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Which Lens Equation Should I Use for This Optics Problem?

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Electrostatic Force on b: Positive & Negative?

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How Is the Ground State Energy of Two Interacting Ions Calculated?

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Magnetic Field's Equation's querry.

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P(x)dx of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator

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Why Does Kittel's Equation for Fermi Level Include ln(me/mh)?

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Oil tanker accelerating backward to avoid reef collision

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Newton's Law of Motion for a Straight Line Motion

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Solving Bohr Radii and Energy with U=1/2*k*r^2

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Quantum Barrier Potential (should be easy)

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Calculating a Quantum Nomalization Constant

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Minimum mass flow rate for power cycle with steam condenser

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Biot-Savard Law: Find Magnetic Field at Center of Loop

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Simple Harmonic Oscillator - Hamiltonian

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Determine the x-coordinate of the mass center of the homogeneous hemisphere

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What Potential Difference Causes a Charged Sphere to Tilt 30 Degrees?

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Spaceship moving away from light source

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How Does Doppler Broadening Affect Hydrogen's Spectral Lines?

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How Does Changing the Medium Affect the Frequencies of Tubes in Sound Physics?

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Why Don't Neutral Mesons Annihilate Immediately?

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What is the power of the engine in a moving elevator?

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Solving an ODE using Galerkin's method

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How Many Bound States Exist in a Finite Square Well?

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Momentum Equation Homework: Questions & Solutions

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Problem from Eisberg: Blackbody Radiation

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Solve Diving Drag Homework: Time to Reach 2% Speed

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Energy propagation in a circular waveguide

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QM: Groundstates and changing Hamiltonians

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How Does Time-Dependent Perturbation Impact Quantum States?

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Kittel, Chapter 7, Central Equation

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Astrophysics rotational break up velocity

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Circular Motion: Solving for Banked Angle on a 122m Highway Curve

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How Does Jim Perceive Ted and Mary's Game of Catch?

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Is the Time Reversal Transformation Canonical?

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Proving Hamiltonian Invariance with Goldstein Problems

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Kinetic Energy Loss in Head-On Elastic Collision: Mass Ratios

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Analytic mechanics in polar coordinates

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Kinetic friction find greatest acceleration

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Electric Charges: Balancing Electrostatic & Gravitational Forces

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Calculating Time and Distance in Lorentz Transforms: A Homework Example

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What is the explanation for spin 1/2 in the x-direction?

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Angular Momentum of Two Particle System

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Clarification needed in tunneling problem

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Derivation of incompressible navier-stokes

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Boltzmann statistics - finding the number of particles

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Energy Density in the Electric Field of a Charged Sphere

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Is Infinite Energy Possible?

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Swing problem harmonic motion problem

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Can Anna Reach Planet 2 in 30 Years?

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Tricky Kinematics Problems - Desperately

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When Is Kinetic Energy Equal to Rest Energy for a Proton?

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Solving Gauss's Law for Constant Electric Field: q, a, b

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How Far Is the Diagonal Distance from the Ramp to the Final Resting Place?

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Where does a field line meet the surface of the conductor?

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What Frequency Range Keeps the Spring Safe in Driven Oscillations?

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Z coordinate of the center of gravity

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Mixed States of Silver Atoms in a Stern-Gerlach Experiment

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Acceleration of Gravity inside a planet

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Velocity and acceleration of a ball while it is rising in the air

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How Do I Solve These Complex Newtonian Force Problems?

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How to Find Maximum Spring Compression from Dropped Mass?

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Griffiths Electrodynamics book: Electric potential

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In QM: How to derive <x|f> from f_n(x)?

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How Do You Calculate Average Velocity for Multiple Directions?

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How much curvature are we talking about?

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Spacing between interference maxima

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How Does Changing Charge Affect Potential and Electric Field?

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Can you solve the T and U paradox? Spacetime diagrams and explanations needed!

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Calculating the Probability of Two Random Walkers Meeting After N Steps

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[PhD Quals] Plasma Moments Equations, vector calc

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Two Insulating Spheres in Each Other's Electric Field

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Divergence and curl of vector field defined by \vec A = f(r)vec r

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Why Can't I Use Time Dilation to Calculate Relative Time for the Ball?

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Does the Expectation of Momentum Vanish for a Real Wavefunction?

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Commutator of 4-momentum and position

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Acceleration of a ball thrown upwards.

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Statistical Mechanics Solutions: R K Pathria Book

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Retreiving potential from Poisson's equation

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Quantum Mechanics: Normalization Requirements (E>Vmin)

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Analyzing a Cylindrically Symmetric Plasma Column

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Poissons' equation of find potential

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Solve Delta Potential Well for Scattering Matrix & Prove Unitarity

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Are These Geometrical Optics Diagrams Correct?

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What is the solution for a critical damped SHM equation?

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What Is the Speed of a Bowling Ball When It Rolls Without Sliding?

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Projectile Motion with few variables

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Solving Optics Diffraction Questions: Orders & Intensity Pattern

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The difference btn positive and negative potential quantum well

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When do I use the work energy theorem?

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According to Mary,how fast is the ball moving?

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Product rule for time derivative in expectation value integral

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Quantum Mechanics - Ehrenfest's Theorem

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Diffusion eq. with periodic BC using method of images

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Total Charge (Spheres and Potential)

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