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Energy, Lifting Weights with Noether?
Is there an easy (aka intuitive) way to understand that the conserved quantity from time translation symmetry is just what we call energy?
In other words, we use two definitions of energy. One is ...
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Internal/Rotational angular momentum
I have some difficulties to understand the relation between the internal and the rotational angular momentum of a rigid body which is also known as König's theorem, so what physical intuition lies ...
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Hypersingular Boundary Operator in Physics
This has been a question I've been asking myself for quite some time now. Is there a physical Interpretation of the Hypersingular Boundary Operator?
First, let me give some motivation why I think ...
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Intuition for when the replica trick should work and why it works
I am a graduate student in mathematics working in probability (without a very good background in physics honestly) and I've started to see arguments based on computations derived from the replica ...
