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  2. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    It proposed a new, but completely equivalent, wording of the metre's definition: "The metre, symbol m, is the unit of length; its magnitude is set by fixing the numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum to be equal to exactly 299 792 458 when it is expressed in the SI unit m s −1."

  3. Schrödinger equation - Wikipedia

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    The time-dependent Schrödinger equation described above predicts that wave functions can form standing waves, called stationary states. These states are particularly important as their individual study later simplifies the task of solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for any state. Stationary states can also be described by a ...

  4. Centimetre–gram–second system of units - Wikipedia

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    For example, according to the capacitance row of the table, if a capacitor has a capacitance of 1 F in SI, then it has a capacitance of (10 −9 c 2) cm in ESU; but it is incorrect to replace "1 F" with "(10 −9 c 2) cm" within an equation or formula. (This warning is a special aspect of electromagnetism units.

  5. List of relativistic equations - Wikipedia

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    This is the formula for length contraction. As there existed a proper time for time dilation, there exists a proper length for length contraction, which in this case is ℓ. The proper length of an object is the length of the object in the frame in which the object is at rest.

  6. Length contraction - Wikipedia

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    Then, at a speed of 13 400 000 m/s (30 million mph, 0.0447 c) contracted length is 99.9% of the length at rest; at a speed of 42 300 000 m/s (95 million mph, 0.141 c), the length is still 99%. As the magnitude of the velocity approaches the speed of light, the effect becomes prominent.

  7. Compton wavelength - Wikipedia

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    The reduced Compton wavelength is a natural representation of mass on the quantum scale and is used in equations that pertain to inertial mass, such as the Klein–Gordon and Schrödinger's equations. [2]: 18–22 Equations that pertain to the wavelengths of photons interacting with mass use the non-reduced Compton wavelength.

  8. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The true acceleration at time t is found in the limit as time interval Δt → 0 of Δv/Δt. An object's average acceleration over a period of time is its change in velocity , Δ v {\displaystyle \Delta \mathbf {v} } , divided by the duration of the period, Δ t {\displaystyle \Delta t} .

  9. Metre per second squared - Wikipedia

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    Its symbol is written in several forms as m/s 2, m·s −2 or ms −2, , or less commonly, as (m/s)/s. [ 1 ] As acceleration, the unit is interpreted physically as change in velocity or speed per time interval, i.e. metre per second per second and is treated as a vector quantity.