Homework Statement
Example 5.3 from The Marion Thornton book (fifth edition) of Classical Dynamics states the following problem:
Consider a thin uniform circular ring of radius a and mass M. A mass m is placed in the plane of the ring. Find a position of equilibrium and determine whether it...
I hope putting this in the high energy section is the right section (if not, please let me know which would be more appropriate!) I felt this was appropriate since the work I am doing is high energy astrophysics.
So I'm doing some research this summer, and my tasks were to take some data...
So I'm reading the Schaum's outlines while trying to prepare for a big test I have in September. And I'm trying to understand something here that maybe someone can offer some clarification and guidance.
So, using Coulomb's Law, we can find the electric field as follows:
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dE...
Hi all, so I am working on a presentation. What I have done so far was to calculate the cosmic ray spectrum (so given some data from Voyager 1 and PAMELA, I found the intensity as a function of the energy, in units of m^-2 (sr s MeV)^-1.
Given this function, which is essentially J =...
Thank you so much! This explained it clearly! I went back with your suggestions and rederived the equations and got the same result that we would consider the usual definition using his method. I truly appreciate your time!
First, I'd like to say I apologize if my formatting is off! I am trying to figure out how to do all of this on here, so please bear with me!
So I was watching this video on spherical coordinates via a rotation matrix:
and in the end, he gets:
x = \rho * sin(\theta) * sin(\phi)
y = \rho*...
Homework Statement
Calculate the energy for 1S->2P transition in lithium and carbon. We had to calculate the energy and eigenvalue equations (though I verified these are correct)
Homework Equations
E = mc^2/sqrt(1+(Za/lambda)^2)
lambda = n + 1/2 + sqrt((l+1/2)^2- (Za)^2)
The...