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B Field Inside of Sphere using Sep. Variables

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When calculating Reynolds number, when do I use dynamic/kinetic viscos

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Trial-and-Error with thermodynamics tables

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An infinite square well problem

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Decrease in pressure due to adiabatic expansion derivation?

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Find the wave function of a Gaussian wave packet

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Why does light enter the second medium during total internal reflection?

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<p> Operator on Probability Density in X-Space

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Divergence/flux of an E field for two spherical regions

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Kinetic Energy in terms of Conjugate Momenta

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Find Energies Bound States Potential Well: Time Independent SE

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What is the Threshold Energy of a Proton Beam to Produce 100 GeV Pions?

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Which Potential V(x) Matches the Given Eigenfunction Ψ(x)?

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Commutation relations between P and L

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Vector potential due to sudden burst of current in a wire

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Maximum and Minimum Kinetic Energies following decay

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How do I find this expectation value?

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How Does the Casimir Effect Utilize the Euler-Maclaurin Formula?

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Mechanics questions from Oxford Physics entrance exam.

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How Do You Calculate Degeneracy in a 2D Particle in a Box?

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Why Is There No Solution to Harmonic Oscillator With Given Conditions?

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Generalized Green function of harmonic oscillator

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How to calculate angular momentum per second for a photon?

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Water in a piston-cylinder device losing heat

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Resistance in a Medium Between 2 Spheres

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Lagrangian where time is a dependent coordinate

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Fitting Sellmeier coefficients using least-squares method

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How Does the Multiplicity of a Classical Gas Relate to Ideal Gas Conditions?

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Proving equivalence of two statements of the second law

  • Raz91
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Oscillation of a Bose Einstein condensate in an harmonic trap

  • SuperPhysicist
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Potential at center of polyhedron = average of potential on surface

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Finding momentum distribution for particle in square well

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Calculating Accretion Rate and Luminosity of Black Holes

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Reducing angular Schrodinger equation to eigenvalue problem

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Which Molecules Are Suitable for Purely Rotational Spectroscopy?

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Which statements about the harmonic oscillator model are true?

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Calculate the velocity of electron flying through electric field

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What Is the Transition Amplitude for an Infinite Square Well?

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How Does Particle Energy Affect Wave Functions Across a Potential Step?

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Need a refresher on finding probabilities of a wave function.

  • mateomy
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How Do You Determine the Correct Wave Function in a Quantum Square Well?

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Pauli matrices and the Levi-Civita tensor : commutation relations

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Proving properties of the Levi-Civita tensor

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Why is reflection coefficient squared for intensity with n=1.5?

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Can Absolute Entropy Be Calculated Directly from State Variables?

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How Can Hermitian Operators Prove Key Quantum Mechanics Equations?

  • Raz91
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Prove 4 Vectors: Last Hope for Finding an Answer

  • M. next
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When to use lorentz transformations vs time dilation?

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Period of Harmonic Oscillator using Numerical Methods

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Solve Cosmology Problem: Max Possible # of Stars in Universe

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Zeeman effect: when to use J and F ranges vs single values

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Special Relativity: Angles in different Inertial Systems

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Finding normalized eigenfunctions of a linear operator in Matrix QM

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Classical mechanics: orbits, force, potential

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Expectation value of an operator in matrix quantum mechanics

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Standard model + symmetry questions

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Phase shift of reflected EM wave in conductive material

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Proving a property of the dirac delta function

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Normalising a wave function to dirac's delta

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Expressing plane wave as superposition

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How Are Generating Functions Used in Physics?

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Finding the equation of the adiabats.

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Flow around a cylinder - potential theory/Fluid mechanics

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Peak impact force of a falling object

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Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

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Deriving fermat's principle of least time (lagrangian stuff)

  • iScience
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Work, energy stored in solid sphere

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How Does Relativistic Force Affect the Movement and Speed of a Mass?

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What is a Possible Normalized Spin Wave Function?

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What is the heat current in rod 1 and how can it be calculated?

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Potential, field, Laplacian and Spherical Coordinates

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Carnot Cycle Refrigerator - Thermal Battery Problem

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Finding The Position of A Mass As A Function of Time

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Thermal stress questiontopic strengths of materials

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Calculate Displacement Current from Electric Flux Density

  • JustStudying
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Why is the Kinetic Energy Equation Different in Polar Coordinates?

  • iScience
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Finding potential given some conditions

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How Does de Broglie Wavelength Affect Particle Behavior in Helium Gas?

  • mateomy
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Why Do 4s Orbitals Fill Before 3d as Atomic Number Increases?

  • Habeebe
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Deriving Rutherford Scattering Angle

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Converting effective potential to dimensionless function

  • Emspak
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Checking my work on a conservation of energy problem

  • Emspak
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Finding the Potential Energy Function

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Determining ω_p for a certain state?

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Line of sight through randomly spaced trees in a forest

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Expectation values with annihilation/creation operators

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Eletric potential inside charged sphere with hole inside

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Volleyball Impulse and momentum problem

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A point charge Q is located on axis.Find flux

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Commutators of SHO ladder operators with composite operators

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Modified Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

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Finding quantum number n of molecule

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Beam of particles in momentum space

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