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Undergrad Simple Derivation Of Diode Equation
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Graduate Finite Differences in Inhomogeneous Media
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Graduate Understanding DFT & Graphene: Schrodinger vs Dirac
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Graduate What is a Bragg Point in the Context of BEC of Triplet States?
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Graduate Space group notation and related point groups
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Graduate Acoustic phonon as a goldstone mode
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Graduate Umklapp Scattering: Causes, Importance, and Phonon Momentum
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Undergrad X-ray spectroscopy in labs studying Fluorescence
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Graduate Does emission depend linearly on concentration?
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Graduate Molecular Orbital Theory: 2s/3s & 2p Orthogonality Questions
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Undergrad Diodes at super low temperatures
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Graduate Frequency of Virbration in Covalent Bonds
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Graduate Gaussian pulse equation in Laser?
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Graduate Chemical Potential: Physical Definition and Applications
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Graduate Optical dipole trap for bec
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Graduate Periodic boundary conditions and Bloch's theorem
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Undergrad Atomic Radius of H & He: Why is H Larger?
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High School Is a Hydrogen Nucleus the Same as a Proton?
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Graduate Landauer Formula for 1D Transport
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Graduate Is the Exchange-Correlation Hole Truly Positive in a Homogeneous Electron Gas?
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Graduate Fictitious Hydrogen Charges: 0.5 & 1.5 - What's the Difference?
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Graduate Delat energy required to excite hole from lowest energy orbit to valence band?
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Graduate He I, He II and He III questions
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Graduate Band Diagram of a Metal-Semiconductor Contact
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Undergrad Signal Propagation: How Does It Effect & What Are Characteristics?
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Graduate Looking for comparison of superconductors
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Graduate Critical field/temperature plots for HTSCs
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Fermi Velocity and Fermi Energy?
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Undergrad Unintuituve naming convention: para- denotes antiparallell?
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Graduate Pauli paramagnetism - signs are driving me crazy
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Graduate Microwave/Rotational Spectroscopy
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Individual Atom Volume from Atomic Volume?
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Graduate Discovering Electron Concentration for Fermi Energy in Metals"
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Graduate Search for Ultra High Superconductivity (1200K)
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Undergrad How do electrons keep out of the nucleus?
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Graduate Potential and distribution in molecular dynamics
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Graduate How do phonons contribute to the formation of Cooper pairs in superconductors?
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Undergrad Levitating Magnets: The Superconducting Solution?
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Undergrad Where find K-points data of unit cell or laatice structure?
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Graduate Ramsey fringes and the atomic clock
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Good video on superconductivity by Dr. Kaku
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Graduate Understanding Ohmic Junctions with Aluminium and Semiconductors
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Graduate Charge analysis by projecting the density of states on orbitals of atoms
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Graduate Has Charge (magnitude) Lost Value Since Big Bang?
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Graduate Partial Tracing Techniques for Fermionic Partition Functions
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Graduate Magnetic fields and superconductors
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Graduate What holds a cooper pair together?
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Graduate Nuclear Modification of Molten Metals via Electromagnetic Fields
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Graduate Explanation as to how superconductivity works
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Where Can I Purchase a Superconductor?
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Graduate Understanding the Antisymmetric Nature of Wavefunctions for Fermions
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High School Is it True? - How Matter Can Be Solid at 2 Miles Apart
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Graduate Why does zero viscosity allow superfluids to climb?
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Undergrad Cohesive, binding, atomization, ionization energy
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Graduate What is the meaning of dressed molecule
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Undergrad Best way to easily make positive ions?
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Graduate How to control the electron occupation numbers separately in multi-quantum dots?
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Graduate Understanding Vacuum Rabi Splitting in QED Cavities
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Graduate Atomic Physics: Investigating Electron Hull of Atoms
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Graduate About superconduct MRI quench protection
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Graduate About Fermi energy and Fermi temperature
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Graduate Understanding Fermi Sphere: Deriving Fermi Energy
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Graduate Phonons: Where Does Their Energy Go?
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Graduate Stuck deriving the Hylleraas variational method
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Graduate What is the physical or statistical meaning of this integral
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Graduate Could a black hole possibly be a giant atom?
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Undergrad Transistor Action: Understanding Vbe, Vc & Ic
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High School Atoms Seeking Valence Electrons: Why 8?
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Graduate What is the equivalence of the Bragg condition in vectorial form?
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Undergrad Calculating Atomic Spacing for Iron Cube
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Graduate How do I calculate the chance of an atom (ion) losing an electron?
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Graduate Constructing orthogonal orbitals from atomic orbitals
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Graduate Measuring atom positions in a crystal
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Undergrad Ionic Bonds and ionic Crystals
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Undergrad Shear modulus as a funtion of temperature
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Graduate Introduction to Plasmon Physics & Its Effects
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Graduate About the spin-orbit coupling in atoms
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Undergrad Can IR Rays Be Shifted Into the Visible Spectrum Using Simple Materials?
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Graduate Improve STM Image Quality: Trace Artifacts
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Graduate Polymer Modelling for Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen
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Graduate Diffraction Conditions for Hexagonal Closed Packed Lattice
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Undergrad How come sub-atomic particles aren't affected by the vacuum around them
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Graduate Predicting Vibrational Shifts
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Graduate How Does the Reciprocal Lattice Relate to Real Space Lattice Vectors?
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Undergrad What materials have high, mid-range, and low electron affinity and conductivity?
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Graduate A question on oxygen electron binding energies
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Graduate The Relationship Between Dielectric Function and Joint Density of States
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Graduate What is Bitter Decoration? - Explained by Peter
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Graduate How can one define vortex on a lattice
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Graduate 2-band, 3-band, 6-band Hamiltonian
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Graduate What are the essential Prerequisites for doing AMO?
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Graduate Why do you need low amplitude oscillation in SNOM?
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Graduate Strain of material w. (111) orientation is asymmetric about center point? Why?
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Undergrad Forward Biasing a Diode: Explained
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Graduate Ground State Energy: What Regulates & Why is it Constant?
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High School The difference of bulk and young modulus
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Graduate Question about Walter Brattain’s field-effect transistor principle.
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Graduate Semiconductor Band Gap: Fermi Momentum & Dispersion Relation
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Graduate How Does Second Sound in Superfluid Helium II Work?
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Graduate Could the lattice constants of ZnO affect the unit cell volume calculation?
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