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Why does public mains power use 50-60 Hz and 100-240 V?

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Artificial gravity on rotating spaceship?

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What is "special" and what is "general" in Relativity?

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Why are sine/cosine always used to describe oscillations?

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"Lack of inversion symmetry" in crystal?

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Would you see a rainbow from refraction when the sun is in front of you?

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Invariance of action $\Rightarrow$ covariance of field equations?

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What happens in an empty microwave oven?

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What are quantum fluctuations, really?

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How can the black body radiation formula be so general?

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Conserved quantities and total derivatives?

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What happens when we bring an electron and a proton together?

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Is there a simple way of finding the eigenstates of the creation and annihilation operator in QM?

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Expansion of the Universe: is new space(time?) being created or does it just get stretched?

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Why is the gauge potential $A_{\mu}$ in the Lie algebra of the gauge group $G$?

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Chemical potential in quantum field theories

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Coherent state being the eigenstate of the annihilation operator

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Natural linewidth of hyperfine levels? [duplicate]

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"Derivation" of Minkowski metric?

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Nuclear-transition laser

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How do I transform onto a relativistic rotating frame of reference?

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Electric current in quantum mechanics?

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Does the Standard Model require neutrinos to be massless?

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Square of the Pauli matrices and the identity matrix

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Non-Hermitian operator with real eigenvalues?

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Spin-orbit coupling from the rest frame of the proton?

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Why does this equation refer to magnetic tension?

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What are the eigenvalues of the Lorentz matrix?

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Are there weak force waves?

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Spin statistics from the fundamental group of $SO(D)$

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