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  2. Threshold energy - Wikipedia

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    The threshold energy , to produce three particles of masses , , , i.e. 1 + 2 → a + b + c , {\displaystyle 1+2\to a+b+c,} is then found by assuming that these three particles are at rest in the center of mass frame (symbols with hat indicate quantities in the center of mass frame):

  3. Threshold potential - Wikipedia

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    In electrophysiology, the threshold potential is the critical level to which a membrane potential must be depolarized to initiate an action potential. In neuroscience, threshold potentials are necessary to regulate and propagate signaling in both the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

  4. Threshold displacement energy - Wikipedia

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    The threshold displacement energy is a materials property relevant during high-energy particle radiation of materials. The maximum energy that an irradiating particle can transfer in a binary collision to an atom in a material is given by (including relativistic effects)

  5. Action potential - Wikipedia

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    As an action potential (nerve impulse) travels down an axon there is a change in electric polarity across the membrane of the axon. In response to a signal from another neuron, sodium- (Na +) and potassium- (K +)–gated ion channels open and close as the membrane reaches its threshold potential.

  6. Inverse beta decay - Wikipedia

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    The IBD reaction can only be initiated when the antineutrino possesses at least 1.806 MeV [3] [4] of kinetic energy (called the threshold energy). This threshold energy is due to a difference in mass between the products (e + and n) and the reactants (ν e and p) and also slightly due to a relativistic mass effect on the antineutrino. Most of ...

  7. Nociceptor - Wikipedia

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    The peripheral terminal of the mature nociceptor is where the noxious stimuli are detected and transduced into electrical energy. [7] When the electrical energy reaches a threshold value, an action potential is induced and driven towards the central nervous system (CNS). This leads to the train of events that allows for the conscious awareness ...

  8. Activation energy - Wikipedia

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    Rather, the reactant energy and the product energy remain the same and only the activation energy is altered (lowered). A catalyst is able to reduce the activation energy by forming a transition state in a more favorable manner. Catalysts, by nature, create a more "comfortable" fit for the substrate of a reaction to progress to a transition state.

  9. Graded potential - Wikipedia

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    Examples of graded potentials. Graded potentials are changes in membrane potential that vary according to the size of the stimulus, as opposed to being all-or-none.They include diverse potentials such as receptor potentials, electrotonic potentials, subthreshold membrane potential oscillations, slow-wave potential, pacemaker potentials, and synaptic potentials.