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  2. Physical property - Wikipedia

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    A physical property is any property of a physical system that is measurable. [1] The changes in the physical properties of a system can be used to describe its changes between momentary states. A quantifiable physical property is called physical quantity. Measurable physical quantities are often referred to as observables.

  3. Intrinsic and extrinsic properties - Wikipedia

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    In materials science, an intrinsic property is independent of how much of a material is present and is independent of the form of the material, e.g., one large piece or a collection of small particles. Intrinsic properties are dependent mainly on the fundamental chemical composition and structure of the material. [1]

  4. Intensive and extensive properties - Wikipedia

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    Suppose a composite property is a function of a set of intensive properties {} and a set of extensive properties {}, which can be shown as ({}, {}). If the size of the system is changed by some scaling factor, λ {\displaystyle \lambda } , only the extensive properties will change, since intensive properties are independent of the size of the ...

  5. Physical object - Wikipedia

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    A physical body as a whole is assumed to have such quantitative properties as mass, momentum, electric charge, other conserved quantities, and possibly other quantities. An object with known composition and described in an adequate physical theory is an example of physical system .

  6. Physical quantity - Wikipedia

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    A physical quantity can be expressed as a value, which is the algebraic multiplication of a numerical value and a unit of measurement. For example, the physical quantity mass, symbol m, can be quantified as m=n kg, where n is the numerical value and kg is the unit symbol (for kilogram). Quantities that are vectors have, besides numerical value ...

  7. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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    A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

  8. Mass - Wikipedia

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    In physical science, one may distinguish conceptually between at least seven different aspects of mass, or seven physical notions that involve the concept of mass. [6] Every experiment to date has shown these seven values to be proportional, and in some cases equal, and this proportionality gives rise to the abstract concept of mass.

  9. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    The final column lists some special properties that some of the quantities have, such as their scaling behavior (i.e. whether the quantity is intensive or extensive), their transformation properties (i.e. whether the quantity is a scalar, vector, matrix or tensor), and whether the quantity is conserved.