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Solve for x(t), I just keep seeing 0

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1-d Time Independent Schrodinger Equation Problem

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Which Pulse Reaches the Knot First?

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De Broglie wavelengths for thermal gas and neutron between walls

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Proof that PV^gamma is constant in a reversable adiabatic condition.

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Why does a spinning pencil need a minimum spin rate to stay upright?

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Can an ideal spinning top spin and precess forever?

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Electric Field of a Solid Ball of Uniform Charge Density

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How Do You Determine Net Charge Through a Wire Over Time?

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How Do You Calculate a(t+dt) Using the Velocity Verlet Algorithm?

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What does entropy over long time scales mean?

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Dipole moment ratio for harmonic oscillator states

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Which processes are posible and why?

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How to Calculate Momentum and Find Forces in a Collision?

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Step Potential: Real Physical Situation

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How to Derive Potential Energy for SHM in Terms of Frequency?

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Potential for exponential central force F(r)=-k/r²e^{-r/a}

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Finding acceleration distance for a pitched baseball

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What Is the Ground State Energy of a Particle in a Box?

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What is the energy of this harmonic oscillator state?

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The Fermi-Dirac distribution function.

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Minimum kinetic energy from uncertainty principle

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Cosmology Question: Expansion of the Universe

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What is the electric potential at the center of the cylinder?

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Magnetic Field Line Integral Problem

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What is the formula for energies of a Bohr atom in a weak magnetic field?

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Solved Griffiths Problem 3.28 - What to Conclude?

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How is the Lorentz Factor Derived?

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Why does phase shift change the energy gap in Kittel's band theory?

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Help with a problem from chapter 16

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Why doesn't frequency dependence appear in equation 43 for conductivity?

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Deriving the TdS Equation for Thermal Physics

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Can Polaroid Filters Affect Light Transmission Percentages?

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Proving Covariant Derivative Transforms as Tensor

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Free-fall Acceleration with Centrifugal Force

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When Is u(-x) a Solution to Schrödinger's Equation?

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Why does doubling voltage quadruple power in a flashlight bulb?

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Electric Current: Reduce Wasted Power by 7500W

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Finding the mass of a object without a scale or density

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Calculating Moment of Inertia for a Rigid Body

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Classical mechanics: ball rolling in a hollow sphere

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Proving expectation value of position and momentum is real

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Are components of angular velocity the same in fixed and rotating frames?

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Calculating Q for Cylinder with Inhomogeneous E Field

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Can the Electric Field Inside a Uniformly Charged Sphere be Zero?

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Three object net gravitational field problem

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What Is the Laboratory Energy of a Proton Given Photon Energy Shifts?

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Inertia Problem Solution - Finding Torque on a Spinning Block

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What is the connection between inertia tensor and rotational inertia?

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Solving the Geodesic Equation: Raising Contravariant Indices

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Math Physics Tricky Integrals go Over my Head

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Kinematics: How Do You Solve for Velocity in General Plane Motion?

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Hydrogen Atom (this is not chemistry)

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Probability Current for Free Particle Wave Function

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Finding the Correct Way to Cross a River in a Canoe

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Lorentz transformation lab to CM system

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Rotational Kinetic Energy and distribution of diatomic molecules

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What is the Work Done on an Ideal Gas Under Isothermal Compression?

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Thermodynamics - pressure and temp.

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Finding optimal c for Aexp(-cr²) using variational method

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When does [f(Â),B̂] = df(Â)/d [Â,B̂] hold?

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Commutator of lowering and raising operators equals ℏ

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Can a valid metric always be inverted?

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Deriving the equilibrium constant from Helmholtz free energy

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Entropy change for ideal gas heated at constant volume

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Symmetric object prove principle axis goes through CM

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Magnetic monopoles and the quantisation of charge

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Show that the eigenvalues of the overlap matrix are positive

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Electric dipole's maximum angular velocity

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Calculate the pitch of eletron cyclotron in b field.

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Is Lepton Number Conserved in Electron and Muon Neutrino Mixing?

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How to expand cos³θ in Legendre polynomials for Griffiths 3.18

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Minimum separation of two electrons with initial speeds v and 3v

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Time Dilation to Length Contraction

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Does "hollow" mean there's no charge inside the sphere in Griffiths 3.6?

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Is Equation 2.49 Necessary for Griffith's Problem 3.19?

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Griffiths Example 3.8: Justifications for Claims

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Hydrogen atom (finding electron probability)

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Griffiths Problem 3.17: I Don't Know the Answer

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How to Prove the Commutator Relation for Quantum Spin Operators?

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How to Evaluate \exp (i f(A)) in Ket-Bra Form for a Hermitian Operator?

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The Ratio intensities of two sounds

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Electric Potential Energy Among Multiple Charges

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Ratio H/R to in tensor problem, just making sure i did this right

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Laplace's Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates

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Moment of Inertia tensor SETUP, not to difficult but cant figure it out

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Geodesics and their linear equations

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How to Find the Acceleration of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Electric Field?

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How Much Thermal Radiation Does Mars Emit?

  • stevemclaren
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Calculate how many alpha-particles from the decay will be detected

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Why is the sum of squared Clebsch Gordan coefficients 1 with flipped m₂?

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Solved: Relativistic Speed: Force of 30N Reaches 99% c in 7 x 10⁴ Sec

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Monopole Moment of a sphere of charge

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What Are the Eigenvalues of the Operator σ^.P^ in Quantum Mechanics?

  • neelakash
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Radiation Problem: Black-body Expansion, T_f=xT_i

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