Questions tagged [specific-reference]
Use this tag for questions seeking a single specific paper or a short, non-open-ended list of references, like "What paper first discovered X?", "Where can I find the original derivation of X?", or "What is the canonical source for X?" etc. Also for requests for hard-to-find electronic copies of resources when the exact reference is known. NOT TO BE USED for generic requests for resources (use [resource-recommendation] for that).
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Halliday resnick and krane solutions [closed]
I have the solutions for the quantitative problems and can go through those pretty easily but I can't find a manual for the conceptual multiple-choice questions
any place I can find these
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Is Fermi's Nuclear Physics still relevant as an entry level textbook? [closed]
As a quantum/theoretical chemist, I am eager to broaden my understanding of quantum phenomena. Fermi's Nuclear Physics book from 1950 seems like an important text.
However, seing it is 70+ years old, ...
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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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First depiction of Einstein's "Train and Embankment" thought experiment with relevant 3 "train constituents" shown individually labelled (A', M', B') [closed]
The principal source of the widely known "Train and Embankment" thought experiment is -- by all appearances as well as by expert judgement -- Albert Einstein's booklett "On the Special ...
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What is the diffusivity of colloidal Formazine in water?
I have synthesized Foramzine in an aqueous solution (turbidity = 4000 NTU), and will be further diluting it. I would like to know the diffusion coefficient (diffusivity/mass diffusivity) of colloidal ...
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Where are generalized angular-momentum operators used in physics?
The usual angular-momentum operators we see in quantum mechanics describe the behavior of a complex-valued function on the sphere as we rotate about each of the three axes. In particular, we can ...
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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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Reference for critical exponents in a non standard derivation
I'm currently preparing an individual project about Landau theory of phase transitions. I think I understand well enough the standard procedure:
expand the free energy as $F(P, T, \phi) = F_0(P, T) + ...
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On the Terent'ev, M V original article
I am in a Phd program and I want to read the Terent'ev, M V original article
"On the structure of the wave functions of mesons considered as bound states of relativistic quarks" or, in ...
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Who was the first to publish the term 'spacetime'? [closed]
I'm looking for the earliest references to the word spacetime (in the modern sense), in any language.
The first references would likely be in German, as Raum-zeit or Raumzeit.
Of course, H. Minkowski ...
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Weinberg on the Dirac Equation
I am searching for a reference I read and then misplaced, in which Weinberg asserts that the Dirac equation's prediction of the positron is a characteristic of any equation which has the general form ...
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Original Einstein papers on theory of relativity
I am looking for definitive way to get einstein original paper on theory of relativity which is both papers of special relativity and general relativity. I am software engineer with graduation in ...
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Dependency Chart for Goldstein's Classical Mechanics Book
I was wondering if there's a dependency chart for Goldstein's book, i.e. what chapters do I need to read before reading a specific chapter I'm interested in (it need not be an official one made by ...
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Full translation of the paper written by M Smoluchowski in 1906 "Zur kinetischen Theorie der Brownschen Molekular Bewegung und der Suspensionen"
May I ask if the full translation of the classic paper on Brownian motion and SDE written by M Smoluchowski in 1906 "Zur kinetischen Theorie der Brownschen Molekular Bewegung und der Suspensionen&...
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Looking for dimensional analysis practice [closed]
I just finished Bridgman's book on dimensional analysis, and am trying to work through the problems. Does anyone know of an answer key for Bridgman's book?
Here is the book in question:
https://www....
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Original paper of synchronous generator swing equation
I found that the swing equation of a synchronous generator was developed by Andrey Andreyevich Andronov in 1926 in a paper titled "Theory of Electric Oscillations of Synchronous Machines". I'...
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Original paper of Christiaan Huygens discussing moment of inertia
As far as I know, it was Christiaan Huygens who first proposed the concept of the $\text{moment of inertia}^1$. Where can I find that paper/book where he first mentioned it? It is not mentioned in the ...
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Lecture videos for MIT Statistical Physics I
To my knowledge, the MIT Statistical Physics I OCW does not have accompanying lecture videos. Making matters worse, the graduate level course Statistical Mechanics does have lecture videos released ...
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Is there a known closed-form expression for the susceptibility of the 2-D Ising model at $B = 0$?
The Onsager solution for the 2-D Ising model allows us to find (among other things) complicated expressions for the internal energy of the system (in the thermodynamic limit and in zero magnetic field)...
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How can I find an old paper from a Soviet journal of physics?
I'm looking for the paper of I. Y. Kobzarev, L. B. Okun and I. Y. Pomeranchuk, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 3 (1966) no.6, 837 [Yad. Fiz. 3 (1966) 1154], which I think has the title: On the possibility of ...
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Source for Feynman quote on the Bethe ansatz
There is a well-known quote of Feynman on the Bethe ansatz that appeared in an article in Asia-Pacific Physics News,volume 3, 22 (June/July 1988):
"I got really fascinated by these (1 + 1)-
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Maxwell distribution solely using the Stosszahlansatz and geometric transformations?
Background
To quote Wikipedia:
The assumption of molecular chaos is the key ingredient that allows
proceeding from the BBGKY hierarchy to Boltzmann's equation, by
reducing the 2-particle distribution ...
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Translation of Jordan and Wigner's original paper?
Has the original paper on the Jordan and Wigner transformation ever been translated to English?
Jordan, P., Wigner, E. Über das Paulische Äquivalenzverbot. Z. Physik 47, 631–651 (1928). https://doi....
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Did anybody film Feynman's explanation of Bell's Theorem?
About 40 years ago, Feynman presented a physics colloquium at MIT. I was there. His main talk was pretty forgettable (even geniuses have off days), but when he finished early he said "OK, let me ...
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Lorentz's derivation of Lorentz force in 1892
I've found Lorentz's 1892 paper 'La théorie electromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants' on Wikipedia
(It's in French and I failed to find the English version.)
https://ilorentz....
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Confused by coefficients that don't list their units
Let's suppose we calculate the energy released by the decay/fission of 1 kilogram of plutonium-239. Can we find the energy released in one kilogram of decay?
Wikipedia says there's $3.318*\times10^{-...
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What is this dynamics book that has questions and it's solutions?
I found these questions online and was amazed by how organized this book was so it would be really helpful to know it's name
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Schuller Quantum Theory Problem Sheets
Does anyone have the problem sheets from Schuller's lectures "Lectures on Quantum Theory"? Or does anyone know a way how to obtain them? I tried emailing Schuller, but no reply.
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What exactly is A. A. Robb's version of "the result first proved by Robb (1936)"?
Considering four distinct events in a spacetime region in which values of Synge's world function $\sigma$ are defined (up to a common non-zero factor) for each pair of events,
and specificly ...
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The Copenhagen Interpretation
What are the actual papers in which Bohr, Born, and others proposed the Copenhagen interpretation? I know that Bohr himself didn't use the term, but I assume that he outlined the way of understanding ...
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Source of a problem on pion-proton interaction in elementary particles
What book is this picture taken from? It is page 383 of the book in question.
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Original BPS state paper by Bogomol'nyi
I've been searching for the original paper by E.B. Bogomol'nyi titled "The Stability of Classical Solutions" online, and have yet to find a resource which holds it. So far, the closest I've ...
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Frederic Schuller lecture notes
I saw that Frederic Schuller gave a lecture on statistical physics almost 10 years ago. Does anyone have the corresponding lecture notes? Unfortunately, the link
https://eswirdeinskriptgeben.wordpress....
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Qualitative difference of excitations in Fermi VS Bose superfluids
Assume that we have an electrically neutral interacting gas (or liquid) of Bose or Fermi particles in a superfluid state.
For simplicity, assume that the particles interact via an assigned central ...
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Where can I find Einstein's paper on relativity first to end?
Is there online resource where I can find Einstein's all papers on Relativity. I found something here. But no title contains "Relativity". So I think I can't find what I was expecting but ...
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"Bogus Axioms of Continuum Mechanics"
In this very interesting IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics article on the sources of irreversibility in thermodynamics [1] L.C. Woods writes
This author has latterly published two articles on the &...
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Mathematical method of classical Mechanics Arnold [closed]
I wanted to know that is there any textbook or PDF file containg suloutin of the book Mathematical methods of classical mechanics by Arnolʹd
Some of the questions are really hard.
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English translation of Preisach's paper "Über die magnetische Nachwirkung"
This paper [1] has been already cited 2000+ times according to the statistics of Google Scholar. Hence I assume there should be English translated version for such a classic paper on hysteresis but I ...
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Japanese book on 3D Ising model and higher dimensional CFT
So I came across this Japanese book by Yu Nakayama on the conformal bootstrap, called "高次元共形場理論への招待―3次元臨界Ising模型を解く" (Invitation to High Dimensional Conformal Field Theory - Solving 3D ...
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In what paper did Einstein posit the cosmological constant?
Einstein's seminal papers On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and Explanation of the perihelion movement of Mercury from general relativity were fundamental in the descriptions of Special and ...
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Has there been a followup paper?
I am reading this paper
M. Christodoulou et al. Planck-star tunneling-time: an astrophysically relevant observable from background free quantum gravity Phys. Rev. D. 94 (2016) 084035
At the end they ...
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Which paper introduced the concept of the "Bloch sphere"?
Everyone loves Bloch sphere, but which paper of Bloch was it introduced? The Wikipedia article on Bloch sphere (here), as of 17/May/2021 links to this paper of Bloch “Nuclear Induction” but it doesn’t ...
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3+ electron wave function expansion coefficients for atoms
I was curious if anyone knows of any published coefficients for 3+ electron ground state wave function expansions. For example, I have recently come across a paper "Ground State of the Helium ...
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English translation of Oseen's book on Hydrodynamics
Is there an English translation of Oseen's 'Neure methoden und ergebnisse in der Hydrodynamik' available anywhere? I could not find it on Amazon. Google search didn't shed any light. I believe that ...
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Translation of Fock's original paper?
Has the original paper on the Fock space [1] ever been translated to English? I'm not looking for things like Cook's paper [2], what I want is a faithful traslation from German (if it exists).
[1] V. ...
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Modify Newton's gravity to cure the action at a distance
Take a bunch of particles (can be point particles) at ${\bf{x}}_i(t)$ and of mass $m_i>0$.
The gravitational field is defined by the Poisson equation
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\nabla^2 \Phi({\bf{x}},t) = 4 \pi G \rho({\...
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Original reference for Binary star system orbital seperation decay rate due to GW emission
Could someone please point me in the direction of who first derived the equation for the orbital separation decay rate of two point masses in a binary system due to the emission of gravitational waves:...
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Experiments to show that a voltmeter measures energy per unit charge
In "Physics for the Inquiring Mind" by Eric Rogers, an experiment is described to show that a voltmeter (considered as a black box) indeed measures work done per unit charge by measuring the ...
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Solution manual to Fetter & Walecka Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems [closed]
I am a senior physics major guy, I am trying to self-learn QFT and many body dynamics. I was doing okay till chapter 3. I am in need to a solution manual to see if I am getting the answers correctly ...
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Where can I find a paper by Grose, 1983?
I would like to read the Paper "Orifice flow at low Reynolds number" by Grose published in 1983. It seems to be cited a few times, also in recent publications.
The best meta-data on the ...