« first day (942 days earlier)      last day (4284 days later) » 

02:43
0
Q: What to do with unused, misspelled, or off-subject tags

fffredWhen a tag has no questions related, or misspelled, or is not about physics, what can we do about it? Is there a way to flag it? Or to ask for deletion? Examples: mechancis, quant-ph

03:31
@Dilaton the first question you linked too was closed as too localized but in my opinion the issue is that it's too general and non-specific. If the user (or some other user) edited the question to ask a more specific question I think reopening would be a good idea.
04:02
Is it true that $\Sigma (r \times F) = r \times \Sigma F$ ?
Nevermind, it's false.
(to be more specific, it's not necessarily true. It's true only in specific cases.)
 
4 hours later…
08:18
0
Q: how to write delta symbol in a question

shiladitya basuwell I am having this problem while trying to write delta symbol in the question box. I have tries using two $ signs and delta between them. but nothing happened. Please help.

 
2 hours later…
09:54
@BrandonEnright no, David Zaslavsky closed the first question, because the OP asked for a reference. I have edited this out and reformulated the question to enhance the physics he is interested in, and now this question should really be ok. Manishearth and even some SE team members suggested to me to edit reference requests such that they are more focused on the physics. This is what I am now doing among other things. But it does not work at all :-(((. Not a single question gets reopend!
It looks like such non-basic questions are no longer ok here, but questions from people who have no clue about physics themself, who dont even know what velocity is for example and ask about it, are obviously ok and welcome since my flag saying the "what is velocity"question is too localized was declined and the thing is still open...
 
3 hours later…
13:19
Starting the college quest for me..... Anyone suggest good enough stream and college(considerably IIT ) I should take?? According to FIITJEE predictor I'll get about AIR350 with around 228 marks in JEE Adv.
I don't know how reliable is that predictor , but still It should not par 500 in that case too, I think their guess is not too fake.....
 
3 hours later…
16:13
Does anybody know of this Physics simulation program that I stumbled on a while back? I think it was called something like 'Unity'. Not to be confused with Unity3d.
Nevermind. I think it was Algodoo.
 
1 hour later…
17:25
Hi
Hi @DantheMan @Kortuk
18:16
@RajeshD How are you doing?
fine thank you
are you into QM
@RajeshD Sorry, no. I am interested in the site but I have not taken more then applied QM classes.
ok
I was just wanting know about what is an observable and measurement, basic definitions
@RajeshD generally the best basic definitions come from experts who truly understand them.
yes
agree
18:19
@RajeshD Sorry, IE. I should not try.
In physics, particularly in quantum physics, a system observable is a measurable operator, or gauge, where the property of the system state can be determined by some sequence of physical operations. For example, these operations might involve submitting the system to various electromagnetic fields and eventually reading a value off some gauge. In systems governed by classical mechanics, any experimentally observable value can be shown to be given by a real-valued function on the set of all possible system states. Physically meaningful observables must also satisfy transformation la...
The framework of quantum mechanics requires a careful definition of measurement. The issue of measurement lies at the heart of the problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, for which there is currently no consensus. Measurement from a practical point of view Measurement is viewed in different ways in the many interpretations of quantum mechanics; however, despite the considerable philosophical differences, they almost universally agree on the practical question of what results from a routine quantum-physics laboratory measurement. To describe this, a simple framework to use i...
19:26
0
Q: schrodinger or schroedinger tags: please standardize

GuggWhat applies to Gödel,1 may also apply to two Schrödinger tags: schrodinger-equation and non-linear-schrodinger. The third one, schroedingers-cat, being "right" already. So, whatever you may think of the umlaut, as it is now, it is being used inconsistently. This would be a good use case for a t...

@Gugg Thanks for the references. What I don't understand is why is a measurement denoted as an operator and why is the observable result always an eigen value of the operator. Is there any example of such operators which are used to make meaningful measurements.
20:02
-1
Q: gauss-law or gausss-law tag?

GuggApparently, it's Gauss's law, not (the) Gauss Law. I'm relying on Wikipedia here (and elsewhere), which sticks adamantly to the former. Please correct me in a comment if I'm wrong. I think that to be consistent with all other such tags, e.g., coulombs-law, greens-functions, machs-principle, ferm...

@RajeshD You're welcome. Not sure if I follow.
I mean, What I'd like to know is why is quatum measurement is associated with a linear operator and the measured value is always a eigen vaalue of the operator? What is the basic funda behind this?
@Gugg
@RajeshD I'm not a specialist, but... Suppose you create a pair of particles. Upon measurement of the spin of one of them it will turn out to have definite spin then. It cannot stay in superposition upon measurement.

« first day (942 days earlier)      last day (4284 days later) »