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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad A simple problem just for fun.Yes, that's basically it. -
QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad A simple problem just for fun.Try it for yourself, the rest case has C = 0. The initial rest condition is then essential to the claim of periodicity. For arbitrary...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Undergrad A simple problem just for fun.So we just did a similar problem for my graduate mechanics exam. If you didn't start from rest motion of the system need not be...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Theoretical question on extra dimensions.You can't disprove something that doesn't make testable predictions to begin with lol. A fixed future also isn't incompatible with the...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Medical Does the Birth Control Pill have a long term effect on womens' mindset?.An oral drug is absorbed through your mucosa -> mostly small intestine -> travel via portal vein to liver -> where they undergo first...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Medical Does the Birth Control Pill have a long term effect on womens' mindset?.There are two separate questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics_of_estradiol This covers the pharmacokinetics. The...
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QuarkyMeson reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Job Skills How to retrain in an experimental field requiring expensive equipment? with
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree.I base it on the reality of the education received and the emphasis of what that education focuses on. Griffiths level emag won't...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree.Physics is not a professional degree. A terminal bachelors in physics isn't going to explicitly open many more doors that weren't...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread AI The Fakes Keep Getting Better.Is there any reason to actually care? People have been faking video and images since time immemorial. Rather than trying to watermark...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Question about the pedagogy of operators.We started with Sakurai. As far as I've been told there were only two options the professor was considering, Shankar and Sakurai. He...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Question about the pedagogy of operators.Nice. We're using Ballentine for my grad QM course next semester. It will be interesting to take another go at QM when I'm also not...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Question about the pedagogy of operators.You start with classical mechanics. In the Hamiltonian formulation, the state of a system is a point in phase space, given by position...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Strain:thermodynamic force. Stress:state variable. true/false?.Stress and strain are related through constitutive equations, and either can be prescribed depending on the boundary conditions. Your...
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QuarkyMeson replied to the thread Graduate Theoretical question on extra dimensions.This is just a malformed question. A dimension is a coordinate direction in spacetime. We can reach energies sufficient to test certain...
