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  2. Physical property - Wikipedia

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    A physical property is any property of a physical system that is measurable. [1] The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its changes between momentary states. A quantifiable physical property is called physical quantity. Measurable physical quantities are often referred to as observables.

  3. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    The final column lists some special properties that some of the quantities have, such as their scaling behavior (i.e. whether the quantity is intensive or extensive), their transformation properties (i.e. whether the quantity is a scalar, vector, matrix or tensor), and whether the quantity is conserved.

  4. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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    A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

  5. Physics - Wikipedia

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    Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] In particular, it is concerned with the "condensed" phases that appear whenever the number of particles in a system is extremely large and the interactions between them are strong.

  6. Intensive and extensive properties - Wikipedia

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    Suppose a composite property is a function of a set of intensive properties {} and a set of extensive properties {}, which can be shown as ({}, {}). If the size of the system is changed by some scaling factor, λ {\displaystyle \lambda } , only the extensive properties will change, since intensive properties are independent of the size of the ...

  7. Mass - Wikipedia

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    The inertia and the inertial mass describe this property of physical bodies at the qualitative and quantitative level respectively. According to Newton's second law of motion , if a body of fixed mass m is subjected to a single force F , its acceleration a is given by F / m .

  8. Physical object - Wikipedia

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    A physical body as a whole is assumed to have such quantitative properties as mass, momentum, electric charge, other conserved quantities, and possibly other quantities. An object with known composition and described in an adequate physical theory is an example of physical system .

  9. Material - Wikipedia

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    A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object.Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geological origin or biological function.