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Is gravitational potential energy of body by $mgh$ negative?

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In equation (20) from lecture 10 in Leonard Susskind’s ‘Classical Mechanics’, why is there a summation involved?

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Galilean invariance of the wave equation

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Topic : Classical Electrodynamics; Lienard wiechert potentials [closed]

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Does Mass Actually Displace Space-Time, or does Mass only Distort it?

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Could Space-Time Displace or Distort Itself? [closed]

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Open or closed windows in a tornado?

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How do you build a small-scale neutrino detector? [closed]

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Does A Pivot Exert A Force

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Is there a wavelength shift between sunlight observed from the ISS versus from Earth's surface?

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Enthalpy at constant pressure/volume

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Lorentz transformation of Creation and Annihilation operators for a real scalar field theory - MIT OCW QFT I Problem set 3 [closed]

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What is the frequency of a standing wave? [closed]

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Why particle is certain to escape the conservative field when the mechanical energy is positive? [closed]

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is $LT$ a Lorentz invariant?

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Entanglement distance and quantum mechanics length scales

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Drake Equation with Random Walks

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Can perfectly stable orbits exist in GR?

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Is there a substance which can pass both IR and UV radiations?

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Why is the moment of inertia the rotational analog for mass and not inertia?

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Is there an IR-camera-detectible color that can be the coat for a material to transfer the material heat by emitting into the space? [closed]

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Is vorticity in ordinary liquids such as water quantized?

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Energy and momentum conservation for photon absorption [duplicate]

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Meaning of general Lorentz transformations

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How do I know if a motion is 1 dimensional or 2 dimensional?

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Why defects don't have an effective charge in metals?

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Field strength tensor written as commutator of covariant derivatives in QED

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Equation of motion of quantum fluctuations/ quasi particles

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Localization of gravitational energy-momentum in plane waves

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