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- Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. It is also occasionally...21 KB (2,290 words) - 11:44, 15 July 2024
- Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines...50 KB (5,490 words) - 02:04, 25 June 2024
- In physics, specifically classical mechanics, the three-body problem involves taking the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses...43 KB (5,452 words) - 04:12, 25 July 2024
- Peter Joseph William Debye ForMemRS (/dɪˈbaɪ/; Dutch: [dəˈbɛiə]; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist...38 KB (4,456 words) - 10:07, 5 August 2024
- Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is...60 KB (7,199 words) - 22:58, 28 July 2024
- Cavitation in fluid mechanics and engineering normally refers to the phenomenon in which the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid's...75 KB (9,388 words) - 00:31, 13 July 2024
- The history of quantum mechanics is a fundamental part of the history of modern physics. The major chapters of this history begin with the emergence of...78 KB (9,558 words) - 12:24, 8 May 2024
- Steven Chu FREng ForMemRS HonFInstP (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the...48 KB (4,172 words) - 11:34, 7 August 2024
- In nuclear science, the decay chain refers to a series of radioactive decays of different radioactive decay products as a sequential series of transformations...43 KB (3,737 words) - 03:31, 20 June 2024
- Radiation pressure (also known as light pressure) is mechanical pressure exerted upon a surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and...40 KB (5,289 words) - 15:21, 14 July 2024
- A radiation dosimeter is a device that measures dose uptake of external ionizing radiation. It is worn by the person being monitored when used as a personal...12 KB (1,521 words) - 16:27, 30 March 2024
- Dark radiation (also dark electromagnetism) is a postulated type of radiation that mediates interactions of dark matter. By analogy to the way photons...2 KB (247 words) - 16:13, 23 July 2023
- Unsolved problem in physics: What is the source of imbalance of matter and antimatter? This refers to the small non-zero value of baryons over photons...19 KB (2,378 words) - 09:32, 6 April 2024
- The Drude model of electrical conduction was proposed in 1900 by Paul Drude to explain the transport properties of electrons in materials (especially metals)...39 KB (6,178 words) - 20:58, 5 July 2024
- Jens Horst Gundlach (born 1961 in Würzburg) is a German physicist. His father was Gerd Gundlach, a biochemistry professor in Gießen. Jens Gundlach studied...17 KB (1,841 words) - 04:10, 27 May 2024
- Einstein synchronisation (or Poincaré–Einstein synchronisation) is a convention for synchronising clocks at different places by means of signal exchanges...15 KB (2,134 words) - 10:37, 23 January 2024
- The Forest fire weather index (FWI) (French: indice forêt météo, IFM) is an estimation of the risk of wildfire computed by Météo France and the Meteorological...6 KB (631 words) - 18:52, 13 August 2023
- Edward A. Spiegel (1931 — January 2, 2020) was an American professor of astronomy at Columbia University. He worked on convection theory and on the application...6 KB (695 words) - 16:20, 19 July 2023
- Salvatore Torquato is an American theoretical scientist born in Falerna, Italy. His research work has impacted a variety of fields, including physics,...67 KB (7,368 words) - 05:30, 4 April 2024
- Walter C Patterson (born November 4, 1936) is a UK-based Canadian physicist and widely published writer and campaigner on energy. Patterson was born in...4 KB (413 words) - 15:15, 15 July 2023