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Graduate Twin Grain Boundary and Symmetric Tilt Grain boundary.

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Graduate What does a high Debye temperature signify?

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High School Rutherford Atom Model: Did He Know Structure of Alpha Particles?

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Undergrad What Causes the Mass Defect in a 15N Nucleus?

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Graduate Explain molar absorptivity to a dumb physicist.

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Graduate Understanding Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in Solids

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Undergrad How Did Rutherford Confirm Alpha Particles Struck the Zinc Sulfide Screen?

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High School If diamonds are made of carbon? and coal is made out carbon

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Graduate Partition Function of CO2 at 1000K - Database?

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Graduate Question on Molecular dynamics programming

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Graduate Crystal Planes, Miller Indices: Cubic Lattice

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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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