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Q.M. harmonic oscillator spring constant goes to zero at t=0

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Yes, I understand now. Thank you for explaining it to me.

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Photon + proton collision & threshold nrg

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What the heck my teacher did in the solution

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Nuclear Physics: Recoil in gamma decay

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Prove that exp[A].exp = exp[A+B] only if A and B commute.

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Show extremum of the Entropy is a maximum

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Do Elastic Waves Carry Momentum in Solids?

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Sharp values of wavefunction in polar coordinates

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Problem using integral form of Work K.E. Thm

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What's the Volume Ratio After Halving the Pressure on an Ideal Gas?

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What Forces Act on a Particle During Quantum Reflection?

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How do I derive the formula for divergence using a prism-shaped volume?

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Gravity at the bottom of a mineshaft

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Baseball dropped from building with air resistance

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Binding Energy of the hydrogenic acceptor state in Silicon?

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Solving Laplace's Equation Between Two Conical Surfaces

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What is the wavelength of an electron moving at 1 m/s?

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Finding altitude of a satellite if you know it's radius and mass

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Thermodynamics: Einstein solid (simple step in derivation)

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Magnetic field from vector potential function using tensor notation

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How Do You Calculate Potential Energy in a 2D Oscillator System with Springs?

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Validity of Tensor Expressions in (a)-(d)

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Quantum Mechanics: zero eigenvector

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QFT: Scattering Amplitudes in Yukawa Theory

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Can Binomial Distribution Be Approximated to Poisson Distribution?

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Proving That Even Potential Leads to Even or Odd Wavefunction

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Electric Field above a Quarter Disk

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"Charged Balloon Expands When Blown Up

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How can an extrinsic semiconductor still be electrically neutral?

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Calculating the electric field of a cylinder

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Phys Orgo Secular Determinant question

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Helmholtz Energy Proof (thermodynamics)

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Resultant and Moment Homework: Determine R & Moment about O

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Discrete 3-particle system - Condensed Matter Pysics

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Normalizing wavefunction of (x^2)e^(-x^2)?

  • lonewolf219
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Calculate electric field produced by total charge density

  • wifi
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Fictitious Forces in a Rotating Co-ordinate System

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Normalization of Linear Superposition of ψ States

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What Forces Act on a Train Moving South in Edmonton?

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Solving the Train Length Ratio Puzzle

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Conceptual problem - Thermodynamics

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Can this simple trig problem be solved using vector calculus?

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Coaxial Cable Problem - Finding volume charge density.

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Euler's Explained: Solving Homework Equations

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Solving Spacetime Diagram Homework: Ship Reversal from Cape Canaveral

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Curl of field in cylindrical coordinates

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How Do You Prove Electromagnetic Field Quantization?

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Show heat flows from hot to cold bodies

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When does the surface charge density equal the electric flux density?

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Doppler shift of object in expanding universe

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V of 2 parallel lines makes cylinders

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Direction of induced electric field due to uniform B field decreasing

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Why Is Mixing Entropy of an Ideal Mixture Given by a Binomial Coefficient?

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Thermodynamics, enthelpy change for steam

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Solve Thevenin Problem: Find Rth & Vth for Points A+B

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Double slit experiment whith one photon

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How Does Divergence Relate to Flux in a Rectangular Prism?

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Does This Expression Represent an Electrostatic Field?

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Using canonical transform to show area preserving

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Interplanar Spacing: Calculating Distance between (200) Planes

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Electron scattering: nuclear radius to nucleon number relationship

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Classical mechanics exercise, pion decay

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Finding the amplitude of the sum vector

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Induced Magnetic Field Loophole in Griffiths' Electrodynamics?

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Is Gauss' Law Applicable for Non-Uniform Charge Densities?

  • FOIWATER
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Equipotential surface / electric scalar potential problem (why )

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High energy electron positron branching ratios.

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Fluid Mechanics shear stress, conceptual question

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Divergence of r/(r²+ε²)^(3/2) in spherical coordinates

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Stokes's theorem in spherical coordinates

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What is anharmonicity and how does it relate to oscillation?

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Can Circulating Electric Fields Be Considered Valid Electrostatic Fields?

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Time independent perturbation (Quantum Mechanics)

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Delta Typo in Photon Propagator?

  • Vic Sandler
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What is the Explanation for d=1/3 in the Thermodynamic Relationship?

  • mrjohns
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Exact modeling of coulomb stick-slip-friction using LCP

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Why Does Normalizing ψ(x,t) Result in Ae^(-2λ|x|)?

  • Gemini_Cricket
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Infinitesimal Lorentz transform and its inverse, tensors

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Dimension of Hilbert space (quantum mechanics)

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Need help integrating? Format Help?

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How Do You Calculate the Expected Value Using Poisson Distribution?

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General Relativity, Schwarzschild's Metric, and Applications

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How Does Wien's Law Explain Black Body Radiation and Its Properties?

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What is the function for F in Lorentz Transformations?

  • smallgirl
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Fourier Transform of a wave function

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Quantum Wave Function (Determine V(x,t))

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High-energy physics: momentum transfer

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Red-shift question from another thread.

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Thermodynamics(math) derivation step

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How Do Einstein Solids Calculate Microstates in Thermodynamics?

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Can I have different wavenumber and frequency in E and B for a plane e

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Total energy of Coulomb model of Hydrogen atom

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Trace of Position and Momentum Operator

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Poynting Vector Direction Confusion

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