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Finite Spherical Potential Well

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What is the solution to the Doppler Effect and Fire Truck Homework?

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Mass on a spring inside a box falling under gravity

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How do I solve this circuit using superposition and Ohm's law?

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Calculating Relativistic Mass of Photon & Electron

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Understanding the Kronig-Penney Model in Solid State Physics"

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Relativistic speed involving particle decay

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Solving the Photon Lifetime in a Cavity: A Beginner's Guide

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Do Operators Have Units?

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The form factor of a radial gaussian charge distribution

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Understanding Negative Torque and Angular Acceleration in Harmonic Movement

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Where Does the Pi Come From in the BCC Brillouin Zone Calculation?

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Calculate Runway Length for Airplane Take-Off (330.2 Tonnes)

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Two short electrodynamics questions

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How Fast Will a Charged Sphere Move Along the Axis of a Ring Charge?

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Solving the Vertical Plane Pendulum: Energy Levels & Corrections

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Theoretical diagonalazation question

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Designing a Thermometer to Measure Negative Temperature

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Kinetic energy of a recoiling nucleus

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Motion of a particle subject to a variable resisitive force

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Ampére's Law Cylindrical Conductor with Hole

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Why Can We Freely Choose the Divergence of A in Electromagnetic Theory?

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Variance of a harmonic motion particle

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QM: Changing indices of wavefunctions

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How Is Angular Velocity Calculated in a Hinged Rod Scenario?

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Why Is Only the Electric Field Considered in Polarisation?

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"Emissivity Problem - 8000K Plasma at 325nm

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Magnetic Moment of Uniformly Charged Rotating Sphere

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Ricky Bobby: High Speed Adventure on the Highway

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Mandl and Shaw, page 16, eqn (1.56)

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What do the notations 1s, 2s, and 2p mean in relation to atomic orbitals?

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Energy released in particle decay w/ relativity

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Penetration of an energy step when KE > U

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What Causes the Shadow in a Cup?

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Angle of reflection with moving mirror, SR

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Solve ODE for Free Fall with Drag: Find v(t)

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How can I easily derive this tricky integral?

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How Does Gravity Affect an Astronaut's Weight Near the Moon?

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Total Transmission Across Finite Barrier Potential with E>V

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Refractive index snell's law help

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Calculating coulombs with 3 charges

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Uncertainty in the position of a particle, and momentum question

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Lagrange equation problem involving disk

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Physicist Needed to Verify Relativistic Derivations?

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Exploring Different Methods for Measuring Refractive Index

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Special relativity - frames of reference

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Density of states (solid state)

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Where Can I Find SUSY Exercises and Problems for Supersymmetry?

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How Many Degrees of Freedom Does a Ball Rolling Down a Wedge Have?

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Estimating Ground State Energy Correction of Hydrogenic Atom

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Infinite Well Potential : going from 0<x<L to 0<x<2L

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Two-Dimensional Motion of a Particle: Velocity & Acceleration

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Finding Observable Values from Hermitian Measurement Operators

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Algebraic Assistance In Relativistic math

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Lorentz Invariance & Finding Lambda Expression

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Solving Diffusion Problem Homework Statement

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Do Lz and L^2 Commute?

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Solving Integral Limit Trouble: A_x Calculation

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Is the Scalar Product Invariant Under Coordinate Changes?

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Fluid Problem: Force on a Metal Cube Immersed in Water

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Electric field points with 3 charges

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Passive Transport Homework: Solving Diffusion Problems

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Solve Mass Flow Rate Problem: U(max) at R=0.16 m

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Capacitors in Series: Finding Equivalent Capacitance and Stored Charge

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Atwood machine probolem: Apply Lagrangian equations

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Differential free falling bodies

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Solving Simple Harmonic Motion: Algebraic Trick Needed?

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How Can I Verify a Canonical Transformation Using the Poisson Bracket?

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Derive Potential Energy from Newtons graviational law

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How Much Force Does the 2kg Block Exert on Adjacent Blocks?

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Tipping Force, Torque, Coefficient of Desperation

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Normalisation of Schrodinger Eq.

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Why Is Gravity Less at the Equator than at the Poles?

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How Do You Calculate the Height and Latitude of a Geostationary Satellite?

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Computing Eigenfunctions for a One-Dimensional Operator

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Travel Time of a Wave Pulse Through Two Steel Wires

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Method of Images - Need a hint

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Finding the Spring constant without knowing the mass

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Solving Free-fall: 10kg Object Dropped from Great Height

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How do you take take this integral?

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QM: Prove Dirac Eigenstates of SHO are Orthonormal

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Help w/ Seaborn's Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

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Energy of a particel in a gravitational field

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QM. subjective questions about wavefunction

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How to Correctly Represent Microstates in an Einstein Solid?

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Approximate Speed of Object Dropped from Height h with Variable Gravity

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Solving Small Oscillations Homework: Find Equilibrium & Frequency

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Find the principal moments of inertia of a flat rectangular plate

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Transmission function of diffraction grating aperture

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Temperature and Internal Energy/Time to heat water

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Do Coronal Holes and Sunspots Represent the Same Phenomenon?

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Derivation of equation of motion from various forces.

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Air friction on a A4 paper ( Classical Mechanics )

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HELP A problem on determine electric field in vector form

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