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Would a candle in very high gravity blow itself out?
A candle creates an upward draft of hot air, without which the flame would be spherical. The buoyancy generated is proportional to the density difference as well as the strength of gravity.
Suppose a ...
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Surface Tension vs. Gravity: Finding the Critical Length Scale
I'm studying Kardar's "Statistical mechanics of particles" book and tackled a problem. After solving it, I checked Kardar's solution and found that he has different approach. I'm interested ...
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Does work done by gravity (alone) heat things up?
If we take the first law of thermodynamics:
$$ΔQ = ΔU+ΔW$$
And we consider a system of a ball falling from height $h$ in an Earth-like gravitational field(no air drag and $h$<<$Rₑ$)
$$ΔU = mgh$$ ...
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Amount of extension of the metal rods in the same system
If we heated two identical metal rod both vertically and horizontally, we would observe that it expands. However, if the rod is placed vertically, gravity will indeed play a role. The expansion of the ...
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Gravity train in other planets?
A Gravity train (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train) goes through a tunnel inside a planet that connects point A with point B. On Earth, the train would not gain enough impulse to reach the ...
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