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  • The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. ... It can be shown from the laws of thermodynamics that absolute zero ...
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  • means that it is defined by properties of magnitude (size or measurability ... with both a direction and a has a magnitude) :v is the velocity function ...
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  • a small telescope), but it has an absolute magnitude of −26.7. So, from ... when discovered in 1998, given an absolute magnitude of −32.2, although ...
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  • :E is the magnitude of the electric field (measured in volts per meter ... :J is the magnitude of the current density (measured in amperes per ...
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  • agreement,] defined by two points: absolute zero and the triple point ... Absolute zero—the temperature at which nothing could be colder and ...
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  • shows the relationship between absolute magnitude, luminosity, classification ... Sun, is a red dwarf (Type M5, apparent magnitude 11.05), as are twenty of ...
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  • For gases, pressure is sometimes measured not as an absolute pressure ... is a scalar quantity—that is, it has magnitude but no particular direction ...
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  • is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign, separated ... towards the positive charge, and its magnitude is equal to the strength ...
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  • and depend on the conductors' absolute temperature, material, and ... difference directly or to measure an absolute temperature by setting one ...
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  • is a vector quantity, containing both magnitude and direction. By contrast, distance is a scalar quantity, expressing only magnitude. Thus, distance ...
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  • measurable terms (in this case, absolute magnitude and color index), plot ... as corrected for distance—their absolute magnitude. For this purpose he ...
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  • common presuppositions: Given the vast magnitude of divinity, it is assumed ... of human logic to understand the sheer magnitude of divinity. In this light ...
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  • what astronomers call the absolute magnitude, is known, so that ... the quantum vacuum, up to 120 orders of magnitude too large. This would need ...
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  • force or motion applied, with order of magnitude being dependent on the ... continue to oscillate forever at the same magnitude, but in a real system there ...
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  • the list according to its elements' magnitude and then repeatedly remove ... a discrete distribution minimizes average absolute deviation. Similarly, the ...
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  • # The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the ... temperature of gases by defining the absolute boiling-point of a substance ...
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  • By definition, 1 is the magnitude or absolute value of a unit vector and a unit matrix (more usually called an identity matrix). Note that the ...
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  • there must be an actual infinite mind, an Absolute Knower, that encompasses ... presents, in place of the earlier Absolute Knower, the concept of an ...
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  • , is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral ... of a mere greater unit, but the notion of absolute greatness not inhibited ...
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  • |+Data by absolute numbers |- ! Interval !! Width !! Quantity !! Quantity/width |- | 0 || 5 || 4180 || 836 |- | 5 || 5 || 13687 || 2737 ...
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