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I can't find this article

Does anyone know the DOI of the article below or where I can download it? P. Rhodes and G. Rowlands, “Demagnetising energies of uniformly magnetized rectangular blocks,” Proc. Leeds Phil. Lit. Soc., ...
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Is there an English version of the book 'Festkörperphysik' by Rudolf Gross and Achim Marx?

I heard this book is very very nice, but too bad I cannot read German...yet..And I heard last year they published an English version, but I cannot find it anywhere. If anyone knows about it, it will ...
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and adhesives

Among many other fields, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is credited with greatly contributing to the science of adhesives. One of the model oft cited is the "viscoelastic trumpet", for example in this ...
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Does a list of errata for Ashcroft and Mermin's Solid State Physics exist?

I have tried Googling a list of errata for A&M, but it does not seem to exist. Has anyone found one?
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Mobility in semiconductors

Good afternoon everybody. I am reading on a book about semiconductor mobility. I have fully understood the definition, but I also noticed that often one talks about high or low mobility. My question ...
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What papers detail the early research on heavy fermion superconductors?

Can someone point me to the papers detailing when/where/how heavy fermion superconductors were first synthesized, tested and documented?
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Can Ohm's law break in metals?

I was rereading Purcell's Electricity and Magnetism as research for another question, and I found this passage: In metals Ohm's law is obeyed exceedingly accurately up to current densities far ...
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Number density of LO and LA phonons as a function of temperature?

I'd like to know the how the number density of longitudinal optical (LO) and longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonons varies as a function of temperature of the material. Is there a simple expression for ...
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Madelung constant list (for surfaces as well)

Searching for this on google proved to be quite tedious, but I reckon that someone working with crystals a lot might know this off the top of his head: Is there a good source that lists the Madelung ...
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