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  2. Equilibrant force - Wikipedia

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    Equilibrant force. In mechanics, an equilibrant force is a force which brings a body into mechanical equilibrium. [1] According to Newton's second law, a body has zero acceleration when the vector sum of all the forces acting upon it is zero:

  3. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    A branch of physics that studies atoms as isolated systems of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Compare nuclear physics. atomic structure atomic weight (A) The sum total of protons (or electrons) and neutrons within an atom. audio frequency A periodic vibration whose frequency is in the band audible to the average human, the human hearing range.

  4. List of types of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    Equilibrant force, which keeps any object motionless and acts on virtually every object in the world that is not moving Equilibrium figures of Earth and planets (physical geodesy) Equilibrium mode distribution , the state of fiber optic or waveguide transmission in which the propagation mode does not vary with distance along the fiber or ...

  5. Force - Wikipedia

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    The Ehrenfest theorem provides a connection between quantum expectation values and the classical concept of force, a connection that is necessarily inexact, as quantum physics is fundamentally different from classical. In quantum physics, the Born rule is used to calculate the expectation values of a position measurement or a momentum ...

  6. Mechanical equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    In a function which describes the system's potential energy, the system's equilibria can be determined using calculus.A system is in mechanical equilibrium at the critical points of the function describing the system's potential energy.

  7. Lagrangian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    In physics, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics founded on the stationary-action principle (also known as the principle of least action). It was introduced by the Italian-French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in his presentation to the Turin Academy of Science in 1760 [ 1 ] culminating in his 1788 ...

  8. Action (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, action is a scalar quantity that describes how the balance of kinetic versus potential energy of a physical system changes with trajectory. Action is significant because it is an input to the principle of stationary action, an approach to classical mechanics that is simpler for multiple objects. [1]

  9. Bra–ket notation - Wikipedia

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    Bra–ket notation, also called Dirac notation, is a notation for linear algebra and linear operators on complex vector spaces together with their dual space both in the finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional case.