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    High School How is ħ pronounced and what is its significance in physics?

    OK Not sure why, but I thought ħ is Planck's constant, and ħ is reduced Planck's constant. You are dealing with a laywoman here. I know better now, and I'd be happy if someone would delete this thread. o:)
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    High School How is ħ pronounced and what is its significance in physics?

    I'm translating a fascinating science movie script, and there is ħ - Planck's constant in it. That text will be read aloud, so I cannot just write ħ, because the speaker will choke. He/she will probably have little idea about physics. Is it true, that only ħ (in italics), the reduced...
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    Undergrad Rotation operators on a sphere, around x and y axis

    Oh, I've just learned the author of my text has invented the term :) I knew that! It's an operator that rotates nodal lines, hence "nodal rotation operator" seems appropriate. Thanks!
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    Undergrad Rotation operators on a sphere, around x and y axis

    I need to start by saying that I'm not a physicist, nor a student of physics. I'm a translator, and my text is about rotations around the azimuthal nodal lines on the sphere. I need to find a name for a particular type of a rotation operator, which rotates the sphere around the x and y axes...