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What Is the Tension in the Rope for a High Wire Walker?

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Compton Scattering given Energy of Scattered Gamma.

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Commutator of the Hamiltonian with Position and Hamiltonian with Momentum

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[cosmology] Find the comobile distance of a galaxy given redshift and H0.

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Temperature dependence of LED emission bandwidth

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Application: using energy and momentum to calculate estimated weight

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Interaction between a dipole and a dielectric.

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How Does Pressure Influence the Stability of Calcium Carbonate Phases?

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Velocity and acceleration between inertial and rotating accelerated frames

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High symmetry point in GaAs superlattice

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Introduction essay to Parabolic Motion

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Calculating Mass Flow Rate of Steam Turbine

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Defining potential from a quantum particle's wavefunction

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Calculating Force of Impacts on Objects

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Special Relativity - Distance between photons

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Quantum Mechanics Commutation Problem

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Dynamics: Angular Acceleration of Rods Connected to Disk

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Momentum of massless particle after decay

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Which Electromagnetism Problems Should I Focus on for a Basic Understanding?

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When a particle in one dimension have discrete spectrum?

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How Does a Thin Plate Between Infinite Plates Affect Heat Transfer?

  • Sebastian
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Why Does the Free-Field Dirac Hamiltonian Calculation Seem Incorrect?

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Using rapidity - prove velocity transformation equations

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Equation for time with linearly decreasing force in physics engine

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Blackbody radiation and Planck's distribution

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Proving angular momentum is independent of sphere in Wald 11.6

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Heat transfer with changing boundary conditions

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Mechanics, 3 coupled masses. don't worry, no springs

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Is the System y(t) = x(2t) Time Invariant or Time Variant?

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Calculations with Weyl Spinor Indices in QFT

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Quantum Mechanics, Simple harmonic oscillator, partition function

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Understanding the Difference Between Signal Power and Signal Energy

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Fourier Tranform of electric dipole charge density

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Acceleration of load with friction and applied force F=10G

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Quantum Mechanics: Choose an acceptable bound state function

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Proof for Problem 1.1.1 of Shankars Prin of QM

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B field at the center of a large charges sheet

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Properties of electric lines of force

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Problem with Feynman's iε prescription

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Classical mechanics, principal moments of inertia of a rigid body

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Electric dipole - derive torque from pot. energy

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Applications of Vandegraff generator

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Quantum mechanics(expected probability)

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Eigevalues and eigevectors of an Hamiltonian

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Prerequisites for advanced physics problem solving

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Obtaining the Rayleigh-Jeans formula - what am I doing wrong?

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Why does Γ^μp_μ have at most half maximal rank on the equations of motion?

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What is the Mass of a Deuteron?

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Plane wave solution to the time-independent Schrödinger equation

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Why does only e^ikx+Re^-ikx solve the TISE for a potential step?

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Why Just 2 Variables for Equilibrium State?

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Spring - Damper - Mass System (in series)

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Physical interpretation of the rotation of a ket

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Free particle in quantum mechanics, Dirac formalism

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Calculate Spacing b/w Atoms of Ideal Gas@273K,1atm

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How does the Higgs boson give particles mass?

  • bcphysicist
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How Can Linear Combinations Prove Real Solutions in Quantum Mechanics?

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How Do You Calculate Torque and Power for Rotating an Antenna?

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Aerofoil analysis, CFD and Experimental comparison

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Which Lepton Processes are Most Probable?

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Velocity of a water jet given water pressure and diameter?

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Discrete state coupled to a continuum

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Logarithmic decrement of a lightly damped oscillator

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A problem with a Dirac delta function potential

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Electromagnetism: Finding Electric Field of non Uniform Charged Rod

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Does a particle in a box with flat wave function remain localized?

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What is the Solution for Canceling Out Terms in QM Calculation?

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QFT- Compton Scattering Crossection

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Electrostatic question with three circular disks.

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Angular Momentum:Calculating Omega with Energy Preservation Law

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Particle co - moving in flat Roberston - Walker space - time

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Parallel-plate capacitor with flipping charge

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Basic probability for quantum mechanics

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Eigenvalues of Observables A, B, and C in the Eigenstate Problem?

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Lagrangian Mechanics: Solving Eqtn 2.28, 2.36, and 2.37

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Fourier series summation in David Griffiths' textbook

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Finding electric field incident on a medium

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Quantum mechanics: density matrix purification

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Resistance of a wire with changing radius

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Muonic hydrogen, change in potential of the muon.

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Classical mechanics: Central potential, trajectory

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Two body problem with additional force

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2 Quant. questions (expanding an abitrary state, transition amplitude?)

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Electrodynamics in two space dimensions :-(

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How Do You Integrate \( C_\ell \) Using Integration by Parts?

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Solving for Two Speeds of an Ideal Gas He at a Given Temperature

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T: What is the net work done by an Otto engine?

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Finding the deviation angle δ for red and violet light in rainbows

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Coulomb force in hydrogen, light bulb current, and ferromagnetic dipole moment

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Quantum harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian in raising and lowering operators

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Can Ocean Waves Really Travel That Fast?

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(Special) relativity final question; gyroscope at relativistic velocities

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What is the Total Induced Charge on a Grounded Conducting Plane?

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