David Zaslavsky

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I'm a fifth year graduate student in physics at Penn State University, doing research in high-energy particle phenomenology. I also have a hobby interest in computer programming.

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538 Answers

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How does one build up intuition in physics?
feb 24 '11 at 21:03
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Why is lagrangian density correct?
jan 26 '11 at 4:44
9
Is there any situation in Physics where the Right Hand Rule is not arbitrary?
nov 23 '10 at 7:43
8
Can the overall sign of the Minkowski metric be changed?
jan 13 at 3:55
8
Anti particles: What exactly is inverted?
aug 21 at 21:44
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Do objects with mass “suck in” spacetime?
jun 10 '12 at 3:31
8
How long must escape velocity be maintained?
jun 8 '12 at 21:13
8
Why is a book on a table not an example of Newton's third law?
may 24 '12 at 20:38
8
Conversion of mass to energy in chemical/nuclear reactions
jun 22 '11 at 21:36
8
Why does the aorta spray blood when atmospheric pressure is higher than blood pressure?
jan 19 '12 at 8:08
8
Why do quantum physical properties come in pairs?
dec 14 '11 at 18:59
8
Is (0,0,0) an undefined vector?
nov 11 '11 at 22:41
8
Why is pseudorapidity defined as $-\log \tan \theta/2$
jul 14 '11 at 5:50
8
What defines the mass of elementary particle?
mar 7 '11 at 8:43
8
Why did decoherence start in the first place?
jan 17 '11 at 22:42
8
Why does frozen water burst a pipe?
jan 17 '11 at 8:36
8
How to calculate a ballistic trajectory for a suborbital flight?
nov 15 '10 at 11:25
8
How are forces “mediated”?
nov 4 '10 at 7:15
7
How does energy convert to matter?
jun 10 at 23:18
7
Does every elementary particle have its own separate field?
jul 18 '12 at 1:24
7
Why do we need Higgs field to re-explain mass, but not charge?
jul 5 '12 at 8:25
7
what is the 2D gravity potential?
jun 23 '12 at 8:00
7
What is the stress energy tensor?
may 24 '12 at 5:02
7
Purple doesn't occur in rainbow - or does it?
jan 28 '12 at 4:45
7
What is the connection between Poisson brackets and commutators?
jan 21 '12 at 6:10
7
Conservation of energy and Doppler effect?
oct 1 '11 at 9:19
7
Simple Harmonic Motion - What are the units for $\omega_0$ ?
jun 23 '11 at 17:22
7
Wheel moving without sliding
jun 2 '11 at 21:54
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Wavefunction normalization
may 13 '11 at 5:16
7
In quantum mechanics, why do the probabilities of the possible outcomes of a measurement add up to 1?
apr 2 '11 at 6:40
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