Questions tagged [specific-reference]
Use this tag for questions seeking a single specific paper or a short, non-open-ended list of references, like "What paper first discovered X?", "Where can I find the original derivation of X?", or "What is the canonical source for X?" etc. Also for requests for hard-to-find electronic copies of resources when the exact reference is known. NOT TO BE USED for generic requests for resources (use [resource-recommendation] for that).
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Full translation of the paper written by M Smoluchowski in 1906 "Zur kinetischen Theorie der Brownschen Molekular Bewegung und der Suspensionen"
May I ask if the full translation of the classic paper on Brownian motion and SDE written by M Smoluchowski in 1906 "Zur kinetischen Theorie der Brownschen Molekular Bewegung und der Suspensionen&...
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Looking for dimensional analysis practice [closed]
I just finished Bridgman's book on dimensional analysis, and am trying to work through the problems. Does anyone know of an answer key for Bridgman's book?
Here is the book in question:
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Original paper of synchronous generator swing equation
I found that the swing equation of a synchronous generator was developed by Andrey Andreyevich Andronov in 1926 in a paper titled "Theory of Electric Oscillations of Synchronous Machines". I'...
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Original paper of Christiaan Huygens discussing moment of inertia
As far as I know, it was Christiaan Huygens who first proposed the concept of the $\text{moment of inertia}^1$. Where can I find that paper/book where he first mentioned it? It is not mentioned in the ...
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Is there a known closed-form expression for the susceptibility of the 2-D Ising model at $B = 0$?
The Onsager solution for the 2-D Ising model allows us to find (among other things) complicated expressions for the internal energy of the system (in the thermodynamic limit and in zero magnetic field)...
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How can I find an old paper from a Soviet journal of physics?
I'm looking for the paper of I. Y. Kobzarev, L. B. Okun and I. Y. Pomeranchuk, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 3 (1966) no.6, 837 [Yad. Fiz. 3 (1966) 1154], which I think has the title: On the possibility of ...
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Source for Feynman quote on the Bethe ansatz
There is a well-known quote of Feynman on the Bethe ansatz that appeared in an article in Asia-Pacific Physics News,volume 3, 22 (June/July 1988):
"I got really fascinated by these (1 + 1)-
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Maxwell distribution solely using the Stosszahlansatz and geometric transformations?
Background
To quote Wikipedia:
The assumption of molecular chaos is the key ingredient that allows
proceeding from the BBGKY hierarchy to Boltzmann's equation, by
reducing the 2-particle distribution ...
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Translation of Jordan and Wigner's original paper?
Has the original paper on the Jordan and Wigner transformation ever been translated to English?
Jordan, P., Wigner, E. Über das Paulische Äquivalenzverbot. Z. Physik 47, 631–651 (1928). https://doi....
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Did anybody film Feynman's explanation of Bell's Theorem?
About 40 years ago, Feynman presented a physics colloquium at MIT. I was there. His main talk was pretty forgettable (even geniuses have off days), but when he finished early he said "OK, let me ...
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Lorentz's derivation of Lorentz force in 1892
I've found Lorentz's 1892 paper 'La théorie electromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants' on Wikipedia
(It's in French and I failed to find the English version.)
https://ilorentz....
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Confused by coefficients that don't list their units
Let's suppose we calculate the energy released by the decay/fission of 1 kilogram of plutonium-239. Can we find the energy released in one kilogram of decay?
Wikipedia says there's $3.318*\times10^{-...
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What is this dynamics book that has questions and it's solutions?
I found these questions online and was amazed by how organized this book was so it would be really helpful to know it's name
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Schuller Quantum Theory Problem Sheets
Does anyone have the problem sheets from Schuller's lectures "Lectures on Quantum Theory"? Or does anyone know a way how to obtain them? I tried emailing Schuller, but no reply.
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What exactly is A. A. Robb's version of "the result first proved by Robb (1936)"?
Considering four distinct events in a spacetime region in which values of Synge's world function $\sigma$ are defined (up to a common non-zero factor) for each pair of events,
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