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Why is the ground state always symmetric?

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Total electric charge on the earth,

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Distance between photons travelling from a bulb to your eye

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Electric field charge density question

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Calculation of work done by/on engine

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Numerical Estimation of the momentum of free electrons

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Statistical physics:boltzman distribution

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How Can Copper Wire Mimic the Magnetic Field of Steel Wire?

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Sakurai, p. 59, Pr 1.6 - critique the proof

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Why Doesn't All the Ice Melt When Mixed with Warmer Water?

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Albedo and surface temperature of the Earth

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What is the Momentum of Particle A in a 3-Particle Collision?

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Dependence between jerk and acceleration

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Is the angular span of a body executing s.h.m always 2.pi?

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Hamiltonian in cylindrical coordinates

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Chain with distance-dependent mass problem

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Rate of change of pressure with volume, adiabatic vs isothermal conditions

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Unveiling the Mystery of O in F = F0 + kBT log c + ½ cb1 + O (c2)

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Rounding for 10% Error: (106 +/- 11) k^2 Hz^2?

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How is Kinetic Energy Conserved in an Elastic Collision?

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Density of States Homework: Show $\rho=Vk^{2}/\pi^{2}$

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What Is the Average Force of Impact on a Ball Struck by a Bat?

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Electron and hole concentrations

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What Do the Terms in the Semiconductor Density Equation Represent?

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What is the Probability of Measuring 2a in State |\varphi (t)\rangle\right?

  • Denver Dang
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How to Solve for the Capacity of Two Identical Conducting Spheres in Contact

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How Does an Electron Behave in a 1D Crystal Potential Well?

  • wavingerwin
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What is the Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moment of a Rotating Charged Sphere?

  • shaun_chou
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Answer: What is the angle \alpha in B's frame with relativistic kinematics?

  • PhMichael
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Calculating visibility of interference fringe

  • Bacat
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Quantum Energy levels in atomic, molecular, nuclear and solid state physics

  • MetaKnightX
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Capacitor of different plate dimensions

  • arka210
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Determine the mean of the position <x> in a state

  • Ylle
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Confused about Quantum Mechanics and Causality

  • oddthingy
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Orbital angular momentum quantum number

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What are the total angular momentum states for l = 3, s = ½?

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Sketching Dispersion Relations for Protons, Free Electrons & Solid Electrons

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Finding the probability of energy measurements

  • Denver Dang
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Bragg Diffraction angle definitions

  • Cruikshank
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A particle experiences a potential energy given by U (x) = (x2 – 3)e- x^2

  • acusanelli
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Ratio of the number of atoms in the n = 2 energy level

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Calculate the energies of the six lowest states

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Fermi energy and ratio of the number of occupied levels at an energy

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Can a Free Electron Absorb Any Photon?

  • AshsZ
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Frequency shift of emitted photon due to recoil

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Plating Eyeglasses: How Long for 0.5g Gold/Copper?

  • get_physical
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Total Resistance: Calculate 8Ω Circuit, Don't Get It?

  • paulwct
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A spinning top - moment of inertia/ Torque/ Angular momentum

  • Theknight330
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When Will Two Particles Converge in a Tricky Kinematics Problem?

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Plane-polarized electromagnetic waves

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Alpha Decay of Polonium-210 Homework

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Solving Ferromagnet Ques: Get G_q(\omega) from (hbarw-h)G_ff'(\omega)

  • Petar Mali
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Understanding Spinor Formulation in Quantum Mechanics

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Planck's formula for Blackbody Radiation

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Finding the energy of a system using the partition function

  • dacruick
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Solve Solid Compressability Homework Problem Involving Copper Block

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Electromagnetism of particle problem

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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What Is the Energy of an Electrostatic Field Between Concentric Spheres?

  • Petar Mali
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How small for perturbation theory to be valid?

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Is a Theoretical Comparison Suitable for an IB Extended Essay in Physics?

  • Moss Pauly
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How to Calculate the Expectation Value of H'?

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Where Is Power Dissipated in an RC Circuit?

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Forces and moments in a hole puncher

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Why Is Gravity So Much Weaker Than Electric Force?

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Charges set on 4 corners of a square

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How Does Inelastic Collision Facilitate Ionization and Excitation in Plasma?

  • VulpineNinja
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Parallel vs anti parallel electron spin

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Thermodynamics - Thermal expansion (linear)

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Calculate the time required in millions of years for one orbit.

  • quah13579
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Radius of the sun and earth not flat

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Mechanics problem involving trig and forces.

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How many extra electrons does the toner particle carry?

  • jbirse
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X-ray Diffraction: Why Are Peaks of Different Intensities?

  • abcdmichelle
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The equivalent lagrangian and the derivative

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Magnetic field of elliptical coil (at all points in space)

  • JSand
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How to determine if a point is within a triangle?

  • sumanbk
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Finding the average energy density of an EM wave in a magnetic field

  • Matt S
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Magnets sliding down metal sheets (slower then non metals)

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Calculating Heisenberg Uncertainty for Nuclei of Radius r

  • zak8000
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Kinematics: Solving 2 Projectile Flight Time Diff.

  • Kyoma
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Measuring the Polarisation of Light

  • Miss_Astro
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How to Compute the Ensemble Average of a Product of Integrals?

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Basic exercise for finding a Lagrangian from the Landau's Mechanics

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De Broglie's Wavelength (matter wave)

  • wavingerwin
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Average Energy of Boltzmann Distribution

  • mamela
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Acoustic and Optical Branches for Waves on a Diatomic Row of Masses

  • mamela
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How to find the resultant of 3d vector?

  • asanka000
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QED - correctly expressing a sum over spin-polarizations

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What Is the Minimum Velocity for Particle Collision to Form New Particles?

  • PhMichael
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RGB Tristimulus Graph: Negative Red Values Explained

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Need a Modern Physics Formula Sheet?

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Solve Refraction Problem: Aquarium Height & Diam.

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