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Maximizing the height of a bullet in cylindrical coordinates

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Polar coordinates and radius of curvature

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Is Net Internal Torque Really Zero in All Cases?

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What Are the Masses and Uncertainties of Sirius A & B?

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Electric field continuity at the surface of a uniformly charged sphere

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Momentum conservation of asteroid in a dust cloud

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Accommodation and Diopters Range for Bifocal Optics

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Electric Field of Spherical Conductors Connected by Wire

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E-Field in Hollow Polarized Dielectric

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How Does Jet Propulsion Determine a Boat's Steady Forward Speed?

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Quadrupole moment from two point dipoles rotated 180°

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What Are the Radii of the Two Stars in This Binary System?

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Potential of uniformly charged disk off axis

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Solving Extrasolar Planet Orbital Radius & Angular Displacement Problems

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Finding Maximum Momentum of a Rocket in Vacuum

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What are the equations for the Fresnel power coefficients?

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Dot and cross product with vectors in xy plane

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Prove commutator expansion identity e^xA B e^-xA

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Time-averaged potential of hydrogen

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Quantum Mechanics: Measuring Position and Momentum

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Lorentz Transformations In 2 Dimensions

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Linear Charge Density and Divergence: Finding the Variation of D

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Oil height between coaxial tubes with dielectric

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Van der Waals gas - free energy

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Finding V and E above a uniformly charged ring

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Eigenkets/addiction of angular momentum

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Potential function for the Time-Independent Schrodinger eq.

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Why is wavelength (2πc)/ω instead of c/f?

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Spherical asteroid moving through a dust cloud

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Calculate the masses of two binary stars

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Relativity: Conversion of Mass and Energy

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Calculating uncertainty of local gravity

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Why is Term 4 Non-Zero in the Center of Mass Frame?

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How to calculate dA of a hemisphere.

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Sperical coords: Position vector of spinning disk.

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Finding Voltage Across A Resistor in a 1st Order RC Circuit

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Y=y(x) of a particle on the xy plane experience F=-kr

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I have a few question concerning Black Boxes

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Force On Object With Constant Speed

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Deriving kinematic equations from average velocity and acceleration

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Stat mech problem on order parameter

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Force between two charged hemispheres

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Finding the third charge for zero net work assembling equilateral triangle

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Solutions of of the time-independent Schrodinger eq.

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"Understanding Commuting Observables Proof

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Portion of water that is frozen when in equilibrium

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What are the different types of electromagnetic forces?

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Expectation value of Coulomb potential depends on relative spin

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Matrix elements of one-body operator

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Mechanics: Equation of Motion Don't understand teacher's solution

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QM: position and spin dependent potential

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Resonance - working out damping constant and damping factor

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Are the Eigenvalues of the Zero Ket Always Zero?

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What is the Normal Force Exerted by a Girl Pushing a Lawn Mower?

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Net force on a charged particle at the center of three equal charges

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Point charge at a boundary between dielectrics

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Solve Rotating Mass Tensions: Find Tup and Tlow

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Uncertainty relation: minimum value

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Quantum harmonic oscillator: ladder operators

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What is the Orbital Period of Eris, the Tenth Planet?

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Electric Potential Energy of A System of Point Charges

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What Are the Limitations of Bohr's Atom Model in Electron Distribution?

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Finding |ψ(x,t)|² for Gaussian wave packet in Merzbacher 15.9

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How Do You Graphically Determine the Resultant of Three Vector Displacements?

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What is the Radiance of Solar Radiation at Earth Orbit?

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Slip & Non-Slip conditions for a Cylinder

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Adding Op-Amp Circuit: Weighting Inputs

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Plotting Dirac Delta Function in Maple14: Troubleshooting

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Expressing the Hamilitonian in c.o.m. coordinates

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What Are the Miller Indices for the Bragg Reflections?

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Solve Electrostatic Problem with Y.K.Lim Problem & Solutions

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Can a non-inverting op-amp circuit have Rf=Ri = 0? And what is its purpose?

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Why Would a Fourth Type of Neutrino Increase Annihilation Rates?

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Elastic pendulum - Lagrangian approach

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Photon energy, momentum, and velocity

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How Does a Mooney Rhomb Convert Linear Light to Circular Polarized Light?

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Construct a partition function for the system

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Where Should Electric Potential Be Zero in Plane Integration?

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Bcs theroy, just an easy algebraic manipulation

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Kinetic energy of nuclear reaction

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Solv Gauss's Law Questions | Zack's Search

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What is the resulting intensity maximum at a minimum?

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What is the significance of the double commutator in energy relations?

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Which lattice plane shows no diffraction peak in fcc crystal?

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Variational principle & lorentz force law

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Ressistance when current-density is not constant

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Finding energy measurement probability from wavefunction coefficients

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Changing values of R in a RLC series circuit

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Vanishing Wavefunction: Show Expectation Values of x and p Vanish

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QM Question: Calculating [H,p] for a Particle in a Potential V(x)

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Particle energy and momentum in different reference frames

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How to Calculate the Electric Field of an Infinite Plane at a Specific Point?

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