enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. A value - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_value

    In general, the larger a substituent's A-value, the larger the steric effect of that substituent. A methyl group has an A-value of 1.74 while tert-butyl group has an A-value of ~5. Because the A-value of tert-butyl is higher, tert-butyl has a larger steric effect than methyl. This difference in steric effects can be used to help predict ...

  3. Planck constant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant

    Planck was able to calculate the value of from experimental data on black-body radiation: his result, 6.55 × 10 −34 J⋅s, is within 1.2% of the currently defined value. [2] He also made the first determination of the Boltzmann constant k B {\displaystyle k_{\text{B}}} from the same data and theory.

  4. Fine-structure constant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

    This value for α gives µ 0 = 4π × 0.999 999 999 87 (16) × 10 −7 H⋅m −1, 0.8 times the standard uncertainty away from its old defined value, with the mean differing from the old value by only 0.13 parts per billion. Historically the value of the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant is often given.

  5. Percentage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage

    The percent value is computed by multiplying the numeric value of the ratio by 100. For example, to find 50 apples as a percentage of 1,250 apples, one first computes the ratio ⁠ 50 / 1250 ⁠ = 0.04, and then multiplies by 100 to obtain 4%. The percent value can also be found by multiplying first instead of later, so in this example, the 50 ...

  6. Gravitational constant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant

    Cavendish's result was first improved upon by John Henry Poynting (1891), [24] who published a value of 5.49(3) g⋅cm −3, differing from the modern value by 0.2%, but compatible with the modern value within the cited relative standard uncertainty of 0.55%.

  7. Back-of-the-envelope calculation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope...

    Another example is Victor Weisskopf's pamphlet Modern Physics from an Elementary Point of View. [8] In these notes Weisskopf used back-of-the-envelope calculations to calculate the size of a hydrogen atom, a star, and a mountain, all using elementary physics.

  8. Action (physics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)

    The action is defined by an integral, and the classical equations of motion of a system can be derived by minimizing the value of that integral. The action principle provides deep insights into physics, and is an important concept in modern theoretical physics. Various action principles and related concepts are summarized below.

  9. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan–Boltzmann_law

    The temperature Stefan obtained was a median value of previous ones, 1950 °C and the absolute thermodynamic one 2200 K. As 2.57 4 = 43.5, it follows from the law that the temperature of the Sun is 2.57 times greater than the temperature of the lamella, so Stefan got a value of 5430 °C or 5700 K. This was the first sensible value for the ...