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Why Does the Sine Function Vanish in This Trigonometric Integration?

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Moment of Inertia of an object rotating about its center of mass?

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How Do You Calculate EMF and Potential Difference in a Circuit?

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What is the Resistance and Current in the Circuit?

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Electromagnetic waves, Maxwell's Equations, Laplace?

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How Can You Solve an Integral with a 2nd Order Pole on the Real Axis?

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Understanding the Bra & Ket: Justifying Their Necessity

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On commuting of position and momentum operators

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Operator in Quantum Mechanics: Bra & Ket Reordering?

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What is the Force on a Barge Being Pulled by a Horse Across a River?

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Find angle such that beam hits a certain point

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Can Drunken Physics Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe?

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What Is the Equilibrium Angle Theta in a Spring and Cord System?

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Constraints and Statical Determinacy

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Calculating Expectation Value for z component of angular momentum

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Solution to Jackson Problem No.26 Chapter 2 E&M

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Mean value of momentum of electron in H atom

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How do I work out an expression for the total energy

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Linear Operators: Identifying and Solving

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What's the Probability of Finding a Quantum Particle in Each Box?

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Understanding the Continuity Equation in Special Relativity

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Quantum harmonic oscillators - grand partition function

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Derive a formula for momentum in terms of kinetic energy

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Relation for Kinetic energy and the lorentz factor.

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Electrostatic self energy of a uniform density sphere

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Is \(x^k p_x^m\) Hermitian?

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Electrostatic Energy of a thin spherical shell

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What is the different between the max stress and the von mise stress

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What is the purpose of using the nabla operator in this equation?

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Does Refractive Index of a Gas Change with Pressure?

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Finding V for a 2D box using separation of variables.

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Is This Equation Valid? Analyzing the RHS

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Quantum Physics I Tough Normalization Integral Help

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What Are the Wavelength Ranges for the Balmer and Lyman Series in Hydrogen?

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I need the dirac notation expectation value explaining to me please?

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Difference between expectation value and probabilty

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Heating an Ideal Gas: Why Burning Fuel is Equivalent to Reversible Heating

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Deriving Maxwell's Relation with Thermodynamic Variables

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Calculating Rotational & Vibrational Energy of Hydrogen Molecule

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Help Deriving Fresnel's Equations Please

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Calculating Speed of Electron after 50keV Work

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Obtaining Lagrangian of complicated pendulum

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What are the homework problems for quantum mechanics?

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I.E. Irodov Advanced Gravitation Problem

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Verifying Commutator Relations for $\vec{J}=\vec{Q}\times \vec{p}$

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QM: Ground State Wave Function of Infinite Square Well

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If A and B are hermitian, then i[A,B] is also hermitian

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Constant Acceleration in Relativistic Mechanics

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Solving Parabolic Coordinates Homework: Find x,y; Show Kinetic Energy

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Sphere falling through viscous material - velcoity calc

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Particle Detector: How Many (e-, ion) Pairs Are Created?

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Uniform circular motion of a particle

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How Does the Stress Tensor Change at Point P Near Current-Carrying Wires?

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Calculating Multiple Integrals on Mathematica (Electric fields)

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Step Potential Question (Quantum Mechanics)

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Calculating Angular Momentum of a Monopole-Charge System

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Understanding Electric Field: True Statements & Examples

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Proving Fermion Occupation with Commutation Relations

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Help with non-homogeneous ordinary differential equations

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Lorentz transformations (2nd year relativity)

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Laplace's Equation To Find Potential

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Efficiency of an Ideal-Gas Cycle: How is it Derived?

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What Are the Key Concepts of the Bohr Model of the Atom?

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How do I normalize a state vector with numbers in it?

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Can Any Linear Operator Be Decomposed into Hermitian Components?

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When to use Laplace's or Poisson's equation for calculating potential

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Wave function of spin 1/2 under parity

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Spin 1/2 planced in a magnetic field at x-direction

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Spherical pendulum filled with water

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Peskin and Schroeder, equation 2.51

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Orthogonality of Legendre Polynomials

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Alternate expressions of Fourier series formula

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Millikan's oil drop experiment-terminal velocity.

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General Relativity - Contravariant and Covariant Vectors: aaargghh

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Proving Acceptable Wave Functions in Quantum Mechanics

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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle question

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How Do I Start Solving a Lagrangian Mechanics Problem?

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Pre-quantum matrix problem class problem? Probably simple?

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Two-dimensional motion under Central Force

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Tough assignment question - help would be appreciated

  • Mohammed17
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Dynamics & Kinematics Assignment Question. Am I on the right track?

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Q : Verify Wien's displacement law (frequency and wavelength form)?

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Solid state physics - FFC structure of NaCl

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Statistical mechanics & the interaction energy

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Given this formula, is this formula true by symmetry?

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Could someone help me explain this situation

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Can Angular Momentum Change Direction When a Wheel is Flipped Over?

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How Did I Solve a Hard Problem on My Journey?

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How to Find Turning Points of Particle Motion on a Smooth Cone?

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Modern I: Finding energy involving a rotator HCl molecule.

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Solving for $\hat{A}\psi(x)=\psi(x+b)$

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Sakurai pr. 1.18 - bra-c-ket sandwiches

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