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High School Atomic Structure: Is It Necessary to Assume Orbits Are Circular?
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Undergrad Some questions on superconductors
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Graduate Help finding electric field for phonon emission.
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Graduate Brillouin zone: reciprocal lattice
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Graduate Understanding XRR: How to Determine Thin Film Sample Thickness with GenX"
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Graduate XRD/XRR v. AFM for Film Thickness
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Undergrad The Mysteries of Atomic Clocks
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Graduate Selection Rules for EM Dipole Radiation
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Graduate Can energy be condensed and/or bridged?
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Graduate Generating orbital files with TURBOMOLE
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High School What is the relationship between pressure and volume in water?
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Graduate Electrical properties of Superfluid helium
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Undergrad Drawing Reciprocal Lattice: Methods & Steps
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Graduate Solving: What is Missing in Rutherford Formula?
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Undergrad Why isn't Beryllium a noble gas?
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Graduate Shifting atomic spectrum
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Undergrad How do free electrons impact reflectivity
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Graduate Hydrogen Spectroscopy: 2S-2P Lamb Shift Transition Frequency
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High School Relative temperatures during freezing of Water
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Graduate Negative Effect Mass Explained - Gradient & Standing Waves
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Graduate How Does the London Moment Behave Near a Spinning Superconductor's Surface?
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Graduate How Does Millsian's Model Claim to Instantly Simulate Complex Molecules?
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High School What Happens at the Sub-Atomic Level?
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Graduate How to tune pulse width of excimer laser?
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Graduate Thermal phonon conductivity and umklapp process
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Graduate Brillouin zones and energy bands
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Undergrad Understanding the Molecular Processes of Melting and Boiling in Matter
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Graduate Imaginary part of dielectric constant.
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Graduate Causes a superconductor to lose energy after a finite period of time
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Undergrad What makes a semiconducting material a semiconductor?
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Graduate How we can prove boltzman constant?
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Undergrad How does antiferromagnetism occur?
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Graduate Radial distribution function - weird result
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Graduate Wave solution of nucleus alongwith that of electrons required
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Graduate X-ray structure analysis question
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Graduate Experimental determination of ground state configuration
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Graduate Transmittance, Reflectivity and Band gap
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Undergrad Understanding Resolution in FTIR Spectroscopy
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Graduate Executing pw.x in PWSCF for quantum espresso
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Graduate Understanding Van Der Waals Critical Points
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Graduate About the interaction of light and solid matter
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Undergrad Understanding Impurity Doping: An Explanation
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Graduate Doped Semiconductors: Comparing Silicon & Germanium
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Graduate D-Wave Superconductors: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Cooper Pairs & BCS Theory Explained
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Graduate How to get / present the results for XRD and XRF
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Graduate Technique to identify amorphous phases
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Graduate What determines the absorption strength in molecular bands?
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Graduate Is Spin Dependent Work Function a Significant Factor in Electron Emission?
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Undergrad Energized Electrons in Chemical Bonding
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Undergrad Detection of Gamma Rays | Atomic Nucleus Decay
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Graduate Modeling a System of Distinguishable Oscillators
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Graduate Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
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Graduate What is the rotation matrix and R the Euler?
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Graduate 3D isotropic harmonic oscillator vs. diatomic molecule
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensate on subatomic particles
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Graduate Understanding the Zeeman Effect: Internal, External, or Static?
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Graduate Why is E3 zero for cubic symmetry?
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Undergrad Graphene Introduction: Find a Good Textbook Here
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Graduate Examining the Dimension of a Photon Impacting an Electron
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Graduate What Are the Best Mathematical Resources for Learning EIT?
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Undergrad Understanding Traceless Compression in Solid State Physics: An Explanation
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Graduate What is Gapless Excitation in Spin Gap Systems?
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Graduate How Does the Zeeman Effect Alter Electron Orbitals in a Magnetic Field?
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Undergrad LED Intensity: Voltage & Band Gap Theory
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Graduate Can Free Particles in Plasmas Have a Continuous Absorption Spectrum?
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Graduate A mathematically rigorous treatment of adiabatic processes?
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Undergrad Why is the wavelength in a crystal assumed to be the same as outside?
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Graduate What Are the Key Properties of Non-Linear Water Waves?
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Graduate Measuring conductivity of a semiconductor
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Graduate Termoelectric Emission: Measuring T & I_A for Work
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Graduate Trimolecular system (normal modes)
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Graduate Stimulating Emission - Explained
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Graduate Superconductors and quasiparticles
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein condensates-light stoppers?
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Graduate Can Fourier Transform Be Applied to Discrete LDOS in Particle Interference?
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Graduate Why is a Pair of Electrons and Holes an Exciton?
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Graduate Bose-Einstein Condensation in 2d?
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Graduate Why Correlation Function of Order Parameter Density Affects Magnetization
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Graduate Significance of delta in oxygen component of superconductors
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Graduate Phonon dispersion relation : meaning of mode crossings
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Graduate Superconductors and Fermi surfaces
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Undergrad Monocrystals vs. Crystals: Understanding the Difference
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Graduate Why diatomic molecules (ideal gas) are 1-d oscillators.
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Graduate Magnetic field due to nuclear spin
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High School Do Different Materials with the Same Mass Have the Same Number of Protons?
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Graduate From phonon dispersion to density of state
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Graduate Atomic Paramagnetism: Understanding m_j Sublevels
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Graduate Fermi Energy & Optical Transitions
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Undergrad Diamagnetism is the property of an object
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High School Is Principles of Plasma Spectroscopy by H. Griem Still Available for Purchase?
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What is the light spot in these picture ?
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Graduate Why Use Homogeneous Dispersion for Group Velocity in Inhomogeneous Lattice?
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Graduate Topological Objects: Understanding Their Physical Interest
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Graduate Diffrence between Normal mode and phonons
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Graduate Is the Non-Interacting Nature of Fermions in Superconductors a Paradox?
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Graduate WCFSGS'S Version: Generalized Second Law of Thermal Dynamics
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Undergrad ESR Seminar Prep: Introduction to Electron Spin Resonance
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Undergrad What gain guiding and index guiding mean in the context of lasers?
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Graduate Stark Effect Experiment: Observing Splittings with 600 Grooves/mm Spectrometer
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