Hi,
I can explain why objects reflect, absorb or transmit light by referring to the objects' refractive index (differnece of the refractive index of two media).
I'd like to know if there is a microscopic point of vue that can explain why objects reflect light?
For example
* Light is...
As we know, Bragg's law is based on the path length difference between light which interfere with themselves after being scattered from atoms in the crystal.
If you google "Bragg's law", you will see numbers of pictures showing two light rays being scattered from two different atoms. Those...
This may be a pretty dumb question.
How is it possible for ions and electrons to coexist in plasma state. Shouldn't be there Coulomb force between them so that they would be bound together and become atoms?
I read from a textbook that there are two boundaries conditions that may be used in order to determine the energies of N electron system in a cube of volume V (and side a).
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As you can see in the attached file, the energies got by using the the two...