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  2. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    Meaning SI unit of measure alpha: alpha particle: angular acceleration: radian per second squared (rad/s 2) fine-structure constant: unitless beta: velocity in terms of the speed of light c: unitless beta particle: gamma: Lorentz factor: unitless photon: gamma ray: shear strain: radian

  3. Hat notation - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a circumflex (ˆ), called a "hat", is used to denote an estimator or an estimated value. [1] For example, in the context of errors and residuals , the "hat" over the letter ε ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {\varepsilon }}} indicates an observable estimate (the residuals) of an unobservable quantity called ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon ...

  4. Beta function (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Beta functions are usually computed in some kind of approximation scheme. An example is perturbation theory , where one assumes that the coupling parameters are small. One can then make an expansion in powers of the coupling parameters and truncate the higher-order terms (also known as higher loop contributions, due to the number of loops in ...

  5. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the population mean or expected value in probability and statistics; a measure in measure theory; micro-, an SI prefix denoting 10 −6 (one millionth) Micrometre or micron (retired in 1967 as a standalone symbol, replaced by "μm" using the standard SI meaning) the coefficient of friction in physics; the service rate in queueing theory

  6. Beta function (accelerator physics) - Wikipedia

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    This implies that the smaller the beam size at the interaction point, the faster the rise of the beta function (and thus the beam size) when going away from the interaction point. In practice, the aperture of the beam line elements (e.g. focusing magnets) around the interaction point limit how small beta star can be made.

  7. Momentum operator - Wikipedia

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    For the case of one particle in one spatial dimension, the definition is: ^ = where ħ is the reduced Planck constant, i the imaginary unit, x is the spatial coordinate, and a partial derivative (denoted by /) is used instead of a total derivative (d/dx) since the wave function is also a function of time. The "hat" indicates an operator.

  8. Partition function (statistical mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    is the thermodynamic beta, defined as where is the Boltzmann constant; E i {\displaystyle E_{i}} is the total energy of the system in the respective microstate . The exponential factor e − β E i {\displaystyle e^{-\beta E_{i}}} is otherwise known as the Boltzmann factor .

  9. Glossary of elementary quantum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    The word "wave function" could mean one of following: A vector in Hilbert space which can represent a state; synonymous to "ket" or "state vector". The state vector in a specific basis. It can be seen as a covariant vector in this case.