The Art of Estimation Physics Patrick Diamond, George M. Fuller, Tom Murphy Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 2012 I. “Natural.

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The Art of Estimation Physics Patrick Diamond, George M. Fuller, Tom Murphy Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 2012 I. “Natural Units” Ph 239 also known as

“use sloppy thinking” Richard Feynman : “never attempt a physics problem until you know the answer”

“Natural Units” In this system of units there is only one fundamental dimension, energy. This is accomplished by setting Planck’s constant, the speed of light, and Boltzmann’s constant to unity, i.e., By doing this most any quantity can be expressed as powers of energy, because now we easily can arrange for To restore “normal” units we need only insert appropriate powers of of the fundamental constants above

It helps to remember the dimensions of these quantities... for example, picking convenient units (for me!)

length units Figure of merit for typical visible light wavelength and corresponding energy

Boltzmann’s constant – from now on measure temperature in energy units for example... but I like with

Examples: Number Density e.g., number density of photons in thermal equilibrium at temperature T= 1 MeV

stresses e.g., energy density, pressure, shear stress, etc.

A quantum mechanics text gives the Bohr radius as But I see this as... another example...

or whatever units you prefer... or maybe even... OK, why not use ergs or Joules and centimeters or meters ? You can if you want but...

better to be like Hans Bethe and use units scaled to the problem at hand size of a nucleon/nucleus ~ 1 fm energy levels in a nucleus ~ 1 MeV supernova explosion energy

electric charge and potentials/energies one elementary charge One Coulomb falling through a potential difference of 1 Volt = 1 Joule= 10 7 erg or

fine structure constant SI cgs

particle masses, atomic dimensions, etc. electron rest mass proton rest mass neutron-proton mass difference atomic mass unit Avogadro’s number

Handy Facts: Solar System radius of earth’s orbit around sun

We can do all this for spacetime too ! Define the Planck Mass... and now the Gravitational constant is just...

The essence of General Relativity: There is no gravitation: in locally inertial coordinate systems, which the Equivalence Principle guarantees are always there, the effects of gravitation are absent! The Einstein Field equations have as their solutions global coordinate systems which cover big patches of spacetime

A convenient coordinate system for weak & static (no time dependence) gravitational fields is given by the following coordinate system/metric is given by the following coordinate system/metric: This would be a decent description of the spacetime geometry and gravitational effects around the earth, the sun, and white dwarf stars, but not near the surfaces of neutron stars.

It turns out that in a weak gravitational field the time-time component of the metric is related to the Newtonian gravitational potential by... Where the Newtonian gravitational potential is dimensionless !

OBJECT MASS (solar masses)RADIUS (cm) Newtonian Gravitational Potential earth 3 x x 10 8 ~10 -9 sun 16.9 x10 10 ~10 -6 white dwarf ~1 5 x 10 8 ~10 -4 neutron star ~ ~0.1 to 0.2 Characteristic Metric Deviation

Handy Facts: the Universe

Rates and Cross Sections

Eddington Luminosity Sir Arthur Eddington proton electron Photon scattering-induced momentum transfer rate to electrons/protons must be less than gravitational force on proton Electrons tied to protons via Coulomb force At radius r where interior mass is M( r ) and photon energy luminosity (e.g., in ergs s -1 ) is L  ( r ) the forces are equal when Flux of photon momentum Gravitational force on proton with mass m p