Questions tagged [physics]
Questions related to the application of Mathematica to problems in physics.
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Improving NetChain for Physical data
I am trying to improve my NetChain to better predict physical data from the industrial standard for water/steam published by the IAPWS.
Basically, this industrial ...
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Quantum walk in momentum space [on hold]
I want to re-derive a paper. It is about "Quantum walk with Bose-Einstein condensate in momentum space". Do you have any files or code about it? It is an opportunity for me.
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Trying to plot a magnetic field of a straigth wire [closed]
I want to plot a simple vector field of a simple magnetic field of the current through a straight wire, which is given by
$\qquad \overrightarrow{B}(\overrightarrow{r}) = \frac{\mu_{0}}{2\pi}\frac{I}{...
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Electric Field Plot
I want to show an electric field of several arrangements of point charges in xy-plane.
I wrote a routine that plots an electric field of a charge:
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Butter side up?
I've written a piece of code that determines if a piece toast with butter lands on the butter-side or not, depending on its initial velocity and the table height. If you are interested in the physics ...
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Opacity or related issue with DensityPlot3D
I'm trying to make use of the function DensityPlot3D with the following specific example
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Manipulate plot of a system of PDEs with NDSolve
Modeling 1D diffusion of an enzyme, e, through a sphere with substrate, s, I arrive at the below equations:
I then pass these equations to NDSolve, Evaluate at a range of r and t and Plot and ...
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How can I know the true range of the values returned by AudioLocalMeasurements?
I need to normalize the values of different AudioLocalMeasurements results but I can't seem to find any info regarding the range of values in which each measurement ...
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Evaluating Hough functions by using NDEigensystem on the Laplace tidal equation
Currently I am looking into the use of Mathematica to solve the classical tidal equation of M. Laplace:
$$\mathcal{F}\Theta+\gamma\Theta=0$$
whose eigenfunctions $\Theta$ are the Hough functions. ...
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How can I animate two beads each sliding on its own frictionless rail? [closed]
I am told to animate two beads sliding on rails in Mathematica, but I am very confused on how to get a mass on a rail and it move up and down the rail.
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3D rigid body physics engine
Is there a package in Mathematica that will allow me to simulate collisions of 3d rigid bodies?
If not, what known libraries could I use and how?
For example, one problem I want to simulate is a ...
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How to solve a Poisson's differential equation with a boundary condition at infinity?
Context: This question is relevant to the physical problem of calculating potential for a set of p-n-p junctions.
We have to solve a Poisson's differential equation for a p-n-p junction with ...
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Clebsch Gordan coefficients
I'm trying to compute various sums which contain some CG coefficients, where the sum runs over the indexes m1,m2,m corresponding to each of the three angular momenta j1,j2,j. The thing is that when I ...
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Solving the 2D Schrödinger equation with eigensystem, then verifying orthonormality of eigenfunctions with NIntegrate
I am solving the time-independent 2D Schrödinger equation for an interacting electron and hole in the case of anisotropic electron and hole masses, where the interaction is described a modified form ...
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How to construct — based on physics-type notation — a magical simplex $\mathcal{W}$ of bipartite qutrits?
I have a short Mathematica program:
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Currents/voltages graph for an electrical circuit
I am trying to design the network graph for an electrical circuit. I have done this by hand so far. Here is the code for the voltages graph
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Physics based predictive model using Predict
Summary:
The first order response of a block of metal quenching in a fluid (or a cold block heating in a warm environment) is well known. I am trying to create a physics based predictive model for ...
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How can I define another metric (disformal transformation) in xAct?
I'm using the xAct package. I want to define two metrics with the disformal transformation relation
$\qquad \bar{g}_{\mu\nu}=A(\phi) g_{\mu\nu}+B(\phi)\nabla_\mu \phi\nabla_\mu \phi ,$
where $g_{\...
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Plotting elliptical orbits using Verlet method
I'm looking to solve a 2 body system consisting of the Earth and a body of mass in orbit.
I'm using the Verlet method to numerically integrate Newton's equation of motion in order to plot an ...
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Finding the amplitude of function solved using ParametricNDSolve
I have been trying to find the peaks of a function I have plotted using ParametricNDSolve. I have to find these peaks to calculate the amplitude of all the various waves in the observed output. By ...
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Conditional evaluation: black hole cross section
I'm trying to calculate the collision cross section of black holes, more precisely, I want the critical impact parameter $b_{\text{crit}}$ for a given initial velocity $v$ such that, at this speed, ...
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Animating wave motion in water
Further to this question I found on MSE, I tried to replicate
from here
this is as far as I got:
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Solving “Resistance between two nodes on a grid” problem in Mathematica
In the context of resistor networks and finding the (equivalent) resistance between two arbitrary nodes, I am trying to learn how to write
a generic approach in Mathematica, generic as in an approach ...
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Solve Euler Lagrange equation of motion DSolve
I'm trying to find Euler Lagrange equation of motion.
then DSolve the equation for list of variable x1,x2,x3,x4
Here is my code:
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Working with motion equations
I'm trying to solve some Lagrange differential equations of motion, where $L = T - U$. Also, how can I use the solution for each x1, x2, x3, ..., xn?
Here is my code:
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Symbolic perturbation expansion for quantum mechanics using Hellmann-Feynman derivaties
I am interested in some quantum mechanical perturbation expansion for energies. Actually I want to implement these terms $E_n^{(k)}$. As is stated below one can do that using CAS. I would be ...
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Calculating forces on a truss
I need to find certain forces of the truss shown above, and I am asked to calculate the forces with a matrix.
The given values are
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A program for finding the summation of an analytical expression
Consider the Baker-Hausdorff formula for two operators $A$ and $B$:
$$e^BA e^{-B} =A+[B,A]+\frac{1}{2!}[B,[B,A]]+\frac{1}{3!}[B,[B,[B,A]]]+....,$$
where $[A,B]=AB-BA$. In the case of my problem, $[B,...
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Creating a numerical table of values from an interpolating function resulting from NDSolve [closed]
I am trying to carry out point "Implementing Map" on this paper Interstellar wormholes however I am using my own equations not those given (only the same method).
Part 1
I am trying to create a ...
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Using ParametricNDSolve with n subscripted functions
I want to calculate trajectories of an n-pendulum. For the number n=1 it's just a pendulum, for n=2 a double pendulum , for n=3 a triple and so on.
The Solver has to solve n equations for the angle. ...
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Numerical integration: gravitational force
What I would like to accomplish is to numerically integrate the following equation:
$\nabla^{2}\Phi(r)=\rho(r)$,
to get $\nabla\Phi(r)$.
$r$ is the radial distance from the origin.
Suppressing the $...
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Heat conduction problem with boundary at $\infty$
This is a 1-D heat conduction problem for a circular rod with 5cm, $T(x,0)=0$, $T(\infty, t)=0$, left boundary is insulated.
I am trying to use the finite numerical method. My first question is how ...
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Using Image Transformation to create image sky view of what its like to be near black hole (Not a wormhole) [duplicate]
Question : I am trying to carry out point 3. "Implementing map" on page 13 in the paper Interstellar wormholes using my own equations not those in the paper. however am not 100% sure on how to go ...
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How do I draw an angular vector field containing a domain wall?
Intuitively, an angular vector field $\theta(x)$ such as the following would describe a domain wall between two vortices/strings of opposite winding number.
I would like to draw this on a computer ...
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Carnot cycle diagram
Note: I have adopted and modified code taken from Wolfram demonstration page.
I want to achieve something similar to the following figure:
I use the following code:
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FeynCalc example — muon decay — integration issue
I'm just starting out using Mathematica and I'm trying to work through one of the examples given for FeynCalc, specifically the muon decay: https://github.com/FeynCalc/feyncalc/blob/master/FeynCalc/...
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a ListAnimate problem
Thanks to @AlexTrounev, I learned how to use ListAnimate, but I still get stuck using it. Before ListAnimate everything is correct. I just cannot successfully use ListAnimate to make the plot. I have ...
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Animate particle's trajectory
Does anyone know how to animate the trajectory of a particle, but make sure before the particle reaching a certain spot, there's nothing. I mean I want to make an animation that look like https://en....
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Euler-Bernoulli beam equation
I'm trying to solve Euler-Bernoulli beam equation with simply supported edges.$\frac{\partial^2} {\partial x^2} [ E I \frac{\partial^2 w} {\partial x^2}] + \rho S \frac{\partial^2 w} {\partial t^2} = ...
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Integrating Hamiltonian equations using NDSolve
Would someone be able to integrate numerically the equations at the bottom of page 12 in the paper Interstellar Wormholes given some initial conditions of your choice.
Reading the first paragraph of ...
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Integrating Hamilton's equations for the Schwarzschild metric
Part 1
I am trying to integrate Hamiltons equations for the Schwarzschild geometry using NDSolve, these equations must all be integrated simultaneously and are nice ODE's.
A similar task is done in ...
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Using manipulate in the plot of a function that depens on a FindRoot function [duplicate]
I've the following two codes:
FindRoot[Abs[Uin*Sin[2*Pi*fin*T - (Pi/2)]] - 2*Ud == (Uin - 2*Ud)*
Exp[-T/(c*Rb)], {T, 1/(4*fin), 1/(2*fin)}]
And:
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Trying to compute the heat capacity for the 2D-Ising model
I'm trying compute the heat capacity $C_v$ out of my simulation for the 2D-Ising model which is given by
$C_v = \frac{\langle E^2 \rangle - \langle E \rangle^2}{T^2N^2}$ ($E$: Energy, $T$: ...
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How to simplify my integrand to make the function Integrate[] work?
To calculate a physical field, I need to integrate a complicated expression, with Sin and Cos and some 3/2 power. But when I run the Integrate function, it seems running forever. So what could I do to ...
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Abstract derivatives in Feyncalc
I have encountered several problems regarding the application of formal derivative operators in FeynCalc, using the built-in function FCPartialD,
Left/RightPartialD
Schematic description of my ...
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Integrating wavefunctions over a sphere
I am attempting to numerically solve the inner product of two particles and an electric dipole interaction potential. I am incredibly limited in my skills, and need to know how I can begin setting the ...
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Antiparticles in Feynrules Lagrangian
I am trying to implement a simple extension of the SM to Feynrules, generating the Lagrangian in a Mathematica notebook file. I am wondering about the following:
Is there a way to explicitly use the ...
