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On problem number 77 on the 1996 Physics GRE test that is now available for practice, I believe there are two answer choices that are completely equivalent. The test is here: http://www.stanford.edu/group/sps/files/GR9677.pdf I think answer choice (d) reduces down to choice (b), and I...

This question was posed to me a while ago, but I never fully understood how to solve it. You have a particle in the first excited state of the infinite square well (with the origin taken to be at the center. You "abruptly" change the shape of the potential well to be that of the harmonic...

Am I banned for asking that? I understand if so

That is a very good question. Thank you

I am reading the section in Griffiths' Quantum about adding spins together. It says if you have a particle of spin s1 and another of spin s2 then the possible composite spins are s1+s2, s1+s2 -1, s1+s2-2, ... |s1-s2| that rule (though not proven in this text) has seemed straight forward to me...

Okay that document says there are about 1.1 billion Han. I am assuming none of them are black So I have narrowed it down to: < .2 billion black people in China So far I am winning

OK then let's see who can make the most clever use of resources we do have. How far can you narrow your estimate. I will start # of Blacks (African) in China < 1.3 billion who can improve this

I am hoping for a number or some sort of decent estimated range

I can't find this information online. I was wondering if anyone could tell me about how many black people reside in China. There are 1.3 billion people in China

I don't understand that reply. I got it by solving the schrodinger equation, so it must satisfy it, no?

This is more a qualitative question than a specific homework question, but a homework problem got me wondering about it. I was solving the finite potential well. V(r) = 0 \hspace{1cm} r \geq a V(r) = -V_0\hspace{1cm} r < a I am trying to solve for the ground state energy. When I find...

I have been using LaTex lately for my Quantum assignments. I am not too good with it yet. I was wondering if anyone knows how to get the proper font for the quantum numbers I want the lowercase loopy L that is almost always used for angular momentum, but I can't figure out how to type it...

I am trying to solve x^2y'' + xy' = 0 I know that two solutions that work, by inspection are y_1 = c_1 and y_2 = c_2ln(x) where c_1 and c_2 are just arbitrary constants. However I was hoping I would be able to find a more systematic way to solve it. I can get the...

These replies are all helpful. Thanks for the feedback.

I have done principle parts, but even though sin(x)/x converges to 1 in the limit that x approaches 0, if we wish to integrate directly through the point x=0 how can we ignore the fact that it is undefined at 0. It is a removable discontinuity, but it is still a discontinuity. Isn't...