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Undergrad Effective mass position dependent

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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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Graduate 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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Graduate Hall Effect Measurements and Analysis

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High School Which are the elements which direcly sublimes

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Graduate Nitrogen transmutation to carbon-14 (radiocarbon) via gamma

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Graduate How does doping affect the degeneracy of semiconductors?

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Graduate Latent Heat of Phase Transition: Origin & Explanation

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Graduate Resolving the Compatibility of Boundary Conditions in Schottky Barrier Formation

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Graduate Naphthalene impurities spectroscopy

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Undergrad Suggestion for Research Project on Optical Nanoantenna

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Graduate LASERs: Why is population inversion required for amplification?

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Graduate Nanoscale propulsion system that works in vacuum - or not?

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Graduate Are energy levels in a Debye solid equivalent to particles?

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High School Graphene structure obtaining code

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Undergrad Atom Nucleus: Geiger/Marsden Experiments & Results

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Graduate What Is the Significance of Dual Periodicity in Bloch Wavefunctions?

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Graduate Why Are Absorption Cross Sections Larger for Atoms Than for Molecules?

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Graduate Why is there a need for correlation hole?

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Graduate What are current research directions in Quantum Chaos?

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Graduate Organic Superconductor: Advantages Over Conventional & High Tc

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Graduate What are Friedel oscillations and how are they caused?

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Graduate Hund's cases for diatomic molecules

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High School Why can't we use an iron bar as magnet

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Graduate Can Covalent Bonds Form with Parallel Spin Electrons in Hydrogen Molecules?

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Graduate Refractive Index of BEC: Exploring Its Potential for X Rays and Gamma Rays

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Graduate Why Does the Proton-Electron Mass Ratio Diverge from Direct Division?

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Graduate 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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Graduate Does the Bohr model go against classical Electromagnetism

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Oscillations around CO atoms seen in STM images

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Graduate Helium singlet/triplet state with total spin of 1

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Graduate How Can We Calculate Band Bending Using Schrödinger-Poisson Theory?

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Graduate PVD sputtering - step coverage

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Old video showing superfluid helium

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Graduate Why is two level laser impossible even with non-optical pump

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Undergrad Can a Piezo Crystal be Used as a Segmented Actuator for Voltage Measurements?

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Graduate In an infinite quantum well, why Δn=0?

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Graduate Entangled electron in High Temp Superconductors

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High School Discover Visible Wavelengths for Neon Spectrum | Resources & Links Included

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Graduate Does the wavelength for photodissociation of hydrogen vary?

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Undergrad Field Effect Transistor - High Input Impedance

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Undergrad Depletion zone and current in forward-biased PN junction

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Graduate 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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Graduate Temperature Dependence of Donor Ionization Energies

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Undergrad Where Can I Find Recent Scholarly Articles on Nano-Propulsion and Drug Delivery?

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Graduate Hydrogen 1s 3s transition frequency

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Graduate How do we model metal nanoparticles for MD simulations?

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Graduate How to dope a semiconductor with an elemnt which sublimates?

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Graduate Does anybody know the energy shells eV for glass, and solid carbon?

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Graduate Brillouin Zones: Primitive Reciprocal Lattice Vectors

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Graduate How Does Gas Discharge Excite Helium in He-Ne Lasers but Not Neon?

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High School Gas Lasers: What Makes Them Work?

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Undergrad Question about pn diodes and their lifetime

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Graduate Many body wavefunction and exchange correlation

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Graduate Why is the band offset of an LED equal to the band gap?

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Graduate How can electron in hydrogen ever get in the 2s state?

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Graduate Calculating the Z2 Invariant in Kane-Mele Model

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Graduate 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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High School Do X-rays' wavelength or frequency help them not excite electons....

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Graduate How can I calculate the energy gap?

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Graduate KT (energy) vs Blackbody Radiation for molecule in a box

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Undergrad 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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Undergrad What's happening in glass with the electrons, for light to travel through it?

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Graduate Creating YBCO: Melting Down and Doping for Superconductivity

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Graduate Surface States within band gap STM/STS

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Undergrad Drawing crystal structure software

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Graduate Understanding the equations of a paper

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Graduate Photon absorption by electrons at opposite k-points

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Undergrad Calculate the electron kinetic energy ejected from cathode?

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Graduate Spin-flip of lithium core electrons

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Graduate Stability of Atom: Why Electrons Don't Emit Radiation

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Graduate Effective mass dependency on the donator atom?

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Graduate Problem with molecular vibrations

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Graduate What is the energy of a hydrogen atom in a mixed state?

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Undergrad Ionizing Photons: Photoelectric Effects Compared

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High School Electrons, Ionic Bonds: Hello Physics Forum - Q&A

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Undergrad What is the conditions to excite an atom by collision?

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Graduate Mathematical theory for topological insulators

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Undergrad What Are Surface Waves and How Can We Demonstrate Their Existence?

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Graduate What happens after I give energy more than forbidden gap

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Graduate Thickness of 'shell' in momentum space in a plasma?

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Graduate Formula for Interplanar Distance in Cubic Lattice

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Undergrad Can substances conduct heat without heating up?

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Undergrad Hole Mass vs Electron Mass: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Is the Dimension of Phase Space for a Rigid Diatomic Molecule Actually 12?

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Graduate Electrons & Holes: Carbon Nanotube Symmetry Properties

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Graduate Demon algorithm for microcanonical ensemble

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Graduate Criteria for boson and Bose Einstein Condensate

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