Our paper describes the macroscopical manifestation of the origin of isotope effect via spectroscopic study of the reflection and luminescence spectra of LiH and LiD crystals which are differ by term of one neutron from each other. The experimental results demonstrate the direct...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/40223
M. A. Dresvyannikov, A. P. Chernyaev, A. L. Karuzskii, V. A. Kulbachinskii, Yu. A. Mityagin, A. V. Perestoronin & N. A. Volchkov·Physical Science International Journal·2018
The study derives general frequency dependencies of the surface impedance modulus for conductors without the dc dissipation, i. e. for superconductors or perfect conductors. The frequency-dependent surface impedance was applied for the solutions corresponding to the spatially dis...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/43533
This work was carried out to determine the thermal conductivities of some selected metals (copper, brass, steel and aluminium) using silver parameters as standard values to calculate for other four metals. Determination of thermal conductivity of metallic materials is very useful...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/42962
The present paper is aimed to determine the calorific power of a heating source, consisting of a laterally isolated aluminum cylinder, which incorporates an internal electrical resistance for controlling the heat, adjusted to a preset temperature. For this, a glass vessel coverin...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/43500
Traditional Medicine Practitioners in South East Nigeria use Diodia scandens Swartz for the treatment of different diseases. Cold maceration of n- hexane and ethyl acetate solvents extracts for 48 hours yielded brownish oily solids which were subjected to the phytochemical analys...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/42782
The variation in the concentration of radon in groundwater sources comprising of boreholes and wells in Kaduna metropolis and environs were determined by using Tri-carb LSA 1000 liquid scintillation counter. The radiation dose received by individuals within different age groups c...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/42996
This article presents an experimental study on the thermo-physical characterization of local materials used in building construction. These materials are laterite cut blocks from three different quarries. The characterization was done with the hot plate device and the asymmetrica...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/43887
We proposed a novel potential called Hulthen plus Inversely Quadratic Exponential Mie-Type potential (HIQEMP). We use parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov method to study approximate solutions of Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon equations with the novel potential. We obtain bound state en...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/43610
Numerical solutions of unsteady laminar free flow of a viscous fluid past an immersed curved surface were presented in this research study. The two-dimensional fluid flow in consideration was unsteady and incompressible. Flows of this nature are commonly encountered in engineerin...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/43567
Wide band gap technology has its challenges. However, such materials include CeTiO2 are known to have a wide band gap of about 3.55 eV. The effort is now directed towards CeTiO2 thin-films by incorporating nanoparticles. Finding wide band gap materials that are both transparent t...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/38745