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Ask a physicist anything. (7)

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You need more power. Unless you are soldering very small areas; It seems that thermal conduction is higher than the thermal energy you are applying on the given amount of solder. The crystals forming are an indication of a cold solder joint!:wave:

Go to maximum warp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turns out I had it too focused :D
750mW a bit out of focus & we got nice clean solder joints :clap:

This was the original focus I was using @250mW (don't have a follow upimage)
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Side view but the black thing is a Head assembly (the type that is in your Hard Drives)

Sorta like this one (not same company though)
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How much energy do a bullet from a gun need to travell at 100 000 miles per hour for one mile, and how much energy do a plane made out carbonfibers need to travell 1000 miles per hour for 400 miles?
You first have to give the weight (mass) and shape (aerodynamic coefficient) of the plane and the atmospheric density in order to have any chance of calculating the energy required. Also a plane travelling at 100,000 MPH in an atmosphere (even one that is extremely thin) will burn up in a few seconds from friction caused extreme temperature!:wave:

You need to clarify your questions first before you put them forth!
 
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What is the loudest sound that is theoretically possible in physics, and if someone heard this, could it be potentially lethal?
If you stand less than 5 metres away from a twin engined fighter plane while its engines are at full thrust with AB on; Then you better not stay for too long else you may loose your life:

Exactly 200 decibels will kill a human being because by 100 decibels isequivalent to a rifle 5 feet away causing a person to become partially deaf. By 150 decibels a average 160 pound person will begin to fell vibrations through there body and equivalent to 60 thousand pounds of TNT fired ten feet away from a person. Lastly by 200 decibels the bones that vibrates to form sound can not withstand the sound and blast directly into the brain causing the person to die immediately If that doesn't happen after a few seconds of such high noise frequencies the brain will become unable to withstand the intense vibrations and actually explode literally it will not cause the cranium (skull) to automatically blow to bits but the brain is ultra sensitive so it would just burst and the blood would eventually leak out the ears.
 
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What is the loudest sound that is theoretically possible in physics, and if someone heard this, could it be potentially lethal?
Well, sound is a pressure wave, so the likely limit of a sound wave is likely to be of the order of the Planck pressure, which is around 10^113 Pascals in pressure.

Convert that to dB, using atmospheric pressure as the average pressure, and the sound wave would be around 2400dB or so. Yes, that would absolutely kill you. Heck, I doubt that the atoms in the air would be able to stand up to a pressure wave of that magnitude. This kind of pressure would, after all, far exceed the amount required to produce nuclear fusion.
 
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Well, sound is a pressure wave, so the likely limit of a sound wave is likely to be of the order of the Planck pressure, which is around 10^113 Pascals in pressure.
Wait, there's an upper limit to pressure? How does that come about?
 
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Wait, there's an upper limit to pressure? How does that come about?
Well, pressure is basically an energy density. And it is generally expected that there is an upper limit to energy density near the Planck scale. Of course, we haven't been able to build experiments anywhere near the Planck scale (it's about 10^15, or around a quadrillion, times the energies the LHC can access).
 
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Well, pressure is basically an energy density. And it is generally expected that there is an upper limit to energy density near the Planck scale. Of course, we haven't been able to build experiments anywhere near the Planck scale (it's about 10^15, or around a quadrillion, times the energies the LHC can access).
I often wonder what the pressure density of a supernova explosion is at its core.
 
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Do lit up light bulbs or stars reflect light?
Yes, but not much. Their spectra is overwhelmingly due to internal energies, not reflection.

If I may suggest, you might look up what a back body actually is. The physics I studied does not describe the Sun as a black body.
Nor did I. The majority of my post went into describing how a black body is a mathematical ideal for which there is no real instance, and that the Sun and the CMBR are good examples of black bodies. I also cited the Sun's spectrum to show how it resembles, quite closely, a black body of equal temperature.

Its been my understanding that a black body is defined as an object that absorbs 100% of the electromagnetic spectrum, although there are no true black bodies. I understand the relationship between temperature and black body spectrum, but is that the same a black body? Just asking, I'm completely open to learning.
A true black body absorbs all incident photons, and thus any light emitted is from its own temperature. The Sun, by virtue of being so bright, is effectively a black body - its spectrum is overwhelmingly made up of its 'own' photons, rather than those reflected from elsewhere.

Why can't I believe it's not butter?
Religious indoctrination and/or atheistic secular feminism. Take your pick ;)

Why was Physics class an elective in high school? It seems pretty important...
I'm not sure what it means for a class to be "an elective in high school" (it's probably a US thing), but physics (and science in general) are pretty important subjects. Our world is built on science and technology, and understanding its basis lets you go pretty far in the world.

The reason is that the way Phusics is taight requires good mathe skills.

The schools need to change this, and teach a non math Pgysics or use the Truabgulation System that avoids Algebra.
Why? Physics is the study of the fundamental rules of how and why the universe operates as it does, and the universe operates mathematically. Objecting to the heavy mathematical basis of physics is like objecting to the heavy atomic basis of modern chemistry - yes, that's now how people in Ye Olden Days did it, but we now know more than them, and atoms are the fundamental unit of chemistry. Likewise, mathematics is the fundamental unit of physics.

Though something tells me your objection to the way physics is taught isn't due to some revolutionary insight into educational reform - I think it's more likely you couldn't understand the mathematics involved, so objected to their very presence.

does a black hole have a pressure density?
The internal mechanics of black holes are a bit sticky. GR and QM don't agree when it comes to black holes, so I personally throw up my hands and say "It's as dense as can be, and that's good enough".
 
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What's your opinion of the Oort cloud? Is it possible that this is just a fairy tale? Sorta a comet refueling station?
It's probably does exist, as far as we can tell, but there's little concrete or direct evidence either way. An enormous bubble of rocks pushed out to their current position by the outward push of the solar wind, probably during the creation of the Solar System.
 
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Okay. This one kind of stumps me.

How is it even possible that the entire ROM contained in the cartridge of Burger Time for Nintendo is 28 kb but the actual picture of the game, right here,
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is more than the game itself weighing in at 41 kb?
Because all that black contributes to the picture's size, but not the ROM's size. In those days, size was a premium, and squeezing everything in your game to within a few kilobytes was your goal. That's why graphics were so small and repetitive - those blue ladders (are they ladders?), for instance, can be coded with a few short lines (this colour for this length at these points), but in the picture they have to be individually included in the image's code.

In other words, a simple picture has to include data on every pixel, while a computer game can simply say "... and everything else is black" and that would paint the whole backdrop.

This is also why modern games are getting exponentially bigger - I remember when the first 1GB game was installed on my poxy 8GB harddrive, and now Rage costs me a whopping 26GB (!!!). The reason is due to higher-quality textures and audio; if you watch your installer, you can see this manifest itself as longer loading times when anything audio is being transferred. Computer AI and level design is small, it's the juicy graphics that hog the space.

So how Portal 2 manages to be so graphically delicious while being so smoothly running and small is, in my opinion, a miracle worthy of proofing Valve's way into Sainthood.
 
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