I am curious about how you take notes. From a textbook for instance. Do you follow a personal layout? If you think you're layout is great, neat and efficient, would you share it? Also, how do you organize your notes? At some point I have passed through so many different books and subjects that I...
Hello. I have just read a mean free path (a distance) written in units g/cm^2. How do you interpret this unit in terms of the usual idea of the mean free path as a distance?
Hello. Do you know any textbook about Statistical Mechanics that discusses Boltzmann Transport Equation? It is not discussed in the textbooks that I know.
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Imagine that I have a system that is described classically by a given Hamiltonian which is a function of a given set of parameters q and their canonical conjugate momenta p=\frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot{q}}.
Then, I will say that the quantum description of the same system is guided by setting...
I am looking for a textbook that introduces and discusses the path integral formulation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics? Would you have some suggestions for me? Thanks.
The Klein Paradox is the name given to the following prediction of Klein Gordon's equations. If you send a current of electrons against a potential barrier of height V such that the energy of the incident electrons is less then V - m, you should observe a current of positrons coming out of the...
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I know that the theory of complex analysis is useful to compute integrals of real valued functions. I am a Physics student and I followed a Complex Analysis course but we did not have time to cover this up.
I am looking for a textbook that takes a practical approach to this subject. I...
Are you confortable with the demonstration in page 19 of Introduction to Modern Cosmology - A. Liddle ? My problem is in particular eq. (3.4) when he writes the potential energy of a test particle. I think there is a factor of 2 missing in the denominator.
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In which textbooks about Cosmology may I find information about the constitution of the cosmos and also about determination of distances and luminosities?
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Sometimes I find useful and more interesting to read a less rigorous textbook before tackling a reference textbook of a given subject.
Having said that, I am looking for a book that introduces the ideas of quantum field theory in a relaxed way. This allows to grab the ideas and then formalize...
Hello! I am a physicist. Although I think I understand quite well the laws of Newtonian physics and general relativity that explain the observable universe, I am a complete dummy in what concerns doing measurements in the universe. For instance, I have no idea how to measure the distance to a...