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Michelson Interferometer - calculating errors

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Ground state splitting due to spin interaction

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A Time Dependent Hamiltonian problem

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Heat Transfer in a Nuclear Fuel Rod with Steel Slabs

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Finding the string tension and acceleration of a yo-yo.

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2D Harmonic Oscillator and Ehrenfest's Theorem

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Is my explanation valid? (commutation relations)

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Quadratic Stark Effect - Perturbation Theory

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Sudden Perturbation of Potential Well

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A question about kaon masses and decay widths

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What Is the Intensity Distribution and Resolving Power of an N-Slit Grating?

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Biophysics: Concentration and Electric potential

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Ant on a rubber string, mathematical series

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Calculating the Inertia Tensor of cone with uniform density

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How do you solve a non-linear ODE involving a variable mass dust particle?

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Electrostatic boundary value problem with radial dielectrics

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Diffraction condition - Kittel's Intro to Solid State Physics 8th ed.

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Infinite square well with barrier in the middle

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Fluid Mechanics: Plotting Movement of Fluid Particle

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Find Transcendental Equation for Triple Delta Potential Energy

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Basic Maxwell Speed Distribution Function

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What Is the Angular Velocity of a Falling Mass-Driven Wheel?

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What is the angular frequency of oscillations in a SHM system with weight?

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The heat equation in one dimension w/ ihomogeneous boundary conditions

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Liquid-Vapour Interface: Adiabatic Expansion

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Quantum Mechanics - Time evolution operator , bra ket states.

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Rocket ship conservation of mometum

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Struggling with (I think pretty trivial) eigenfunction work for QM.

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Average momentum squared of Psi(100) of hydrogen atom

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Stat mech and binomial distribution

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Determining work done by rapidly expanding gas

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How to get the volume per atom when given the unit cell size?

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Statistical thermodynamics - mean energy of a nonlinear oscillator

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Thermal conductivity and Debye temperature

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Eikonal Approximation: Find total Scattering Cross Section

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What is the Equilibrium Shape of a String Suspended Between Two Points?

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Finding the Lagrange equations of motion for 2 sliding blocks

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Linear combinations of non-eigenfunctions to create eigenfunctions

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How Do You Calculate Magnetization in an Iron Alloy Solenoid?

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Efficiency of Stirling heat engines

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How Much Energy is Released in the Reaction of Tritium and Deuterium?

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How Far Apart Are the Atoms in HCl?

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How Do You Derive Pressure from the Grand Partition Function?

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Determining Spring Constant in Ion Pair

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Relativistic Transverse Doppler Effect

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Why is the expectation value of an observable what it is (the formula)

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Virial Expansion, Van Der Waals Gas

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Addition of Angular Momenta - Degeneracy

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How Do He-Ne LASERs Prevent Electron Ionization and Manage Emissions?

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Supernova, energy in the expanding remnant? simple question cant

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Time Comet Remains Within Earths Orbit

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What Is Phase Constant in Wave Functions?

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Is the Commutator [P², Lx] in Quantum Mechanics Zero?

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Van der Waals Equation, Virial Expansion

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Kronig-Penney Model in Reciprocal Space

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What is the Number of Spin s States for Two Identical Particles?

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Probability of 5 Spin 1/2 Particles in No Magnetic Field

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Rise in sea level due to increased temp. on earth

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Surface charge and volume charge density mathematical confusion

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Variation of Force on Dipole in Electric Field

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How to Find the Total Charge from its Density?

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How Do Parity and Potential Affect Quantum Well Solutions?

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Spherical coordinates choice for an electric field problem

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Sphere with permanent radial magnetization

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Time Dependent Wave Function for Particle in Infinite Square Well

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Zero-momentum frame - total momentum in this frame

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Two spin-1 objects: Addition of Angular Momenta

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Solved: Zero-zero Transitions in 1S and 2S States

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Relative velocity with time/length contraction

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Understanding the Skin Effect: Flux Linkage in a Wire

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Schrodinger's time independent equation

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Conservation of relativistic momentum for identical particles

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How is Stefan-Boltzmann's Law Derived from Statistical Mechanics?

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Show that the total weight w of an assembly in thermal equilibrium is

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Proofs with current density and wavefunctions

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Delta Potential - Bound and Continuum States

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Normalizing a wave function and calculating probability of position

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Canon shooting area in polar coordinates

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What Is the Potential of a Charge Above an Infinite Conducting Slab?

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How Much Rope is Needed for Towing a Plankton Net at a Specific Depth?

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Deriving Average Energy Function For A Classical DOF

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Rotation dynamics, dealing with impulse and oscillation

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Statistical Physics - blackbody radiation

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Flux Through Face of Tetrahedron

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What Is the Intensity of Isotropic Sound Waves from a Loudspeaker?

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Sketching Energy Diagram w/ l=2, s=1/2 - m, j & mj values

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Thermal Equilibrium of Lens and Disk in Solar Projection

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How Does Length Contraction Affect Markings on a Moving Conveyor Belt?

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Magnetic flux of sliding bar on rails

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Experiment of frictional force on rolling object

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Solving Spin of Decay Product: A→B+C+D

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How Do You Normalize a Non-Integrable Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics?

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Determine the wave function of the particle

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How Are Θ, ø, R, and ρ Connected in a Rolling Half-Pipe?

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Single particle shell model for nucleus

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