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Angular Momentum: Adding Electron Spin in Hydrogen Atom

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How are Clebsch-Gordan coefficients derived for the Delta(1232) particle?

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What Are the Dimensions of a Wave Function in Various Box Problems?

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Scattering Vs Absorption Crossection

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Motion of Charges: Surface Charge Density

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Solving Newton's Laws: Get Help Here!

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Calculate the coefficint of kinetic friction between the slide and the child

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Electric field of an infinite plane and a conductor

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2 spin 1/2 particles in magnetic field

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Implementing critically damped in a process control system.

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Calculating clebsch gordan coefficients

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Simple Taylor or Multipole Expansion of Potential

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What is the standard deviation for a rock dropped off a cliff?

  • Bill Foster
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Question on Electric Potential

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What Does the Maximum Proper Distance at z ~ 1.7 Mean in Cosmology?

  • Niles
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Electric field from a wire with a stationary current

  • Niles
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Expanding the Commutator of 3 Operators A, B, and C - Quantum/Math Question

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Material Breakdown Due to Electron Beam

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Why Assume Potential Only in the x Direction in Electrostatics BVP?

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Proving 4-vector Analog Formula for Lorentz Boost

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How do I determine the direction of M and H in a homogeneous cylinder?

  • Niles
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The Faraday disc (unipolar generator) and Lenz' law

  • Niles
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Laser cooling, varying magnetic field.

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What Are the Energy Levels and Degeneracies in a 3D Infinite-Potential Well?

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Solving Hydrogen Molecule Basis Functions

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Grand Canonical Partition function question.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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How Can We Solve GRE (Physics) Practice Problems Together?

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Physical meaning of Pauli spin matrices and S_x, S_y, S_z operators

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Solving a Series Circuit with Resistor, Capacitor and Inductor

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Solving a Physics Puzzle: Unraveling the Mystery of Iron-56

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Angle of Deflection for a Moving Charge Passing a Fixed Charge

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Cyclotron Resonance (Solid State Physics)

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Electrostatic problem with vectors

  • Niles
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What is the Maximum Energy a Solar Cell Can Deliver Per Year?

  • jae05
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How to Resolve Convergence Failures in Gaussian NH3+ Calculations?

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Potential Energy Color Contour Question

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How Does Particle Energy Affect Transmission Probability in a Potential Well?

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How Can I Understand Euler-Lagrange Equations in Physics?

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The generic spinor as a linear combination

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Two long wires: induced electric field

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What Are the Possible Values of Lz for an Electron in This State?

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How Does Internal Resistance Affect Terminal Voltage in a Circuit?

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Particle Penetrating through a Potential Barrier

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Calc K-Shell X-Ray Series Wavelengths for Zirconium Atom

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QM perturbation theory: rigid diatomic molecule

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Optimal Aperture Width for Solar Eclipse Pinhole Camera

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Finding the Time for a Photon's Arrival

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Chemical Potential and Atmospheric Molecule Distribution at Constant Temperature

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Which Way Does the Normal Vector in da Point?

  • Niles
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Capacitance of two different circular plates

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How does atmospheric scattering explain the faintness of starlight?

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Valence/conduction electron density of a classical gas

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Calculating Skin Temperature: Using a Thermometer with Resistance Equation

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Infinite square well eigen-energies

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Electrostatics - Calculate the repelling force of a charge q

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Hardest and Trickiest Question I've Encountered.

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Where Did I Go Wrong in My Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Calculation?

  • Niles
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Easy - determining n from orbital radius

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Electromagnetic radiation and photons

  • freefallin38
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Linear algebra question (using braket notation).

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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How Are Cooper Pairs Formed in Low Temperature Superconductors?

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Which Fundamental Interaction Causes Degeneracy Pressure?

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How Do You Normalize the Wavefunction of Non-Interacting Bosons?

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Calculating Magnetic Moments of Atoms: What Data is Needed?

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Find Magnetic Field of an Elliptical Solenoid | Biot-Savart Law

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Learning Feynman Diagrams from Peskin & Schroeder

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What is the relationship between speed and momentum increase?

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How Much Older Is Frank When Mary Returns from Barnard's Star?

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What is the Kinetic Energy of the Recoil Electron?

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Possible Sources of Error in Speed of Sound Lab

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Distinguishing Between Compton Shift and Doppler Red Shift

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Pool Ball Collision: Solving for Angular Momentum and Friction

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Height related gas pressure function

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What Is the Bandwidth and Wave Vector Solutions for a BCC Tight Binding Model?

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Planck Spectrum and wavelength subsitution

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Pendulum bob acceleration from horizontal release

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Half Spin in QM: Calculating Probability of Measured Eigenvalue at Time T=2T

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Galactic Dynamics (spherical potential)

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How Do You Calculate the Potential Energy Between Two Dipoles?

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Finding the electric potential of point charge

  • Niles
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I used the equation n1sinθ1 = n2sinθ2 and plugged in the values.

  • tuanle007
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Solving Fabry-Perot Problem: Increase L by \lambda/2 to Scan FSR

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How Big is the Black Hole if Differential Acceleration is 10 m/s²?

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Self-Reproducing Rays in a symmetric Resonator

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How Does Material Dispersion Affect Pulse Length in a Waveguide?

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Measurement for a particle in a box

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Showing the components of a plane EM wave are perpendicular

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Nuclear physics - number of nucleons on surface?

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Raman Scattering - what emits the photon?

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Electrical potential of charged sphere

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