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Solving Muon Momentum Decay: Maximizing Expression & Intuition

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The shape of the surface of a soap film

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4-acceleration in a circular orbit around a black hole

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Finding the Probability for a Particle in an Infinite Potential Well

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Why are vector mesons more massive than pseudoscalar mesons?

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How to compute the variation of two covariant derivatives?

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Transmittance calculation in COMSOL

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QFT for Gifted Amateur - Problem 2.2

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Capacitance with dielectric permittivity that depends on r

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Internal Energy of a Mole of Particles each with 3 Energy Levels

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Calculating drag and pressure forces from numerical simulations

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Spin-0 Particles: Help Understanding Test Process

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Moisture Ratio in Air: Why Do Tables Stop at 50°C?

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Converting source intensity to the maximum reach of beam flux

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Help with a series expansion in Marion & Thornton

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Calculate the energy release of an atom

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Basic fluid mechanics questions about an oceanography paper

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How can you visualize ALMA image data using the Viridis colormap?

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Perturbation expansion with path integrals

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Potentials (and ##\Delta\phi##) of nearby converging bodies

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Solving Ising Spin 1 Model w/ Transfer Matrix Method

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The work function and mutual forces between particles

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Inverted pendulum balance dynamics equations

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Help with a complex integration in QFT

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How to obtain the Sellmeier equation based on a new material?

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What Is Landau Damping and Why Is It Important in Plasma Physics?

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Black cube, maximal and minimal value of equilibrium temperature T

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Dirac Delta using periodic functions

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Factor of 1/2 in Hubbard Hamiltonian?

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How can you derive the expression for ds from a light ray's path?

  • Fernando Rios
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Circuit for the inverse quantum Fourier transform

  • Haorong Wu
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1D Green function for a charged layer

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Calculating a Non-Uniform Electric Field Given 6 different Electrode Pairs

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BCH Formula Example: Solving with [b,b^{\dagger}]=I

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[Quantum Computing] Verify a circuit implementing and operation

  • Haorong Wu
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Show that ##pV^\gamma## is a constant for an adiabatic process

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Why Is the Current Density Inside a Sphere Constant?

  • Nirmal Padwal
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Compute the energy for 2D wave function with discontinuous derivatives

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Expectation value of operators and squeezing in the even cat state

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Proton Structure: De Broglie Wavelength & Resolution

  • Federica
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What are the rate equations for neutron capture on unstable nuclei B?

  • solidbastard
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Need help regarding the derivation of a 2-particle wavefunction

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Did I correctly set up the two loop scalar integral?

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Ladder Operators: Commutation Relation & Beyond

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How to derive this (Lagrangian of mattress) from Zee's book

  • Clara Chung
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Where Did I Go Wrong in Deriving Tensor Component Derivatives?

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Aerodynamics and Torque calculation

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Prove: angular momentum is preserved

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Heat engine undergoing an elliptical cycle

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Eigenstates of a free electron in a uniform magnetic field

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How Is the Wigner Function Calculated for an Even Coherent State?

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Field in the presence of a background electromagnetic field

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Equivalent representations for Dirac algebra

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How Does Conservation of Momentum Apply to Particle Decay?

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Commutativity of partial and total derivative

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Diffraction -- Calculate the interference lost orders due to diffraction

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Probability of being in a state is given, Find the normalised wavefunction

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Sn(u), Jacobi elliptic function, for simple pendulum of any amplitude

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How to compute the surface an N-sphere using delta functions

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Where does energy come from in QFT?

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How do I evaluate [x, SinPx] commutator

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Magnetic Field around two magnetic boxes

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Beta-function for the Gross-Neveu model

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Contour Integral from Peskin & Schroeder Intro to QFT

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What happens/takes place in the molybdenum nucleus

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Shelf in a box, treating the shelf as a weak perturbation

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Squared length of 4-momentum g(p,p)?

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Calculate the thermal diffusivity from minimal information

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Power being transported down the cable

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What is the Mean Expected Volume of a Finite Universe?

  • Buzz Bloom
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How can I derive Eq 9.5.11 in Scully's Quantum Optics

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Position to momentum space in three dimensions

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Potential from point charge at distance ##l## from conducting sphere

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Is This Surface Integral Correct?

  • Apashanka
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Asymptotic behavior of Airy functions in the WKB method

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What do the numbers in the table represent for the transformation of fields?

  • HerrBlatt
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Single photon wave packet autointerference

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How to present the charges of quarks with the following Nc?

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Heat transfer along the joint bar with one side diffusion-convection

  • sharky444
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Finding the y axis on a probability density graph

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Derivation of the wave equation on a curved space-time

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Constant of proportionality in probability of superposition of states

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What is the total charge on the grounded conductive shell?

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Merry Go Round conservation of angular momentum

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Three dimensional ##\delta## function

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Pressure change at the inlet of a steam turbine in a small electric power plant

  • HethensEnd25
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Can Bloch sphere be used to represent mixed states in quantum computation?

  • Haorong Wu
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Derivation of eq. (N.10) on page 791 of Appendix N in Ashcroft's SSP.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Explain the energy levels of Samarium-154

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Average electric field over a spherical surface

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The Potential Energy Function in Three-Dimensional Motion

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Question about microstates and electrons

  • Clara Chung
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GR:KvFs & Geodesics: Solving for L & Derivatives

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What will be ##\int_{v'}\vec \nabla_{v'}(1/R)dv'##

  • Apashanka
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Amplitude with Feynman diagrams and gluon propagators

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Relativity - energies of particles in circular motion

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Equation of motion using Runge-kutta 4 and Verlet algorithm

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