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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 Orientational Polarization & Silicon Oxide Permittivity
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Graduate Why do x-rays penetrate crystals and not reflect with longer wavelengths?
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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 Photon Particles: Speed of Light Confusion
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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 Help in superparamagnetism 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?
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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?
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Graduate Creating Quantum Dots: Alternatives to MBE & MOCVD?
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Undergrad Atomic simulation and lots of questions
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Undergrad Can Humans Survive in Space Without Heat Loss?
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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 MgB2 Brittle? Superconductor q's & Experiments
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Undergrad Copper Nickel Magnetism: Understanding the Effects of Adding Copper to Nickel
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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 Solving Hysteresis Loops with Brown's Equation
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Graduate The Pauli exclusion principle catastrophe.
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Undergrad Melting Point of Inert Gas Crystals: Neon, Argon, Krypton & Xenon
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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 Physics of Diffusivity: Brownian Motion & Local Composition
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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 Solve Mystery of Titanium Trichloride's Electron Structure
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High School Exploring Physics: Is the Rutherford Scattering Formula Necessary?
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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?
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High School Energy - Difference between Continuous & Discreet
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Graduate Strongly correlated electronic systems
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Graduate Wavelength/frequency & it's effect on optical properties
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Undergrad Orbit & Orbital: Unraveling the Mystery
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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 Explore Magnetic Monopoles: Existence, Force & Research
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Undergrad Why Does an Accelerated Electric Charge Produce Energy?
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Graduate Can the Schrodinger Field Revolutionize Our Understanding of Superconductivity?
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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 Gravity Effects on Atoms: Extent & Impact
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Undergrad Raman Spectroscopy: Unique Features & Benefits
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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.
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Undergrad Anti-Matter Atom & Molecule Appearance: I'm Curious!
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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 Unraveling Spaceman #1's Atomic Pop Gun Mystery
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Graduate Introducing the Quantum Bomb: A Scalable WMD
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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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Graduate Melting points of finite-sized materials
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High School Needing images of atoms for project
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Undergrad Photon Absorption & Excitation of Electrons in Atoms
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Graduate How can the Gruneisen value be determined using the Lennard-Jones potential?
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High School Chemistry Orbits Representations Needed
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Graduate Quantum physics and magnetism?
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High School What is Schmidt's Rule and its Meaning?
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