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How to Calculate the Kinetic Energy of a Moving Spring?

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Sliding on the surface of a rough sphere (ploting theta in excel)

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Solve Drag Force Questions for Sky Diver of Mass 80.0kg

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How is Maximum Height Determined in Unsteady Fluid Flow into a Cylinder?

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Write the Magnetic Field of a dipole in coordinate-free form?

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Inequality involving positive definite operator

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Anitsymmetric tensor/switching indices problem

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Help with Quantum Mechanics and Continuity Equation

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Magnetic Potential of Long Straight Wire: 65 Chars

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Quantum SHM with Finite Potential and Hermite Polynomials

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Fourier transform for a localized free particle

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Using the Hamiltonian Method for Constrained Motion on a Cylinder Surface

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Pendulum motion lagrange's equation

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Magnetic Field of a quarter circle loop of charge

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Derivation of voltage for vacuum diode space charge region

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Zeeman Splitting: Para & Orthohelium Transitions

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How Far Will Muon Beams Travel Before Halving in Intensity?

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Viscosity of Sugar: Calculating Avogadro# & Molecule Size

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Magnetic Field of an Infinite Solenoid

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Calculate Rotation Curve v(R) for Test Particles

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Where Should I Place Image Charges for a Conducting Wall and Charged Sphere?

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What's with this separation of variables business?

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How to Find Potential Energy from Force in a Particle's Motion?

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How Does the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Apply to a Power Station's Efficiency?

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Angular momentum problem - am I right?

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Magnetic Potential: Computing the Curl of $\mathbf{A}$

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Hiker climbs top of mountain; energy conversion problem

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Comparing u-dot and Acceleration: What's the Difference?

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Circuit Breakers - tripping or not tripping?

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Car's maximum velocity in a straight then deceleration

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Calculate Magnetic Induction in Cylindrical Hole w/ Uniform Current

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QM: Hamiltonians and energies of a system

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QM: expectation value of a harmonic oscillator (cont.)

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What is the thermal energy of the gas?

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Solid Conducting sphere inside a conducting spherical shell

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Velocity of insulating sphere before colliding with other insulatin spherre

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Electric field at point p if p is on a bisector between two opposite charges

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Finding equivalent resistance with parallel resistors in a mixed circuit

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Calculating Lowest Energy Levels of a Rigid Spherical/Cubic Box

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QM: expectation value of a harmonic oscillator

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Diffusion Ques: Unintuitive Concentration Change Over Time?

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Solving the Problem of an Infinite Chain Slipping Down a Table

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What Can the Wave Function for Hydrogen Tell Us About Its Properties?

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Hermitian Operators and Eigenvalues

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Solving the Schrödinger equation for hydrogen atom

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Question on Lorentz space-time transformations

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How much of potential energy stored in conducting sphere

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Electric potential, solution to Laplace's Eq.

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Calculating absolute magnitude and apparent magnitude

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What is the Total Force on a Wire Segment in a Uniform Magnetic Field?

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Help me in michelson interferometer

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How to Calculate the Metric and Christoffel Symbols for GR Flat and Curved Space

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What is the Potential Above a Charged Cylindrical Shell?

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Can Symmetry Arguments Simplify Ampere's Law for Solenoids?

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X-ray Powder Diffraction: Determine Structure of Crystal

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Relative Velocity in a Left-Hand Turn

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Proving Complex Wave Function: |ψ1 + ψ2|^2 in [0, 4α]

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Help me come up with a computational physics project

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How can I solve the Magnetic Field Integral for a current loop?

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[qft] Srednicki 2.3 Lorentz group generator commutator

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Magnet and Charge: Rotation Direction?

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How Do I Combine Capacitor and Inductor Impedances in Parallel?

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Potential Step-Down: Questions & Answers

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Why Can the Hamiltonian Be Split for a Stationary State?

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How Old is Pollux When He Returns to Earth?

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What are the corrections to the energy in a quantum mechanical system?

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How Does Doubling Charge Affect Electric Field Strength in a Capacitor?

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Pauli Hamiltonian & Electron Mass/Charge/Spin: Show Equivalence

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How Fast Must You Travel to Reach Pleiades in 10 Years?

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Quantum Mechanics - Spherical Harmonics

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How Do You Solve the Tortoise & Hare Race Problem?

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Find Focal Length of Biconcave Lens with Galilean Telescope

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What is the Angular Speed of a Falling H-Shaped Rod Assembly?

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How does one do the following Integral.

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Calculate Change in Momentum of Mass m Launched at 45° Angle

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Electric Potential of Uniformly Charged Sphere

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Rotation Spectrum of a diatomic molecule (QM)

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Nonconductive wall with charge density and finding electric field

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How to Determine the Transmission Coefficient for a Rectangular Barrier?

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Which Formula Should I Use for Calculating the Vector Product?

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Potential Difference V_ad: Solving with Switch S Closed

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Calculating Electrostatic Energy for a Uniformly Charged Sphere?

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Why does [A, [B, C]] + [B, [C, A]] + [C, [A, B]] equal zero?

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What is the Best Circuit Design for a LED Water Temperature Display?

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Calculate the momentum of a 249 MeV pion

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Feynman diagram interpretation - 2 electrons in and 2 electrons out

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Find an expression for the electric potential

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Motion of a charge in a magnetic field

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I must find the depth of the well. (Waves)

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Cosmic Rays passing through a magnetic field

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Why does the method of images use a distance of 2x instead of just x?

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Electron in a uniform magnetic field

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How far apart are two stars resolved by a 68-cm telescope?

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Fabry-Perot Interferometer: Energy Conservation

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