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- The positron or antielectron is the particle with an electric charge of +1e, a spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and the same mass as an electron...34 KB (3,752 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2024
- Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. These...59 KB (6,582 words) - 03:52, 16 April 2024
- An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current. Electromagnets usually consist of wire wound into...50 KB (5,557 words) - 19:19, 19 June 2024
- The quantum harmonic oscillator is the quantum-mechanical analog of the classical harmonic oscillator. Because an arbitrary smooth potential can usually...43 KB (6,846 words) - 08:43, 30 June 2024
- X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded...46 KB (5,726 words) - 19:19, 14 June 2024
- Physical causality is a physical relationship between causes and effects. It is considered to be fundamental to all natural sciences and behavioural sciences...15 KB (2,211 words) - 10:08, 6 April 2024
- The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN) is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy...17 KB (1,862 words) - 01:45, 28 April 2024
- In photography and optics, a neutral-density filter, or ND filter, is a filter that reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of...15 KB (1,687 words) - 04:11, 1 April 2024
- In physical cosmology, the electroweak epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe when the temperature of the universe had fallen enough...8 KB (810 words) - 11:06, 22 April 2024
- Niobium–tin is an intermetallic compound of niobium (Nb) and tin (Sn), used industrially as a type-II superconductor. This intermetallic compound has a...15 KB (1,769 words) - 09:56, 25 May 2024
- Nanoindentation, also called instrumented indentation testing, is a variety of indentation hardness tests applied to small volumes. Indentation is perhaps...44 KB (6,262 words) - 21:26, 29 June 2024
- In photography (particularly digital photography), purple fringing (sometimes called PF) is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on...6 KB (600 words) - 03:27, 13 May 2024
- Philip St. John Russell, FRS, (born March 25, 1953, in Belfast) is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen,...7 KB (794 words) - 15:29, 2 June 2023
- John Robert Huizenga (April 21, 1921 – January 25, 2014) was an American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and who also debunked University...15 KB (1,490 words) - 20:30, 19 June 2024
- In surveying, a gyrotheodolite (also: surveying gyro) is an instrument composed of a gyrocompass mounted to a theodolite. It is used to determine the orientation...8 KB (1,087 words) - 22:29, 4 April 2023
- A. W. Peet (born 1968) is a professor of physics at the University of Toronto. Peet's research interests include string theory as a quantum theory of gravity...28 KB (2,836 words) - 21:21, 20 June 2024
- Lorella Margaret Jones (February 22, 1943 – February 9, 1995), was a professor of physics and director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory...7 KB (697 words) - 09:51, 7 September 2023
- Betsy Ancker-Johnson (April 29, 1927 – July 2, 2020) was an American plasma physicist. She was known for her research into instabilities that can occur...7 KB (556 words) - 20:54, 17 January 2024
- Shaaban (Said) Khalil (born November 13, 1966) is a high energy physicist. He is the founding director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at Zewail...5 KB (709 words) - 21:34, 16 April 2023
- Sculptured thin films (STFs) are nanostructured materials with unidirectionally varying properties that can be designed and realized in a controllable...5 KB (567 words) - 05:33, 9 December 2022