Questions tagged [resource-recommendations]
Questions asking "What is a good book about X?" or more generally, "What should I read to learn about X?", typically where there is not a single authoritative reference. Please READ THE GUIDANCE IN META (http://meta.physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4697 or click Learn More) before asking.
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Created a resource to help solve a problem I was having in a lab. Can I publish it?
I had to complete a lab for school assessing the accuracy and precision of calculating a triangular prism’s moment of inertia using a trifilar pendulum. When I wanted to compare my lab results to ...
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Literature on the design of MQW for optoelectronics
I am looking for literature that teaches how to design a MQW for optoelectronic devices, particular a phase-shifter. I see these devices being used throughout the literature and they are quite ...
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Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanical Scattering Theory Textbook Recommendations
I am looking for textbooks that cover non-relativistic quantum mechanical scattering theory. An ideal text would not "brush mathematical details under the rug" and would also make contact ...
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Resource for WKB approximation formula
Is there any source that explicitly writes down the WKB "function" (to be defined soon) in orders of time derivative of the frequency over the frequency? Of course only to some finite order.
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Reference request scale anomaly
Can anyone recommend some books, notes and review-oriented papers on scale anomaly, with a view towards its relation to renormalization? Such as an anomaly perspective on RG, Callan-Symanzik equations ...
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Book recommendation for CFT in condensed matter theory
I've been looking for sources about conformal field theory (CFT) applications in condensed matter theory (CMT) like bosonization, critical phenomena, and QFT anomalies. I have studied CFT from ...
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What is the fastest (fast time response) peltier module commercially available and where can I buy it? [closed]
I am searching for a peltier module which has a time response of at least 0,1 seconds. I looked around in the market but this is not usually a characteristic shared by the manufacturer in the data ...
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Finding literature with quantum tomography during a measurement to "see" the wave function collapse
I was at a journal club some time around 2020 where we discussed a paper that I am trying to find again. The claim was that it had experimentally shown that wave function collapse was not "...
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Authoritative Reference for Astronomical Constants
Is there a reference that is considered authoritative when it comes to astronomical data, especially for the planets and their satellites and the Sun?
I've been using the most recent CRC Handbook of ...
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References describing how the initial angular displacement of a pendulum affects its damping ratio?
I'm writing a research paper exploring how damping ratio of a simple pendulum relates on its initial angular displacement.
In order to validate the findings of my paper, I am required to include a ...
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Metric of a rotating Cosmic String
I searched on the internet superficially but I couldn't find it.
Is there any reference that find the solution to Einstein's Field Equations for a rotating Cosmic String?
Personally haven't got the ...
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Modelling Mie Theory: Resources
I am currently working on simulating the scattering of light from nanoparticles. Are there any resources like books/ handouts/ videos that explain Mie Theory in depth?
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I want to start learning physics [duplicate]
I want to start learning physics, could you recommend books and/or other resources to get me started in this field?
I would also like you to tell me what things I should keep in mind before I start ...
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Relationship of the do-operator in do calculus and the notion of the collapse of wave a function
I stumbled over the "do calculus" in causal modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4852
and the do-operator which is defined in this post https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/643333/298651 The do-...
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Book Recommendation [duplicate]
I am a first year PhD student and I am going to work in Quantum Optics ahead in my PhD. I am right now undergoing my coursework and I want to read the subject from the scratch to build a good ...