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Rivers that flow "uphill" due to Earth's rotation

One of the fun tidbits that gets bandied around in physics departments is that the Mississippi River actually flows away from the center of the Earth. Due to the...

Asked on 08/13/2020

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Is the angular acceleration of a rigid body independent of the reference point?

I'm solving this particular question (refer to image) in which a rod is released from equilibrium after one of the two springs to which it is initially connected is disconnected....

Asked on 08/13/2020 by sidsr003

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Lorentz transformation matrix for all 3 spatial axes

The lorentz transformation matrix (for all 3 spatial axes, not just a single dimension boost) appears to be commonly defined as the following:$$begin{bmatrix} gamma ...

Asked on 08/13/2020

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Calculating the potential of 2 spherical perfect conductors with the image method

I am searching for a way to calculate the potential on the surface of two perfect conductors that are spheres. I am not sure my method is correct. Here is...

Asked on 08/13/2020

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When is mechanical energy ever conserved for inelastic collisions?

So as I was taking a test today I encountered an intriguing question, the question came in two parts. The first parts, which I answered quite easily, was about whether...

Asked on 08/12/2020 by Jerry Wu

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Harmonic oscillator position expectation value

I'm trying to get the expected value as a function of time for the position, of a harmonic oscillator hamiltonian and a state vector $|psirangle=a|0rangle+b|2rangle$. I have$$|psi(t)rangle=ae^{-frac{iomega...

Asked on 08/12/2020

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Why is the plane wave ansatz appropriate for scattering cross sections of a localized particle beam?

This question is a spin-off from this related question: Why does the Born approximation for the scattering amplitude depend on the potential $V$ everywhere in space, unlike...

Asked on 08/12/2020 by jesseylin

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Confusion about work done by a force in different reference frames

Suppose I have a little mass m resting on a big slab mass M resting on a table. There is a frictional force between the little mass and the slab,...

Asked on 08/12/2020 by Meep

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Retarded green's function is the same as time ordered at zero temperature for $omega>0$

Consider the equilibrium time ordered and retarded Green's function for two operators $A,B$, defined as follows$$G^T(t,t') equiv -ilangle T A(t)B(t') rangle=-itheta(t-t')langle A(t)B(t')rangle -itheta(t'-t)langle B(t')A(t)rangleG^R(t,t') equiv...

Asked on 08/12/2020 by user1830663

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A No-Nonsense Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

I found Sean Carroll's "A No Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity" (about page here. pdf here), a 24-page overview of the topic, very helpful for...

Asked on 08/11/2020

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