by Anthony Salib | Aug 22, 2018 | Physics, Pure Maths
You’ve probably heard the word ‘tensor’ before, but if you’re like me, you’ve gone through your entire physics degree without knowing what they are. So today, I’m going to express the relativistic wave equation in the language of...
by Anthony Salib | Apr 22, 2018 | Physics
Energy of a System The energy of a system will be the total worked required to assemble it. For example, if you wanted to make a system of two protons separated by a distance of 5cm (assuming you bring them in from infinity) the energy of the system will be the amount...
by Anthony Salib | Apr 1, 2018 | Physics
So, if you ever want to undertake a physics major at Monash University, you will probably want to take theoretical physics. Most of the course deals with Maxwells Equations and then applying them to matter, so that’s where we begin, after which we will then move...
by Anthony Salib | Aug 15, 2017 | Physics
In quantum mechanics, we cannot speak of the exact location of a particle, but rather, we talk about the probability of a particle being in a certain region of space. Mathematically, we describe this using a probability density function, known as the wave function,...
by Anthony Salib | Aug 1, 2017 | Physics
The Curl of a vector field is defined to be The curl is a measure of the vorticity, or “swirliness”, of the vector field. So imagine that describes some fluid and has the vector field plotted below. Now this field shows that the fluid is...
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