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bhobba replied to the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space?.Even more elegantly: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/123-the-electromagnetic-field-tensor Thanks Bill -
bhobba reacted to Sagittarius A-Star's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with
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Yes. The RHS of the wave function contains a 2nd derivative for ##ct##. In SR, ##t## is multiplied with ##c## as conversion factor. You... -
bhobba reacted to renormalize's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with Like.
But the constant speed-of-light ##c## is "dimensional" only because we humans have traditionally chosen to measure length and time in...
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bhobba reacted to flippiefanus's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with Like.
Perhaps, to clarify one should add that if one quantity is changed by a given factor, then another quantity must be change by the...
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bhobba reacted to Dale's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with Like.
Yes. Anyone who wishes to can go through the exercise I linked to earlier to see that.
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bhobba reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Radiation in classical and quantum mechanics with Like.
In the classical model there is radiation. And in the quantum model there is also radiation. So there is a classical reason and a...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Radiation in classical and quantum mechanics with Like.
There is no "classical reason" vs. "quantum reason". You are confusing models with reality. Reality is just radiation. The classical...
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bhobba reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Radiation in classical and quantum mechanics with Like.
Which is why the classical view is wrong.
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bhobba reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Radiation in classical and quantum mechanics with Like.
Both cases have a time-varying dipole moment.
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bhobba replied to the thread High School Building intuition for waves (& quantum waves).The book for that, IMHO (it covers Fourier analysis and distribution theory, which circumvents difficult questions of convergence, plus...
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bhobba reacted to Matterwave's post in the thread High School Building intuition for waves (& quantum waves) with Like.
I think if you want to build intuition for physical waves, it's best to start with the simple cases -- with waves on a rope, waves on...
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bhobba reacted to gentzen's post in the thread High School Building intuition for waves (& quantum waves) with Like.
I would say classical wave (equations) are about propagation. One can distinguish between propagation in time, and propagation along a...
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bhobba reacted to Andy Resnick's post in the thread Graduate Position vs momentum measurement with Like.
I guess it depends on what information you hope to obtain- a point detector does not cover all positions, but then your location...
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bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Position vs momentum measurement with Like.
Yes.
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bhobba reacted to GRQFT's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with
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Hmm, Maxwell didn't understand Maxwell's equations? That's rather surprising!