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  2. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Capacitance is the capacity of a material object or device to store electric charge. It is measured by the charge in response to a difference in electric potential, expressed as the ratio of those quantities. Commonly recognized are two closely related notions of capacitance: self capacitance and mutual capacitance.

  3. Capacity of a set - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the capacity of a set in Euclidean space is a measure of the "size" of that set. Unlike, say, Lebesgue measure, which measures a set's volume or physical extent, capacity is a mathematical analogue of a set's ability to hold electrical charge. More precisely, it is the capacitance of the set: the total charge a set can hold ...

  4. Farad - Wikipedia

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    The farad (symbol: F) is the unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge, in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to 1 coulomb per volt (C/V). [1] It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday (1791–1867). In SI base units 1 F = 1 kg −1 ⋅ m −2 ⋅ s 4 ⋅ A 2.

  5. Coefficients of potential - Wikipedia

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    pij = pji, by symmetry, and. pij is not dependent on the charge. The physical content of the symmetry is as follows: if a charge Q on conductor j brings conductor i to a potential φ, then the same charge placed on i would bring j to the same potential φ. In general, the coefficients is used when describing system of conductors, such as in the ...

  6. Partition function (statistical mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Scientists. v. t. e. The thermal motions of the atoms or molecules in a gas are allowed to move freely, and the interactions between the two (the gas and the atoms/molecules) can be neglected. In physics, a partition function describes the statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium. [citation needed]

  7. Heat capacity ratio - Wikipedia

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    1.365. In thermal physics and thermodynamics, the heat capacity ratio, also known as the adiabatic index, the ratio of specific heats, or Laplace's coefficient, is the ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure (CP) to heat capacity at constant volume (CV). It is sometimes also known as the isentropic expansion factor and is denoted by γ ...

  8. Table of thermodynamic equations - Wikipedia

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    m = mass of each molecule (all molecules are identical in kinetic theory), γ (p) = Lorentz factor as function of momentum (see below) Ratio of thermal to rest mass-energy of each molecule: θ = k B T / m c 2 {\displaystyle \theta =k_ {\text {B}}T/mc^ {2}} K2 is the modified Bessel function of the second kind.

  9. Electrical resistivity and conductivity - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of electrical resistivity is the ohm - metre (Ω⋅m). [1][2][3] For example, if a 1 m3 solid cube of material has sheet contacts on two opposite faces, and the resistance between these contacts is 1 Ω, then the resistivity of the material is 1 Ω⋅m. Electrical conductivity (or specific conductance) is the reciprocal of ...