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Undergrad Partition Function: 2 Approaches & Questions Answered

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Graduate Kohn-Sham vs Gell-Mann & Low correspondence

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Undergrad Fermi sphere and density of states

  • EmilyRuck
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Graduate Relation between IR radiation and warming in metals

  • hokhani
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Graduate Can we make a circular polarization laser directly?

  • einstein1921
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Undergrad Does the ionic background of a crystal affect the index?

  • nmbr28albert
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Undergrad Double heterostructure junction in forward and zero bias

  • EmilyRuck
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Undergrad Are there energy bands for alloys?

  • Psinter
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Undergrad Reflectance of metals at low frequencies

  • nmbr28albert
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Undergrad Non-zero current from a completely filled band

  • nmbr28albert
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Graduate Law of Mass Action: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductors

  • Repetit
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High School Does ionization change velocity of ion?

  • Intle
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Undergrad Why superconductors have zero resistance

  • pleasehelpmeno
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Undergrad Difference between solid-state, semiconductor and gas lasers

  • says
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Graduate Incandescence and electronic excitation

  • hokhani
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Undergrad Will ethanol destroy double layered graphene?

  • Harry Smith
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High School Atomic Structure: Why Don't Protons Repel Each Other?

  • watts up?
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Undergrad Transmittance and Absorbtion of light

  • says
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Graduate 4 probe conductivity in discs (Smits)

  • Nony
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Graduate About Feshbach Molecules in ultracold molecules

  • RotatingUniverse
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Graduate Emission spectra of a hot body vs. atomic emission spectra

  • afcsimoes
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Undergrad How is a top gate used to change electron density?

  • Type1civ
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Undergrad About standing waves and reasonance

  • KFC
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Undergrad Highest Order Diffraction Ring

  • Willfrid Somogyi
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High School Finite difference problem

  • Anonymous119
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Graduate Masters Thesis Topics and Literature

  • Pual Black
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Undergrad Understanding the Derivation of Effective Mass Approximation in Semiconductors

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Why Energy of 4s is higher than 3d?

  • ImShiva
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Undergrad Hyperpolarizability and second order susceptibility

  • Konte
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High School Why is the noble gas configuration inert?

  • Cygnus X-1
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Graduate M-edges in TR-XAFS in Lanthanides

  • HAYAO
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Undergrad Boltzmann distribution for spin-1/2 dipole: high T limit

  • strauser
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Graduate How to find vibrational frequency for specific bond? (DFT)

  • Dan Zar
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Graduate Numerical solution to SE - variational method, many electrons

  • Nemanja989
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Graduate Variable grid mesh in Numerov's method (Fortran)

  • Telemachus
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Undergrad Why does the magnetisation orient itself in the -y direction

  • shedrick94
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High School Can heating/cooling a material effect absorption, and transmission

  • Nicholas Ham
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Undergrad Why does high surface energy of the solid have more wetting?

  • goodphy
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Graduate What is the role of the sp-band in bandstructures and density-of-states?

  • markmick
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Graduate How can I tell Gaussian to read coordinates as Cartesian?

  • Dan Zar
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Graduate Hyperfine structure transition of Cs-133: calculation?

  • Marco Masi
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Graduate Acoustic and optical branches in phonons dispersion curves

  • chikou24i
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Undergrad Difference between Zero-Field Cooling and Field Cooling

  • dwellexity
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Undergrad Emission spectroscopy of an acetylene flame

  • Matthew Adams
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Undergrad What is the theoretical basis for Kramer's Law?

  • tade
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Undergrad Distinguishing Blackbody and Atomic Spectra of the Sun

  • tade
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Undergrad Rutherford's Atomic Model: Rejected by Physicists?

  • debajyoti datta
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Undergrad Bloch's theorem infinite system?

  • thegirl
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Graduate Magnetocaloric effect and electron energy levels

  • potatowhisperer
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Graduate Computing the resistivity due to electron collision with 1BZ

  • Jonsson
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Undergrad Matter cutting by destabilising of atoms bonding

  • al2207
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Undergrad Volume of velocity-space in Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

  • strauser
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Undergrad Boltzmann distribution: isothermal atmosphere error?

  • strauser
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Undergrad Bandgap Energy and refractive index

  • Martel_lu
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Undergrad Do all solids have a crystalline organized structure?

  • fog37
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Undergrad Diffusion of carriers in a double heterostructure

  • EmilyRuck
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Undergrad What is the Bremsstrahlung Spectrum function?

  • greswd
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Undergrad Spectra Units: cm^(-1)? | KQ6UP

  • kq6up
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Undergrad Built-in potential in pn junction

  • EmilyRuck
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Undergrad Pump Probe Spectroscopy: Introduction to a Powerful Technique

  • Imperatore
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High School Why doesn't the normal Zeeman effect produce a band?

  • quawa99
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Undergrad Evaluating Scattering Integral

  • Waxterzz
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Graduate Does a type I superconductor have to be single crystal?

  • zhanhai
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Undergrad Resonant Frequency of an Atom in an Atomic Clock

  • Tom MS
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Undergrad Pn junction to reach thermal equilibrium

  • EmilyRuck
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Graduate The Fascinating World of Bravais Lattices

  • aaaa202
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Undergrad Bond length of a hydrogen bond

  • sghan
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Undergrad What factors influence the crystal structure of metals?

  • sghan
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Graduate Can't crystal of simple lattice be antiferromagnetic?

  • zhanhai
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Undergrad Carrier Concentration in a Semiconductor

  • fayled
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Undergrad Energy levels in atoms & speed of interaction

  • DanMP
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Undergrad What octahedral site is preferred by carbon?

  • potatowhisperer
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Graduate A question about how to start ab initio simulations

  • ftft
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Graduate Difference between an optical and an acoustic phonon

  • learner@123
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Graduate Deriving DOS: Solve the Mystery of the 2x Factor!

  • Array
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Undergrad Photoluminescence Excitation (PLE) vs PL spectroscopy

  • Jalo
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Undergrad What is the volime of a k-state?

  • Ruizhe
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Undergrad Calculation of the absorption coefficient for GaAs

  • yeyintkoko
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Undergrad Localized and delocalized states, meaning? in Organics

  • JOZRA
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Graduate Josephson Junction: Perpetual Motion System?

  • Fizica7
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Graduate Break points in band structure

  • chikou24i
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Undergrad Quasi Fermi level and intrinsic Fermi energy

  • yeyintkoko
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Undergrad What does total number of atomic sites mean ?

  • potatowhisperer
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Undergrad Velocity saturation and mobility in metals and semiconductor

  • radius2
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Graduate Dielectric loss of SiO2 layers.

  • kpsr
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Undergrad Finding the vibrational partition function of a diatomic molecule

  • thegirl
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Undergrad A diamagnet inside a magnetized hollow cylinder

  • Nono713
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Undergrad Diamagnetism vs. paramagnetism in solid state

  • pierce15
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Graduate Understanding the Meaning of Splitting in Two-Level Systems

  • eliran
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Undergrad Kinetic energy with effective mass

  • aaaa202
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Graduate HF pulsed UV light effect on metal alloy

  • Chris Wallin
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High School What is the self absorption parameter

  • hariprasath
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Undergrad Basic band theory question, free electron model

  • pierce15
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Undergrad Origin of 12th power dependency of Pauli repulsion?

  • Infinigon
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Undergrad Why is the work function measured from the Fermi level?

  • M.A.M.Abed
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Graduate About X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

  • Dan Zar
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Undergrad Position of Fermi Energy for Semi-Conductors

  • M.A.M.Abed
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Graduate Plank Radiation Spectrum Liquids Wavelength VS Temp

  • Albertgauss
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Undergrad Query about statistical ensemble and Liouville's Theorem

  • Shan K
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High School In glass, the elements that make it up, like silicon, and so

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