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How to learn QFT basics for a Feynman diagram integral

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Calculate Size of Radius for Muonic Atom in Lithium-7

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Commutation relations for K = ±iσ/2 in Ryder QFT

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Fermi Question - quantum tunnelling of a person

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Modeling soccer ball flight with drag and Magnus forces

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Normalization of a wave function question

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Is the Hamiltonian with a Complex Potential Hermitian?

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When is ψₑ(x) = A exp(ikx) + B exp(-ikx) a solution?

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Using Creation and Annihilation Operators in a Fermionic 2-State System

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Probability current density equation: how can ∇Ψ be a vector?

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How to Show a Bound Energy State for V(x) = -aV_0δ(x)?

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Question form Peskin Schroeder

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Why Must the Expectation Value of H Be at Least the Lowest Energy Eigenvalue?

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Free particle propagator on Gaussian wave packet from Shankar

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How Do You Normalize a Function to Unity?

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How Can Equation 5.1.9 Be Rewritten Using an Integral Over E?

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Time Evolution of the Gaussian packet

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Two-Particle System Wave Function with Distance-Dependent Potential?

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Propagator for a particle in free space

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Covariant Derivative: What Is $\nabla^0 A_{\alpha}$?

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Quick Potential Barrier tunnelling question

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Deriving the Mass of Xi Baryon from Quark Interactions?

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How Does the Metric Affect Index Position in Tensor Contractions?

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Calculating Stark Effect for 3 States of Hydrogen

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Which Lasers Are Suitable for Fiber Optic Communication?

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Do RGB Lasers Combine to Create White Light?

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Big Bang temperature, universe expansion, and nuclear formation

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Electron achievable resolution?

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Maximum photon energy in the photoelectric effect

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High speed winds blowing over the ocean

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Equations for the initial and final momentum

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Fourier Transform of e-x*e-(x*coswt) w.r.t Frequency

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Textbook resources for φ³ interaction renormalization

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How Do You Find the Density of a Cylinder?

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Strange slit / wave interference question

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Helium, ZPE, and Casimir Effect

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How does contrast resolution work in ultrasound?

  • Joan B.
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Classical Mechanics: Body/Space Cone Angle Relation

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Where can I find a proof for the mathematics of special relativity?

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Isothermal increase in pressure of solids

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Phase Difference how do you calculate and why?

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Challenge problem from engineering professor

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Effective Core Area - Fiber Optic Meaning

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How Is the Gaussian Integral Related to Averages?

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How Does Zero Total Energy Affect the Motion of a Charged Particle?

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Shankar exercise 2.5.1 - Hamiltonian

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Recombination of plasma ions and electrons

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Reflection and transmission for electron step-down potential

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Error propagation in v² = u² + 2as

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Some reaction between a proton and antiproton

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Why Does My Normalized Star Flux Data Show a Bimodal Distribution?

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Archimedes (Buoyant force) Not EZ

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How Does Selenium Function in Xerography?

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Poiseuille law and the Newtonian force

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Deriving equations on Einstein's 4th paper

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How Do Laplace and Poisson's Equations Derive from Gauss's Law?

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Solve Viscosity Problem: Time for Equal Levels in 2 Cylinders

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How did they arrive at this equation?

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What is the significance of overlap in energy bands?

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Why? exp(ixA)=cos(x)I+isin(x)A if A*A=I

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Relativistic electromagnetism problem

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Realisability of the third law?

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Solving Heat Radiation Problem: Max Work from N Identical Containers

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Does this radioactive decay problem need relativistic momentum?

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How does anomalous dispersion give a negative refractive index?

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What is the relationship between E and B in the wave equation?

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What is the proof for (∂u/∂T)_P=c_P – Pβv?

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Thermodynamics Problem: Exploiting Identity (∂s/∂T)_x>0

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Clausius and Kelvin-Planck statements of the 2nd law

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How Could Violating Kelvin-Planck Lead to a Breach of Clausius's Statement?

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Can Any Refrigerator Surpass a Carnot Refrigerator in Efficiency?

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Does refrigerator heat transfer violate the Clausius statement?

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Why does a heat engine not violate the Kelvin-Planck statement?

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Power balance analysis of some motor and generator

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Does Isothermal Heat Flow Out Contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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Solving Feynman Diagrams: Electron-Positron Scattering

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Can the Second Law of Thermodynamics be Violated?

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Atomic physics: sodium D-line transition missing 2 pi

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Proving Entropy→0 as Temperature→0

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Why Is Proton-Antiproton Annihilation to a Single Photon Forbidden?

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Finding Velocity and Pressure of Half-Sphere on Horizontal Plane

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Creating a Physics Lab After AP Exam

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Mag qs: Acceleration of Particle in Magnetic Field

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Tracing the U(235,92) + Neutron Process to Final Stable Nuclei

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