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Undergrad Drawing a reciprocal lattice, also basis
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Graduate How Resonance in general, differ In Chemistry and Physics
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Superconductor structure and contents
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High School Could mixing light wavelengths effect absorption, and emissi
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Graduate Nonhydrostatic equation of state for a solid
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High School Atomic Structure: Theory vs Observation
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Undergrad Current in magnetized materials
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Graduate Russel-Saunders Coupling in Extended Oxides
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Undergrad Theoretical explanation for Dispersion? (Sellmeier)
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Hall Effect Measurements and Analysis
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Which are the elements which direcly sublimes
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Nitrogen transmutation to carbon-14 (radiocarbon) via gamma
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How does doping affect the degeneracy of semiconductors?
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Latent Heat of Phase Transition: Origin & Explanation
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Resolving the Compatibility of Boundary Conditions in Schottky Barrier Formation
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Naphthalene impurities spectroscopy
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Suggestion for Research Project on Optical Nanoantenna
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LASERs: Why is population inversion required for amplification?
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Nanoscale propulsion system that works in vacuum - or not?
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Are energy levels in a Debye solid equivalent to particles?
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Graphene structure obtaining code
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Atom Nucleus: Geiger/Marsden Experiments & Results
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What Is the Significance of Dual Periodicity in Bloch Wavefunctions?
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Why Are Absorption Cross Sections Larger for Atoms Than for Molecules?
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Why is there a need for correlation hole?
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What are current research directions in Quantum Chaos?
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What are Friedel oscillations and how are they caused?
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Hund's cases for diatomic molecules
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Why can't we use an iron bar as magnet
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Can Covalent Bonds Form with Parallel Spin Electrons in Hydrogen Molecules?
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Refractive Index of BEC: Exploring Its Potential for X Rays and Gamma Rays
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Why Does the Proton-Electron Mass Ratio Diverge from Direct Division?
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The motivation of k.p method and envelope function method?
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High School If you raise the electron to other higher shell states, can it affect light transmission?
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Insights High Temperature Low Temperature Duality for the Ising Model on an Infinite Regular Tree - Comments
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Does the Bohr model go against classical Electromagnetism
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Oscillations around CO atoms seen in STM images
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Helium singlet/triplet state with total spin of 1
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How Can We Calculate Band Bending Using Schrödinger-Poisson Theory?
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PVD sputtering - step coverage
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Old video showing superfluid helium
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Why is two level laser impossible even with non-optical pump
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Can a Piezo Crystal be Used as a Segmented Actuator for Voltage Measurements?
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In an infinite quantum well, why Δn=0?
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Entangled electron in High Temp Superconductors
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Discover Visible Wavelengths for Neon Spectrum | Resources & Links Included
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Does the wavelength for photodissociation of hydrogen vary?
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Field Effect Transistor - High Input Impedance
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Depletion zone and current in forward-biased PN junction
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Field Effect Transistor - Minority Charge Carriers
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Undergrad How thick does a material have to be to start to become opaq
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Temperature Dependence of Donor Ionization Energies
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Where Can I Find Recent Scholarly Articles on Nano-Propulsion and Drug Delivery?
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Hydrogen 1s 3s transition frequency
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How do we model metal nanoparticles for MD simulations?
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How to dope a semiconductor with an elemnt which sublimates?
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Does anybody know the energy shells eV for glass, and solid carbon?
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Brillouin Zones: Primitive Reciprocal Lattice Vectors
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How Does Gas Discharge Excite Helium in He-Ne Lasers but Not Neon?
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Gas Lasers: What Makes Them Work?
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Question about pn diodes and their lifetime
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Many body wavefunction and exchange correlation
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Why is the band offset of an LED equal to the band gap?
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How can electron in hydrogen ever get in the 2s state?
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Calculating the Z2 Invariant in Kane-Mele Model
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Whats the difference in glass electrons, and solid irons
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High School Why does light transmit through glass/diamond, but not solid
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Do X-rays' wavelength or frequency help them not excite electons....
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How can I calculate the energy gap?
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KT (energy) vs Blackbody Radiation for molecule in a box
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When you look at absortion lines of light....
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Undergrad In the absorption, and emission spectra, what happens to some
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What's happening in glass with the electrons, for light to travel through it?
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Creating YBCO: Melting Down and Doping for Superconductivity
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Surface States within band gap STM/STS
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Drawing crystal structure software
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Understanding the equations of a paper
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Photon absorption by electrons at opposite k-points
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Calculate the electron kinetic energy ejected from cathode?
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Spin-flip of lithium core electrons
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Stability of Atom: Why Electrons Don't Emit Radiation
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Effective mass dependency on the donator atom?
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Problem with molecular vibrations
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What is the energy of a hydrogen atom in a mixed state?
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Ionizing Photons: Photoelectric Effects Compared
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Electrons, Ionic Bonds: Hello Physics Forum - Q&A
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What is the conditions to excite an atom by collision?
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Mathematical theory for topological insulators
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What Are Surface Waves and How Can We Demonstrate Their Existence?
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What happens after I give energy more than forbidden gap
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Thickness of 'shell' in momentum space in a plasma?
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Formula for Interplanar Distance in Cubic Lattice
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Can substances conduct heat without heating up?
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Hole Mass vs Electron Mass: What's the Difference?
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Is the Dimension of Phase Space for a Rigid Diatomic Molecule Actually 12?
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Electrons & Holes: Carbon Nanotube Symmetry Properties
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Demon algorithm for microcanonical ensemble
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Criteria for boson and Bose Einstein Condensate
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Electron or Hole: Which Has the Greater Effective Mass?
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Question about Fermi's gas effective mass.
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