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What is the effective Lagrangian in General Relativity?

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Magnetoresistance and the Corbino disk

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Boundary Potential Problem- parallel alternating potential

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Expectation value of angular momentum

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Finding the spin-orbit coupling constants of an Alkai transition?

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How Do Relativity and Time Dilation Affect the Time Between Events?

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Electron in a triangular quantum well with triangular barrier

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General to specific classical mechanics

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Central Potential Repulsive Scattering

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Proving an Equation for a Single Component Flat Universe

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Klein Gordon 4-current from Dirac Equation

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Thermodynamics question about glass (quartz)

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Given a set of equations, show if it is a Hamiltonian system

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Coordinate transformations on the Minkowski metric

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Proving Vorticity of Flow in Rotating Cylinder

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Electrostatic Energy of a solid sphere with a cavity

  • Arman777
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How to find the charge at time = t (at any instant)

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Velocity of fluid flowing from a hole at the bottom of a conical shape

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How Do We Visualize the Manifold Structure of a Lie Group?

  • Jason Bennett
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Rotating and tilting charged disk induces a voltage inside a ring

  • Knut
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Question on Quantum Physics- Probability of finding a particle

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Global Positioning System / Clocks in Space

  • Markus Kahn
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Spin Hamiltonian of a hydrogen atom in a magnetic field

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Power flow in a TE mode for a rectangular waveguide

  • PhDeezNutz
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Lorentz algebra elements in an operator representation

  • Jason Bennett
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Magnetostatics and Ampere's law on a finite length wire

  • Telemachus
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Lie groups,Lie algebras, Physics, Lorentz Group,

  • Jason Bennett
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Solutions to schrodinger equation with potential V(x)=V(-x)

  • partyday
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How Does Acceleration Transform in Special Relativity?

  • Markus Kahn
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Landau levels: Hamiltonian with ladder operators

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How can second Schur's lemma lead to inequivalent representations?

  • Heidi
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3-D Planar Method of Images Boundary Problem

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Electric field of light emitted by atom, given the intensity

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Max and min functions in spherical expansions

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Symmetric top with constant charge to mass ratio in a magnetic field

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Rayleigh Scattering: Blue/Red Irradiance Ratio & Distance

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Why is this true? General relativity

  • Replusz
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How to Approach Solving a Variable-Mass System with a Falling Drip?

  • Michael_0039
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Closest approach from initial velocity and impact parameter

  • Kelli Van Brunt
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Momentum Operator for the real scalar field

  • Markus Kahn
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I don't know how to get equation 4.41 here in the image

  • Shuvro1994
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Quadrupole term for uniformly charged sphere (where did I go wrong?)

  • snatchingthepi
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Rewriting Maxwell's Equations in Tensor Form

  • Sycobob
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Diagonalizing a (dimensionless) Hamiltonian

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Understanding Laser Wavelengths: A Beginner's Guide

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How Can Separating Variables Show Scale Factor Growth in Friedmann Equation?

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Need help with Poisson's equation for a charged cylinder

  • snatchingthepi
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Electrodynamics: Conducting sphere of radius R cut in half

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Find the energy lost of the system of a t-shirt cannon

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Determine the singularity type of the given function (Theo. Phys)

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Phase transition between two phases with different Cv

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Incidence on a conductor at an angle greater than the critical angle

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How can I calculate the z-component of the magnetic field using the dot product?

  • gabriellelee
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A rather weird form of a coherent state

  • Markus Kahn
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Derive Fresnel's Equations for Parallel Incidence using Maxwell's BC's

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Differentiating with coordinate transformations

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What Is a Covariance Matrix in Linear Algebra?

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Calculating Divergent Amplitude in Phi-4 Theory

  • Daniel_C
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Multipole expansion for the case r'>>r and r>>r'

  • pallab
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Bra-ket of uncertainty commutator (Sakurai 1.18)

  • Silicon-Based
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Two-level quantum system (from Sakurai)

  • DrClaude
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Fraction of occupied states (Fermi-Dirac distribution + DOS)

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How to calculate a wave function in time t

  • Haorong Wu
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What Is Relativity in Physics?

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Humor in the Workplace: Benefits and Challenges

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Noether's theorem with non-finite transformations

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Understanding Green's second identity and the reciprocity theorem

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Maximizing Planck's law using Taylor polynomial for e^x

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Force & Torque on Electric Dipole in Magnetic Field

  • Snarlie
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Where does this term come from? (pulling a wire loop through a B-field)

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Calculating the radius of curvature given acceleration and velocity

  • Like Tony Stark
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Lagrange Equations of Motion for a particle in a vessel

  • Wombat11
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Determine the change in direction of a particle

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What Is the Role of Symmetry in the Double Slit Experiment?

  • nickap34
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Show that the Kronecker delta retains its form under any transformation

  • blue24
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Initial Value Equations from ADM Formalism - Trying again

  • TerryW
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Is This Reaction Allowed or Forbidden?

  • Aleolomorfo
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Infinitesimal Perturbation in a potential well

  • Baibhab Bose
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Mass Transfer in a Binary Star System

  • Kelli Van Brunt
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##CP^N## model in Peskin & Schroeder problem 13.3

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Bubble chamber experiment on a K− beam

  • Aleolomorfo
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Solving Metric Tensor Problems: My Attempt at g_μν for (2)

  • WWCY
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Biot-Savart for finite volume currents (Wangsness)

  • jack476
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Quantum physics (blackbody radiation)

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Where is a particle most likely to be? (Griffiths Quantum Mechanics)

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What are the expectation values for position and momentum in states Ψ0 and Ψ1?

  • Somali_Physicist
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Thermal Resistance of a Hollow Circular Cone

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Heat Flow Through a Truncated Cone

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Longitudinal distribution for a neutrino beam

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Derive an expression for the applied field of a superconducting wire

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Solve Ehrenfest's Pendulum Equation | Can't Solve It

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How Is Black Hole Entropy Calculated According to Bekenstein-Hawking?

  • DuncanJames
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Effects of KE & PE of a Harmonic Oscillator under Re-scaling of coordinates

  • Baibhab Bose
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Finding a method to compute the magnetic moment of an even-odd nucleus

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Did I Get These Metric Tensors Right?

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