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Which threshold value provides the most accurate results for muon decay time?
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Loop Feynman diagram contributions to correlation functions
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Is the Work Function of Graphene Equal to the Binding Energy?
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Help with a few annoying exterior derivatives
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Showing Feynman-amplitudes' gauge invariance (for Compton Scattering)
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The propagator of eigenstates of the Total Angular Momentum
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Can't understand ket notation for spin 1/2
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What Defines a Solenoidal Vector Field?
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Show that the energy is conserved in this field/metric
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Solve Spherical Harmonics: Y_{1,1} Eigenfunction of L^2 & L_z
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Rotation and Polarisation of Light using Jones Matrices
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Energy-momentum tensor for a relativistic system of particles
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Temperature difference by Dimensional analysis.
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Find the wave function of a particle in a spherical cavity
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How Does Superposition Affect Measurements in a 1-D Harmonic Oscillator?
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The Euler Equation and Incompressible Fluid Theorems
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Electromagnetism - movement of a coil in a magnetic field
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What Is Energy Degeneracy in a Cubical Box?
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Bending proton beams under magnetic field
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Calculate the Energy Levels of an Electron in a Finite Potential Well
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Spherically symmetric states in the hydrogen atom
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Explaining Quantum Correlation by Comparing It To Road Traffic
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Showing that this identity involving the Gamma function is true
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Prove the reflection and transmission coefficients always sum to 1
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Average Energy density and the Poynting vector of an EM wave
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Polarized wave in an anisotropic medium
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Understanding the Energy States of a Particle in a Finite Potential Well
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Lagrangian of a mass bewteen two springs with a pendulum hanging down
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Change in the direction of motion of the particle
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Magnetohydrodynamics - Derivation of PDE
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Fourier transform of electric susceptibility example
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Treating Oblique Incidence as a Fraunhofer Diffraction Problem
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Expectation value of kinetic energy operator
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Simple harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian
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Help with Tensors: Using Einstein Summation Convention
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Calculating Gamma, L, R1,2 for Excited Ions
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How to translate expression into momentum-space correctly
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Continuous-variable cat state - phonon number mean and variance
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Estimating the eigenvalue with the second-order pertubation theory
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Question on Cosmology Solution for Tired Light Hypothesis
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Help with the matrix representation of <-|+|->. Does "+"=|+>?
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Non linear BVP using a shooting algoritm with MATLAB?
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Einstein's Vacuum Exploring the Metric & Killing Vectors
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Finding expectation value of two operators in a 3 state QM system
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Penrose equation for a vacuum spacetime
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Finding Electric field E due to an arc
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Describe the motion of yoyos suspended from the ceiling
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Showing that a given propagator is proportional to Green's function
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Slip Conditions for flow between Parallel Plates
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Four-momenta trend as a function of proper time
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Prove Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction w/ Michelson-Morley Experiment at Any Angle
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Relating volumetric dilatation rate to the divergence for a fluid-volume
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Lie derivative of general differential form
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Why are fermion states anti-symmetric under exchange operator?
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Why Are Gravity Effects Neglected in Stokes Flow Analysis?
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Lorentz transformations for electric and magnetic fields
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Energy landscape in the two state model (Boltzmann distribution)
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Time dilatation between straight and curved lines in Minkowsi space
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Prove that these two series are equal
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QED, chapter 4 P&S page 125 (Coulomb Potential)
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Laplace's Equation and Boundary Condition Problem
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Plotting the Poynting vector of a radiating electric dipole [matlab]
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Showing that the Weyl tensor is invariant under conformal symmetries
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Calculating Count Rate for Neutron Beam Detection
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Gas effusing through hole, working out time dependence
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Periodic and Chaotic Solutions to Chen System/Attractors
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Why is the e-ray sometimes below and sometimes above the o-ray in prisms?
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Lagrangian for the electromagnetic field coupled to a scalar field
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Solving Damped Driven Pendulum ODEs
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Mass correction in ##\phi^4##-theory
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How to Derive Radial Geodesics in Kerr Metric?
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Finite Square Well, Ψ[SUB]III[/SUB] const related too Ψ[SUB]II[/SUB]?
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Electron-positron annihilation, photon emission angle
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Heat Diffusion Equation - Using BCs to model as an orthonormal system
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Help with neutron scattering in solid state physics
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Mie scattering for inhomogeneous medium
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Exercise 16, chapter 3 (Tetrad) in Carroll
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Forbidden beta decay form factors
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Getting a conserved charge out of the Kerr metric
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Check invariance under rotation group in spacetime
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Find an expression for a magnetic field from a given electric field
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Computing a wave function through a (non-relativistic) propagator
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Electric Field from Non-Uniformly Polarized Sphere
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Carroll chapter 2 questions 9 and 10 on Manifolds
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Measure Planck's constant without universal constants
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What is the Constant of Motion in a Rotating Potential Field?
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Deriving Casimir operator from the Lie Algebra of the Lorentz Group
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Restricted Boltzmann machine understanding
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Why is [G] Sandwiched by Epsilon Inverses in Tensor Inverse Calculation?
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Band theory: effective mass and Hall's coefficient
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How is the Moment of Inertia Tensor Derived for Rigid Body Rotation?
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Thought experiment: How would ocean levels change?
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Boundary conditions of linear materials
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Kinetic Theory - A gas mixture effuses through a hole, find the pressure change
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Rotational partition function for CO2 molecule
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Show that the Diffusion Eqn after substitution gives the Helmholtz Eqn
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Debye Approximation of Heat Capacity in 1D
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How Do You Solve H(T) at 1 MeV in Cosmology?
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A linear combination of states that diagonalize the Hamiltonian
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Problem about dot product in probability density problem
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