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Particle in a Box, normalizing wave function

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Calculating Water Molecules and Kg/m³ in Plant's Environment

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Applying Newtons Laws to solve this

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General Relativity Experiment Question

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Applying Newtons Laws in a 'cable car' situation

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How to Determine the Eigenenergy of This Hamiltonian?

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Normalising simplified proton distribution

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Background Correction in Rutherford Scattering Apparatus

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Is the Unit Vector Always in the Direction from the Charge to the Point?

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How to Formulate Circuit Analysis Equations into Matrix Form?

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How to Calculate the Amplitude for a Particle in State |x>?

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I just need to work re-checked, current in solenoid

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Solving Wave Packet Propagation: Analyzing Group and Phase Velocities

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How Do Gauss' and Stokes' Theorems Apply to These Integral Problems?

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Are Eigenkets with Eigenvalues Periodic for a Hamiltonian System?

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How Does the Schrödinger Equation Govern the Time Dependence of Wave Functions?

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Finding speed from acceleration through a potential difference

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Calculating Probability of Spin Measurement in System of Particles

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Solving Laplace's Equation: Problem With Boundary Conditions

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(thermodynamics) chemical potential

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Electromagnetics - Parallel Plate Capacitor [so stuck ]

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Proving Orthogonality of Legendre Polynomials

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Mechanics - rod attached to cylinder

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Potential inside a hollow sphere

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Internal energy vs. Enthelpy vs. Entropy

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Question about notation in Matrix problem

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Calculating Electric Field of a Polarized Sphere

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Why Do the X Components of the Electric Field Cancel Out?

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Classical problem: projectile exploding into two parts with one part going down

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How do different Lagrangians affect the equations of motion?

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Measuring the Faraday Effect for Frustrated Scientists

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How Does a Particle Inside a Rolling Cylinder Affect Its Motion?

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How Do You Apply Schmidt Orthogonalization to Four 4D Vectors?

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Conservation of energy (wave in a conductor)

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One question about stream function in fluid mechanics

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Measuring Density in Space: How Do You Do It?

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Expectation value of Energy Quantum

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Jackson Electrodynamics Problem 2.3

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How long until two particle bunches catch up?

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Solving Laws of Motion: Calculating Distance on a Plane

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Angular Momentum and Hamiltonian Commutation

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Sakurai Problems - strange notation

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What Are Eigenstates and Their Role in Quantum Mechanics?

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Which Energies Are Allowed in the Half-Harmonic Oscillator Potential?

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How Does Phonon Contribution Affect Heat Capacity in Liquid Helium Below 0.6K?

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Heat transfer from inside to outside

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E&M - Electric Field Intensity in Microwave

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Help with Static Equilibrium question

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Basic question about quantum: Number operator usage

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What is the electric field on the axis of a uniformly polarized cylinder?

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Energy eigenvalue for particle in a box

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Relativistic Energy and four momentum

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Who Can Help with Solid State Physics Problems?

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Nuclear power plant at 34% efficiency - rising temperature of water

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Where Can I Find Good Physics Concept Questions Online?

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Galileos idea and the unknown phenomenon.

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Motion of charged particle in a magnetic field

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Tricky relfection/absorbtion optics question

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With what speed and angle of impact does the stone land?

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What Are the Steps to Add Vectors in Bra-Ket Notation?

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Finding area of elliptical ring (phase space)

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Finding the Normalization Factor N for Wavefunction

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Help with Problem on Photons and Atoms | Cohen-Tannoudji et al.

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What is the relationship between Q factor and spectral emmision line width?

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Calculating Probability of Simple Harmonic Oscillator in Phase Space

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Driven RLC circiut in parallel

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Proving Magnitude of Centre of Mass Vector Equation

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Comparing AM & FM Radio Transmissions

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How can I determine the canonical transformation for this problem?

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How Do You Calculate EMF and Internal Resistance in a Circuit?

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Estimate Spring Constant of H2 Molecule for Vibrational Frequency

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What Are the Solutions to the 1D Infinite Square Well from -a/2 to +a/2?

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Separate the variables by using kinetic energy and potential energy

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Angle of Curve for Centripetal Force w/ Radius 60m & Speed 70 km/hr

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Commutators and physical interpretation

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Finding Resistors Currents with Changing Resistance

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Calculating Cn for general wave solutionbasic Quantum physics

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Expect Momentum Problem 1.17 Griffiths: Find Expected Value & Uncertainty

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How Do We Calculate Solar Radiation and Quantum Particle Behavior?

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What Are the Boundary Conditions for E and V at a Conductive Surface?

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Ballistics - Find magnitude of force on a kicked ball

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Electric Heating Coil: Potential Difference in 3.5 mins

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Derivation of Mean Thermal Wavelength

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Electric Field and Gaussian Pillbox

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Gauss' Law and a uniform surface charge

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