# Classical Physics

- Principles developed before the rise of relativity and quantum mechanics. Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Thermodynamics, Optics...
 Meta Thread / Thread Starter Last Post Replies Views Before posting anything, please review the Physics Forums Global Guidelines. Again, for some odd reason, people... Apr22-11 06:26 AM ZapperZ 1 39,839 So I read somewhere that if we know u(s,v) i.e. internal energy as a function of entropy and specific volume, we can... T 08:09 AM Jano L. 5 372 I've looked alittle at the gas laws and I get the feeling that they are simplified. From what I can see they don't... T 07:45 AM Chestermiller 43 670 It just occurred to me that in the right gravitational field, say, in a low orbit 100 km from the core of a neutron... T 07:07 AM Pds3.14 0 21 Hi, I am currently making an effort to solve a boundary value problem of electromagnetic field. The problem is as... T 03:13 AM buoyant 0 86 I ordinarily would put this up in a homework/ coursework forum, but this isn't either one, its just something I was... Y 11:31 PM bcrowell 2 340 Thirty years after learning E&M from the wonderful book by Purcell, I noticed that the copyright page of my dog-eared... Y 09:52 PM bcrowell 0 476 http://imageshack.com/a/img841/50/qgx3.png The above diagram shows the analyzer of waveform taken from a song. I... Y 06:25 PM sophiecentaur 9 259 Why is the magnetic flux density uniform at the center of the circular loop ? Y 06:21 PM Baluncore 7 167 Oh.. Many questions revolving on my mind.. (1) what are the conditions or in which situation can we do cavendish... Y 05:56 PM Philip Wood 6 123 I want to know how to calculate the force , I know the formula and such but its just that I'm not sure about the... Y 05:16 PM tiny-tim 4 296 this is an euler lagrange equation problem from the book- "classical mechanics-John R. Taylor", problem-6.11 find... Y 12:36 PM voko 1 179 i had always belived that sound wave was a longitudinal wave till i come across something saying that its a transverse... Y 06:54 AM Dadface 47 675 In my book it is written that Newton's shell theorem can be used to show that a uniform shell of matter exerts no net... Y 05:28 AM AakashPandita 13 211 The following is the Planck's derivation for black body radiation $${\rho}({\lambda})... Y 02:53 AM Outrageous 0 190 Hello, I have a quick question of clarification on convex mirrors. If I have a single convex mirror, is it ever... Y 01:59 AM Simon Bridge 1 167 I'm trying to get a sense of how widely applicable Maxwell's equations really are. I've read that electrodynamics... Y 01:16 AM voko 21 648 Hello everyone, Here is something I've discussed with some colleagues recently and that generated a lot of... Y 12:34 AM Bobbywhy 4 221 Say I have three parallel wires facing north east that run through a square. The first wire goes through the top right... Dec7-13 11:29 PM jtbell 1 134 It is well known that the evolution of the input reflection coefficient, ρ, of a LTI causal passive system with... Dec7-13 09:05 PM WhiteHaired 0 124$${\rho}({\lambda}) d{\lambda}=E({\lambda})*f({E(\lambda}))*D({\lambda})d{\lambda}{\rho}({\lambda}) d{\lambda}... Dec7-13 06:47 PM Outrageous 2 195 There is a battery connected to a non ideal circular conductor wire. What is the specific mechanism by which one... Dec7-13 04:41 PM jartsa 18 395 I'm doing battle with someone in a debate and I need some help here as, perhaps, I'm not articulating my side well or... Dec7-13 01:08 PM sophiecentaur 7 303 I have a tortoise shell sitting in two parts on my desk (the top and the bottom). I somehow got it in my head that it... Dec7-13 10:35 AM Nick O 0 268 Hi All, I would like to know why the neon lamp is used to measure electrical polarity. What is the working... Dec7-13 09:29 AM TumblingDice 4 344 My question is the following: In field theory, if I have a constraint \chi(q_a, p_a, \partial_i q_a) that depends... Dec7-13 07:19 AM Bobhawke 0 100 I am starting University in September, 2014. I have some knowledge already on classical mechanics as I took optional... Dec6-13 08:22 PM Meir Achuz 4 408 I have been carring out an experiment in which I have to measure the hall voltage in two samples given to me, which... Dec6-13 04:00 PM Baluncore 1 153 Hi, I would like to calculate the function of a rotating disc that has 2 spring slowing it down. (look at my... Dec6-13 09:25 AM JPGraphX 2 289 Hello, first of all, I must say that I am quite knowledge lacking in the thermodynamics topic, I am just seeking some... Dec6-13 02:03 AM Simon Bridge 17 511 Hey all, Perhaps this is a bit stupid... I'm familiar with the normal procedure of calculating rotational... Dec5-13 12:40 PM cjl 4 411 The idea behind the Hall effect is according to my book that the magnetic field induces a charge distribution such... Dec5-13 11:07 AM sophiecentaur 3 310 I am trying to calculate the magnetic field gradient for an anti-Helmholtz configuration. All the equations I have... Dec5-13 08:20 AM Void123 0 182 I was going through my professor's notes about Canonical transformations. He states that a canonical transformation... Dec4-13 06:03 PM mjordan2nd 0 150 why do we say that a classically behaved gas is non-degenerate and a quantum behaved gas is degenerate? I can't get... Dec4-13 01:18 PM Jorriss 4 1,663 Dulong Petit use energy,E=$k_B$T and the probability distribution as f(E)=1. Internal energy,u=3N$k_B$T... Dec4-13 03:37 AM DrDu 1 199 Hi, I an reading an interesting chapter of Feyman where he explains the basis of light-matter interaction with wave... Dec3-13 06:45 PM jtbell 1 273 What is ensemble? I've read about this in blundell's book, and It is said that it's used to control microscopic... Dec3-13 09:22 AM BruceW 1 224 Hello everyone, When I was studying about the way to find the RMS speed of an ideal gas by using classical... Dec3-13 08:54 AM jtbell 7 384 Hi all, First post here and I hope that somebody can help. I'm using Simulink/Simscape to model discharge of gas... Dec3-13 04:40 AM serbring 1 358 Hello physics enthusiasts, I was hoping for some insight into ballistics. I've been playing some games (namely... Dec3-13 03:56 AM KevinDM 2 387