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  2. Helicity (particle physics) - Wikipedia

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    Consider, for example, a baseball, pitched as a gyroball, so that its spin axis is aligned with the direction of the pitch. It will have one helicity with respect to the point of view of the players on the field, but would appear to have a flipped helicity in any frame moving faster than the ball.

  3. Hydrodynamical helicity - Wikipedia

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    Helicity is a pseudo-scalar quantity: it changes sign under change from a right-handed to a left-handed frame of reference; it can be considered as a measure of the handedness (or chirality) of the flow. Helicity is one of the four known integral invariants of the Euler equations; the other three are energy, momentum and angular momentum.

  4. Helicene - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, helicenes are ortho-condensed polycyclic aromatic compounds in which benzene rings or other aromatics are angularly annulated to give helically-shaped chiral molecules. [1] The chemistry of helicenes has attracted continuing attention because of their unique structural, spectral , and optical features.

  5. Helicity - Wikipedia

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    Helicity may refer to: Helicity (fluid mechanics), the extent to which corkscrew-like motion occurs; Helicity (particle physics), the projection of the spin onto the ...

  6. Helicity basis - Wikipedia

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    The two-component helicity eigenstates satisfy ^ (^) = (^) where are the Pauli matrices, ^ is the direction of the fermion momentum, = depending on whether spin is pointing in the same direction as ^ or opposite.

  7. Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Since the helicity of massive particles is frame-dependent, it might seem that the same particle would interact with the weak force according to one frame of reference, but not another. The resolution to this paradox is that the chirality operator is equivalent to helicity for massless fields only, for which helicity is not frame-dependent. By ...

  8. Magnetic helicity - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic helicity is a gauge-dependent quantity, because can be redefined by adding a gradient to it (gauge choosing).However, for perfectly conducting boundaries or periodic systems without a net magnetic flux, the magnetic helicity contained in the whole domain is gauge invariant, [15] that is, independent of the gauge choice.

  9. Chemical oscillator - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, a chemical oscillator is a complex mixture of reacting chemical compounds in which the concentration of one or more components exhibits periodic changes. They are a class of reactions that serve as an example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics with far-from-equilibrium behavior.