Questions tagged [matter]
Use this tag for questions related to mass and any materials that have volume and the objects they constitute.
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Is charge an intrinsic property of matter? [duplicate]
Is charge an intrinsic property of all the particles that comprise matter or is it an intrinsic property limited to certain fundamental particles only??
Or the question can be revised as "Does ...
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What is the total mass-energy of baryonic matter?
From what I understand, conservation of energy does not apply to the total energy of the Universe, because it constantly expands and the new, created space has a constant non-zero energy of its own. ...
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What happens after a Photon pass-es through an element without causing any ElectronTransition? e.g. A Cube of Scanadium [closed]
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No ElectronTransition ==> Photon passes through the atom. [right?]
Longer Version In Words:- If a Photon doesn't have enough energy / has more energy than to trigger a ...
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Entry equation for objects with different characteristics
The question, which weighs more, one pound of feathers or one pound of black hole, comes to mind. Each would react wildly different reentering Earth's atmosphere. In order to narrow the question: Is ...
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If I burn a log & contain all the matter, will the burned log weigh $E/c^2$ less than the unburned log, with $E$ being the energy from light & heat? [duplicate]
I understand that the change in weight would be tiny even to a physicist and nothing for any practical purpose. I am also not talking about smoke and water vapor. I am only referring to energy given ...
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Transition to Neutron Star
If we're asked to believe that the explosive aspect of a supernova results from a rebound of residual free falling matter off of the stellar core, shouldn't we also be asked to believe that transition ...
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Do particles, quarks, atoms really move in space, or is it field disturbance-wave that moves in S-T with speed $c$? How particles move in S-T in QFT? [closed]
As I understand particles are localized fields (16fields+g). Can you explain on hydrogen atom example that moves in space vacuum. Does it really moving, or it is continious field disturbance ...
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If matter cannot be created or destroyed, how were scientists able to "create" matter out of light? [duplicate]
It has been proven that scientists are able to "create" (using quotations because I do not understand if it is creating or not) matter from light in a particle collidor. How is this possible ...
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How can we detect matter waves?
The DeBroglie wavelength associated with a moving object is $$\lambda = \frac hp$$
For an object of mass 200 grams traveling with a velocity 20 m/s, it is in the order of $10^{-34}$ m. Is current ...
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How is matter defined in physics? [duplicate]
I have heard matter defined as energy within a closed system and that any such closed system will have mass.
Is this correct?
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Deriving $\mathrm d\omega/\mathrm dk = v$
I am reading Matter and Light by de Broglie and a little bit confused about how he deduced the equation of
$v_g := \frac{\mathrm d\omega}{\mathrm dk} = v$
I understand that a wave that is static in ...
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Mass of an object [duplicate]
The mass is said to be matter content of an object. Is there any detailed definition of mass because the phrase , "matter content of an object" uses the word matter whose definition is ...
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How can we call matter to exist in wave form?
Matter behaves as "waves and particles". But if we say that the object is a wave it means it is present everewhere at the same time.
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Why don't we fall through a chair when sitting? [duplicate]
I'm a high school drop out so excuse my grammar. I have done extensive reading in Astronomy and Cosmology, and came across this article With the title "Physicist Are Dumbfounded why we don't fall ...
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In the Big Bang theory which came first, the vacuum or matter? [closed]
Simply what is our best estimation of what came first in the the first fraction of time of the BB? Was it the vacuum and then matter popped out from violent quantum vacuum fluctuations or matter then ...
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