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Undergrad Why do polyatomic ions have a net charge if they're made of neutral atoms?

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High School Difference Between "Freeze" and "Congeal"?

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Graduate References on excitons in bilayer semiconductors and high magnetic fields

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Undergrad 'High' Temerpature superconductivity

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Graduate How to do first principle calculation in electron gas condition

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Undergrad Can Sound Waves Travel at the Speed of Light?

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Undergrad What does the photoelectric effect reveal about electrons in metals?

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High School Why is an atom with a full shell more stable?

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Undergrad Atomic spectra and atomic structure by Gerhard Herzberg

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Graduate Should orientational polarization be included in silicon oxide permittivity?

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Graduate Why do x-rays penetrate crystals in diffraction but longer wavelengths reflect?

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Graduate Why does't amorphous silicon oxide present piezoelectricity?

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Undergrad Bohr's Atomic Model: Magnetic vs Gravitational Force

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Undergrad What are the shapes of molecular orbitals?

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High School Atoms Transferring Kinetic Energy: How Does It Work?

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Graduate Is There a Hall Effect for Phonons?

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Graduate Positive Ions in a Bilipidic Layer: Attracted or Repulsed?

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Graduate Amorphous ice is less dense than crystalline, why?

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Graduate How Does a Strong Magnetic Field Affect LS-Coupling in Atoms?

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Graduate I want to know the microscopic mechanism of electric polarition of amorphous

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Undergrad Why don't photons always travel at light speed?

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Undergrad Why Macroscale Actions Don't Affect Atoms

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Graduate Accelerators and fusion of elements

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Graduate Applications of superparamagnetism in devices

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Graduate Can Photon Bose-Einstein Condensates Exist Alongside Other Force Propagators?

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Graduate Explanation of how superconductivity occurs?

  • Tzar
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High School States of Matter: Beyond Solid, Liquid, Gas

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Undergrad Converting mg/hr to ppm for Ozone Production

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Undergrad Depletion Region shrinks with increased temperature

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Undergrad How Do Atomic Interaction Forces Work with Animations?

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Graduate How Do Convection Currents Operate at the Molecular Level?

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Graduate Can Magnetism Alter Quantum Phase in Superconductors?

  • sniffer
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Graduate Methods to fabricate GaN quantum dots besides MBE and MOCVD

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Undergrad Atomic simulation and lots of questions

  • Zach
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Undergrad How fast does a human lose heat in the vacuum of space?

  • Ptolemy
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High School Where Can I Learn About the Kondo Effect?

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Graduate Why Does Demagnetization Result in Cooling?

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Graduate Can MgB2 superconductor wire be made brittle and can it work in liquid nitrogen?

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Undergrad Why does adding copper to nickel reduce its magnetism?

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High School I Wonder: How Do Red Light Bulbs Work in a Dark Room?

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Graduate Can Neutron Matter be Spun in Toroidal Magnetic Bottle?

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Undergrad Is Magnetic Susceptibility Dependent on Units?

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Graduate How do you calculate a hysteresis loop from Brown's equation?

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Graduate The Pauli exclusion principle catastrophe.

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Undergrad Physical properties of fcc inert gas crystals

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Undergrad Isolated Silicon Atoms: Why Aren't They Magnetic?

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Graduate Reaching Absolute 100: Maximum Temperature

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High School Oxygen to Sulphur: Paul D's Theory

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Graduate Why doesn't diffusivity depend on local composition in binary gas mixtures?

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Graduate Understanding Strongly Correlated Systems: From Atoms to Chaos Theory

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Graduate Why do molecules have rotational Raman spectra?

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Undergrad Why does titanium trichloride have only one d electron?

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High School Do you need to memorize the Rutherford scattering formula?

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Graduate Questioning Strange Matter and Neutronium: Is an Orbital Possible?

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Undergrad Rutherford's Analysis: Validity Questions

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Undergrad How do molecular orbitals differ from atomic orbitals?

  • photon79
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High School Are continuous values made of discrete values?

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Graduate Strongly correlated electronic systems

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Graduate Mathematical relationships between wavelength and optical coefficients

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Undergrad Difference between orbit and orbital

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High School How does glass become transparent?

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Graduate Field-induced superconductivity

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Graduate What Are Surface Plasmons and How Do They Relate to Maxwell's Equations?

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Graduate How to solve Eliashberg Equations?

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Graduate What Technologies are Used to Measure Near 0 K Temperatures?

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Graduate Do magnetic monopoles exist and how would they differ from dipoles?

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Undergrad Why Does an Accelerated Electric Charge Produce Energy?

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Graduate Does treating superconductivity with quantum fields give higher coherence?

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Graduate SED deviation from Black Body - real objects

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Graduate Where Does the Energy for Screening Current in Superconductors Come From?

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Atomic Models: Find Out More Here

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Undergrad Researching the Potential of Nano Batteries: Seeking Forum Insight

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Graduate Does gravity affect atoms?

  • photon79
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Undergrad How does Raman spectroscopy differ from other spectroscopic techniques?

  • photon79
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Graduate Classical paths and bubble chambers

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Graduate Why rotational in vibrational?

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Undergrad Where to find the data of electrical resistance

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Graduate Create Nanomachines at Home: Possible? Examples

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Undergrad Heisenberg imcertainty principle (get it)

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Graduate Question on superconductivity theory beyond BCS.

  • leoant
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Undergrad What would an anti-hydrogen atom or molecule look like?

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Graduate Mulliken Population when using double zeta basis

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Undergrad What FORCE hold metals together?

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High School What Are the Bonds and Forces in a Water Molecule?

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Graduate Q:How to interpret band structure?

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Graduate Want a book onStatistical mechanics

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Graduate Real-Time Feedback Control for Single-Atom Motion in Cavity QED

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Graduate Cork and spaceman recoil with relativistic mass and string

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Graduate Quantum bomb concept using heated Bose-Einstein condensate

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Graduate Sources of information on Physics of Condensed Matter

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Graduate Elastic wave modes in crystals

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Graduate What happens when you shortcircuit a pn diode?

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Graduate Do Electron Beams Exhibit Inductance Like Wires?

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Graduate Theoretical derivation of LDOS

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Graduate Electron Detection spectroscopy

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Graduate Quasiparticles of quantum mechanics

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Graduate Computing Lennard-Jones potentials for molecules

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Graduate Analysis of the errors in explicitly correlated electronic structure theory

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High School New to atoms - Looking for some advice/clarity

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Graduate High-temperature superconductors

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