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What is the Force Generated by a Non-Elliptical Orbit Planet?

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Torque and angular momentum for a Particle in a Force Field

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Deriving optical path length for light reflected from lens surface

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Where will the forces of Earth and Moon cancel out?

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Is There Any Torque Acting on a Satellite in an Elliptical Orbit?

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Total energy= kinetic energy + potential energy

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What is the Von Neumann Entropy of the GHZ State?

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What does it mean when it says for long wavelengths?

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Use the relativistic Doppler formula for light emitted

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Rotational Velocity Question - I think?

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Power transported in coaxial cable using Poynting vector

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General angular momentum question (rutherford scattering context)

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Expected Value of the Hamilton operator

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How Do You Derive the Lagrangian for a Circuit with Repeated Cells?

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How Would a Change in Electron Spin Alter the Identity of Noble Gases?

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Finding voltage in capacitor circuit with C1–C5 given energy stored in C5

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How far up the plank will the box slide before coming to rest?

  • benabean
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Qubits Probability: Calculating Pr for State Psi 01

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Understanding Lorentz Invariants and Momentum for My Exam Tomorrow

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What is the Cross Section Formula for Gamma+Gamma Interaction

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Angular velocity, linear acceleration?

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Calculating wavelengths of L-alpha and L-beta x-rays from copper

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How Do You Calculate the Average Energy in a Maxwell-Boltzmann System?

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Solving Schrödinger's equation for a spherical well with l=0

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Harmonic oscillator inside square well again

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Experiment to determine the speed of light

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Loop released from rest and allowing to fall.

  • ANON
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Where is electric potential zero outside two point charges?

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How Does Distance from Infrared Source Affect Photocell Output?

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Calculating Potential and Electric Field Between Concentric Spherical Shells

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Young's double slit experiment (prob density)

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Why Isn't the Density of States for a Bose Gas Infinite?

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Calculate the maximum charge that can be stored in the capacitor

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Can Human Forearm Bones Withstand the Stress of a High-Speed Car Crash?

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Singlet - triplet splitting in helium

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How does photocell output change with distance from infrared point source?

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Solving for Simple Harmonic Motion Phase Angle

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Understanding NMR Experiments: Questions Welcome!

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How many traces observed in Stern-Gerlach?

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Partition Function of N Particles: Is Z=(Z_1)^N?

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Why Does [H, Q] = 0 Imply d<Q>/dt = 0?

  • syang9
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Calculating Particle Speed in a Relativistic Decay Scenario

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Why Does the Pitch of a Police Car Siren Drop When It Passes By?

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A couple is two forces acting in parallel

  • Ry122
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Determining T and Theta in a 10kN Pulley System

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Tension and equilibrium angle in a two-pulley system

  • Ry122
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Calculate Speed of Electron Reaching Plate B in Parallel Plates

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Conditions for quantised or continuous energies

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Hydrostatics air volume exam problem

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Gravitational potential energy and radiated power of the sun

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Variation method (Quantum Mech.)

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Uncertainty particle function evolves over time

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Finding Resultant Force on Beam: F1 & F2

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Magnetic Force of Attraction Between Spinning Charged Shells

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Quantum mechanics - a free particle

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Beta Decay Problem: Solve KE of Recoil Nucleus

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Why Does Pressure Drop in a Constricted Bronchus?

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What is partial coherence?

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How would the volume of water displaced change in salt water?

  • emilinus
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Griffiths Problem 4.8 [SOLVED]: Why Don't You Need to Add Energy?

  • ehrenfest
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Why is the torque clockwise in the Griffiths E&M problem?

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Harmonic oscillator inside square well

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What Is the Correct Angle for an Umbrella in Rain Relative to a Walking Man?

  • manjuvenamma
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Calculating Magnetic Dipole Moment of a Sphere

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What happens to a photon when absorbed by an electron?

  • mritunjay
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Inverse Fourier Transform of $\frac{b}{\pi(x^2+b^2)}$: Solving the Problem

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Griffiths 5.38: Does Special Relativity Apply?

  • ehrenfest
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How Does Surface Tension Relate to Maxwell Relations?

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Can you know the y-coordinate and x-momentum simultaneously?

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What Is the Tension of the String in Yo-Yo Motion?

  • jasony
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Calculating Pressure Drop in a Bronchial Constriction

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When can you assume curl of D vanishes in Griffiths example 4.6?

  • ehrenfest
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Griffiths dipole moment

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Calculating Reduced Mass of Molecules

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Centrifugal Potential & Brachistochrone in Polar Coords: Ideas Appreciated

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Adiabatic Slope: Ideal Gas Equation

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How does quantum tunneling explain alpha particle decay?

  • mtfmorsh
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Intensity from N antennas with random phases

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Proving Unique Decomposition of a Galilean Transformation

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Why is E proportional to q/R^3 inside a uniformly charged sphere?

  • tronter
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Most Probable Value of 3 fair choices

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Solved: Griffiths Prob 5.41 | Angular Momentum

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What Causes a Body to Move in a Straight Line?

  • sovankc
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Write down the general normalizable solution

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