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How to Calculate Moment of Inertia for a Rotating Solid Sphere?

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Is Faraday's Law Always Zero?

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Total charge through point on wire due to changing current on other wire

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Show \hat{O}^2 is Hermitian Given \hat{O} is Hermitian

  • latentcorpse
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Solving a Differential Equation: y'/(1+y'^2) = 2y^2 + C

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Why is F a function of the similarity variable in dimensional analysis?

  • chewwy
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How Does Charge Distribution Affect Electric Field Magnitude?

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Calculated the expectation of the energy

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How Is the Christoffel Symbol Related to the Metric Tensor's Determinant?

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Can Quantum States Be Normalized Individually?

  • latentcorpse
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Special relativity inertial reference frames.

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Special Relativity- momentum and energy

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Structure formation/Gravitational collapse

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How does the Helmholtz energy formula intuitively make sense?

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Electron Degeneracy in Main Sequence Stars

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A question with capacitor and a switch

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What Is the Period of a Thin Rod Swinging as a Compound Pendulum?

  • roeb
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Proving Electron in Energy Eigenstate Can't Be in Lz or Sz Eigenstate

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Hartree-Fock determinant and Hartree product theorem

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How to Construct the Spin Operator in an Arbitrary Direction?

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Parabolic Coordinates: u,v,φ in x,y,z

  • latentcorpse
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What is the point of rotation for a plank kicked on ice?

  • phys_learner
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What is the <x> for given wavefunction A*exp(-(\sqrt{}Cm/2h)x^{}2)?

  • fredrick08
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How Do You Calculate the Spring Constant in Van der Waals Potential?

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What is the Lowest Energy State of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator?

  • fredrick08
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Normalization constant for Hydrogen atom

  • Reshma
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Finding the rotation axis and angle from an SU(2) element

  • negru
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Behaviour of electron in hydrogen atom when hit by photon

  • serverxeon
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Amplification ratio for forced,damped motion

  • John 123
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Are These Functions Eigenfunctions of the Momentum Operator?

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Kirchhoff's rules and solving circuit matrices on TI-83

  • phyznub
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Optics - Double Slit Irradiance of Fringes

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Can You Verify These True/False Statements About 1D Motion?

  • bbkid555
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Proton-Antiproton Annihilation

  • Skatch
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Griffiths elementary particles book equations 6.34 and 6.31

  • negru
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Does acceleration affect time dilation in relativity?

  • alviros
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Estimating t Dependency on Proton Separation d

  • Lisa...
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Calculating Wave Frequency for Boat Moving Westward

  • tommyhakinen
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Proving the Dirac delta function integral property

  • jaejoon89
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What is the uncertainty principle?

  • DrMon
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Quantum Mechanics, Angular momentum, Spin

  • mistergrimes
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Complex Wave Vector in Partial Reflection at a Conductor Interface

  • _Andreas
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Solving Coulomb's Law: Using Mass, Length, and Charge

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Energy stored in 57-turn air-core solenoid with 0.634 A current

  • rinarez7
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What is the total probability for the given wavefunction?

  • DummBlonde
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Gravitation Problem: Force of Sphere on Sheet

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Aerodynamics of paper plane flight

  • USCandDuke114
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Understanding 1D Walks and Their Properties

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Mass of charged particle in magnetic field

  • rinarez7
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Jeep kinematics with changing acceleration

  • JoshT-UOIT
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Change in momentum of a photon upon reflection from a mirror

  • serverxeon
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Zero probability of the wavefunction for a particle in a finite space

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How Does Temperature and Pressure Affect Gibbs Free Energy in Water?

  • pentazoid
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Eff. Pot. Homework: Struggling with Algebra

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Change in temperature when pressure increases adiabatically

  • tan90
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Neutron beam attenuation and elastic scattering from U-238 foil

  • Steven Brown
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Brachistochrone on the surface of a sphere

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Derive delta potential bound states from finite square well

  • shehry1
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Maximum temperature a material can reach from a heat source

  • Niles
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What is the Correct De Broglie Wavelength for a C60 Molecule?

  • math_04
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Special relativity, relative velocities

  • C.E
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Relativity- stars and spacecraft.

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Just a quicky (Schrodinger's equation)

  • DanAbnormal
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Minkowski/Twin Paradox: Examining an Objection to STR

  • mrbeddow
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Proving a squared Hermitian operator is Hermitian

  • kehler
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Compton Scattering cross section calculation

  • DeShark
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Energy of a photon gas: two ways to get it, two different answers

  • Pacopag
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Solving Laplace equation for potential between two spheres

  • rabbit44
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Hydrogen bound by only grav force (Bohr theory etc)

  • kpou
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Parallel LCR resonant frequency derivation for larger resistances

  • QuarterWit
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Finding Uncertainty in Lambda Using Michelson-Interferometer

  • shonen
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Interesting system of ODE, application in physics?

  • atanas1234
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How Do State Functions Apply to a Multi-Step Thermodynamic Process?

  • jaejoon89
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Hydrostatic force on a submerged object

  • ACE_99
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Double Slit Interference (nonzero slit width)

  • TOD
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Energy levels and the Aufbau Principle

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Can you contract the electromagnetic tensor like this?

  • redstone
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Electric field at tip of uniformly charged cone

  • musemonkey
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Linear independence of x(t) and y(t) solutions for 2D harmonic oscillator

  • bcjochim07
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How Do the Sun's Layers Differ in Energy Production?

  • irbadatphysic
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Is the Hamiltonian \( H = p^2 - x^4 \) Hermitian?

  • logscale
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LC Circuits with variable frequency

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(Thermo) Tank of N is heated, valve opened, find time duration

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What is the Minimum Height for Anchoring the Cable to the Wall?

  • SpeedPhysics
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How to Decompose a Tensor into Lambda, F, and V Components?

  • latentcorpse
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How to Draw a Minkowski Diagram for the Twin Paradox?

  • latentcorpse
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What Is the Force Law for Stars Moving in the Galaxy?

  • Gogsey
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How can I calculate bulk modulus from an elastic tensor?

  • saray1360
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Finding velocity components of charged particle in E and B fields

  • Johnson
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What is the Ground State Wave Function for an Electron in a 1D Potential?

  • ktravelet
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What should be the intensity of receiving fibers for proper reception?

  • Jeff123
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Spring constant of a horizontal wire

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