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Particle in a Box: Odd/Even Parity Explained

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Why Use a Trigonometric Substitution for a Free-Fall Problem?

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How Does the Doppler Effect Explain the Ambulance Siren Frequency Change?

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Lagrangian for cart with spring and T-shaped pendulum

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What is the Normalisation Constant for an Electron in Spin State?

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How Do Grounded Plates Affect the E Field in a Charged Dielectric?

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How to Find Speed and Tension in a Swinging Rock?

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Radial Equation for Two-Body Central Forces

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Diffraction through a ring aparture

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Gauss' Law as a derivative of the electromagnetic field tensor

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Simple Force Problem (with acceleration and friction)

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How Does a Free Particle's Wave Function Evolve Over Time?

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Quantum mechanics past paper question

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Understanding Relativity: Deciphering Time and Space Graphs

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Work Done, Uniformly Charged Ring

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Is My Work Done in Moving a Point Charge Calculation Correct?

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Normalizing a Non-Normalized Wavefunction

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Energy Eigenstates and Degeneracy: Proving Non-Commuting Observables

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Proving [A,B]=0 for Simultaneous Eigenkets of A and B

  • Bill Foster
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Model Rocket Launch: Impulse, Max Height, and Descent Explained

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How to Solve MTW Gravitation Problems 6.5 and 6.8?

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Lagrangian of a Rotating Mass on a Spring

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Newton's Laws: Solving Vector Forces for Westward Resultant Direction

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Jackson 2.17 on the Laplace equation

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A simple Stop Potential question I thought

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Efficiency of Carnot Engine Question

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Calculating impact parameter

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Physics Geniuses: Mirrors;How many images Produced?

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How frequently a collision takes place in a collider

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Small oscillations problem work shown

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Comparing Bound Charges on Cylindrical Dielectric Surfaces

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What is the Missing Step to Prove the Ladder Operator Equation?

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Angular displacement, velocity and acceleration

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Hamilton's Principle Equations Work Shown

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Relativistic Kinetics: Finding Neutral Pion Speed, Momentum, Energy

  • Unto
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What is the mean free path of conduction electrons in Na at T = 273 K?

  • w3390
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How Do You Calculate Hamilton's Equations of Motion?

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Calculating Resistance of Race Car Nosecone for Head-On Collision

  • Rickcd
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Inside Needle-Like Cavity: E Field in Dielectric Using Gauss's Law

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Evaluating p and p² Expectation Values Using Momentum-Space Wave Function

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Solve Tricky Commutator: Heisenberg Picture, a_k(t)

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Mechanical Energy & Speed of 48kg Block on 188m Hill

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Deriving Steady-State Heat Conduction Equation in a Sphere

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Free relativistic particle (wave function)

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Determining Energy Values for a One-Dimension Spin Chain

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Finding Acceleration in a Cylinder and Wedge Problem

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Charged harmonic oscillator in an electric field

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What Causes Semiconductors to Lack Fermi Surfaces?

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Moment of inertia of a disk by integration

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Why Does a Rolling Tire Maintain Stability Without Tipping Over?

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Integral Using Residue Theorem?

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Relativistic composition law for velocities

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Total Angular Momentum of Two Nucleons: Possible Values?

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The vector potential and the Hamiltonian?

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How Is the Parallel Axis Theorem Applied in Physics IA?

  • soopo
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How Does Galilean Transformation Apply to Moving Coordinate Systems?

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2 questions in electromagnetism.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Problem on vapor pressureI'm stumbled

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Gauss law, having problem with spherical load distribution, me

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Evaluating A-Matrix Transformation for Hemitian Operator

  • Bill Foster
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Split Wave: Practical Approach to Separate Components

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Lower Limit of central pressure in Star

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What Are the Velocities of Protons After a 10GeV Elastic Collision?

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Moment of inertia and Parallel axis theorem

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How Do You Simplify an ADC Circuit Using Kirchhoff's Laws?

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What is the Young's modulus of a nylon rope used for climbing?

  • sowmit
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How does the Stern Gerlach experiment split a beam of hydrogen atoms?

  • Amith2006
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Electromagnetic Theory: Do these Fields Solve the maxwell equations?

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Thermodynamics problem really confusing

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Circuit to Create and Entangled State

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Does \(A e^{iA} = e^{iA} A\)?

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Photon energy threshold for γ+p→p+π, question *interpretation*

  • magiix
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Stress Energy Tensor in Wald's General Relativity - Page 96

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Effective resistance in a pentagram of resistors

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Proton-electron collision, particle produced?

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Sakurai Problem 1.12: Probability of Getting +h/2

  • Bill Foster
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Electromagnetic theory: potential problem

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Ideal gas in two containers reaching pressure equilibrium

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Derive Group Velocity: vg=vp+k(dvp/dk) and vg=vp-λ(dvp/dλ) Explained

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Electric Potential @ center of an equilateral triangle

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Static Equilibrium of Wheel-and-Axle System

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How Does Reflection Affect Radar Signal Interference at Sea?

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Odd Parity of States: 2p m=0, 2p m=1, 26f m=0, 2s

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Average speed of effusing molecules

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What Is the Current Density in a Semiconductor at T>0 K?

  • Niles
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Why assume plane wave far from a point EM radiation source

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Infinite Square Well with uniform probability density for a/4<x<3a/4

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Wave equation in inhomogeneous medium

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How Do You Calculate the Electric Field Between a Wire and a Cylinder?

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Newton's law of cooling and your body

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Charge Densities & Dirac's Delta Function

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Calculation of electric field from a set of equipotential surfaces

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What Is the Bravais Lattice Type and Miller Indices of This Crystal?

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When Do the Energy Eigenstates Align Again?

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Find the normalisation constant using a trial wavefunction

  • martinhiggs
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How to Simplify (3.25) using Rodrigues Formula and Evaluate the Derivative?

  • Bill Foster
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