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    Post your Winter and Spring 2011 schedules here

    WINTER: 4-th year Honours Thesis Project Particle Physics - Properties of leptons, quarks and hadrons. The fundamental interactions, conservation laws, invariance principles and quantum numbers. Resonances in hadron-hadron interactions. Three body phase space. Dalitz plots. Quark model of...
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    Do soundwaves heat up the air through which they travel?

    I'm doing a problem in thermodynamics that deals with sound waves and the bulk modulus B and it got me thinking. Since the compressional waves would be traveling far too fast to be considered isothermal, I assume you must consider them to be adiabatic compressions of air. Now if adiabatic...
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    How to Correctly Represent Microstates in an Einstein Solid?

    Your doing it correctly. Just make sure you get all possible combinations. In other words, your table should have \Omega(4, 2) = \left(\stackrel{5}{2}\right) rows, all with different configurations.
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    How to Solve the Schrödinger Equation for a 3D Isotropic Harmonic Oscillator?

    for a start, find out what the laplacian is in spherical coords and expand the shrodinger equation. from there you need to separate your variables. remember also that your potential energy is a certain expression if you dealing with a harmonic oscillator.
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    Sturm-Liouville Orthogonality Proof

    Yeah good call, I guess you don't need to add them. I'll try to rewrite those boundary conditions.
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    Sturm-Liouville Orthogonality Proof

    Yeah, that's what I thought to, but how did you show that they form their own Sturm-Liouville problem? Did you replace y(x) with u(x) in #1? When you sub the u(x)'s into eq'n #1, the last term contains \int u(x)dx, because u = y'. I'm curious to see how you got that weighting function. I did...
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    Sturm-Liouville Orthogonality Proof

    Homework Statement A set of eigenfunctions yn(x) satisfies the Sturm-Liouville equation #1 with boundary conditions #2. The function g(x) = 0. Show that the derivatives un(x) = yn'(x) are also orthogonal functions. Determine the weighting function w(x) for these functions. What boundary...
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