Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2012

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 1


 * 1) Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
 * 2) A question about the lead section for the article quantum state
 * 3) Is it possible to heat granite by using dielectric- or induction heating ..?
 * 4) Magnetic field vs various computer parts
 * 5) Does flashing 12:00 damage the display
 * 6) Batch image merge (microscopy software question?)
 * 7) Is there any known plant that is pollinated by the predators of its parasites?
 * 8) "Hurricane" vs "Post-Tropical 'Super Storm'"
 * 9) Slowing neutrinos
 * 10) Sun's magnetic field
 * 11) Capacitor charging question
 * 12) spiders
 * 13) Question regarding the conversion of one Tesla to one Earth atmosphere
 * 14) Is there a name for "hating forks aiming for someone"?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 2


 * 1) Gravitational collapse
 * 2) Avalanche rescue
 * 3) Mushrooms and mycelium
 * 4) 3d tracking tic-tacs
 * 5) Heat transfer and temperature
 * 6) people mover using air pressure
 * 7) Ball point pens and pull-cord light switches
 * 8) Fat soluble  medicine
 * 9) Why does a dead body float on water ?
 * 10) Cell Biology

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 3


 * 1) Time is an illusion
 * 2) A tidal dam for New York?
 * 3) The best enzymes for ligating DNA:
 * 4) How would you do this?
 * 5) Inoperability of back-of-neck skin?
 * 6) Ko's
 * 7) I have a semi precious stone and I want to know what it is.
 * 8) What is it the
 * 9) Gravitational potential energy
 * 10) Maximum Age for Becoming a Father

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 4


 * 1) Syria Rebels
 * 2) Oxidative stress and immune system
 * 3) Black holes at the speed of light
 * 4) So why is the nootropic market kind of small?
 * 5) engine diagram
 * 6) Confusion about how telescopes work
 * 7) Light slow motion

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 5


 * 1) Impulse (physics)
 * 2) Mechanism from DNA to proteins etc?
 * 3) Maybe not a science question?

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 6


 * 1) Dichromacy and Trichromacy colorblind
 * 2) Reason why we don't fall through the floor
 * 3) People talking alone
 * 4) Nature of sound
 * 5) protons
 * 6) Worried to death?
 * 7) how to be more powerful (literally, not philosophically)
 * 8) Air quality in Prometheus
 * 9) Alcoholism - Biological process
 * 10) Death determination in Sherlock Holmes
 * 11) Cloning in animals Vs. plants
 * 12) American Bison Furs
 * 13) What is a major disadvantage of PCR compared with in-vitro replication?
 * 14) Science fiction question regarding physics
 * 15) Mixing Oort clouds
 * 16) IQ/social group
 * 17) Tipler Cylinder
 * 18) Does a full moon cause higher tides, and if so, how much higher?

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 7


 * 1) Making eggs on an industrial scale
 * 2) The Sun
 * 3) about electron configuration
 * 4) What about sound in vacuum ?
 * 5) Hover
 * 6) G-Force
 * 7) Generating energy without losing fuel
 * 8) Who created this picture of the thermoscope?

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 8


 * 1) Melatonin
 * 2) Proposed Essay on zealotry and non-science
 * 3) Law of Conservation of Energy
 * 4) Jeuming tree
 * 5) Please help a new owner of a United Motors Matrix 150 motor-scooter?
 * 6) Process, Protuberance, Condyle
 * 7) Is global warming necessarily bad for us?
 * 8) Perfect circles
 * 9) Could dark matter be individual quarks?

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 9


 * 1) Antimatter meteor/comet
 * 2) Lead poisoning
 * 3) What was the purpose of the Galileo thermoscope
 * 4) Converting candela per square metre to "photon density"
 * 5) Deer

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 10


 * 1) where do new layers of earth come from
 * 2) Twin follicles in horses
 * 3) Cycling drugs
 * 4) How would {100} monocrystalline semiconductor grade silicon be made using common materials and no specialized machinery?
 * 5) Radiation from wifi
 * 6) Abiogenesis
 * 7) Genetics question

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 11


 * 1) Could you collect all the CO2 that a vehicle emits?
 * 2) If something "increases dopamine receptor sensitivity", is that good or bad?
 * 3) Liquifying francium
 * 4) Would dogfighting spacecraft need to bank when turning?
 * 5) Bicycle wheel question
 * 6) Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
 * 7) Good physics simulation sandbox?
 * 8) Psychology
 * 9) Self-help books
 * 10) Behavior while drunk/under the influence
 * 11) Colour black

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 12


 * 1) Size of Eliminated Dendritic Spines
 * 2) IQ and artists
 * 3) Do we have any substances or pills that are the opposite of anti-depressants?
 * 4) Transmission of radioactive and electromagnetic rays through glass
 * 5) square ring falling through magnetic field
 * 6) Mil Mi-24
 * 7) What is "matter" according to modern physics?
 * 8) Getting a given wavelength radio signal given an antenna with real-world constraints
 * 9) Long time effect of drugs
 * 10) Evidence of filamentation of the milky way
 * 11) plastic PE discoloration
 * 12) cornstarch and water experiment
 * 13) Off label use of drugs

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 13


 * 1) my camera for my experiment recorded video with a 0.80x resampling factor. When calculating centripetal acceleration and curvature, how do I scale?
 * 2) Chemistry problem
 * 3) Momentum
 * 4) "Do You Feel Like An Insider Or Outsider?"
 * 5) electrons and time-varying electric fields
 * 6) 0.45 vs 0.2 micron filters (for life sciences)
 * 7) Dyson sphere - "Gravity"
 * 8) Fatigue=drunkenness?
 * 9) Why are flat screens not flexible?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 14


 * 1) Observation in quantum mechanics
 * 2) Perfect number
 * 3) Heat energy vs thermal energy
 * 4) Vitamin D
 * 5) Forest fire vs candle flame
 * 6) Parrot Drone or Quadrotor
 * 7) chemical / molecular cross-section
 * 8) this is what is the compuound of Splenda, sugar and cloro form this, can we understand if it is a natural usefull compound for the human body?
 * 9) Artificial 2-toned lobsters
 * 10) Named particles?
 * 11) gravity = side effect of vacuum?
 * 12) A question on economics.

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 15


 * 1) the material rising in the thermoscope  thermometer
 * 2) Electromagnetic radiation
 * 3) Recharging smartphone
 * 4) Doppler effect: two moving objects at an angle
 * 5) Origin of the Nebraska sand hills
 * 6) Bok choy is the same species as the common turnip, really? It resembles nothing like a turnip

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 16


 * 1) lepton
 * 2) W and Z bosons
 * 3) How's this bird called?
 * 4) Curiosity image
 * 5) Is natural folate metabolized to 5-MeTHF?
 * 6) What happens  to the brains of the enlightened?
 * 7) Sleep more to grow more
 * 8) Acceleration and time dilation
 * 9) Neurons in the cochlear nuclei

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 17


 * 1) Two problems involving angular motion
 * 2) civil engineering related
 * 3) if the eye changes focal length to focus on an object, why isn't our visual perception like a zoom lens?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 18


 * 1) Where is the Heisenberg cut article?
 * 2) Voltage across an inductor
 * 3) URGENT INFO NEEDED
 * 4) When did dark energy start to dominate?
 * 5) What happens if someone were to be struck by something like the Oh-My-God particle?
 * 6) The Philippines and total plastic bag bans (again)
 * 7) Electroshocking people
 * 8) How many people are dying in Gaza?
 * 9) Asbestos in the WTC
 * 10) Lump of fat close to the heart — in roe deer in the winter season — What is it called?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 19


 * 1) manual lenses in bridge cameras
 * 2) pneumonia survival rates
 * 3) Element transmutation
 * 4) Is this a fallacy? Classifying  people from a psychological perspective
 * 5) Impact depth
 * 6) Iron Dome
 * 7) Universal milling machine or turret milling machine....

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 20


 * 1) What's the solution to Haldane's dilemma?
 * 2) Bear pig
 * 3) How can I separate mixture of water and ammonia?
 * 4) 9th period
 * 5) How much more diverse would the species be if we hadn't gone through the Toba catastrophe?
 * 6) free electrons per atom
 * 7) heat capacity of a plasma
 * 8) Isolated systems
 * 9) Fuel consumption of engines
 * 10) Momentum transfers
 * 11) Recycling 10, 20, or 30 year old paper
 * 12) Area of land required to feed working horses on arable farm

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 21


 * 1) Automated mini boats
 * 2) Pork v Chicken
 * 3) Why don't they just test if cellphones actually do cause interferences in airplanes?
 * 4) Dot matrix printing on irregular surfaces
 * 5) Why are space probes so slow?
 * 6) Vitamin K
 * 7) LED bulb
 * 8) UN hypocritical
 * 9) Broadleaf Evergreen Tree Identification
 * 10) Custom weather warnings for UK?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 22


 * 1) Freshwater Aquarium Parasites and Human Reactions
 * 2) Robotic Armor
 * 3) Atomic/molecular blades
 * 4) Angler fish raised in aquaculture farms ?
 * 5) Clinical Significance of Spike Frequency Adaptation
 * 6) Fears and placebo
 * 7) Is chemotherapy only against cancer?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 23


 * 1) Ammo weight
 * 2) E-boats
 * 3) TQ
 * 4) What to do with this image
 * 5) Vehicle propulsion name?
 * 6) Beryllium
 * 7) Diet Related to Mental Decline
 * 8) Change in real mass or not
 * 9) Diamond plate armor
 * 10) What peak pressure from a explosion in joule and required ground depth?
 * 11) Gunshot

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 24


 * 1) Women nagging from a scientific or psychological point of view
 * 2) Newton's Second Law
 * 3) Mayans
 * 4) What is this formula depicting?
 * 5) "chocolate is packed full of glucose"
 * 6) Drive shaft feature identification
 * 7) Why is the equator not a large desert?
 * 8) Human humerus
 * 9) Sensor Array http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_array
 * 10) micro wave shielding methods and materials
 * 11) What is the current energy usage of the Internet

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 25


 * 1) A question in biology of Retroviruses (physiology and ecology)
 * 2) Plant identification in opening credits of Downton Abbey
 * 3) Question about subwoofers
 * 4) Background photon emissions
 * 5) Did the aborigines use dingoes as hunting dogs?
 * 6) Final angular velocity after combining two disks
 * 7) Gas bubbles on side of plastic container filled by chlorinated water
 * 8) Is being HIV positive comparable to have diabetes?

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 26


 * 1) stereo amplifier output impedance
 * 2) Which caulking should I use?
 * 3) Power spectral density of speech
 * 4) relativistic kinematics: the solar sail
 * 5) HIGGS BOSON
 * 6) V-1 flying bomb
 * 7) Insect
 * 8) Reason for type of emotional response to music and poetry
 * 9) Common emotional response to specific colors
 * 10) 100% electric spacecraft engines
 * 11) Length contraction
 * 12) average intensity of three vibrations on a string of constant frequency and individual amplitude, but random phase of pi or 0

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 27


 * 1) forest extent in very ancient India
 * 2) Problems about determine habitable zone in 7.5 billion year future sun
 * 3) Neutron binding
 * 4) Diamond (thought experiments)
 * 5) Hassocene
 * 6) walking vs running
 * 7) Mattress pad science
 * 8) Can separate universes be causally connected?
 * 9) Is a covalent bond a cooper pair or a magnetic link?
 * 10) Direct Evidence Against Sodium Channel Inactivation in Spike Frequency Adaptation
 * 11) Bombarding proton with neutron
 * 12) Stability of neutron and proton
 * 13) Why poisoning with 210Polonium?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 28


 * 1) Bathing
 * 2) Fluoroauric acid
 * 3) Did Carl Sagan know the intended use of his calculations and still willingly participate?
 * 4) Harold White / NASA research on warp drive
 * 5) Size of bubbles in weightlessness
 * 6) Cooling of Air-cooled engines

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 29


 * 1) Where do drug names come from?
 * 2) The Mechanism of Coldness and sore throat ?
 * 3) Computer in Matrix movies
 * 4) Excipients and generics
 * 5) electronic multivibrator repetion rate
 * 6) Unidentified Bird in Neighbours
 * 7) On line degree of medical science

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 30


 * 1) polywell
 * 2) What are the globalgeneralbasic ingredients of sand "regular" earth?
 * 3) Without NASA we wouldn't have computers
 * 4) blocking in experimental design
 * 5) Electrical Properties of Tubes
 * 6) When did the last visible (with naked eye) star appear in the sky?
 * 7) Small angle formula