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List of freely available physics books

education books reference-request big-list Feb 25 at 22:44 ramanujan_dirac
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Books that every physicist should read

soft-question books reference-request big-list Jan 3 at 8:41 AchiralSarkar
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Experience with using h5py to do analytical work on big data in Python?

python scipy sas hdf5 h5py Mar 22 '11 at 19:54 JoshAdel
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Classical texts that should not be missing from any shelf

reference-request soft-question big-list Jan 15 '12 at 15:08 Zach Langley
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Does Godel preclude a workable TOE?

mathematics theory-of-everything May 22 '12 at 19:38 Ron Maimon
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Why must the field equations be differential?

mathematical-physics field-theory Feb 5 '12 at 14:55 Peter Mortensen
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Dirac equation as canonical quantization?

quantization fermions dirac-equation hamiltonian-formalism Aug 9 '12 at 8:31 Ron Maimon
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Why are topological solitons present in some phases for lattice models?

quantum-field-theory statistical-mechanics condensed-matter topology lattice-model Apr 26 at 7:45 Jascha Ulrich
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Do the rings in Mass Effect's mass relays (2-axis gimbal) describe a stable rotation?

rotational-dynamics Jun 25 '12 at 18:55 Ron Maimon
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What does symplecticity imply?

differential-geometry hamiltonian-formalism poisson-brackets Jan 17 at 20:54 Qmechanic
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Might such a sequence of mathematical expectations be able to predict uncertain events?

probability statistics Feb 22 at 14:52 Qbik
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Gauge fixing choice for the gauge field $A_0$

quantum-field-theory gauge-theory field-theory yang-mills gauge Jul 30 '12 at 14:43 Qmechanic
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Does uncertainty imply noncommutativity?

quantum-mechanics uncertainty-principle commutator Nov 12 '12 at 21:26 Qmechanic
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Introduction to differential forms in thermodynamics

thermodynamics reference-request differential-geometry Jul 21 '12 at 15:35 Yrogirg
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Calculating the commutator of Pauli-Lubanski operator and generators of Lorentz group

quantum-field-theory special-relativity group-theory group-representations Oct 1 '12 at 18:45 Qmechanic
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Intuition for gauge parallel transport (Wilson loops)

quantum-field-theory gauge-theory gauge-invariance gauge wilson-loop Sep 11 '12 at 3:54 Ron Maimon
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How to prove that proper orthochronous Lorentz transformations form a group?

special-relativity group-theory Nov 25 '12 at 10:59 Awesome-Zero
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Can we solve the particle in an infinite well in QM using creation and annihilation operators?

quantum-mechanics schrodinger-equation potential operators Feb 18 '12 at 10:30 Qmechanic
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How to deduce the theorem of addition of velocities?

special-relativity relativity velocity relative-motion May 4 '12 at 4:03 Ron Maimon
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If particles can find themselves spontaneously arranged, isn't entropy actually decreasing?

statistical-mechanics entropy May 10 at 17:45 Christoph
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The (co)algebra for the (co)monad of a light switch

mathematical-physics categorical-physics Jun 18 '12 at 19:30 Alex Nelson
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Please explain me how the Higgs boson gives mass to other particles, more detail?

higgs-boson Jul 13 '12 at 7:33 Ron Maimon
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What is the mathematical formula for Square Root?

arithmetic Nov 30 '12 at 0:47 i. m. soloveichik
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