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Why does rainwater form moving waves on the ground? Is there a name for this effect?
Mar 19 '17 at 13:20
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Why doesn't a mercury thermometer follow the rules of volume dilatation?
Nov 11 '20 at 21:32
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Why does a body always rotate about its center of mass?
Feb 12 '17 at 16:26
54
Can a battleship float in a tiny amount of water?
Dec 16 '18 at 14:13
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Triviality of interacting QFT
Jun 5 '20 at 22:10
20
Is the right hand rule a trick to avoid tensors?
Sep 8 '18 at 15:24
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Non-unique zero function in the function space (Hilbert space)
Apr 20 '20 at 17:30
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Approximating an expression for a potential
Aug 4 '19 at 12:40
19
Lorentz invariance of Maxwell's equations in matter
May 8 '19 at 15:44
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Is continuity of the wavefunction “put in by hand” for the Dirac delta potentials?
Nov 15 '20 at 20:06
15
Misunderstanding of the magnetic field
Jun 7 '20 at 18:15
14
Are the speed of sound and water ripples' speed the same?
Feb 27 at 20:30
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Can you make a laser without cavity, if you have a pump strong enough? I think no, but is my reasoning correct?
Apr 12 '20 at 13:20
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Can a Hermitian operator $A$ bring a wavefunction $|\psi \rangle$ out of Hilbert space?
Sep 6 '19 at 14:41
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Do elementary particles at rest produce magnetic fields?
Oct 25 '20 at 19:19
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How can Cooper pairs form in zero temperature, if there are no phonons?
Dec 1 '20 at 13:08
11
Are eigenfunctions of $E$ also eigenfunctions of $p$?
Nov 10 '20 at 22:43
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How can different points on a rigid body move with different speeds but also be relatively at rest?
Aug 14 '20 at 12:14
11
Meissner Effect and Lorentz Force Paradox?
Jul 16 '20 at 13:20
11
Why does $\langle \psi_1 \psi_2 | H_1|\psi_1 \psi_2 \rangle= \langle \psi_1 | H_1|\psi_1 \rangle \langle \psi_2 | \psi_2 \rangle$?
Nov 22 '19 at 15:58
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Why do we need the coupling small when doing perturbative QFT calculation?
Oct 9 '19 at 11:27
11
Complex conjugate and transpose “with respect to a basis”
Sep 7 '19 at 16:14
11
Chirality of the Electromagnetic Field Tensor
Sep 20 '18 at 14:37
10
How does Fermat's principle make light choose a straight path over a short path?
Jul 24 '20 at 16:56
10
Intuition behind Bernoulli's equation
Apr 10 '20 at 18:11
10
How does a linear operator act on a bra?
Sep 13 '19 at 12:49
9
Does cooking food in pressure cooker depend on outside pressure
Jan 26 at 17:18
9
Find the Bogoliubov transformation $b=SaS^\dagger$ induced by the squeezed operator
Jul 11 '18 at 12:52
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Green's function on torus
Jan 5 '20 at 15:54
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Why don't we define potential due to a magnetic field?
Dec 26 '19 at 14:54
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