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hi, in principle an ideal insulator will never depolarize any electric field because by definition the charges are not allowed to move around their initial position. You can think of this ideal-ness as supplied by other sources of restoring force such as nuclear strong force of just simply an...

one thing to notice is that, for a group velocity to be meaningful, the wave packet has to be merely composed of wavenumber in a narrow range.

oh i c... then, may i know how much they will pay u for the assistantship?

Scholarship for pdD foreign student = ? hi guys, usually how much is the scholarship for a foreign phD student in US? Where can I find the list of scholarship for physics phD? thx!:smile:

hi, I am going to study the history of science (physics and mathematics) by reading the biographies of big names in scientific history because I think each of them do represent certain ideas of their generation. The name list inmy hand now is: Galileo --> Newton --> Maxwell --> Bolztmann...

hi, I am a physics undergraduate. May I know which physics magazine you would like to recommend to me? Thx!

hi Locarian, I would like to keep where i am from a secret.. sorry ya.. The point is, due to limited resources that are allocated for scientific development in my country, most of the resources will be given to those science that can bring my country money as a reward. In other words, science...

I am a 2nd year physics undergraduate. I realize that basically there are two types of sciences, one of them to develop technology with scientific knowledge while the other one to seek for fundamental understanding of the physical laws governing the universe. I am passionate in doing the...