Atomic and Condensed Matter Forum

Join in expert discussion on atomic and condensed matter. Methods for atoms, molecules, condensed matter. This includes the structure of the atom, its energy states, and its interactions.

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Undergrad Electrons in Atoms: Do They Have a Current?

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Undergrad Do EM waves form when flipping a light switch?

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Graduate Understanding Metastable Matter: How Can Compounds Form?

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High School Purpose of Neutrons and other q's

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Undergrad Radioactive Element Decay: Predicting Substance Amounts

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Graduate Why Does Iron Have the Highest Average Binding Energy?

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Undergrad Final Valence Question, I hope.

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Graduate Breakthrough in quantum properties understanding

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High School What Are the Components Inside an Atom?

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Graduate BCS Theory Questions - Seeking Explanation & Resources

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Graduate Books recommendations about Infrared Spectroscopy of Solids

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Graduate Non Linear optical Coefficient

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Graduate Calculating Theoretical Landé Factor for Dy_2O_3 and Er_2O_3

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Undergrad Lanthanoids and Actinoids as separate tables

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Undergrad Mass density of YBaCuO superconductor

  • Gonzolo
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High School Why don't atoms collide when hitting two objects together?

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Graduate Measuring the thermoelectric effect of a simple metal

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Graduate Why does 4He act as a boson but 3He doesn't?

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Atom Size Visualization Animation

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Graduate Calculating Electron Distribution in Hydrogen Atoms

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Graduate Can atoms remain bonded if time stops or reverses?

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Undergrad Is the Bohr Model of the atom truly feasible given electron acceleration?

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Graduate How can fermionic atoms form Bose-Einstein condensates?

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Graduate Meissner Effect: Levitating a Magnet Before Cooling

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High School Atom's theoretical shape before Rutherford's experiment?

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Graduate What are phonons and how do they relate to heat?

  • Mk
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Graduate Why Do Electrons "Jump" in Orbitals?

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High School Substance that can block a magnetic field

  • golansha
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Graduate How Do Three P Orbitals Affect Quantum Energies in Molecules?

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High School Differences Between P and N Type Materials

  • Mk
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High School Tell me about the subshells in an atom

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Undergrad What Are Unpaired Electrons in Quantum Theory?

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Undergrad How Did Millikan Determine the Charge of an Electron?

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Undergrad How does matter turn into energy?

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High School Electron Revolving Around Nucleus: Current?

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Undergrad Does a proton hurts hitting me at 0.9999 c?

  • Tachyon son
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Graduate Harrison's Tight-Binding Theory

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Graduate Disintegration of proton in water atom (task)

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High School Why are 16O and 18O isotopes of each other?

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High School Can anything be reduced down to a single atom?

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Undergrad Applying Bohr's Hydrogen model to a He ion

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Undergrad Is binding energy positive or negative?

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Infrared and pot growing in home.

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Graduate Calculating Energy of Scattered Photon in Compton Effect

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High School Why do coffee particles stick to a metal spoon in filaments?

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High School What is the Fermi level?

  • Mk
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Graduate BECs vs He-4 Atoms: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Rotational Energy Levels: Equally Spaced or Not?

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Undergrad Understanding Poisson's Ratio Limits

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Undergrad What quarks make up protons and neutrons, and what do gluons and neutrinos do?

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Graduate Parrot algorithem and box modelling

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Graduate Correspondence Principle Question

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Graduate How does radiation transfer its energy to matter?

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High School What are mesons?

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High School Problems obtaining ferric oxide

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Undergrad Problems with alloy density question

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Graduate Can tungsten nanorods harness air molecules to create propulsion?

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Undergrad Verification of of Phase vs. Group Velocity

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Graduate The Kondo Effect: Implications for Ferromagnetic Ordering and Beyond

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Undergrad Difference: Neil Bohr vs Schrodinger Model of Atom

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Undergrad How Does X-Ray Diffraction Determine Atomic Spacing in Crystals?

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Undergrad Instanious interactions the intermedaite

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Undergrad Just a weird idea, friction-less materials

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Graduate What Exists Between the Electron and Nucleus of a Hydrogen Atom?

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Undergrad Elements 118 and higher = why?

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Graduate Why do electrons in semiconductor crystals form energy bands instead of discrete levels?

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Graduate How to Solve a Pair Annihilation Problem for the Energy of Resulting Particles?

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Graduate What is the unified force of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions?

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High School What makes an atom unstable for radioactivity?

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Undergrad Is Subatomic Physics a Stamp Collection ?

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Graduate Deducing Terms from Period 2 Atom Ground State Configs

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Laughlin's paper on quantum Hall effect

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Undergrad What is the meaning of a magnetic semiconductor

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Undergrad Can We Physically See an Atom?

  • neoweb
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High School What Other Lustrous Metallic Elements Exist Beyond Gold, Copper, and Tin?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate How to express Planck's radiation formula in terms of wavelength

  • CollectiveRocker
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Graduate Mixing two different BE condensates

  • Gonzolo
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Undergrad Actual Distance Between Atoms of an Ideal Gas

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Graduate Can Nuclear Magnetic Spin State Change and Emit at Larmor Frequency?

  • cosmonova
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Graduate Exciton vs Self-Trapped Exciton

  • Gonzolo
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Undergrad CoPtCrB magnetic media properties and density data

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Undergrad When an electron moves it creates a magnetic field

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Graduate Cyclicity and periodicity in electron affinity across element families

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Undergrad How does binding energy change when neutrons are added?

  • lakshmi
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High School Question atom / molecular movement

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High School Atom Part Radii: Electron, Proton, Neutron

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Graduate What is quark-gluon plasma and has it been created in a lab?

  • Mk
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High School Atoms and Heat: How Temperature Affects Motion

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High School Naming Plasma Changes: Solid, Liquid, Gas?

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Graduate Two Atom Experiments: Communication Between Two Atoms

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Undergrad Electron transmission through a condutor

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High School Can a single atom be a solid, gas, or liquid?

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Graduate Is a singularity primarily composed of hydrogen atoms?

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Graduate Understanding Quasi-Particles: Visualizing a Difficult Concept

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Jobs in material science after graduation

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Graduate What Are the Requirements for Producing Bio Ceramics That Emit Far Infra Rays?

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Could Heating Wood in a Vacuum Create Liquid Wood?

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Graduate Does phase change have hysteresis?

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Graduate Ball-bearing model of atom and secondary periodicity in elements

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Graduate Aether and sub-atomic particles

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