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Solid State Physics: X-Ray scattering

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Anharmonic Oscillation | Calculate Period w/ Gaussian Quadrature

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Quantum harmonic oscillator: average number of energy levels

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Calc Mass of Earth for Hydrogen Atmos Retention

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Bose condensation in a harmonic potential

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How to Find the Potential in Schrödinger's Equation?

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Using Bernoulli's Equation to find pressure in a wind tunnel

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Conserved quantities in the cart and pendulum problem

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Energy Eigenvalues for Ion with Spin

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Energy fluctuations of canonical system

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Determine The Speed of a Charge at a given point

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Entropy increase in adiabatic irreversible compression

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Can someone help me get the correct answer?

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Energy stored in two loops of current

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Potential Energy Homework: Solving F(r) = -k(r-a)

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Struggling with Homework? Find the Right Answer with These Tips!

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Electric dipole moment for a uniformly charged ring

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How to numerically solve an unsolvable equation

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Understanding Neutrino Oscillations & Mass

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Earnshaw's theorem and 'free space'

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Pressure and velocity calculation for microchannel. pls help

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Find the mass number A of the most stable nuclei given Z

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Minimum momentum of electron in a hydrogen atom

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Angle of photon emission from particle decay (Particle Phys)

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Thermal Physics -- Change of energy from compression

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Poisson equation for the field of an electron

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Infinite well potential - changed bottom

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Calculating The Fermi Energy - Condensed Matter Physics

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Step Potential with incident and reflected waves

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What Is the Commutator [Le, Lf] in Terms of e, f, and L?

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Determining the tension on a rotating particle

  • freddie711
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What Are the Microstates of an Einstein Solid?

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Finding the accuracy of an approximated potential

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Derivation of the wave equation satisfied by E and B

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Calculating eigenstates of an operator

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Tying to use Zangwill's EM book for multilayer R and T coeff

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Quantum Mechanics: Transformation Matrix

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Relationship between pressure & chem potential in ideal gas

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How to Solve Part B of Problem HA5-2014?

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Minimum necessary speed for card to be able destroy glass

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Quantum Mechanics: Linear and Circular polarization states

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General Relativity - Deflection of light

  • unscientific
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Nuclear Physics - Uranium decay chain and Bateman equation

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How to Diagonalize a Hamiltonian with Fermion Operators?

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Quantum Mechanics: Matrix Representation

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Derivation of van der pol oscillator

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General Relativity - Circular Orbit around Earth

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Statistical Thermodynamics (multiple questions)

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Solving Delta Dirac Integral Homework Statement

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Minimal of free energy equation

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A couple of simple magnetization problems

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Lagrangian function for beetle on paper

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Radioactive decay question, how to do it?

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Help with Eigenvalue Equation and Fourier Transform

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Represent Action of Stern Gerlach Operator as a Matrix

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Where does the temporal stretch come from in Group Velocity Dispersion?

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Physical Asymptote Homework: Trajectory y=x^4-x^2 & Limit y(x)=h

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Quick derivation question Quantum Mechanics

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Entropy as log of omega (phase space volume)

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Einstein's heat capacity model .and law of corresponding

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Calculating WIMP Detection Rate in a Germanium Detector

  • ChrisVer
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Heisenberg equation of motion - field theory.

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Time independent perturbation theory

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Transmission Coefficient through a delta potential

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Evaluating an integral for an expanding, charged sphere

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How to Solve the Creation Operator Problem in Problem 3a?

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Quantum physics: proving wave packet is normalized

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Spin-3/2 particle and degeneracy in excited state

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Magnetic susceptibility integral trouble

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Magnetic field in a multi-layered solenoid

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Quantum physics - probability density,

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Probability to overcome Coulomb repulsion

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Coriolis Torque On a Spinning Object

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Bohr Quantization with linear potential

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General Relativity - Index Notation

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Perturbation proportional to momentum

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Proving Centripetal Acceleration Physically?

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Finding eigenfunctions for given Hamiltonian

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Normal Stress/Shear Stress from stress tensor

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Ive a problem? It so easy but I can't get it

  • G153
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Two Signs for Rate of Change of Angle in Polar Coordinates

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Magnetic field from electric field given a function of time

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Embarrassing Mistake in Arithmetic? Check Here for Help!

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Electric field of periodic charge density.

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Why is kinetic energy due to a planet's rotation treated as negative?

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Differential gravitational force causing tides model?

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Adiabatic Process in cloud Formation

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How is the virial equation of state derived?

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Why Is Entropy Non-Zero in This Hamiltonian System?

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Obtain Time evolution from Hamiltonian

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Reading CG Tables: An Idiot-Proof Explanation

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