When I point a laser at a wire , a circle of light appears on a wall behind it . why this happens.  What is the circle of light and why does it appear?  Could anyone give some tips on what I should search for or any references?   wire have diameter 3.17 mm   PS.I don't good at English,,, sorry   Wire perpendicular to the projection screen   Laser under on the wire Then born circle of light
So, when I point a laser at a piece of wire (pointed at a specific angle), a circle of light appears on a wall behind it (see image below). I am trying to see why this happens and if there are any readings on this. Could anyone give some tips on what I should search for or any references?   ()  So this is a problem for a physics tournament, but I haven't tried it myself yet. However I have found a video depicting what I mean.
As you may know, Facebook allows users to choose a "vanity URL," allowing easy linking to one's profile. However, once set, this URL cannot be changed and this was done for security reasons, understandably.  I have a friend whose now ex-partner set the URL to be "herfirstname.hislastname" without her permission. She tried to change it after this, but to no avail.  Has anyone successfully contacted Facebook and got them to either disable the name and revert back to an ID or change the name to another? 2-10x Slower Deployments with Winter '15? How to get data off a completely dead Android phone? Phone worked perfectly. Then one day completely dead, nothing at all. It may have been that "one day" was after some time of laying around, cannot recall.  Model: Android AT&amp;T Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-i747 SKU S9255)  Already tried;   Charging phone: no visual output at all, no leds Removing battery while charging: no visual output at all, no leds Removing SIM and SD card: no visual output at all, no leds Attempt to turn on: no visual output at all, no leds   I need to get our family photo's off this phone (stored on internal memory). I care less about the hardware/phone itself.  Thank you for any help you can offer! Identifying a thin, black, worm-like creature with a hammer-shaped head I came across the creature shown in the photo below yesterday evening while walking the dogs. At first, I thought it was an earthworm, but a flashlight revealed it to be something I had never seen before.    It is approximately 12 inches (300 mm) in length and about 1/3 of an inch (10 mm) in diameter at its maximum. It is pitch black and very shiny—like piano black. It moves very slowly, using a snake-like motion. It had a very strange head, like a hammerhead shark.  I live in Durban, South Africa, if that helps to narrow down the possibilities.  Can anyone help in identifying this creature? We've been talking a lot about the efficacy of community self-evaluations lately, both internally on the Community Team and out in the open . Lots of ideas were tossed around, but the underlying theme of these discussions has been that site self-evaluations are not useful in their current form. The review queue format hampers discussion, the meta thread posted by the Community user is trivially ignored, and the sample question size is far too small to be useful, but big enough to be non-trivial for participants. They also don't provide much in the way of useful information to community managers behind the scenes.  So we're going to shut them down this week, and we'll be using the time it saves us to digest the ideas y'all have thrown out in the previous discussions and figure out where to go from here.   I'll be going over the previous threads with a fine-toothed comb to try and suss out what worked well and what was broken and determine a more useful mechanism - if one is required at all. I'd also welcome continued suggestions from the communities about how to continue capturing what the evals accidentally did right - encouraging communities to stop and examine how they're doing at somewhat regular intervals.   So: if you have ideas on how to get communities to monitor their own Q&amp;A quality and get a little introspective, feel free to sound off in the answers.  Update: with a creative application of per-site feature toggles, we've shut down evaluations except on a handful of sites where they're currently running. Once those evaluations run their course, no new ones will be started anywhere on the network. Should the eigenkets be weighted in $|P\rangle = \sum\limits_{r}|\xi^r\rangle$? Page 37 of Dirac's book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, states  The condition for the eigenstates of $\xi$ to form a complete set must thus be formulated, that any ket $|P\rangle$ can be expressed as an integral plus a sum of eigenkets of $\xi$, i.e. $$|P\rangle = \int |\xi'c\rangle\; d\xi' + \sum\limits_{r}|\xi^rd\rangle$$ where the $|\xi'c\rangle$, $|\xi^rd\rangle$ are all eigenkets of $\xi$, the labels c and d being inserted to distinguish them when the eigenvalues $\xi'$ and $\xi^r$ are equal, and where the integral is taken over the whole range of eigenvalues and the sum is taken over any selection of them.  I find it inconsistent that the eigenkets under the integral are weighted by what appears to be a differential eigenvalue $d\xi'$, yet all the eigenkets under the summation are weighted by the value 1. Is this correct? Why would a JavaScript variable start with a dollar sign? Is there any Android XML documentation? A book in which every species on earth was rendered intelligent The 'blurb' on the back of the book was that something had boosted the intelligence of every creature on earth, to the point that at least some animals were on par with humans. I'm not sure if humans were similarly enhanced or just animals. I'm not sure whether it was done by aliens, or a side effect of something humans did, or what.   This book was on the shelves in the mid/late 1980's, so it's nothing more recent than that. How to get less spacing in math mode LaTeX commands like this:  Here again, four different simulations are run on networks of size  $C^{G} = 25 \times\ 25 = 625$, $C^{G} = 50 \times\ 50 = 2500$, $C^{G} = 250 \times\ 250 = 62500$, and $C^{G} = 500 \times\ 500 = 250000$...   When compiled generate the following:    The spacing in math mode really irritates me. There's too much white space around the equal sign, and the multiplication sign has more right padding than left padding. Is there any way to reduce this spacing? What is the best time to ask questions? When is an elected moderator shown as "departed" on the election page? On Philosophy, one of the elected moderators has since deleted their account, and they're shown as "Departed" on :        However, , one of the elected moderators still has their "previous" flair shown in place, despite the fact that they've already resigned and left the Network completely in the wake of the recent events.        , the same happens (old flair remains), but without the clickable &lt;a&gt; around the image, and with a noticeable :        This looks inconsistent, so when exactly will a placeholder image showing "Departed" replace the flair for a departed election winner? What makes induction (over natural numbers) a valid proof technique? Is $$ \dfrac{ P(0) \quad \forall i \in \mathbb{N}. P(i) \Rightarrow P(i+1) }{ \forall n \in \mathbb{N}.  P(n)} $$ just taken for granted as a proof rule, or can it be derived from more foundational axioms?  Similarly, can the principle of induction over well-founded sets be derived from something more foundational, or does it have to be assumed to be a valid inference rule? How can I reproduce the error "package... needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it" for testing? From time to time, Ubuntu users encounter errors from  or , of the form:  The package some-package needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.  I want to know what causes this error so that I can reproduce it and try to find safe ways of fixing it, even when the broken package is important and has many dependencies.  of the  might give a bit of a clue, but I don't know how packages get the status that causes the error.  How can I produce this error for testing on my (Ubuntu MATE 17.10) system?  This is prompted by  and my long-standing discomfort with closing questions about this error against , whose answer uses dpkg --force-all to remove the offending package.  suggests this solution has worked for many users, but I am not confident that using --force-all won't cause later problems, or that it's a good idea to use this method to remove important packages like APT. XmlInclude : List and array Bash while read loop breaking early I've been banging my head against for wall for a while with this one.  I want to SSH into a set of machines and check whether they are available (accepting connections and not being used). I have created a small script, tssh, which does just that:  #!/bin/bash  host=$1 timeout=${2:-1}  ssh -qo "ConnectTimeout $timeout" $host "[ \`who | cut -f1 | wc -l \` -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; exit 0 || exit 1"   This script works correctly. Returning 255 if there was a connection problem, 1 if the machine is busy and 0 if everything is good. 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