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Undergrad How Do Spin and Stability Interact in the Bohr Model of the Atom?
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Undergrad Non-Metal Magnetism: Answers for a Curious Freshman
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Undergrad Thermal stability and electric conductibility of carbon nanotubes
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Undergrad Preparing for a Test: Struggling with Crystal Structures
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Undergrad Why do some elements require melting for them to bond
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Undergrad Energy level jump in stimulated emision
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Undergrad Excitation, ionization, TEMPERATURE?
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Undergrad How do electrons behave in metals?
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Undergrad Electron distribution on capacitors
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Undergrad Atoms, Color & Wavelength: A Question Explained
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Undergrad Coordination Number relating to Atom Size - Why?
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Undergrad Electronic structure - Outer shell
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Undergrad Can Continuous Pressure on Piezoelectric Crystals Generate a Constant Voltage?
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Undergrad Superconducting levitation and transportation
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Undergrad Actually what is the meaning of the holes
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Undergrad How are X-rays emittted from laboratory plasma?
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Undergrad Atomic structure and classification studies
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Undergrad Why do we need a substrate while growing?
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Undergrad Examples of Cutting Edge Semiconductor Devices?
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Undergrad YBCO critical temperature not right
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Undergrad Calculating Charge Carrier Density in Materials: Formula and Table of Values
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Undergrad Is it possible to use spectroscopy to see vibrations in a material?
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Undergrad Question about lanthanides and actinides
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Undergrad How Can We Visualize a Hydrogen Atom as a Basketball?
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Undergrad Permanent Magnets: How Energy Is Stored in Magnetic Fields
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Undergrad Question Concerning Coulomb's Law
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Undergrad How are materials brought to (near) absolute zero?
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Undergrad Can someone simply describe the definition of the chemical potential?
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Undergrad Meaning of labs-on-a chip in imicrofluidic devices
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Undergrad Silicon exhibits metallic luster
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Undergrad What knows the precise radius of these ions?
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Undergrad Objects melt and burned if a high energy ray is shined unto it?
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Undergrad Why the tetrahedral angle is 109 deg 28 min?
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Undergrad Are degrees of freedom in a molecule affected by phase change?
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Undergrad Understanding Atom Excitation in He-Ne Lasers
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Undergrad Atomic Binding Agent: How Electrons Stay Together
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Undergrad Understanding Miller Indices to Interpreting Crystal Planes
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Undergrad Semiconductor Questions: Carrier Lifetimes and Temperature Effects
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Undergrad Protons and Positive Hydrogen Ions
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Undergrad Wondering about law of mass action
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Undergrad Electric Potential and Light Bulbs: How Do They Work?
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Undergrad Hall Coefficient: Intrinsic Material | N & P-Type Equations
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Undergrad Energy Levels of Holes Explained
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Undergrad Simple DFT Software for Tutorials - Windows Platform
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Undergrad Fundamental Frequencies of Noble Metals
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Undergrad What Are Bands in Electronic Structure?
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Undergrad Why Are Some Materials Better Conductors/Insulators than Others?
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Undergrad A problem about solid spectrum
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Undergrad Bohr Energy Levels: Explaining the Concept & Equations
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Undergrad Vergard's Law Help - Get References & Read About It
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Undergrad Why is it difficult to visualize the structure of an atom and its components?
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Undergrad Can Thermal Energy Break a Covalent Bond?
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Undergrad Is there a resource for the effective mass of electrons in common metals?
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Undergrad Are Holes and Positrons Essentially the Same Entity?
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Undergrad Why is the conduction band lowered in Schottky diodes?
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Undergrad Binding energy and work function of a solid?
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Undergrad What Do Condensed Matter Physicists Study?
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Undergrad Why do atoms prefer filled, half filled, or empty shells?
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Undergrad Yutirium barium copper oxide (YBCO)
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Undergrad Room Temperature Superconductors
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Undergrad Is the Atom Model Really Wrong?
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Undergrad Why Do Non-Mechanical Systems Like Batteries and LEDs Wear Out?
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Undergrad Which book is the best for a beginner of condensed matter physics ?
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Undergrad What Exactly Are Resonance Structures in Chemistry?
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Undergrad Crystal Formation at Low Temperatures: Understanding the Physics Behind It
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Undergrad What Are the Forces Behind Electrical Conduction and Drift Speed?
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Undergrad What Can Computational Physics do besides Numerical Integration?
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Undergrad Physical properties to the nanoparticles
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Undergrad Is Java a Suitable Language for Monte Carlo Modelling of Magnetic Nanoparticles?
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Undergrad UV LEDs could be a reality soon
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Undergrad Why metals more dense than semiconductors?
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Undergrad Wish to understand atomic weapons
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Undergrad Can we prove the existence of energy levels in an atom and why is it important?
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Undergrad The repulsion of the atoms of gases
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Undergrad Need to learn about semiconductors
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Undergrad High speed semiconductor devices
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Undergrad Computational Physics: The Future of Network Code Development?
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Undergrad Valence & conduction band
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Undergrad A question that bugged me the minute i heard the word atom
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Undergrad Efficient Atom Rendering for Large-Scale Simulations with Rasmol: Tips & Tricks
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Undergrad Rydberg Function: What is its Significance?
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Undergrad Why Does Electronegativity Decrease Down the Periodic Table?
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Undergrad Raman spectroscopy is Single molecule identification
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Undergrad Metallic Bond Formation: Explained
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Undergrad Covalent Bond Directionality: Explained
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Undergrad Why is the Emission Spectrum the same every time?
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Undergrad Why is covalent bond a directional bond ?
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Undergrad How Do Quartz Crystals Vibrate When Electrified in Watches?
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Undergrad Absorbtion Spectrum: Atom Sublevels & Compounds
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Undergrad Critical Temperature: What Makes Liquification Impossible?
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Undergrad Can Heat Cause Wrought Iron to Emit Audible Sounds?
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Undergrad The Mystery of Free Electron Theory
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Undergrad Is there relationship between resistivity and bandgap?
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Undergrad Semiconductor P-N Junctions: Transistors or Diodes?
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Undergrad How Did Boyle and Avogadro Support the Disputed Ideal Gas Theory?
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Undergrad Do electrons really have zero mass?
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Undergrad Why Does Neon Exhibit More Spectral Lines Than Helium?
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Undergrad A liquid floating upon another
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Undergrad Polyatomic Ions: Charges Explained by Chem Class
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Undergrad 'High' Temerpature superconductivity
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