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Where Is the Line Image of a Charged Cylinder?

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Electric field inside a charged conductor placed in free space.

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Show linear combination is not Hermitian

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How Does the Law of Conservation of Energy Apply in Free Fall?

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Calculating String Tension: Mass, Length, and Frequency

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Finding the gyromagnetic ratio of an axially symmetric body

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How to Prove Stirling's Formula for ln(n!) ?

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Effects of Temperature on a Balloon's Buoyancy?

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Two identical particles with spin 1/2

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What is the Maximum Compression of the Spring?

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Why does a compound appear orange if it absorbs blue light?

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Classical Mechanics: Central Force Problem

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Raising and Lowering Operators in the Lipkin Model

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Klein-Gordon equation and relativistic energy-momentum relation

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Find the place of the explosion

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Field lines near the equilibrium point

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What Volume Is Integrated Over for Dipole Moment in Griffiths' Electrodynamics?

  • Wheelwalker
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Time Evolution of Hydrogen Atom in a Magnetic Field

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Superconductor coherence length and penetration depth

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What Is the Magnetic Vector Potential of a Finite Length Coil?

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Radial distribution function for H atom in ground state

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Derivation of Phi-Hat wrt Phi in Spherical Unit Vectors

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Particle in Spherical Well : Sudden Approximation

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Simplifying entropy for a harmonic oscillator in the limit of large N

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Rms speed for particles emerging from an oven

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Position eigenstates in terms of number operator eigenstates

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Weird form of entropy using grand partition function for a system

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How Many Winding Layers Are Needed for a 1 Tesla Solenoid?

  • maximus123
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Identifying potential from wavelength changes in a 1D well

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Spin 1/2 System: Eigenstates of Sz and Probability of Measurement

  • unscientific
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Delta function potential; Schrodinger Equation

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What kind of system does this lagrangian describe?

  • brotof
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Finding the optimal b parameter for hydrogen atom trial wavefunction

  • oomphgalore20
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Diffraction Grating, focal length of lens

  • unscientific
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Superposition of displacement fields?

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Classical/quantum transition for an ideal gas in 1m^3 box

  • Dixanadu
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Relationship between electric field components: ellipse

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Double delta function and bound states.

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Proving that the Dirac Delta is the limit of Gaussians

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Evaluating and integral including unit step function

  • user3
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Stirlings approx/CoinFlips/Gamma function

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Wave function in Infinite/Finite Potential Wells

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Stat mech derivation: Covarience of energy and pressure

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Solution to homogeneous wave equation

  • kiwi101
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How Do You Solve the Euler-Lagrange Equation for the Surface of a Cone?

  • gboff21
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Simple Derivation Maxwell Equations

  • kiwi101
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Parity Operator and odd potential function.

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Graphing Trajectory with Drag using Program

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Landau classical field theory question

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Deriving Rutherford's deflection formula from the electric field

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Force on a pure oxygen bubble in air by a magnet

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Plane wave through thin lens produces paraboloidal wave

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Electric Potential of Hollow Cone on z-axis

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Vibrational Motion - Calculating Mean Square Displacement

  • Shiz
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Determining possible trajectories (Classical Mechanics)

  • MrCreamer
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Derivation of Laplace in spherical co-ordinates

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Determining Propagation vector from E(x,y,t)

  • priceless
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How Do You Calculate Surface Integrals in Fortran 90?

  • Supermann11
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General Quantization of Motion in Circular Orbits

  • wawitz
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Potential of two parallel infinite wires

  • BenBa
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What is the Derivative of P/T with respect to T?

  • IngridR
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Two-orbital system w/ tight-binding and Coulomb interaction

  • phys_student1
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How Do You Find the Probability Current of a Free Particle?

  • petera88
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S_z matrix in s_y basis: three methods and three results

  • the_doors
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A Charged Sheet Between Grounded Plates

  • Xeroxer
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Electric force inside a cylinder(my friends and I can't solve this

  • catsonmars
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Wave function,probability,normalization,etc.

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What Is the Probability of Measuring Spin-up for Electron in State Alpha?

  • the_doors
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Deriving Faraday's law for plane waves with complex exponentials

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Particle in an infinite potential box- expected values of energy

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Perturbation Theory: Calculating Energy Corrections

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Relationship between Group Velocity and Particle Velocity

  • jsmith1994
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Energy of a system of point charges

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Electric field and potential for three concentric spheres with dielectrics

  • Sudharshan
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Highest order of spectrum given two wavelengths

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Photon momentum and wavelength uncertainty in 30 micron laser pulse

  • lee_sarah76
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Y^2 - x^2 in the [itex]\mid n\ell m \rangle[/itex] basis - tensor Op.

  • MisterX
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How to calculate pulsar's wavelength by it's diameter and mass?

  • Hyperion
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Kinetic energy of a free electron in a lattice

  • Dixanadu
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Derivation: Normalization condition of Legendre polynomials

  • schrodingerscat11
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Solving for coefficient of friction

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How Does Langmuir Kinetics Apply to Adsorption Processes?

  • Zealduke
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Calculating Light's Travel Time Through Layered Media

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Induced Charge on a Conducting Disk

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Hamiltonian For The Simple Harmonic Oscillator

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QM solutions to the Schrodinger Equation

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Heat flux on a cylinder with two insulators

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Solid state physics, lattice constants, ionic radii, nacl

  • izzy93
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This integral equation from (intro) quantum mechanics confuses me

  • Nikitin
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Determining Surface tension of a liquid with Poiseulle's Law

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How to Approach Transverse Movement of N Masses?

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How Do I Solve These Quantum Mechanics Problems from Binney's Textbook?

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Question regarding the de Broglie wavelength of a particle.

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