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It has to be an error. Rayleigh-Jeans theory fails at high frequency, but it's a good approximation for low frequency. Infrared catastrophe has nothing to do with the black body radiation problem. Only at high frequencies it was evident that Rayleigh-Jeans model failed. In the following plot you can see how at low frequencies (where infrared belongs), the ...

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I know this is an old thread, but I had to figure this out for a problem on my physics homework. What helped me to understand this is to think about 2 objects on a spinning disk, one being close to the center of the disk and one being close to the outside of the disk. Angular (rotation) speed deals strictly with the angle. How long does each object take to ...

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Both operations are equivalent, up to a local phase in the second mode. In particular, if you shift the second basis vector's phase by $i$, then you will turn $H$ into $A$. In a beam splitter this is perfectly natural, because the phases of the output modes are not particularly well defined, and you can always model the difference between the two operations ...

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A gauge field transforms in the adjoint of the gauge group, but not in the adjoint (or any other) representation of the group of gauge transformations. In detail: Let $G$ be the gauge group, and $\mathcal{G} = \{g : \mathcal{M} \to \mathcal{G} \vert g \text{ smooth}\}$ the group of all gauge transformations. A gauge field $A$ is a connection form on a ...

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