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  2. Scientific law - Wikipedia

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    Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena. [1] The term law has diverse usage in many cases (approximate, accurate, broad, or narrow) across all fields of natural science ( physics , chemistry , astronomy , geoscience , biology ).

  3. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Liskov substitution principle in computer science is a particular definition of a subtyping relation, called (strong) behavioral subtyping. Llinás's law : "A neuron of a given kind cannot be functionally replaced by one of another type even if their synaptic connectivity and the type of neurotransmitter outputs are identical."

  4. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Born's law: Quantum mechanics: Max Born: Boyle's law: Thermodynamics: Robert Boyle: Bragg's Law: Physics William Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg: Bradford's law: Computer science: Samuel C. Bradford: Bruun Rule: Earth science Per Bruun Buys Ballot's law: Meteorology: C.H.D. Buys Ballot: Byerlee's law: Geophysics: James Byerlee: Carnot's ...

  5. Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    Biological rules and laws are often developed as succinct, broadly applicable ways to explain complex phenomena or salient observations about the ecology and biogeographical distributions of plant and animal species around the world, though they have been proposed for or extended to all types of organisms. Many of these regularities of ecology ...

  6. Laws of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize thermodynamic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium.

  7. Science - Wikipedia

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    Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which ...

  8. List of laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adages or predictions with the appellation 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case).

  9. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...