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Stern-Gerlach original experiment: doubts on the beam splitting
When studying the Stern-Gerlach experiment, books (and professors) usually consider a collimated beam that is eventually splitted by the interaction between magnetic moment and the non-homegeneous ...
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What kinds of behavioural anomalies can a zero-field-cooled (ZFC) / field-cooled (FC) split indicate?
If a material shows a spiltting in the ZFC and FC curves, is it necessarily superparamagnetic, or could there be any other reason for the irreversibility?
I have heard spin glasses also show ZFC-FC ...
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How to isolate and verify the source of optical absorption/effects?
This is similar to my other question, but not the same -- that one was about the energy ranges of various absorption mechanisms, and this one is more about experimental techniques to find them.
Let's ...
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Long range repulsion in anomalous solids
As far as I know things like rocks, walls, rubber balls, polished tables etc. exert a short range repulsive force on other everyday objects that is responsible for hardness, softness, collisions, ...
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