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Graduate Rare-earth energy levels from LS coupling

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Graduate Why do periodic lattices conduct better

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High School Why do wires get hot as current flows? Is it friction?

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Graduate Optical absorption liquid vs solid

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Undergrad Relationship between light intensity and current

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Graduate Are Nanoparticles Considered Colloidal Systems?

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Graduate How can I shouid write an input file for rutile tio2 in quantom

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Undergrad Is the shape of an atom really spherical or is there more to it?

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Graduate Relation between binding free energy and solubility

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Graduate Creating plasma using thermite?

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Graduate What are the ripples in STM images?

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Graduate Deriving the Phonon Dispersion Relation using Quantum-mechanical approach

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Graduate How Can Beginners Start Computational Modeling in Heterogeneous Catalysis?

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Graduate Can the Matrix Element of a+a^+ be Suppressed in Resonance Raman Measurements?

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Graduate Degrees of freedom and triatomic gas

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Graduate Regions in the electronic band structure

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Quantum Fluids: A Look into Superfluidity Theory

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Graduate Molecular Dynamics simulations Surface interaction energy

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Graduate Diffraction pattern to crystal structure

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Graduate Metals and free electron capture

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Graduate Single Axial Mode And Spectral Hole Burning

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Graduate Debye's Assumptions For Heat Capacity

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Graduate Phonon and dispersion relation

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Graduate Excitons bound to neutral impurities

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Graduate What if atoms obeyed an inverse-cubed law

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Popular Science Book on Condensed Matter/Semiconductors/ etc.

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Graduate Bragg condition reflection vs. diffraction

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Graduate How do surface currents differ between a superconductor and normal conductor?

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Graduate Why Do Pendry's Cloaking Equations Differ in My Calculations?

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Graduate Force required to break the atomic bond

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Undergrad Electronic Band Structure, Ionization Energy

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Undergrad D spacing from X-ray diffraction data

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Undergrad Why are most of the ionic crystals Diamagnetism

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Undergrad What is the Mean Free Path of water in it's liquid state?

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Undergrad Electron drift speed in metals

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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Quantum and Classical Effects in Physics?

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Graduate Number of atoms in FCC gold cube

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Undergrad Conductors and their increase of resistance with temperature

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Graduate Back gating of Metal/Semiconductor junction

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Undergrad Chemistry Bonding: Why Are Atoms Bonded?

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Undergrad XRD Data Assistance: Miller Indices | Help with YBCO

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Undergrad Metals: Understand Nickel Electrons & Nuclei

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High School Where Are Neutrinos Located in Atoms?

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Graduate Reciprocal Lattice: X-Ray Diffraction Explained

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Graduate Standard Benchmark Problem for Computational Solution of Poisson Equation

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High School Fluorescence Blinking: Definition & Overview

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Graduate Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock Method

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Undergrad PV Diagram of a monoatomic gas and diatomic gas

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Graduate Difference between dispersive medium and non-dispersive medium.

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Graduate Error in Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena by Shang-Keng Ma

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Undergrad Graphene super strong but not graphite?

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Graduate Electron wavefunctions in semiconductors

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Graduate Atoms made of different Quarks

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Undergrad Molecular Orbital energy levels

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Undergrad Colour of inox steel surface upon heating

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Undergrad Band structure and fermi surface of copper

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Undergrad Calculating NIR Path Length for Gas Absorption Analysis

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Graduate How to Identify Phases and Miller Indices in XRD Data?

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Undergrad The Mystery of the Mass of a Vacancy

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Graduate Frequency distribution not determined by the temporal variation of the pulse?

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High School Can the size of an atom change?

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Graduate What is the NASA Patent for Producing Heavy Electrons?

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Graduate Dynamics of Contracted Atoms, Molecules, etc.

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Graduate Statistical Mechanics - Maximum Temperature

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Graduate What Factors Influence the Band Gap Size of Elements?

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Undergrad Semiconductors - role of displaced Silicon or Germanium

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Undergrad Quauntum mechanics, what is it

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Graduate Conceptual question on electron flow between two types of resistors

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High School How Can a High School Student Learn About Superconductors?

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Graduate Order parameter in quasicrystals

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Graduate Solving the Confusing Units Issue in Atomic Energy V(R)

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Graduate Superfluidity & BEC: Connected Phenomena

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Graduate Crystal Diffraction: The Mystery of (1 1 1) Plane in Lattice SC, BCC, and FCC

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Graduate Optical Properties: DFT, Pseudopotential, Plasma Frequency, Transmission

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Graduate Constructing a hall effect transducer

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Graduate Type 1 Superconductors & Static B field density

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Graduate What's the recoil energy in optical lattice?

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Graduate Stark effect, mixing state of 2s and 2p

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Graduate BEC Help: Annihilation & Creation Operators, S Wave Scattering

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Graduate XRD FWHM, debye-scherrer's formula & AFM surface morphology

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Undergrad Band diagram of intrinsic semiconductors

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Undergrad I am buying a laser diode but cant understand some parameters

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Undergrad Are superconductors dia magnetic materials?

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Graduate What Triggers Electron-Hole Recombination in Semiconductors?

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Graduate What is k in E-k Diagrams of Semiconductors?

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Undergrad What happens when you connect a ptype semiconductor to a metal conductor?

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Graduate Waves in periodic structures - Coupling of evanescent waves to propagating waves

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Graduate SRH and radiative recombination

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Graduate Discovering thickness of a thin film.

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Graduate Index Refraction: Transparent Bulk Matter?

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Undergrad Does Thin Film Thickness Impact XRD Results?

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Graduate Unconventional Superconductors: Explaining Beyond BCS Theory

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Graduate Planewave cutoff energy convergence

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Graduate Converging your DFT calculations

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Graduate An experiment with atomic clocks

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Graduate Understanding the Absence of [001] Diffraction Peak in X-Ray Diffraction

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Undergrad Direction of propagation of wave

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Graduate Infrared absorption spectrum of CO2 at 4,3 µm

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Graduate Absorption Lines from discrete energy

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Graduate What is the quality of Kruer's book on laser plasma interactions?

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