Recent content by Jaffer2020

Is the eigenfrequency just another term for the natural/resonant frequencies of some system, or is it different?

Oops, sorry that was a mistake on my end, I meant in a medium, not a vacuum.

That might be 9th grade actually.

I can't summarise everything I know about QM or QFT on this thread, but as for the probability amplitude, I can share what I have learnt. From what I know, the probability amplitude is the coefficient of some possible state, which when squared, gives you the probability of that state happening...

I'm reading Leonard Susskind's "Quantum Mechanics Theoretical minimum", Feynman's "QED", Griffith's "Intro to electrodynamics" and Daniel Fleisch's "Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations". What other resources do you recommend for electrodynamics and Quantum Mechanics? Ones which don't rely...

Are you able to briefly explain where I went wrong? So that I can keep a note of it. I started to read Griffith's "Introduction to Electrodynamics" book and Daniel Fleisch's "Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations" and have so far only read up to Gauss's Laws: ∇⋅E = ρ/ε (For Electric...

I have watched, Professor Merrifield's (top video) on this matter and I think he had a very elegant explanation. I tried to use a similar but shorter explanation in class, but the teacher dismissed it. I don't know if it's because the curriculum tries to keep it simpler than this, in order to...

It also depends on the material itself, the molecular structure and so on, right? The way the teacher explained it to the class was using the idea of the photons behaving as particles, acting in the classical sense. If I put myself in the shoes of the other students, this idea would make me...

@hutchphd, thank you for the clarification. Perhaps "why" isn't the best way to phrase the question. As for the bending of light, I tried to explain it in the image below (I hope it's clear enough to read). This is, from what I've learnt, out of the school curriculum , the classical approach to...

In my latest 10th grade physics lesson, we were learning about the refraction of light. I decided to share what I knew about why light slows down in a vacuum, which is, in short, because the electric field of the electromagnetic wave exerts a force on the charged electrons of a medium, which in...