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    Uniformly Charged Circular Disk

    The problem says "around" the disk, so that probably means where does E not point outside of the disk. to answer, consider the electric field in regions far far away from the disk, so that the disk appears to be a point. What would the field look like?
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    Underdamped harmonic oscillator with a sinusoidal driving force

    Let me give you a hint on the general theory behind this: your relevant equation seems flat bizarre first of all, why is there no 't' in x(t) and what is gama? --------- to set you in the direction i would go: you have your driving force F F=-d/dx(V(x) then V(x) =...
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    What is meant by no gas enters or leaves the cylinder ?

    P*V=n*R*T from question; P don't change, and there is a finite amount of gas in chamber (i.e. n don't change) so P don't change, n don't change (and R is a const. so it don't change), then what else could change (hint. if T change, then V change)
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    How Does Light Reach Bob in Special Relativity?

    actually It doesn't seem to funky now that I've thought about it some more. the important thing is that is bobs inertial frame, the speed of light relative to him is c
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    How Does Light Reach Bob in Special Relativity?

    Is it correct to say that in andrews frame, the relative velocity between the flash and bob is c+v? That seems kinda funky. But i do get what your saying about relativity of simultinaity. I drew a Minkowski diagram for bobs frame, and sure enough, in bobs frame the lamp does not flash at...
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    How Does Light Reach Bob in Special Relativity?

    Homework Statement Andrew is at rest in frame S and observes Bob moving to the right (frame S0 is bobs rest frame) with speed v. On the ground, a distance L to the right of Andrew, is a lamp. At the instant that bob passes Andrew (as observed in frame S), the lamp emits a flash of light...
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    Finding hamiltonian for spring/pulley problem

    Homework Statement a light, inextensible string passes over a small pulley and carries a mass of 2m on one end. on the other end is a mass m, and beneath it, supported by a spring w/ spring constant k, is a second mass m. using the distance x, of the first mass beneath the pulley, and the...
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