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The density within of sphere so that gravity is constant

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Need some pointers on some puzzling questions

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Calculating Proton Decay in a Swimming Pool

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How Does Frequency Affect Laser Diffraction Through a Phase Grating?

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Principle Quantum Number - Transition

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Numericals On Electrostatics (including Coloumbs Law)

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Calculating Solid Angle from Light Source: Steradians to Radians?

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Project Ideas for Classical Mechanics

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Power consumption for a specific time period

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Proving 2<T> = <x\frac{dV}{dX}> and Virial Theorem

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Producing 100 iterations from Newton's method in matlab

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Finding the reducible representation for BF3 planar vibrational modes

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The oscillation of liquid in U tube which has an acceleration

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Hermicity of alpha (dirac equation)

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Relativity: Gravitational Redshifting

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D dimension scalar potential for point charge

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Is (d^2/dx^2) a Hermitian Operator?

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Proving time independence of energy eigenstates

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Angular frequency precession of spinning top

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Finding eigenvalue and normalized eigenstate of a hamiltonian

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Find the eigenstates and eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian.

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Perturbation theory: step potential in square well and 2D harmonic oscillator

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Angular momentum components in spherical coordinates

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Launching a rocket to circular orbit with single-stage engine

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How to Calculate Induced EMF and Self-Inductance in a Long Solenoid?

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How High is the Cliff if Radio Waves Interfere at 25 Degrees?

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Solving Classical Mechanics #3d - Momentum p in Jaccobi Function

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The Hamiltonian vs. the energy function

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How Is Electric Potential Calculated Above a Charged Ring?

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Cosmology: Horizon of the universe

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Moment of Inertia Problems and Conservation of Energy

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Freq response of forced sinusoidal motion:

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Terminal velocity of a falling conducting ring

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Self and Mutual Inductance in a Toroid

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Finding Thermal Equilibrium Temperature

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Special Relativity: Pion Decay - Two Photons

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What Angle Does a Bullet-Impacted Pendulum Swing To?

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Commutator-like notation, index notation

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Specific heat capacity and friction

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A problem on the paraxial wave equation?

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Calculating Effective Nuclear Charge using Ionization Energy

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How Do Eigenstates of a Spin System Evolve in Time?

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Kinetics Problem: Finding average normal force

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Using the AC or opening the windows

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Determining the Temperature of a Hydrogen Gas

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Power reflection coefficient of EM radiation on a good conductor

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Solve T2 for the Pulling Force T3 = 98.0 N

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Given the electric flux find the total charge in a tiny sphere

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Calculating Electron Energy Shift with Perturbation Theory

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How Do You Construct and Analyze Spin Matrices for a Spin 1 Particle?

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Air drag and acceleration (not gravity)

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Simple Harmonic Oscillator - Schrodinger Equation

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Maxwell stress tensor between two charged current-carrying cylinders

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Solving Poyntings Vector for a point charge

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Isothermal helium core model with hydrogen envelope

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Is there a video lecture on modern physics coordinates?

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Circular polarization and finding B(x,t) from Faraday's law

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Is there always a potential for conservative motion?

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Classical Mechanics, clyinder inside a cylinder.

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Do (Lz)op and (L^2)op Commute?

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Derive the Period of an Oscillating Sphere

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Solve Tension on Rope: 50kg Mass, 50m Length, 100m Height

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Solve Astrophysics Problems: Quasar Time Scale and Density Models

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Easy variational principle question that I can't integrate

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Special Relativity - Lorentz Force Law

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What is the function for temperature distribution in a rod with heat springs?

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How to Solve for the Magnetic Field of a Bar Magnet?

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Change in entropy in a polytropic process

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Schroedinger's equation with positive energy

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How Do You Calculate Orbital Speed in Different Galactic Density Models?

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Block slides along an elevated track

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Analysis of 4 Equal Masses on a Circular Path

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LEDs different colours and their forward(working) voltage

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Quasar variability timescale and black hole Schwarzschild radius

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The equivilence of Power and Kinetic Energy

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How do I eliminate the Lagrange multiplier to find the wave function?

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What Is Geodesic Incompleteness in General Relativity?

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Minimum Coefficient of Friction for Non-Rolling Disk on Platform

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Transforming coordinates for a vertical hoop

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Classical mechanics-acc. of a rod using inertia

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Expectation value r^2 for a radial wave function

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Quantum tunnelling for a finite-square potential parrier

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Solving for Spring Compression: 2.3kg Dropped 4.82m

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Calculating Spring Constant using Minimum Energy State of hydrogen atom

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How do I effectively normalise the Schrodinger PDF with given conditions?

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Sqaure Wave Fourier Transform question

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What is the relationship of modulus and temperature?

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Proving Feynman Slash Identity: 2a\cdot b

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Describing Physical Events with Spacetime Points

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LS-coupling for configurations with equivalent electrons

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What are the Stress and Strain in each rod?

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How Do Coordinate Systems Affect Acceleration in Rotating Frames?

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How Do You Calculate the Net Force on a Balloon?

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How Are Isospin Values Determined?

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Entropy of a One Dimensional Polymer

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Compton Scattering (Back-Scattering)

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