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Mass defect and binding energy for astatine-218

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Conservation of Energy and maximum height

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Calculating Speed for Sliding and Rotating Sphere with Friction

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Find the flux passing through the plane

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Entropy of relativistic Boltzmann gas?

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Finding the Correct Force for Acceleration in Kinetics of Translation

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Maximum angle for pushing a box with friction at constant velocity

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How Does a Bug Landing on a Sphere Affect Angular Momentum and Torque?

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Proving the Harmonic Property of Analytic Functions

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Fourier representation of aperiodic irregular function

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Energy differences in a quantum pendulum and whether they're observable

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How Does Temperature Difference Affect Air Conditioning Costs?

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Complex substitution into the equation of motion.

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Parallel-plate capacitor with two dielectric between them

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What Is the Difference Between Self Inductance and Self Flux?

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Understanding Faraday's Law and the Significance of divB = 0

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Quantum: Perturbation Theory

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Why Does Vector Potential Align with Current in Infinite Distributions?

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How to Set the Upper Plate Potential for an Upward Electric Field?

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Atomic Spectra, transmission of photons

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How is Kinetic Energy of an Alpha Particle in Nuclear Decay Determined?

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Potential difference needed to create spark at 0.6 mm electrode gap

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How Many Ice Cubes Melt in 10 Gallons of Water at 75 Degrees F?

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How to Derive Psi(x,t) from Psi(x,0) in Quantum Mechanics?

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Combining Fine Structure Corrections

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Finding temperature and chemical potential from 2D gas entropy

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What is the definition of flux linkage in Faraday's law?

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K X-ray photon energy of osmium in the Bohr model

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Diffraction Grating Multiple Choice Questions

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What does the probability density of Psi really show?

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How Do Quantum Mechanics and Astrophysics Intersect?

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Force on a charge inside a hollow charged sphere

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Energy transport across boundary in total internal reflection

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Driven Damped Harmonic Oscillator, f = ma?

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GR problem - satelite in orbit (Schwarzschild geometry)

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Computational problems in Fluids and Fields

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The time expression of the matter-raditation equality era

  • Magister
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How Does Setting c=1 Affect g's Value?

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Effective mass of a free electron from dispersion relation

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What Is the Orbit of a Planet in a Gravitational Field with This Metric?

  • quasar987
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Prove [L^x,L^y] = ihL^z using angular momentum operators

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Which is better for measuring g? Bar Pendulum or Simple Pendulum?

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Proving <J,2;J,0|J,J>=<J,2;-J,0|J,-J>

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Conservation laws in a curve spacetime

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Interval between signals from a tower in curved spacetime

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Problem with natural units in Cosmology

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Magnetic Moments of Hydrogen Atom in 2T Magnetic Field

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Differential cross section for 1+2→3+4 with massless products

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Matrix representation of ladder operators

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Calculating Electric Field for Charged Ring on x,y Axes

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How do I compute the commutator [L,p]?

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Solving Goldstein Problems: Point Mass vs. Hoop on Fixed Hemisphere

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Wavefunctions of fermions and bosons

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Change of Coordinates (Two-Body Problem)

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Probably easy perturbation theory question (quantum)

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Relating Radius r and Number of G-mers g for Thermodynamics

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Deriving the critical radius of Uranium using diffusion equation

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How to Solve an Inverse Square Law Problem in Physics?

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Deriving B(r) from Ampere's law - For tomorrow (02/23)

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Angular momentum expectation value for superposition of spherical harmonics

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Determining k and g from a Straight Line Plot for a Bar Pendulum

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Hard Electrostat Prob - Find E-Field at Point h

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Integral of pressure over Newtonian star

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Recoil energy from neutrino question

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How do I find the hermitian conjugate of this expression?

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Newtonian Solution to Compton Scattering

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Shortest wavelength for Li2+ and Be3+ in same series

  • StudentofPhysics
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How to Calculate the de Broglie Wavelength of a 5.0 eV Electron?

  • StudentofPhysics
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Singularities in contour integral with ρ⁴ factor

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Finding the shortwavelength limit of the white spectrum

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Solving Kinetic Energy with Rotation Around Y Axis

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Transition amplitudes and relation between wavefunctions

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Computing Expectation values as functions of time.

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Hermitian Conjugate of Spinors: Is it Equal?

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Planck's Constant measured in photoelectric effect

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How Can We Determine PSI(x,t) to Evaluate the Overlap Integral?

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Can a Trigonal Lattice with Specific Basis Represent a Simple Cubic Lattice?

  • Feynmanfan
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Solving Signal Intensity Homework: Lines per mm & Diffraction Angle

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Harmonic oscillator outside classically allowed region

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Free-fall from space to earth surface

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How to Determine Mirror Movement for Michelson Interferometer Maxima?

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Double Slit Problem: Solving Unknown Wavelength

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Solving eigenvectors of Operator (a+)^2-(a)^2

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What is analytic continuation and how is it used in QFT?

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What Is the Maximum Height and Time for a Rocket with Initial Thrust?

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Solving Operators and Ordering in 3D Electron Energies

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Wave Problem? Solve w/Typical Values: T=1500K, m=7amu, d=3mm, L=2m

  • GreenLRan
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Hooke's Law and differential equations

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How to tell the magnetic flux a certian distance from a solenoid?

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