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Mean square energy of a free particle from Boltzmann distribution

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Proving an arbitrary function solves the homogeneous wave equation

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Using Gauss' Law on a Solid Annular Sphere

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Calculating Christoffell Symbols of Second Kind for Cartesian Space

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How Do You Calculate the Potential on the Axis of a Uniformly Charged Disk?

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Electric flux through a sphere containing charges 8.0 and -4.9

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Flying Capacitor Circuit Analysis?

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What Is the Entropy of a Classical Oscillator System in Thermal Equilibrium?

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Particle in 3D Box: Relation between Ω(E) and E

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Special Relativity Force and Linearization

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Thermal Expansion of 2 attached metals

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Eigenvalue degeneracies for H0 = a†a + 2b†b with given energies

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What Is the Central Charge in Conformal Field Theory?

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Complex conjugate of the expectation value of momentum

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Spinor indices and transpose operations in QFT

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Exponential of Hamiltonian-Calculate Probability

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What is the Probability of Total Spin in a Two Particle System?

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What is the phase angle for a given complex voltage and current?

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Finding charge with mass, length and separation

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Calculating Mean Speed using Maxwell Speed Distribution Formula

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Measuring photon polarization and finding observable operator

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How to Calculate F_t and N for a Roller on a Cam Mechanism?

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Fresnel Equations for a beam instead of a plane wave

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Understanding Wave-functions and Normalization?

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Newton third law and finding the reverse distance

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Characterize a co2 TEA class 4 laser

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Commutation and Eigenfunctions

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Crystal spacing of a solid surface, Bragg's law

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Understanding Probability Densities for Hydrogen Wave Functions

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Calculating Electric Field at Lead-199 Nucleus with Gauss's Law

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Transmission Spectrum- Absolute units?

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Flux and current at intersection of two neutron beams at 30°

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Fluids - boundary conditions for rotating sphere

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Can Particle Pair Annihilation Produce Only One Photon?

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Thermal Physics: Understanding Heat and Energy Transfer

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How to Correct for 3D Scattering in Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment?

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Quantum Physics: Electron Microscope

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Path integral limit trick in Peskin & Schroeder equation 9.17–9.18

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Water molecules, surface tension and evaporation

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A car coasting with rolling drag and air drag

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Can this function be a wavefunction of a physical system?

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Proving Tensor Commutation: T^abc S_b vs S_b T^abc

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What does ln(voltage) vs time represent for RC circuit charging?

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What happens when a ball is thrown vertically in the air?

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Intro Quantum: Expanding infinite square well

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Ideal dielectric gas in a capacitor

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Equipotential surfaces for the given charge distribution

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Brightness Temperature, Thermal Spectrum

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Polarization states from basis vectors |t> and |a>

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Why can't a photon transfer all of its energy to an electron?

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How Do You Construct Antisymmetric Wavefunctions for 2 Free Electrons?

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Jackson electrodynamics: prime notation in Green's theorem

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Particle tunneling through a partition in 2D Hilbert space

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Decomposition of SL(2,C) Weyl Spinors

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Lagrangian for pendulum with massive support free to move along x-axis

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How Does Time Evolution Affect Quantum Oscillator Wave Functions?

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Coulomb's Law regarding theta and plotting

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Finding Fermi level in compensated Si with both donors and acceptors

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How Do I Delete a Thread on a Website or Forum?

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Ground state energy of free electron fermi gas

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Estimating Air Mass Inside Hot Air Balloon

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Jackson's formula for distance in circular current loop geometry

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Finding total energy as a function of the Fermi Energy

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Electric field at (0, 12) from two point charges on the x axis

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What is meant by density in units of critical density?

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Moving Charges to Infinity: Work Required and Comparison

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Stress-energy conservation in weakly gravitating non-relativistic systems

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Prove Stokes' theorem for a vector field

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Deriving Total Energy of a Binary System

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How Long to Empty Half the Water in a Vessel?

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Calculate the line of sight velocity dispersion of the cluster in km/sec

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Is P^2 a projector operator, and what are its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions?

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Orbital Angular Momentum of the Sun-Jupiter System

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How can I show that trace is Invariant under the change of basis?

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Fluid mechanics (shape of free surface)

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Intro to Quantum Mechanics: Help with Homework Answers

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What is the Probability of Fibrillation After N Attempts?

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Force between two aligned permanent dipoles

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Why is r treated as a time coordinate in region 2 of the Kruskal manifold?

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Charging and discharging a capacitor

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What does mixing under RG flow mean?

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Complex Integrals: Evaluating \int_{-1}^1 \frac{(1-x^2)^{1/2}}{x^2+1}dx

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Electrostatics - spherically symmetric charge density

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How to Find the Potential Difference in a Copper Wire?

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