Questions tagged [education]
How is physics taught and learned. Teaching strategies, class examples and demonstrations; learning resources, career advice, etc. For explicit problems, use the 'homework' tag instead.
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From where a person should start about quantum mechanics from very beginning? [duplicate]
I am confuse about the learning of quantum mechanics. Basically i am a high school student but i am passionate about quantum mechanics but the main thing is I am confuse about from where should i ...
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How to find projects to work on in hep phenomenology? [closed]
I'm currently a Phd student in particle physics phenomenology and all the projects that my advisor suggests do not seem to cater to an actual need/gap in the literature; specifically, it boils down to ...
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Why do many authors introduce absurd precision into "translated" units of measurement? [closed]
This issue often hits me in the eye, although often the original and "translated" units are present in the text (e.g. "this is 10 miles (16km) away"). A recent phrase however left ...
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To understand modern concepts in the field of Neutrino physics and the field on the whole what are the mathematical prerequisites that I need? [closed]
I want to start working in the field of Neutrino Physics but I am not mathematically well equipped, and I cannot bypass this as it is crucial to the field, what mathematical topics or concepts should ...
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Guidence for olympiads [closed]
Is a knowledge of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) and Partial Differential Equations (PDE) required for olympiads like International Physics Olympiad (IPHO)? As I have noticed in many problems, ...
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Does anywhere exist a document of solutions to Collins' Foundations of Perturbative QCD?
I and some classmates are recently teaching ourselves the famous book Foundations of Perturbative QCD by John Collins via a form of regular peer reading group. We find that exercises in this book are ...
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What is an good book to study classical non-equilibrum thermodynamics? [duplicate]
I am a physics student who has just started my master's program and am taking a course on classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics. I am looking for a book that can help me learn this subject. Are ...
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Motivation for introducing ladder operators for the simple harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics
I am teaching a quantum mechanics course and I have to explain the simple harmonic oscillator. I am familiar with the introduction of ladder operators and the consecutive proofs that show that we can ...
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Methods for studying quantum mechanics [duplicate]
I want to study quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, chromodynamics after this. Can you please help me with the choice of books, methods of studying the topic (I have a good knowledge of ...
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Self-studying General Relativity [duplicate]
How can I learn General Relativity? Am a undergrad student, who happens to be interested in general relativity. I want to learn it by heart. What are the prerequisites for it?
As a fresher who just ...
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Help in Finding a specific Quantum Mechanics Book with Minimal Formula
I'm reaching out to this wonderful community in the hopes that someone can assist me in identifying a particular book on the topic of quantum mechanics that I read nearly 25 years ago. Unfortunately, ...
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Good resources for revision/learning of classical mechanics and electrodynamics [duplicate]
I am a first year PhD student in Physics. My M.Sc classes were all online due to covid and I did pretty bad in managing classes. Thus my electrodynamics knowledge is effectively upto B.Sc level(say ...
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Mechanics problems book [duplicate]
Please suggest me some books on Problems in Classical Mechanics.
P.S. - Please suggest books of the level high school or pre college or at max first year college books.
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Good books or material for starting in physics with a high school education? [duplicate]
What are some good entry points into physics? I'm wanting to eventually be able to understand some more abstract concepts like quantum physics but understand that is a very long way away. Just been ...
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With constant acceleration, can $\bar{v}=\Delta{x}/\Delta{t}=(v_i+v_f)/2$ be established rigorously without calculus?
I have found no way to rigorously establish the basic one-dimensional kinematic equation relating the two following expressions of average velocity without using some kind of argument that amounts to ...
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Learning QFT from scratch [duplicate]
I'm a final-year physics degree student and I want to know about QFT, but my knowledge about tensor mathematics and groups of symmetries is really low, as my university doesn't offer us advanced ...
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Is there a modern, worthy successor to Misner/Thorne/Wheeler "Gravitation"? [duplicate]
About to purchase Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's Gravitation I wonder if there is a newer book covering the topic in similar depth and breath and all that which might also be “a pedagogic masterpiece,” ...
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Functional Integrals in statistical field theory [duplicate]
I've been reading Kardar's statistical fields book where there are many functional integrals.
In the book he gave the definition as a product of integrals but to me it was not enough to really ...
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I am a 10th grader and aspire to become like you guys [closed]
People say my idols are Messi and Ronaldo(no hate) but I dont know why I am attracted to Physics and Math.It always amazes me, this is just a dumb question which i suppose is gonna be closed by ...
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How do we know what physics or science textbook said is correct? [closed]
I have a question. I have a problem that when I learn science, I like to think 'how do they know this is right?'.
When we learn physics or science from a textbook, we read and understand it, and then ...
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Compton Scattering - On the equivalence of the Klein-Nishina formula (and on the demonstration to go from one to the other)
A stupid question about the Compton scattering and in particular the Klein Nishina formula.
I'm not sure I can find, if it exists, an equivalence between the three following formulas. (and what's the ...
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Can one learn physics online? And be good at it? [closed]
i would like to find a way to study physics online and get academic credentials in it and be able to contribute to the research and publish. I know some topics are experimental and require physical ...
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Understanding a high school model on magnetism
I've been reading through my son's physics textbook (junior high) and got puzzled by the chapter on magnetism. I do understand that this is addressing young teens but still, I find the logic presented ...
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Lectures on wormholes
I am currently writing a review as a thesis project and I must cover black holes and wormholes, static and stationary. For black holes I found this lecture where black holes are approached from a more ...
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Why Klein-Gordon equation before QFT? [closed]
Note : This is an edit of the original question.
Previously (with some more elaboration of what I had in mind): Peskin's QFT book starts with Klein Gordon equation, which is little taught for most ...
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Introductory text to atomic onto std. model
My wife mentioned today that she would love to know more about 'how the world is made up'. She stopped learning science at a young age and finds most stuff meaningless or incomprehensible.
She is not ...
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Resources and Problems on Generalized Symmetries
There has been some recent buzz around generalized/higher form/categorical(?) symmetries in the physics community. I understand Seiberg's papers are a popular resource, and I am aware of McGreevy's ...
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Does anybody have solutions to the Feynman handouts?
I've recently been reviewing the Feynman Lectures. Caltech has posted Feynman's actual handouts from his lectures on the website below.
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flphandouts.html
Though ...
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Is the 2-sphere always useful for intuition and visualized learning in cosmology?
The unit 2-sphere is often used, pedagogically, to help provide some visual intuition about topology, differential geometry and geometric objects and properties like curvature, geodesic, smoothness, ...
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Lorentz-like transformations of 1+1 dimensional Minkowski space
Alice lives in 1+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Bob travels at a constant
velocity $v$ with respect to Alice. When Alice assigns coordinates $(t,x)$
to an event, Bob assigns coordinates $F(t,x)$ ...
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Is there any game for understanding elevator physics?
I'm a physics teacher and I'm wondering if there's any game for physics elevator problems (weight in accelerating elevator) that the student can play with to better understand in what situations the ...
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Literature Suggestions - Classical Field Theory [duplicate]
I'm a physics graduate that is joining the master degree program of my University. One of the areas of research that i'm very interested is Quantum Field Theory over curved surfaces, but the point is ...
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Physics reading material for mathematics grad student [closed]
I am a graduate student in mathematics studying algebraic logic. For quite some time now, I have been meaning to study physics -- it turns out that some ideas in foundations of mathematics have found ...
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Recommendation: Intermediate level books on quantum gravity
i have already read carlo rovelli's 'reality is not what it seems' and lee smolin's three roads to quantum gravity, how should i proceed from here and what books do i read that balance theoretical ...
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Exercises on the subject Theory of Quantum Information
I have recently started to study quantum information theory on Nielsen and Chuang book, but in order to understand the theory better I need to solve more problems, there are in this book. Can you ...
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Recommended physics book(s) that uses calculus and have difficult problems [closed]
What physics book(s) uses calculus and has complex problems (undergrad/olympiad level)?
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I've read "Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnick" and I found the problems to be ...
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Resources for studying holography for someone with a long gap in physics
for the past 3 years I haven't been reading up on physics and I'd now like to get back into it by learning about holography. I have done courses on QFT and String theory but some concepts I've ...
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Simplest Feynman diagram with fully detailed corresponding calculation
I have look into a dozens of graduate textbooks so far (very likely not the best ones) and I haven’t been able to find a case, in which all of the following requirements are satisfied at the same time:...
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Concise book about QFT suggestion
I have the following books about QFT:
Peskin-Schroeder
Lancaster-Blundell
Iliopoulos-Tomaras
I would like to know if there is a QFT that is as concise as Dirac's book about general Relativity.
What ...
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Nuclear Physics textbooks with full solutions to all the exercises [closed]
Can anyone recommend a nuclear physics textbook which is focused on theory rather than engineering and comes with full solutions to all the problems provided in a separate solutions manual.
I MUST ...
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How can I justify the energy levels of a hydrogen atom heuristically?
In the future, I will need to teach students at school the proportionality $E_n\propto-\frac{1}{n^2}$ of the energy levels of a hydrogen atom. I could present this as an experimental fact, but I would ...
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How inaccurate is the following mental picture of particle interaction in QFT?
Context: I ask this as a school teacher reaching past the boundaries of my expertise. A colleague was talking about the standard model with an advanced student, explaining how particles interact by ...
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Resource suggestion for astronomy [duplicate]
Can someone suggest a good astronomy book with mathematical explanation for a high school student? i need to develop my interest with more mathematical and other complex nature of the celestial bodies
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A good classical (Newtonian) mechanics book for Undergrads [duplicate]
I have looked across the book recommendations wiki, but haven’t found a suitable book. Could someone suggest a book for Newtonian Mechanics. (beginner+advanced undergrad as well; it could be a series ...
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Pre-requisites for V.I. Arnold's mathematical methods for classical mechanics
I am an undergraduate, studying physics. I have studied maths courses like Groups, Linear Algebra, Real analysis, Differential geometry and probability. I wish to get into mathematical physics, ...
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Tutorials on Quantum Variational Algorithm
I am interested in learning about quantum algorithms, especially quantum variational algorithms. I would like to know where I can find resources that delve into specific quantum variational algorithms ...
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What are some good books for theoretical physics (specifically quantum mechanics) for a beginner? [duplicate]
I want to read physics axiomatically like a typical math course. I watched some lectures by Frederic Schuller. I liked the teaching style but it was a bit advanced for me as I don't know vector bundle ...
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What's a classroom demonstration that an object with balanced forces can move at a constant velocity?
It is quite easy to demonstrate that an object at rest that has balanced forces doesn't move. All the Internet examples of things that have balanced forced moving are large scale objects - cars and ...
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Is this velocity-time graph paradoxical? [closed]
The velocity-time graph for the free-fall and rise of a body after hitting ground is given as:-
In this diagram, at $t = 5$ units, the velocity has every value between $5$ and $-5$ at the same time.
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What is the purpose of making notes in a Physics degree? [closed]
I have a general question regarding the importance of taking/making notes in Physics degree.
My issue is this: I feel taking/making notes is taking up way too much of my time, and I feel like I’d be ...
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