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Comoving Distance in LCDM - Understanding an Approximation

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Why heat PDE solution does not fully satisfy initial conditions?

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Infinite square well centered at the origin

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Donor and Acceptor Concentrations in a Si speciment

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Total Josephson current through junction with magnetic field

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Hund's Rule for Determining Term Symbol Energy Order

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Does anyone know which are Ricci and Riemann Tensors of FRW metric?

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How do I normalize a wavefunction with Cn instead of Ci and Cj?

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Lagrangian with a charged, massive vector boson coupled to electromagnetism

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The magnetic phase change of an electromagnetic wave during reflection

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Need of Tangle calculation using code and Numerically

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State space controllers - find equations from differentials

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Hermiticity of AB where A and B are Hermitian operator?

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Calculate Earth's escape velocity using different methods

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Spectral Intensity Formula by Using Frequency

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Landau Energy Spectrum in the non-relativistic limit

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Solving Freidman Equation on MATLAB

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A wheel rolls down a flat inclined surface

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Finding Total Number of Optical Field Modes for Visible Light

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Proof of Schrodinger equation solution persisting in time

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Quantum Harmonic Oscillator with Additional Potential

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Spin matrix representation in any arbitrary direction

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Commutation relations between Ladder operators and Spherical Harmonics

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How Do Radial Oscillations Affect Star Stability?

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What Are the Electric Field Components at a Charge Density Boundary?

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Computing the infinitesimal generators for the Mobius transformation

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Green's reciprocity theorem about current density and magnetic field

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How Are Wigner D Functions Related to Nuclear Rotor Model Wave Functions?

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Coding of Spin Spin correlation function

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How Can I Effectively Structure a 1500-Word Essay on Quantum Magnetism?

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Show that ##B = \nabla \times A = 0## using Ampere-Maxwell law

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Length of spin vector for spin-½ particle

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Question regarding a decay spectrum graph

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Lagrangian of a double pendulum, finding kinetic energy

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Deriving the Solution to $$\frac{\partial}{\partial \phi^{*}}$$

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Diagonalizing q1ˆ3q2ˆ3 with Degenerate Perturbation Theory

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Why Do My T1 and T2 Values for Mineral Oil Show Significant Errors?

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Expectation Values <E> and <E^2>

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How Does the Nuclear Quadrupole Moment Explain Nucleus Deformation?

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Help with this Commutator question please

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Renormalization Group:NiemeijerVan Leeuwen Method-Ising Square Lattice

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How to tell if Energy is Conserved from the Lagrangian?

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Deriving Wave Function: Confused about (ix/a) & (-x^2/2a)?

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A question on the definition of the curl of a vector

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Finding Lorentz acceleration transformation for arbitrary direction

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Showing that the gradient of a scalar field is a covariant vector

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What would be the Wigner-Seitz cell of this lattice?

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Cancellation of terms, Kittel (first edition) equation 6.4

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Calculating the half-life of decays of Radium-224

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MTW Ex 21.15 - Curvature independent of Lapse and Shift functions

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How is the Power Spectrum of Matter Density Field Defined?

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How to find integrals of motion for a particle on a surface?

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Derivation of Boltzmann Factor via Reservoir Method (canonical ensemble)

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Scattered State Solutions of a Repulsive Dirac Delta Potential

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Finding all possible energy states faster without using a calculator

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Confused about the nature of Laplace vs Poisson equation in BVP

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Fresnel diffraction from square: on axis intensity

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Watt Rotational Speed Regulator's Lagrangian

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How to determine the minimum grid length | Numerical Plasma Physics

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Understanding Exponential Terms in Quantum Mechanics Problem

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Notation clarification: SU(N) group integration

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Calculation of the Berry connection for a 2x2 Hamiltonian

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Converting an expression of a particular k-mode to the spatial domain

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Potential of a charged ring in terms of Legendre polynomials

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What is the function to extremise for finding geodesics on a Helicoid?

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Total Momentum Operator for Klein Gordon Field

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Michelson Interferometer with a lens

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Fourier transform radial component of magnetic field

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Help with variation of the 3-dimensional ##\sigma##-model action

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Diagonalizing of Hamiltonian of electron and positron system

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Why must the second term on the right-hand side vanish in string theory?

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Understanding Powder Behavior under Centrifugal Force

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Dependence of the stress vector on surface orientation

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Discretizing a 1D quantum harmonic oscillator, finding eigenvalues

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Calculating Amplitude in Standard Model

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Perturbation Theory: Calculating 1st-Order Correction

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Confirming the dimension of induced charge density of a dielectric

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Feynman rules and the tree level cross section of two scalar fields

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Using Variational Principle to solve ground state energy

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Particle in a box: Finding <T> of an electron given a wave function

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Help with a calculation about gravitational waves

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Schwarzchild metric - rescaled coordinates

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Vector calculus — Computing this Divergence

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Time dependent perturbation theory (Berry phase)

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Bethe formula dependence on charge of the material

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Finding transition temperature of Landau ferroelectric

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Mass conservation in a sphere to find radial velocity of a flame

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Show that an expected value of a vacuum state is equal to 1

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Delta function to calculate density of probablity

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Bragg curve -> observing dependence on velocity

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Deriving the Laplacian in spherical coordinates

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Space-like trajectory in Schwarzschild spacetime

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Possible Results and Probabilities of a Measurement of Operator Q

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The Cooper Problem in tight binding

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