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A high-energy photon creates a pi+ pi- pair. ?

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Dilation generator in QM; Problem 3.1 in Ballentine

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Closed form expression for the partition function Z using the Canonical Ensemble

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Unraveling Weak Field Stark Effect in Hydrogen

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What Does a Constant Number of Particles Mean for the Chemical Potential?

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[particle physices] pair production not possible in absence of matter?

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Electric Field at a Point on the Axis of a Charged Disk?

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Normalization constant of lineer combination of two waves?

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Potential Energy Density of Hanging String (Lagrangian)

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Bernoulli's Equation to find a depth

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Why Does Tension Peak at Geostationary Height in a Space Elevator?

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Efinition of the outer product tensor

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Does the Natural Length of the Spring Affect the Frequency of Oscillations?

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Electric Potential Difference on a Cone

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Physics-current electricity, circuit

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Finding Force Exerted by Photons on a Sphere

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Nuclear Reaction Threshold Energy Calculation

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Electromagnetism: Questions About Energy Density

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How to deal with unusual factor-group?

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Constructing an Analytic Mapping for SL(2;R) using Quadratic Forms

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Parity Transformation of Annihilation Operator

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Calculating Resistance of a Steel Ball in Spherical Coordinates

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Question on charged spheres and shells

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What Makes Equation 8.9 in Quantum Field Theory So Confusing?

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Problem deriving Einstein tensor form Bianchi identity

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Contribution to the heat capacity of vibrational energy levels.

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Charge conjugation of Complex Klein Gordon Lagrangian

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Electromagnetism: cylindrical or rectangular coordinates.

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Commutator of r.p with H=p²/2m+V(r)

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Express for Operator of coordinate in momentum representation

  • Ed Quanta
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How Can Physics Explain the Phases of a Skydiver's Fall?

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Angular momentum powering operator L[-] - applying n times

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Calculate Killing Vectors in 3-D Euclidean Space

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Quantum Question: Why k^2<0 in QFT?

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How does the map \Phi define an isomorphism between V and V**?

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Tensor Calculus General Theory of Relativity

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How to Find the Potential from a Surface Charge Density?

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What Is Wrong with My Approach to Solving This Electrostatics Problem?

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Quantum Mechanics - Angular Momentum

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Using Separation of Variables to find potential inside of a sphere

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Quantum Mechanics - Pauli Spin Matrices

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Calculating Comutator of H and 1/r∙r

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Time evolution of hydrogen wave function that is not an energy eigenfunction

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What Are Scattering States and Bound States in Quantum Mechanics?

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Why Is This Basis Non-Coordinate?

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Understanding Vector Theory Proofs: Solutions to Common Questions

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Thermodynamics: Carnot Engine, WHY IS Qhot NEGATIVE?

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Induced Electric Field Lines When a Magnetic Field Crosses a Plane

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Solve for the motion of the particle x(t)

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What Constitutes Circular Motion in Classical Dynamics?

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How Do Specific Heat and Thermal Conductivity Affect Temperature Ranking?

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Solving Tensor Problem: Need Help Now!

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State of a well determined position particle

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Propagator for quantum linear potential

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Two Point Charge Force Calculation on Left Side

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Expectation Values of x & p for Wavefunction u(x,0)

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Charge Distribution on Spherical Conductors

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Quantum State Evolution of a Free Particle at a Defined Position

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3D pendulum-spring-damper (Lagrange)

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Solution to Operators Problem Using the Operator Expansion Theorem

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How Does Light Travel from (-1,1) to (1,1) with Varying Refraction Index?

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Spherical gas chamber, change of pressure

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Difficulty Finding the EigenX of an Operator

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Force Homework: Mechanics Theorem - Find the Force in terms of Theta

  • lifeonfire
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What is the formula for calculating Kmin of a nucleon and how can it be proven?

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How Does Stern-Gerlach Experiment Determine Proton Spin Orientation?

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What state has min angle between angular momentum & z-axis

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Hydrogen atom. state after L_z measurement

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Calculating Force and Stretch in a Helical Spring

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Finding the Normalization Constant for the Hydrogen Radial Wave Function

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Determine the most probable radius for a 2s orbital (Hydrogen atom)

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Matter Waves: Phase vs Group Velocity Equation

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Classical Mechanics MatLab problem (oribtal motion)

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A question about a derivation in QFT

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Deriving the Schwarzschild solution

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What is the Speed of the CM Frame in Particle Decay?

  • Katie1990
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Transmission through thin gold film

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Help Understanding Dirac Equation in Notes

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Differentiating a Hamiltonian - Is this a typo?

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Proving \{ \gamma^5 , \gamma^\mu \} = 0 to Gamma 5 Matrix Verification

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Normalizing Trial Function with 2 Normalization Factors

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Johnson and Shot Noise at 20*C with 9V Battery and 100Kohm Resistor

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Electron & hole concentrations after doping silicon.

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Symmetry of Cyclohexane: How Many Vibrations in Its Spectrum?

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Can a Vector Have an Expectation Value?

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Electron Scattering: Resolve Distance Scale Below 10^-15 m

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Young's Double Slit with an Optical Flat over one slit

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What Is the Vibrational Energy-Level Spacing for H2?

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Help Calculate Errors: Lambda & n Uncertainty on 'n2

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The single particle density of states (Statistical physics)

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What is the role of parity in quantum mechanics?

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The lorentz boost of the CM frame w/ respect to the lab frame

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Find magnetic force on a squar loop

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Maximum Work from Carnot Engine

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Expectation Values of Spin Operators

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Spring system with oscillation: two different displacements

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CM Momentum Equations: My Notes Reveal

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