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Calculating energy released during fusion reactions

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What Is the Electric Potential Inside an Insulated Metal Cube?

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Common temperature for thermal equilibrium

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E-B crossed fields parallel plate

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Two-Body Problem: Homework Statement, Equations & Attempted Solution

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Forward bias in a silicon p-n junction diode

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Vibrational energy at low temperatures

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Equilibrium state proof with lagrange

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Velocity of cyclist undergoing air resistance

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Capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with dielectrics

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Radial Velocity of the centre of mass of spectroscopic binary system

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Complex vector potential of solid sphere and Heaviside function

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Find 2 charge densities that gives the same E field

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Degrees of Freedom: Why 3/2*RT for Kinetic Energy in a Solid?

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Thermodynamics: Vertical pipe flow of geothermal water

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Griffiths Electrodynamics - Chap 5 clarification curl of B field

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How Do You Convert Position to Momentum Space in Quantum Mechanics?

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How Do I Normalize a Three Qbit State?

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Motion of particle if gravitational charge-mass ratio is changed

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Resolution of a Michelson interferometer

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How to find the Bond length of N(2)

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Neumann's problem, electrostatics, proof

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Small oscillations and closed orbit

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Small oscillations: diagonal matrix

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Formal properties of eigenfunctions

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Singular behavior of the density state called a van Hove singularity

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A problem Sean Carroll's book about Killing vectors

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How is Energy Conserved in a Mass-Spring System?

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Coming up with the critical density formula

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Writing up the charge distribution with Dirac's delta

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Finding Eigenvectors/values given matrix defined by bra-ket notation

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What is the Darwin Term's Role in Hydrogen's Fine Structure?

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Why Does Operator A Always Return h/2 for a Specific Spin State?

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Change frame of reference to simplify acceleration calculation?

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Calculate h if the fluid in the manometer is mercury

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Multipole Expansion: Quadrupole Moment Calculation

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A second order nonlinear ode in an electrostatics problem

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How Is the Resonance Peak Area Calculated in Charmonium Production?

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Solving the gauged Dirac equation perturbatively

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Spherical capacitor in a uniform magnetic field

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What is the Curl of Unit Vector r / r^2?

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Solving poisson's equation slowly rotating spherical shell of mass

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Proving that the free particle lagrangian is rotationally symmetric

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Constant temperature distribution across the surface of a disk

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Solving Dipole Interaction Problems

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Need help with fourier transformation to derive oseen tensor.

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Energy levels of a 3 dimensional infinite square well

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Commutator Proof: Show (x,p^n)= ixp^(n-1)

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Quantum Mechanics: Probability of the result h-bar/2 if Sy is measured

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Capacitance of three concentric spherical shells?

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Why Are Good Conductors Opaque to Visible Light Based on Skin Depth?

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Blackbody Radiation - Entropy and Internal Energy

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What Are the Effects of Zeeman Shift in Positronium?

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Quick question, eletric field of a conducting sheet of charges

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Lagrangian: How did they get from this step to the other?

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Electric potential using Green function, particular set up

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Counting multiplicities of a particle lattice

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The rotational analog of Ehrenfest's Theorem

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Low Temp Physics: Why He (3) Needs Higher Pressure to Solidify

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Maxwell's equations differential forms

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Spherical conductor with point charge not in center

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Expectation value of a dynamical variable problem.

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Solve Kirchoffs Laws Problem - Step-by-Step Guide

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Another Question About Angular Momentum in QM

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Equilibrium solutions of a spherical pendulum

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Capacitance and E-field of a parallel plate capacitor

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What Is the Temperature Distribution Along an Insulated Rod?

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Energy flux in optics in hydrogen gas

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The average distance between two particles in a 1d box

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General Relativity-surface gravity in killing horizon

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Jackson's problem 4.10, dielectric between 2 spheres

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Expectation value in unpertubed basis

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Griffiths Quantum Mechanics: Solving Angular Momentum with Commutators

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Isothermal and Adiabatic Compression of a Solid

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How to Show the Eigenvalue for v=1 in a Harmonic Oscillator?

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I don't understand conservative systems

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Continuity Equation in an Electromagnetic Field

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How to Write ∇ × (∇ × A) in Einstein Notation?

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Landé g factor in the Zeeman Effect

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Two problems on Electric Fields and Electric Potential

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Find the translation vectors of the primitive cell

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Vertex factor for W^- -> e + anti neutrino_e

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Earth's acceleration due to gravity

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How to calculate force needed to push piston based on crankshaft value

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Trouble looking up values of critical temperature for mercury

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Griffiths quantum harmonic oscillator derivation

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Potentials of a charge moving with uniform velocity

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Explaining "Low Lying States" of 210^Bi in Nuclear Physics

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How to determine exact differentials

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Bra-Ket Question: Constructing Langle Alpha & Beta

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Finding fundamental equation of the ideal VanWaals in Hemoltz

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Central forces: spinning puck tied to hanging mass

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Griffiths - example 5.5 Electrodynamics - Calculate B Field

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