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  2. Meso compound - Wikipedia

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    A meso compound or meso isomer is an optically inactive isomer in a set of stereoisomers, at least two of which are optically active. [1][2] This means that despite containing two or more stereocenters, the molecule is not chiral. A meso compound is superposable on its mirror image (not to be confused with superimposable, as any two objects can ...

  3. Mesoscopic physics - Wikipedia

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    Mesoscopic physics is a subdiscipline of condensed matter physics that deals with materials of an intermediate size. These materials range in size between the nanoscale for a quantity of atoms (such as a molecule) and of materials measuring micrometres. [1] The lower limit can also be defined as being the size of individual atoms.

  4. Tacticity - Wikipedia

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    Tacticity (from Greek: τακτικός, romanized: taktikos, "relating to arrangement or order") is the relative stereochemistry of adjacent chiral centers within a macromolecule. [1] The practical significance of tacticity rests on the effects on the physical properties of the polymer. The regularity of the macromolecular structure influences ...

  5. Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model - Wikipedia

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    The standard model is a quantum field theory, meaning its fundamental objects are quantum fields, which are defined at all points in spacetime. QFT treats particles as excited states (also called quanta) of their underlying quantum fields, which are more fundamental than the particles. These fields are.

  6. Meson - Wikipedia

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    0 ħ, 1 ħ. In particle physics, a meson (/ ˈmiːzɒn, ˈmɛzɒn /) is a type of hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually one of each, bound together by the strong interaction. Because mesons are composed of quark subparticles, they have a meaningful physical size, a diameter of roughly one ...

  7. Lagrangian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Lagrangian. [edit] Instead of forces, Lagrangian mechanics uses the energies in the system. The central quantity of Lagrangian mechanics is the Lagrangian, a function which summarizes the dynamics of the entire system. Overall, the Lagrangian has units of energy, but no single expression for all physical systems.

  8. Quark model - Wikipedia

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    All quarks are assigned a baryon number of ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠. Up, charm and top quarks have an electric charge of + ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠, while the down, strange, and bottom quarks have an electric charge of − ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠. Antiquarks have the opposite quantum numbers. Quarks are spin-⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ particles, and thus fermions. Each quark or antiquark ...

  9. Equivalence principle - Wikipedia

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    e. The equivalence principle is the hypothesis that the observed equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is a consequence of nature. The weak form, known for centuries, relates to masses of any composition in free fall taking the same trajectories and landing at identical times. The extended form by Albert Einstein requires special ...