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Graduate Finding Value of Phi*k(x) in Basis Function Method

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Graduate Gravitational potential of a particle in a box in the ground state

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Graduate A delayed choice experiment with a paradox. What did I do wrong?

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Graduate Maximum energy transefer in COmpton effect - rutherford

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Graduate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and ions

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Graduate Uncertainty vs. speed of light

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Graduate Normalize the even wave functions for the finite square well

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Undergrad When do we call something a wave versus a particle?

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Graduate How can you aim without knowing the precise position and velocity of a particle?

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Graduate Why do electrons occupy quantized energy levels around nuclei?

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Graduate How can photons carry force if they don't interact with external forces?

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Graduate Does the photoelectric effect influence the material properties of metals?

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Live Feynman QED Lectures by Richard Feynman

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Graduate Position and momentum (basic stuff)

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Graduate Can photons be attracted to one another?

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High School How is E=mc² derived?

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Graduate EPR Debate: Nature Agrees with Einstein

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Graduate Compton-scattering = Entanglement ?

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Graduate Pauli exclusion principle - does it apply to everything

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Graduate Why is an electron 1084 times lighter than a neutron?

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Graduate Double slit intensity - QM description

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Undergrad Introduction to the structure of matter

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Graduate How Do Photons Relate to Classical Light Wave Theories?

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Graduate Mathematics of locality and nonlocality in quantum mechanics

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Graduate Is the entire system of quantum observers and objects relatively linear?

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Graduate Coupled Angular Momentum sates and probability

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Graduate Debunking the orbitsphere electron model

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Graduate Are Quarks Really the Building Blocks of Matter?

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Graduate Is Quantum Randomness Really Random?

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Graduate Relative phase in infinite square well

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Graduate Oscillating Molecule and Revolving Electron

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Graduate Adiabatic Theorem: Finding Coefficient for State Transitions

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Undergrad Are there an infinite number of energy levels in an atom?

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Graduate The Particle-Wave Duality in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate How can we handle infinities in renormalizable theories?

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Graduate Dirac's Postulations: A Scalar Function or Four-Dimensional Vector?

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Undergrad Why we consider light to be massless?

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Graduate Do Photons Truly Have Zero Mass in Quantum Mechanics?

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Undergrad Are There Any Non-3D Objects in the Universe?

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Graduate Is Dirac's equation valid for point charges?

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High School Light acts as a wave but travels in a staright line right

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Undergrad What is a value of psi* for a particle in 1D box stationary state?

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Graduate Poll: Where does unitary evolution happen?

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Graduate Magnetic Repulsion between Proton and Electron in Hydrogen

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Graduate Optical Emission - due to Acceleration or Oscillation

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Graduate Hydrogen Atom probability question

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Graduate I want to find the expectation value [tex]\langle x^2 \rangle[/tex] in

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Graduate Zero Point Energy of Coupled Dipoles

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Graduate Is Time an Observable in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Von Neumann's measurement model with delta function coupling

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Graduate Why do expansion coefficients give probability of energy in stationary states?

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Graduate Question regarding Dirac matrices

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Graduate The consequences of energy-time-uncertainty

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Graduate Showing that the Virial Theorem holds

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Graduate Prove P=h/i(d/dx) from Axioms: Get an Answer

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Graduate Put a cat into a pure quantum state, without killing the cat?

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Graduate Fractional Fourier Transform in a QM Oscillator

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Graduate Could a Universe with h=0 be Fully Deterministic?

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Graduate Do hydrogen atoms continuously emit radiation?

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Graduate If photons had S=0, not 1, what changes?

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Graduate EPR results equal the Fully Deterministic case

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Graduate Cheap fun with polarized light

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Graduate The Wave Equation IS the electron

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Graduate Could matter and matter waves be derivable?

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Graduate Recommended books and websites for QED

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Graduate Why can't quantum crypto be broken this way

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Graduate Calculating Self Energy of Electrons: A Classical Approach

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Graduate Quantum Physics and the Real World

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Graduate Bose Einstein condensation and subatomic-speed

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Graduate Proving Rnl(r) Has (n-l-1) Zeros - Interesting Proof

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Graduate Photon-Photon Repulsion-Attraction

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Graduate Deriving Even Function Solutions to TISE

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Graduate Calculate Magnetic Field & Velocity of Free Electron @100 nm

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Graduate Prerequisites for quantum physics

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Graduate Why is a solid state laser dioide pen shoning an undulating constant beam

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Graduate Does light wave never collaspe?

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Graduate Was the Pauli exclusion principle assumed or experimentally observed?

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Undergrad Why Can't a Photon Stop Interacting with Matter?

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Graduate How do particles become entangled through collisions?

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Graduate Determining Ground State in L-S Coupling Scheme for (3d)4

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Graduate How should we recognize antisimmetric and Pauli rules in

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Graduate Why is there uncertainty in energy if energy states are discrete?

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Undergrad Is It Possible for an Electron to Be Completely Still?

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Graduate Proving $\Psi$ and $\Psi'$ Normalizable: A Mathematical Proof

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Graduate Proving Schrödinger Equation for Normalizable Solutions

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Graduate Can schrodinger equation be proved

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Graduate Ket bra notation, and radial momentum

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Graduate Why do uncertainty relations not apply in stationary states?

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Graduate Did Entanglement Spook Einstein?

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Graduate Observables as a function of energy

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Graduate What Are Phonons and How Do They Influence Physics?

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: String vs. Loop Theory

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Graduate Interferometer questions, pure states?

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High School Why Does Light Always Go Straight?

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Graduate The Limitations of Applying Relativity to Photons

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High School How Quantum Entanglement Works

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Graduate How Do You Find the Momentum Space Wave Function for an Infinite Square Well?

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Graduate Why Are Photons Massless in Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate How Does Photon Angular Momentum Affect Zeeman Effect Observations?

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