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Quantum Field Theory: Stationary Point of the Effective Action

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Why is the amplitude of wave guide indepentent of z?

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Ricci identity and Killing vectors in differential geometry

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What Polarizer Angle Maintains Light Extinction with a Rotated Analyzer?

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Angular Momentum Prob: Find Wfinal & Angle

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What Angular Momentum Quantum Number Ensures Bound States?

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Where do Conduction Electrons Reside?

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Statistical mechanics - diatomic particles leaving and entering a box

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A question in statistical physics

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Finding eigenfunction of Ly for l=1, m=-1

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Radial equation for atoms that are not hydrogen?

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Find radiation resistance of a wire

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Quantum mechanics particle in a well

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Calculating Sodium Atom Ground State Degeneracy

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What Determines Even and Odd Functions in Quantum Equations?

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Changing potential in harmonic oscillator

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Quick Quantum Eigenstate Question

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What is the Electric Potential of a Square Loop?

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Maxwell Stress Tensor: Find Elements for Plane Wave in Z Direction

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Analyizing the dynamics of a pendulum hanging in an accelerating car

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Relativity and Electrodynamics question

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Are P and Q canonically conjugate after a canonical transformation?

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The length of time of the refrigerator

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Fermi Energy Matching in Semiconductors

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4-Fold Degeneracy of 14th Energy Level in Cubic Well

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How to Determine Energy Transfer Type in a Star from Density and Radius?

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Periodic Surface Waves Produced by Non-Periodic Disturbances

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Remeasuring observable A after measuring compatible vs incompatible B

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Solving Difficult Integral in Cosmology Lectures

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Help with line potential involving line integral

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SR: Gamma rays creating election-positron pair

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Joule kelvin expansion, thermodynamics

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How Does a Fluctuating Hamiltonian Affect the Expectation Value of Sx?

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Jackson Electrodynamics problem 6.5b

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Reversible process/entropy thermodynamics

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Boundary conditions in finite potential well

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The physical meaning of Maxwell stress tensor

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How Does Inflation Solve the Flatness Problem in Cosmology?

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Finding the kinetic energy of an Alpha Particle

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Simple Harmonic Motion - Vertical Spring

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What is the Coulomb potential energy of splitting uranium nuclei?

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How to Approach Energy Conservation in Relativistic Kinematics?

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What is the Width of the Central Maximum in Single Slit Diffraction?

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Calculating Natural Gas Requirements for a 1000MW Power Plant

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How to define an integral for a map from R^2

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How Do You Prove the Eigenfunctions of Angular Momentum?

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Momentum representation of hydrogen atom

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Rectangular waveguide E-field component relationship

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Hydrogen atom expectation of r^2 check

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QFT Dirac Chiral Equations of Motion

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Cause of Bump in Uranium Gamma Spectrum

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Bilinear terms in QED lagrangian under charge conjugation

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Lagrangian: singularity in inverted pendulum EoMs?

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Standing wave wavelengths on a 12m rope secured at both ends

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Brillouin Zone Size: Debate Settled

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Conduction to Displacement Current Ratio

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Thermodynamics proving cp/cv = kt/ks

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An Electron and Neutron in a Finite Potential Well

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DeBroglie Wavelength: Solving for Electrons in Relativity

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Electric Field Strength as a Vector along a line

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First law of thermodynamics and the TdS equation

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Quantum, finding energy eigenvalue spectrum

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How Do You Prove and Analyze RC Circuit Formulas?

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Understanding parallel transport (Gen Rel)

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How Is the Unit Operator Derived in Quantum Many-Body Hilbert Spaces?

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Magnetic field above a thin charged disc

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Solving Einstein Equation Confusion: My Notes vs Freidmann Equations

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What Is the Power Ratio in Gaussian Beams Through a Circular Aperture?

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Cohesive energy of covalent crystal

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Why do magnetic fields decay exponentially with depth in a conductor?

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Acceleration in a fluid with specific gravity

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Physical meaning of harmonic oscillator probability density

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How Do You Derive the Geodesic Equation?

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Potential well, limits changed, quantum

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A rather interesting type of coupled oscillator.

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Estimating Width of 21cm Line from Atomic Hydrogen Cloud

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Phase difference homework problem

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H of a toroidal coil with relative permeability

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Finding a constant within a wavefuntion for a harmonic oscillator

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How to Find the Expectation Value of Total Energy?

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Finding Range of Weak Interaction from Mass of Z Boson

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Using Mathcad to Solve a Complex Math Problem

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Can Operators Be Divided in the Schrodinger Equation Derivation?

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Density matrix and von Neumann entropy - why does basis matter?

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Force between point charge and linear charge distribution

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D/dt of <y1|y2> =0 quantum physics

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Can someone explain why p terms are not canceling in this Diffeomorphisms proof?

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Take the real part of complex wave function

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Quantum Mechanics - Identical and Non-Identical Spin 1 particles

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What is the Lagrangian for Electromagnetic Fields?

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