental level, there is no induced field. EMF is electromotive force.
To understand this, simplify the situation down to a single electron. It has an electromagnetic field. If however you were a charged particle with no initial relative motion with respect to the electron, yo...
I can transfer OSX -> Win internally because OSX recognizes the Windows partition. For Win -> OSX I have to put the files on a thumbdrive and manually download them on the other end.
@0celo7 I don't believe anyone has Windows booting in 30s to functional. Sure you get the GUI up, but it'll be doing plenty of stuff in the background for ages. For me the biggest issue is closing all my windows and currently ongoing work, background SSH connections, connectivity to other externals and whatnot.
You should be able to download software to make Windows recognize other filesystems. When I still used to use Windows 10 years or so ago at least you could download an ext2 plugin.
Windows XP, or whatever was available 10 years ago.
Windows 10 has been available for a long time, though, you can download the beta for free from Microsoft. That's the only Windows image I have (to use with VMs) right now.
Well, you'll have the real deal later this month. But anyway, even older Windows versions should be able to handle other filesystems besides Microsoft ones if you download the relevant software.
Apropos the discussion of boot times above, I had need recently to boot a laptop from a live CD/DVD. The first couple of live linuxen I tried were every bit a slow and horrible as I recalled such things being.
@ACuriousMind : Ah, that editor. He wrote in a now deleted comment:
@Qmechanic My mistake. Given the answers I thought it would be best to add this tag (as the question only be tagged energy seemed wrong). I was surprised there was no "*philosophy*"-tag and created it without checking meta first. Shall I add a question to meta regarding the future of the tag? (In my opinion a philosophy tag with the right scope can be beneficial and on-topic for this site). — Sebastian RieseJun 1 at 6:45
All (human-readable) dates are between Mar 08 2012 and Mar 22 2012. The first few of the non-readable format are 40983.91072, 40983.95396, 40983.94837, 40983.90378, 40983.87797
But there's no other reference to the human readable form :(
@JiK Yes, but I would imagine VMWare to support this as well. It's not like the technology is in any way obscure.
That said, it might require an extra bit of tinkering, as you may need two GPUs really to work that out if the OS does not support releasing them on the fly.
In his biography of Einstein, Carl Seelig reports: "Einstein later laughingly recounted that his dissertation was first returned by Kleiner with the comment that it was too short. After he had added a single sentence, it was accepted without further comment."
@KyleKanos is it possible that they refer to the unix time stamp? The number you have given above seem quite peculiar though if it is indeed the unix time stamp. It translates into Thu, 01 Jan 1970 11:23:03