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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?

  • Geronimo85
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Graduate Physical meaning of correlation energy in Hartree-Fock theory

  • raman
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Graduate Does Including Excited States Improve Accuracy in Configuration Interaction?

  • raman
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Graduate Fourier absorption spectra of Carbon monoxide

  • goGP
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Undergrad Understanding Atom Excitation in He-Ne Lasers

  • paramahamsa
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Undergrad Atomic Binding Agent: How Electrons Stay Together

  • Darkfox
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Graduate Kramers Kronig transforms for refractive index

  • christianjb
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Graduate Density functional theory, and Kohn Sham equations

  • gjfelix2006
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Undergrad Understanding Miller Indices to Interpreting Crystal Planes

  • _Andreas
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Undergrad Semiconductor Questions: Carrier Lifetimes and Temperature Effects

  • poder17
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High School Questions About Subatomic Particles

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Graduate Is Light a Massless Energy or a State of Matter?

  • cshum00
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Graduate Why does the band diagram bend in a metal-semiconductor junction?

  • imad
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Graduate Conceptual Difficulty with Stat Mech

  • Euclid
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Graduate What is the role of Pauli's exclusion principle in superfluidity?

  • Maxwells Demon
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Graduate Better potential than Lennard-Jones for Carbon Carbon interactions?

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Graduate Super Conducting Coil Properties

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Graduate Methods to deal with Electron correlations

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Graduate Band discontinuities in semiconductor heterojunctions

  • phyrko
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High School What Temperature Does Water Boil at and Has it Changed?

  • 93truck
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Graduate Relation between Heat Capacity and Polarizability?

  • Jonny_trigonometry
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Undergrad Protons and Positive Hydrogen Ions

  • McHeathen
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Undergrad Wondering about law of mass action

  • jinyong
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High School Drift velocity and measurement in wire

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Graduate High-k/Metal gate transistors going into production at Intel, IBM and AMD

  • Hans de Vries
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Graduate Anti-symmetric electron wavefunctions

  • marcusl
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Graduate What is Gutzwiller projection and how do you apply it?

  • tom1985
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Graduate Where do holes go after photoelectric effect?

  • free_electron
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Graduate Quantum magnetism and superconductivity

  • ZapperZ
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Graduate Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

  • Rubens
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Graduate How does the Kondo effect produce a resonance peak in density of states?

  • Beer-monster
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High School Why doesn't a metal lose all its electrons in the photoelectric effect?

  • mustafallica
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High School Directional Bonding: What is the Difference?

  • mune
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High School Why do gage blocks stick together when wrung?

  • wootman2300
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Graduate Request for Data- Band gap of CdSe quantum dots against size

  • DaveCunnah
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Graduate Questions about Compton Scattering

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Undergrad Electric Potential and Light Bulbs: How Do They Work?

  • ArielGenesis
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Undergrad Hall coefficient for intrinsic semiconductors

  • moe_3_moe
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Graduate Incommensurate phases- what is that?

  • arabesque
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Undergrad How do boron impurities create energy levels in silicon above the valence band?

  • Karthikeyan
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Graduate Binding Energy of Helium-4's Nucleus

  • Laen
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Undergrad Simple DFT Software for Tutorials - Windows Platform

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Graduate How do Gamma point phonons work?

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Graduate Simulated annealing moves for spin-7/2 Ising model

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Undergrad Fundamental Frequencies of Noble Metals

  • Sevo
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Undergrad What Are Bands in Electronic Structure?

  • juan perez
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Graduate Understanding Secondary Echoes in Spins Rephase NMR

  • restfull
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Graduate Solving non-linear frequency problem, NMR

  • zeta
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Graduate Fabry Perot etalon calibration

  • Chen
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Graduate Difference between plasmons, surface plasmons, and localized plasmons

  • Repetit
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Graduate Why is light travelling below c in different materials

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High School Atomic Number: Differentiating Elements

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Graduate Where can I find examples of Matsubara formalism in many-particle physics?

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High School Tell me websites about thin films

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Graduate High Tc superconductors turn 20

  • ZapperZ
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Graduate What is the equilibrium distance between two hydrogen atoms?

  • Rade
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High School What Is the Difference Between a Crystal and a Crystallite?

  • SaraPinto
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Graduate Linear Viscoelastic Models in Polymer Application

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High School Does the resistance of an LDR vary with frequency?

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Graduate What does frustration mean in the 1D random field Ising model?

  • Hermite
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Looking for papers on the history of GaN and GaP technology

  • gjfelix2001
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Undergrad Why Are Some Materials Better Conductors/Insulators than Others?

  • mindboggling
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Graduate Dependence of size on electrical permittivity

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Undergrad A problem about solid spectrum

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Undergrad Bohr energy levels and their equations

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Graduate Classical treatment of potential in a carbon nanotube

  • Anousha
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Graduate How does the Anderson model Hamiltonian contain the Kondo physics?

  • Lonewolf
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Graduate What Is the Role of Epoxy in the Structure of a 3D Phononic Crystal?

  • germaine
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Undergrad Where can I find references for Vegard's law?

  • gjfelix2001
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Undergrad Why is it difficult to visualize the structure of an atom and its components?

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Why Is the Fermi Energy Constant Across a PN Junction at Equilibrium?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate Determining Tc value of various superconductors

  • leright
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Graduate Why is aligning the vacuum level necessary in band diagram creation?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate Calculating the DOS for spherical quantum dot

  • skgupta-phy
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Graduate Silicon becomes a superconductor

  • ZapperZ
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Undergrad Can Thermal Energy Break a Covalent Bond?

  • Repetit
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Graduate Photoeffect and compton scattering

  • vabamyyr
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Undergrad Is there a resource for the effective mass of electrons in common metals?

  • Reality_Patrol
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Undergrad Are holes in semiconductors the same as positrons?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate What Is the Quantum Efficiency of Molybdenum and Tellurium for 5 eV Photons?

  • ZapperZ
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Graduate Determining band structure of rhodamine B from absorption spectrum

  • hanslin
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Graduate Green's function for Stokeslet at z=0 boundary and velocity components

  • germana2006
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Undergrad Why is the conduction band lowered in Schottky diodes?

  • jasum
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Graduate Could you pls advise me any books where in detail is described Hydrogen atom

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Undergrad Binding energy and work function of a solid?

  • Repetit
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Graduate Superconductors usable as propulsion devices?

  • ocalhoun
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Undergrad What Do Condensed Matter Physicists Study?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate Why does energy band theory focus on only two bands?

  • Swapnil
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Undergrad Why do atoms prefer filled, half filled, or empty shells?

  • leright
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Graduate How do enthalpy-pressure curves predict phase transitions?

  • juan perez
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Undergrad Yutirium barium copper oxide (YBCO)

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Graduate What is the latest research on High Tc Superconductivity?

  • nicola_gao
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Graduate Are permittivities of non-ferroelectric materials dependent of temperature?

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Graduate Ozone Formation: Understand the Process with FS

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Undergrad Room Temperature Superconductors

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Graduate Sandia researchers' phase diagram revision for metallic water

  • Astronuc
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Graduate Is the BCS Theory Still Relevant in Modern Superconductivity Research?

  • ZapperZ
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Graduate Derivation of 2D electron DOS in magnetic field with collision broadening

  • jpr0
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Graduate Completely filled conduction band

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