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Hi Berkeman, Thanks for your reply and suggestion, no offense taken. The previous class I took that involved circuits was an intro to physics class that broadly looked at electromagnetism and circuits and touched on resistors, capacitors ohms, kvl, and kcl. This class I'm currently in is the...

Hello everyone, I am in an upper division undergraduate electronics and circuits class right now and the textbook that were using (Eggleston: basic electronics for scientists and engineers) is not resonating with me. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a textbook that explains...

I haven't looked at the wikki article because I don't trust it and don't want to be given misinformation. The main thing I'm having trouble with is it feels like the speed of light constant rule is being violated and I would like a bunch of examples of scenarios in order to prove to me it isn't...

Hello I'm having a lot of trouble understanding simultinaity and would appreciate any free book or article reccomendations.

Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate everything you guys wrote including going beyond my original two questions and answering what will happen at the reflectors themselves.

Imagine you are in the center of a ship moving at V to the right relative to earth. You have a flashlight in your hand and two perfect reflectors on each end of the ship. If you turn on the flashlight will you observe the reflected light from both ends to hit you simultaneously? What will...

Thank you all for your replies, they have all been very helpful.

Ok, thank you for your reply Dale.

I'm reading Special Relativity by TM Helliwell and in it he describes the second postulate and the fact that moving with respect to air changes the speed of sound, and that because light doesn't need a medium it's speed is constant. I remember my physics teacher saying that light itself(EM...

OK, thank you for your reply Peter.

Is there a difference between Schrödinger's equation and the wave function? In the beginning of the second edition by David J. Griffiths he compares the classical F(x,t) and Schrödinger's equation and I am having trouble understanding the connection.

Awesome, thank you for your reply mfb!

Thanks for your reply, would the other parts of my explanation be correct?

Is this true?: During beta decay a quarks' spin is changed and the mass/ energy difference is converted to a W boson which quickly decays into an electron/positron and an anti neutrino/neutrino. The mass/ energy is conserved through E=mc^2.

Thank you so much Jtbell, this is very helpful! :)