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Electric Field near current carrying wires

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Understanding Time Dilation in GPS and Special Relativity

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When does the Hartree-Fock approximation fail?

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How do k-vectors and the Brillouin zone relate to phonons?

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What Are the States of V and p in an Adiabatic Process?

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How can you tell if the interaction is isotropic?

  • FalconKICK
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Double bar matrix element

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Do all cases of Newton's third law follow both the strong and weak forms?

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Path of a projectile traveling along a meridian of the earth

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Evidence that the Universe is Electrically Neutral

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Which Has More Energy in Molecules: Rotational or Vibrational States?

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QM, central potential, system collapse

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Proving Cauchy-Schartz inequality in Brak-ket notation

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Understanding Nodes: What Are They Physically?

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How to Find the Potential Within a Grounded Conducting Hollow Sphere?

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Focal length for 4× magnified image 1.5m from screen

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Find velocity of object dropped through hole in center of earth

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Why can some waves pass through materials but others can't

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Sign error in Griffiths equation for V(r) from line integral of E

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Distance between 2 orbits of a black hole

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How fast must the astronaut's head be moving

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Spin-parity for excited O-15 states

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Why is the field zero below the boundary in Griffiths problem 124?

  • ehrenfest
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Fluid Mechanics local acceleration and convective acceleration

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What is the induced emf in a radio antenna receiving an AM radio signal?

  • royman19
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The work required for adding a charge to an infinite charge distribution

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What is the energy density of sunlight on Earth and near the surface of the sun?

  • theinfojunkie
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Is Heat Added to Water When Temperature Increases?

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Possible Configurations for the First Excited State in 17-F-9

  • Warr
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Thermodynamics: Irreversible process.

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How Long Could Gravitational Contraction Power the Sun?

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How Do You Normalize a Wave Function with Given Boundaries?

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Gregory’s Classical Mechanics Mass on a spring

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Griffith's Second Uniqueness Theorem

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Notational problem in tensor calculus

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Why Is the Force on Charges in Conducting Sphere Cavities Zero?

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How Do You Calculate Speed and Acceleration in Curvilinear Motion?

  • chrsr34
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Deriving the Equation for Relativistic Mass

  • digital19
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The "Lifting Your Fridge with a Pulley System

  • Practice
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Verifying Sz calculation for molecular orbital wavefunction

  • gazepdapi1
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Is Quantum Angular Momentum Rotationally Invariant?

  • malawi_glenn
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Calculate the normalization of a Particle in a box

  • IHateMayonnaise
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Do you square the units when calculating numerically?

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2 Masses on a spring and a rocket with changing mass and air resistance

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Are Geodesics in a 2D Embedded Space Always Straight Lines?

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Why Coriolis Acceleration Matters for Vertical Projection

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Special relativity and flash bulbs

  • matness
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Calculating Mass from a Ferris Wheel Scale Reading

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How Fast is the Bus in This Physics Problem?

  • bertoline
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Misner Ex 6.8: Understanding Fermi-Walker Transport Equation

  • Jim Kata
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How Do You Calculate Resultant Displacement from Multiple Paths?

  • FalconKICK
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How Does Jet Stream Speed Affect Airplane Ground Speed?

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Can the Direct Sum of Non-Commuting Lie Algebras be Used in L(SO(4))?

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Newtonian Mechanics - single particle

  • McHead36
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How Does the Equipartition Theorem Apply to Diatomic Molecules in a Box?

  • Gravitino
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Resistances in Series, Parallel, and Series-Parallel Combinations

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Amount of Energy emitted from the sun to the earth

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What Are the Expectation Values of Quantum Angular Momentum Components?

  • natugnaro
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Help solving wave functions from image

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Calculate Maximum Stress in Pipe AB and Rod BC Shaft

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[Special Relativity] Energy-momentum invariant question

  • Inquisitus
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Water and Ice heat transfer equilibrium

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How to Show Derivatives of 1/R for a 1D Charge Distribution?

  • raintrek
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Where Are the Nodes in a 2.00 m Pipe with Standing Sound Waves?

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Classical Mechanics Dynamic Drag Resistance

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Neutrino energy from pion decay in lab frame given angle

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How to Approximate Potential Energy for a Linear Harmonic Oscillator?

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Is the Eigenvalue Equation Correct for 3D Small Oscillations?

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Conserved Quantities in de Sitter ST

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Solving Integration of Wave Equation for x|Psi|^2

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Innerspring mattress: finding stretch with 23 springs and Hooke's law

  • zvee_y
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Showing the cosmological constant is a perfect fluid

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How Does Heat Transfer Through Welded Metal Bars Differ?

  • Pomico
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How many atoms are in the unit cell of graphite?

  • stunner5000pt
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Finding E3 when switch position doesn't matter

  • polymerase
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Spinning liquid creating a parabolic shape

  • john b
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What is the half-life and the error on the half-life?

  • stunner5000pt
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Damped Oscillation Homework: Calculating b & Q for Lightly Damped System

  • razor108
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Calculate the lattice constant of a body-centered cubic iron

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Finding the Differential Equation for Straight Lines in Polar Coordinates

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Mean radius, r.m.s. radius of nucleus

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Coulomb's Law: Does Charge Depend on Size?

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How Do You Solve Wave Functions Using Determinants?

  • gazepdapi1
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Finding final temperature when two objects reach thermal equilibrium

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How can I simplify commutators with a useful trick?

  • Fys
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How Old Is an Exoplanet Based on Potassium Isotope Ratios?

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