Rayleigh Scattering by Richard Fitzpatrick by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Section 9.6 of Classical Electromagnetism by Richard Fitzpatrick. Equations (1289)–(1293) derive the bound-charge Rayleigh limit and frequency scaling. The sphere polarizability and needle-orientation calculations in the solutions are separate derivations.
Course lecture summaries: lecture 2 gives the Maxwell eigenproblem; lectures 9–14 cover Bloch modes, band gaps and defect localization. This is the whole-course source, distinct from the existing source specifically for lectures 18–19.
Primary paper, Experimental determination of the superconducting pairing state in YBCO from the phase coherence of YBCO-Pb dc SQUIDs, Physical Review Letters 71, 2134–2137. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2134
The size of the proton by Randolf Pohl and others by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Primary experiment published in Nature 466, pp. 213–216 (2010). The publisher page identifies the laser-resonance, time-spectrum and muonic-hydrogen experimental figures.
Energy levels of boron-10 by TUNL (2004) by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional evaluated level table, Table 10.18 from evaluation 2004TI06. The first row gives ground-state and .
Dark matter by CERN by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional account distinguishing gravitational evidence for dark matter from proposed new-particle explanations.
Primary pressureless spherical-collapse calculation distinguishing finite comoving collapse time from the distant-coordinate description and progressively redshifted escaping light. Physical Review 56, 455–459 (1939). doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.56.455
Physical Review Letters 66, 719–722. The abstract identifies end-grafted polydimethylsiloxane on porous silicon dioxide and reports thickness proportional to in a poor solvent and in a good solvent. The chemical system in that abstract differs from the polystyrene wording of the 2016 exam; the scaling comparison is unaffected.
Quantum Field Theory by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Authored Cambridge DAMTP lecture notes: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.htm
Cited sections are 1.1, 1.3.4, 6.1.1 and 6.3.2. The current signs in any application must follow its stated phase and covariant-derivative convention.
Authored lecture notes, dated 9 July 2015 on the title page. Section 4.2 covers the vector ferromagnet; §4.3, printed pp.10–13, develops the nematic tensor, rotational invariants and discontinuous transition. The tensor and coefficient normalization differs from and must be translated explicitly.
Original 1997 paper introducing the magic-basis concurrence description used here. Primary preprint: arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9703041 . Full text: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9703041 . Eqs.(3)–(6) specify the phased Bell basis and its pure-state entropy relation.
The Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 1 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 1.2–1.4 define energy-shell, canonical and grand canonical ensembles and their thermodynamic derivatives. No separately contributed chapter author is established.

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