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Simple Optics Question : Back focal length

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Weight distrubituion between two cylinders.

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Are back and front focal lengths equal for a thick lens?

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Infinite square well with delta potential

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Potential of Dipole in Cylindrical coordinates

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How Is Proton Magnetic Moment Linked to Its Rotational Motion?

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Point dipole embedded in dielectric sphere

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Commutator, operators momentum and position

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Solving for <Lx^2> and <Ly^2>: How do I show that <Lx^2> = <Ly^2>?

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Measuring Energy of Mass and Spring System

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Solve Laplace Equation Inside Rectangular Pipe

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Is the Electric Flux Always 0 for a Uniform Electric Field?

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How Do Spherical Harmonic Tensors Behave Under the Laplacian Operator?

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What is the Hamiltonian for a bead on a rotating rod with fixed z and R?

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Eigenvector of the lowering operator for complex eigenvalues

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Fraction of stimulated photons that escape from a laser cavity

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How to Derive the Density of States in Anisotropic Conduction Bands?

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of SU(3)

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Why is my AFM-measured CD bit density 1 million times too low?

  • SarahBoberra
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Transmission Coefficient for two step potential

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Show that representations of the angular momentum

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Speed of the meteoroid as it passes close to earth

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What are the units for the right side of this equation?

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Electric Field of a Polarized Electret

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Probability of an electron's position (Quantum Mechanics)

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2d potential problem for a region bounded by 4 planes

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Energy: Finding Maximum spring constant

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Relativistic particle collision with 60° scattering angle

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Why do beats sound like pulsations in a 444Hz tone, not 8Hz?

  • fattydq
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Mechanical Oscillation and Resonance

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Conversion of emu measurement to Tesla

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Show eigenvalues of hermitian operator are real

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What is fuel areal density and how does it relate to density?

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Quantization to solve black body radiation

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Calculating Work and Power: Force of 5N on a 15kg Body at Rest

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Photo electri question longest wave length

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Probability of a particle in a simple harmonic oscillator -

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Rocket velocity including Universal gravitation

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Hamiltonian matrix eigenvalue calculation

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Probability of a Particle in a box location

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Quantum Mechanics Operators, Hermitian and Eigenvalues

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Finding the funnel shape R(z) for a coin in circular motion

  • jaykay99
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Which Electron Transitions in Singly-Ionized Helium Emit Blue Light?

  • Jason Gomez
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Bohr Hypothesis: Proving Orbital Radius is Quantized

  • Jason Gomez
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Eigenfunction and Eigenvalue Confusion

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Superposition of states and orthonormalization

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Trying to find the eigenvectors of a hamiltonian operator

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Angle for Maximum Range in Projectile Motion with Drag Equation?

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Vertical oscillation frequency

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What is the Diffraction-Limited Object Size at 25 cm?

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Programming for Lorenz's System - What to Use?

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How Do You Verify Electrostatic Force via Direct Integration?

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How to calculate Pauli matrix commutators

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Finding the curve to minimize a functional

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How Does a Cylindrical Pulley System Exhibit Simple Harmonic Motion?

  • zorro
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Lagrangian Invariant Under Transformation

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Construct Density Operator from Ensemble Average of Sx, Sy and Sz

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Green's Function in the wave equation

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Calculating the width of the box for a particle in a box

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Finding V(x) of a given wave function?

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Michelson interferometer - maxima and minima

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Action of a non-compound Bra on a compound Ket

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Verifying Chadwick's 50 MeV photon energy for neutron discovery

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Spin-1 particle in uniaxial crystal field

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Calculating Spectral Band Width for Green and Sodium Light

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Potential of Dipole I think I am close to completing it

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Solving Particle Incident on Rectangular Barrier

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Wave Mechanics Problem Double Pendulum and a Spring

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Which Element Is Ideal for Solid State Physics?

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Harmonic potential, quantum mechanics

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Finding the Acceleration of a Rod in an X-Y Plane

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Proof of Snell's Law using Maxwell's Equations

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Solve 4-velocity Problem with 3-velocity \underline{v}

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Wavefunction and Electron Configuration (Toughy of the Day)

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How Do You Derive the Marginal Distributions of a Uniformly Distributed Disc?

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Electromagnetism Problem (Using Electric field E to find D and B)

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Classical Mechanics: Gravitation, SHM

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Single Electron Ions Homework: Find Wavelengths

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What is the Greatest Speed a Car Can Drive Over a Hill Without Leaving the Road?

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Calculating Force on a Torus: Lennard Jones Potential

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First-order time-dependent perturbation theory on a Hydrogen atom

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How to Find the PDF for a Uniform Distribution on a Disc?

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Two beads sliding down a frictionless hoop: when does it lift off?

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