Search results for "Motion (physics)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Special relativity is a fundamental physics theory about space and ... as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ...
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  • In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... The following equations of motion assume that there is a system of ...
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  • basis for some of Isaac Newton's laws of motion. ==Biography== ... upon which Newton formulated his second law of motion. ===Discovery ...
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  • (c. 515-c.450 B.C.E.) had held that motion is an illusion and that existence ... tortoise so long as the tortoise remains in motion. *The relativity ...
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  • Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger ... and in the nascent field of quantum physics, working under the supervision ...
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  • In physics, the space surrounding an electric charge or in the presence ... outside is called free charge). An ordered motion of charged particles in a ...
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  • both diffusion (the random, Brownian motion of individual particles of ... heat may be carried passively by fluid motion, which would occur even without ...
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  • often used to convert the linear spring motion to a dial reading. ... Category:Physics Category:Chemistry 95504002 ...
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  • accelerators. Researchers in particle physics and nuclear physics study ... nuclei lies in the domain of nuclear physics. The study of subatomic ...
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  • Elastomers are amorphous polymers with considerable segmental motion ... * Treloar, L.R.G. The Physics of Rubber Elasticity. Oxford: Clarendon ...
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  • In classical physics, space and time are assumed to be quite different ... constant, being independent of mechanical motion in three dimensions (which ...
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  • In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its ... this with equation (14) in circular motion). This corresponds to the ...
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  • statics, depending on whether the fluid is in motion or not. ... pp. 1–742, [http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/0356.htm World Scientific ...
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  • remaining static, gas molecules are in motion. How and why this change ... a dust mote) in a gas moves in Brownian Motion, the ceaseless movement of ...
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  • In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes around another ... his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho Brahe's ...
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  • who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies in a simplified ... him an important place in the history of physics. In the same year, he met ...
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  • starting from natural phenomena, such as motion or the intelligible forms ... for his contributions on mathematics and physics in the Mathematical Monthly ...
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  • to the angular momentum of the wheel. In physics, this phenomenon is also ... to \mathbf{L}, results in a motion perpendicular to both \boldsymbol ...
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  • In physics, a black body (in an ideal sense) is an object that absorbs ... is distributed thermally. In classical physics, each different Fourier ...
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  • In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... the atom. The first is the "orbital motion" of electrons around ...
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