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Torque acting on a movable dielectric

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Atomic form factor limits as wavelength varies with Bohr radius

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Surface charge of infinite conducting cylinder

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How to use Sterling's approximation with calculator

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Double Slit Interference (slit width relevant)

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What is the Maximum Mass of X0 in Electron-Proton Collisions?

  • Matt atkinson
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How to Normalize the Wave Function?

  • jimmycricket
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How Can Two Clocks Be Synchronized if One is Accelerated?

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Infinite square well expansion coefficients and time evolution

  • jaydnul
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Decomposing Wave Patterns: ψ(x)=sin4x

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Solution to the Schrödinger equation for a non rigid step

  • Arturo Miranda
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Separation of Variables to Calculate Potential Inside Box

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Find Debye Temp of GaAs: E,v,rho Given

  • Mona92
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Multipole expansion - small problem

  • Eats Dirt
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Variation of Lagrange Density under field transformation

  • Dixanadu
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How Does a Particle Behave in a 2-Level Finite Potential Well?

  • IainH
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Calculating n^2 for Free Electrons with Friction Interactions

  • Skwishm
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What Is the Density at the Center of the Sun?

  • maximus123
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Potential inside grounded, conducting sphere with dipole at center.

  • oddjobmj
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Simple pendulum equation of motion

  • Nora Fajes
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Estimate for root-mean-square uncertainty

  • terp.asessed
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How to Simplify the Pauli Matrix Expression with the Del Operator?

  • KleZMeR
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What Fundamental Interactions Govern These Elementary Particle Processes?

  • sudipmaity
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How Do Voltage Changes Affect Fields in a Quasi-Electrostatic Capacitor?

  • NotHeisenburg
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What does Δn mean in birefringence calculations?

  • rwooduk
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Proof of relationship between Hamiltonian and Energy

  • andre220
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Qualitative: A Uniformly Charged Cylinder

  • tristan3214
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Determine the state |n> given results and probabilities [QM]

  • roguetechx86
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Finding planet gravity from sound speed and atmospheric data

  • cmcd
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Solving expansion rate for a variant of the Friedmann equation

  • Kyrios
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Neutron and Proton densities in a nucleus where N=Z

  • sudipmaity
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Dimensional analysis - atomic bomb explosion radius

  • vector
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Neutron energy needed to produce fission of 208Pb

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Partition Functions for FermiDirac and BoseEinstein particles

  • mark.laidlaw19
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Spin inversion under dipole-dipole interaction of fermions

  • Siberion
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Proton Charge Distribution and Form Factor Problem

  • Borntofly123
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Using the principle of conservation of energy

  • Just_some_guy
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Non-canonical form into canonical transformation 1-d partial dif.

  • photomagnetic
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How Can I Calculate the Differential Cross-Section for Bremsstrahlung Emission?

  • Jock Flannigan
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Using Bohr quantization rules to calculate energy levels

  • pdxautodidact
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Internal energy of diatomic gas from Helmholtz free energy

  • fluidistic
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Angular Momentum Commutator relation

  • andre220
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Proving Gradient of Electric Field in Coaxial Line Dielectric is 0

  • renegade05
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How Does Angular Velocity Affect Spring Extension in Circular Motion?

  • pixatlazaki
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[General Relativity] Prove that a tensor is a co-tensor

  • mef51
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Derivation of fluctuations in canonical ensemble

  • Fliers
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Show that expecting value of energy is independent of time

  • emeriska
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Finding an Operator (from a textbook)

  • terp.asessed
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Varying current inducing E-field: example 7.9 in Griffiths

  • Nikitin
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First-order energy splitting for spin-1 in weak magnetic field

  • TeddyYeo
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Astronomy: Find Star Rotation Period with Given Data

  • AllHailBritania
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What Is the Probability of Particle Ionization in a Shifted Finite Square Well?

  • photomagnetic
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Relativistic Collision: Calculating Mass, Energy & Momentum

  • Rubber Ducky
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Quantum physics potential barrier R and T

  • kato
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Theoretical Fluid Mechanics - Ideal Fluid Flow

  • biome
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Showing that Energy-momentum relation is invariant

  • Rubber Ducky
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Matrix elements in the quantum oscillator

  • andre220
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I don't understand an approximation in an expression in stat. mech.

  • fluidistic
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Problems of Spontaneous Emission, thanks.

  • qpzm77gg
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1d potential V (-x)=-V (x) eigenfunctions.

  • sudipmaity
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What is the total probability of the particle in state 'N'?

  • qm14
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How Does the Electromagnetic Wave Equation Validate Given Solutions?

  • rmjmu507
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Calculating Experimental Error of Braggs Equation

  • Lemenks
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How to Construct a Matrix for Diffusion PDE in MATLAB?

  • henxan
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Finding the real component of a two dimensional wave

  • rmjmu507
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Force of Constraint for Particle in a Paraboloid

  • Izzhov
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Refocusing of paraxial electron from electron gun

  • mmainak
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Wave Function_vibtrating nuclei

  • terp.asessed
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Uncertainty principle for electron inside atom

  • leehufford
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Completeness of basis in quantum mechanics

  • wowowo2006
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Uncertainties of a group of results

  • Tangeton
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De Broglie wavelength of helium atoms

  • leehufford
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Euler Lagrange equations with viscous dissipation

  • Dustinsfl
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When to use Euler, Lagrange, or Hamilton equations with friction?

  • rogeralms
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Symmetry Condition for Scaling a Lagrangian?

  • Xenosum
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Bound state in delta-function potential well next to a wall

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Reflection point for particle in potential V(x) = V₀(x-a)(x-b)/(x-c)²

  • castrodisastro
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Critical Exponents in the 1D Ising Model

  • MisterX
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How Do You Determine the Ground State Energy in a Spherical Infinite Well?

  • zephyr5050
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Relation Among Intensive Parameters

  • Juliush
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Finding eigenvalues from coupled differential equations

  • renegade05
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Volume Fluxes and Associated Velocities

  • geojon
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How Does a Mixed Quantum State Relate to Bloch Sphere Representation?

  • bowlbase
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Dirac equation in a central field (Schiff)

  • DrClaude
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Intuitive Description of Feynman Propagator?

  • Xenosum
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Rewriting planetary mass growth equation in terms of radius

  • PlanetaryStuff
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Wavefunction and shroedinger equation

  • renegade05
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Time Evolution of the Complex Scalar Field

  • Xenosum
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Pressure on system and work done by the system

  • leroyjenkens
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Finding electric field of a hemisphere (without using Gauss' Law)

  • ghostfolk
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Is (i/x^2 d/dx) a Hermitian Operator?

  • arcoon
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Block sliding down 30-degree frictionless incline acceleration

  • Ki-nana18
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Writing down expressions for traveling waves

  • rmjmu507
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Nonlinear Dispersion Relation with Imaginary Part

  • rmjmu507
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What does GeV/c mean as a unit of momentum?

  • Safinaz
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