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  • In 1837, Poisson published his "law of large numbers," often referred to as the "Poisson distribution." He used this law ...
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  • He referred to an "inverse square law," which (in the case ... produce magnetic fields (the Ampère-Maxwell law), and another equation describes ...
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  • current, dD/dt, to make Ampere's law consistent with conservation of charge in cases where charge is accumulating as in a capacitor. He ...
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  • to trace a greater arc to cover the same area. This law is usually stated as "equal areas in equal time." # For each planet, the ratio ...
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  • velocity ratio could also be inferred from the law of conservation of energy. Here we have been neglecting the effect of friction on the torque ratio ...
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  • absolute versus relative prices, and the law of one price. ... is downward-sloping (the loi de debit, "law of demand") and proceeds ...
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  • represented mathematically as Faraday's Law and forms the basis of many ... Mathematically, Faraday's law is most often represented in terms ...
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  • The Shockley ideal diode equation or the diode law (named after transistor co-inventor William Bradford Shockley) is the I-V characteristic of ...
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  • fields diminishes according to the inverse square law, which describes the propagation of all electromagnetic radiation: Double the distance, quarter ...
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  • Snell's law is used to calculate the degree to which light is ... first into the second material from Snell's law. ===Negative Refractive ...
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  • Fluorescence is a luminescence that is mostly found as an optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon at ...
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  • The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the ...
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  • the Eugenics Society also campaigned hard for a law permitting sterilization on eugenic grounds. They believed that it should be entirely voluntary ...
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  • Earth. Gravitational forces follow an inverse-square law (force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance), but tidal forces are inversely ...
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  • , a consequence of "Ampére's law" (embodied in Maxwell ... adjoining magnetic fields, by Ampére's law an electric current flows ...
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  • number of adsorption sites through the ideal gas law. If one assumes that the number of sites is just the whole area of the solid divided into the cross ...
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  • Principia Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and ... and angular momentum, and he developed a law describing the rate of cooling ...
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  • to the 'force constant' in Hooke's Law. The deflection ... Newton's first law states that every body perseveres in its state ...
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  • moves under the influence of his inverse square law of gravity, it would trace out an orbit shaped like one of the conic sections (such as an ellipse ...
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  • the corresponding mass-energy conservation law, E = mc², that resolved ... known as the relativistic velocity-addition law, which is necessary to demonstrate ...
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