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  2. Faraday's ice pail experiment - Wikipedia

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    Faraday employed a 7 in. diameter by 10.5 in. tall pewter pail on a wooden stool,(B) [1] but modern demonstrations often use a hollow metal sphere with a hole in the top, [10] or a cylinder of metal screen, [9] [12] mounted on an insulating stand. Its outside surface is connected by a wire to a sensitive electric charge detector.

  3. Characteristic impedance - Wikipedia

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    The input impedance of an infinite line is equal to the characteristic impedance since the transmitted wave is never reflected back from the end. Equivalently: The characteristic impedance of a line is that impedance which, when terminating an arbitrary length of line at its output, produces an input impedance of equal value. This is so because ...

  4. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    distance: meter (m) direction: unitless impact parameter meter (m) differential (e.g. ) varied depending on context differential vector element of surface area A, with infinitesimally small magnitude and direction normal to surface S: square meter (m 2)

  5. Physics education - Wikipedia

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    The occupation is called physics educator or physics teacher. Physics education research refers to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method together with laboratory exercises aimed at verifying concepts taught ...

  6. Metric tensor (general relativity) - Wikipedia

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    The metric captures all the geometric and causal structure of spacetime, being used to define notions such as time, distance, volume, curvature, angle, and separation of the future and the past. In general relativity, the metric tensor plays the role of the gravitational potential in the classical theory of gravitation, although the physical ...

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    12.000 Mm – diameter of Sirius B, a white dwarf [167] 12.104 Mm – diameter of Venus; 12.742 Mm – diameter of Earth; 12.900 Mm – minimum distance of the meteoroid 2004 FU 162 from the centre of Earth on 31 March 2004, closest on record; 14.000 Mm – smallest diameter of Jupiter's Great Red Spot; 19.000 Mm – separation between Pluto ...

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  9. Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory - Wikipedia

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    Unlike instantaneous action at a distance theories of the early 1800s these "direct interaction" theories are based on interaction propagation at the speed of light. They differ from the classical field theory in three ways 1) no independent field is postulated; 2) the point charges do not act upon themselves; 3) the equations are time symmetric.