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    Should I Learn LabVIEW for My Career in Applied Physics?

    SimFish, that's the class I took. Justin did a good job teaching it, but I got too busy at the end and wasn't able to finish. I audited it here and there the next quarter and found that he had really improved the course. I'd recommend it.
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    Difficulty Finding the EigenX of an Operator

    1. The operator is: [ 0 -i] [ i 0] 2. I'm trying to find the eigenvalues and vectors. By inspection they appear to be |i> = (0) ...(1) and |-i> = (1) ...(0) (or, easier to type, <i| = ( 0 1) and <-i| = (1 0) ) But these values don't work when I plug them...
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    Will soldering be an effective method for constructing a microwave resonator?

    So I'm about to construct a TE102 microwave resonator from folded copper sheeting. I'm planning to fold a U shape and join it to the last side with silver solder. Is this going to work well? I'm planning on making good physical contact through accurate folding, and then securing the pieces...
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    Should I Learn LabVIEW for My Career in Applied Physics?

    A LabVIEW training course is being offered through my school, complete with an NI CLAD test at the end. I've used the program but always looked down on it, assuming it was backwards or something, because of the graphical display, I guess. I'm wondering, how widely used is it in industry...
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    Understanding Relativistic Muon Decay and Time Dilation

    But if deltaT' is the time frame of the muon, I must divide it by gamma to get the amount of time it'll take in the Earth's reference frame, right? But that'll yield a smaller number. So, the particle would seem to decay quicker, and thus it's clock would be running fast according to the...
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    Understanding Relativistic Muon Decay and Time Dilation

    Given the lifetime of a muon as 2.197 microseconds, and the rest mass of 105.65MeV, and a total particle energy of 10GeV, I need to calculate how far, in the rest frame, the particle will travel before decay.Homework Equations Beta=v/c Gamma=1/sqrt(1-beta^2) deltaT'=gamma*deltaT...
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