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Allowed, Forbidden, Fermi, and Gamow-Teller Beta Decay Transition

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The selection rules are important for classifying beta decay's transitions. They are based on the conservation of angular momentum and parity during decay.

Precession Rate of a Rolling Disk

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At how small radius can a rolling disk rotate around its precession center? What is the disk's angular velocity and its precessional angular velocity? Let us look at the physics that determines these values.

Spherical Symmetric Charge Distribution of Nucleis

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A charge density is considered spherically symmetric when its value depends only on the distance from a specific point space and not the direction. Consequently, angles do not matter, so it looks the same if the system is rotated. In this post, we will walk through a method of determining 40Ca's nucleus charge density.

The ARMA Process

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The ARMA process, short for autoregressive moving average, is one the most basic time series models but it is an important building block in forecasting. Let us look at its definition and some of its properties such as causality and invertibility but also how to choose which order your ARMA model should have.

S-parameters in Circuits and Antennas

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S-parameters, short for scattering parameters, are a useful and easy way to measure a network's response to input at its terminals (ports). With the S-parameters of a network determined, the behavior of the network in a new external environment can be determined. What is measured is the reflected and transmitted waves going through the network's ports.