Questions related to the application of Mathematica to problems in physics.
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Create an adaptive amount of local variables for error propagation
I intend to write a function which calculates the result and the error for any formula with any amount of variables using the Gauß Error Propagation.
The error $dR$ for a function $R(a,b,c)\,$ and ...
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6answers
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Circuit drawing in Mathematica
This past semester I taught an introductory electromagnetism course and had quite a nice time using Mathematica to draw all sorts of figures and diagrams (mostly for problems and etc.). However, I was ...
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1answer
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How to change coordinates of a differential operator?
I'm doing a basic quantum mechanics problem and am trying to learn how to do it in Mathematica. Any help would be much appreciated.
$\vec{L} = \vec{x} \times \vec{p}$
where $\vec{x}$ has ...
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3answers
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How to manipulate gauge theory in Mathematica?
I want to know if there is a way of typing into Mathematica an expression like the following,
$$\epsilon^{\mu \nu \lambda} f^{abc} A^a_\mu A^b_\nu A^c_\lambda + g\epsilon^{\mu \nu \lambda} A^a_\mu ...
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3answers
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Constructing a symbolic Hermitian matrix
I need to construct a symbolic Hermitian matrix like
m = {
{ n, a, b, b},
{Conjugate[a], n, b, b},
...
}
but I am not able to set ...
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1answer
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Drawing a graph with specified edge lengths
I was wondering if it was possible to ask Mathematica to draw a graph provided some set of vertices: $(v_1, ..., v_N) \in V$ connected by $M$ edges $(e_1, ..., e_M) \in E$, where the length of each ...
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vote
2answers
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Inputting two arrays for a module in Mathematica
I am relatively new to the Mathematica enviroment and not sure where I am going wrong. I have evaluated the question and understand it, but dont know how to exactly create a module for it.
The ...
