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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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Insights High Temperature Low Temperature Duality for the Ising Model on an Infinite Regular Tree - Comments
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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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Graduate Electron or Hole: Which Has the Greater Effective Mass?
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Graduate Question about Fermi's gas effective mass.
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Graduate Why does the mass attenuation coefficient have a negative gradient?
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Graduate Does H = XX+YY spontaneously break symmetry in 1D?
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Graduate Diffraction of red LED light picture with spots
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Graduate Interpreting Electron Density Definition
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Graduate How Does Neutron Scattering Reveal Anomalies in Phonon Dispersion Curves?
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Graduate Proving direct band gap property of a semiconductor
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Graduate The limiting sphere in crystallography
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Undergrad How Can MATLAB Simulate Semiconductor vs. Insulator Band Theory?
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Undergrad Materials and x-ray diffraction
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