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  2. Coulomb damping - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb damping dissipates energy constantly because of sliding friction. The magnitude of sliding friction is a constant value; independent of surface area, displacement or position, and velocity. The system undergoing Coulomb damping is periodic or oscillating and restrained by the sliding friction.

  3. Electric-field screening - Wikipedia

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    For example, a naive quantum mechanical calculation of the ground-state energy density yields infinity, which is unreasonable. The difficulty lies in the fact that even though the Coulomb force diminishes with distance as 1/r 2, the average number of particles at each distance r is proportional to r 2, assuming the fluid is fairly isotropic. As ...

  4. Damping - Wikipedia

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    The effect of varying damping ratio on a second-order system. The damping ratio is a parameter, usually denoted by ζ (Greek letter zeta), [7] that characterizes the frequency response of a second-order ordinary differential equation. It is particularly important in the study of control theory. It is also important in the harmonic oscillator ...

  5. Retarded potential - Wikipedia

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    Position vectors r and r′ used in the calculation. The starting point is Maxwell's equations in the potential formulation using the Lorenz gauge: =, = where φ(r, t) is the electric potential and A(r, t) is the magnetic vector potential, for an arbitrary source of charge density ρ(r, t) and current density J(r, t), and is the D'Alembert operator. [2]

  6. Rutherford scattering experiments - Wikipedia

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    For example the first results from a cloud chamber, by C.T.R. Wilson shows alpha particle scattering and also appeared in 1911. [ 24 ] [ 9 ] : 302 Over time, particle scattering became a major aspect of theoretical and experimental physics; [ 25 ] : 443 Rutherford's concept of a "cross-section" now dominates the descriptions of experimental ...

  7. GW approximation - Wikipedia

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    The GW approximation (GWA) is an approximation made in order to calculate the self-energy of a many-body system of electrons. [1] [2] [3] The approximation is that the expansion of the self-energy Σ in terms of the single particle Green's function G and the screened Coulomb interaction W (in units of =)

  8. Coulometry - Wikipedia

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    As the electroactive molecules are consumed, the current also decreases, approaching zero when the conversion is complete. The sample mass, molecular mass, number of electrons in the electrode reaction, and number of electrons passed during the experiment are all related by Faraday's laws. It follows that, if three of the values are known, then ...

  9. Coulomb's law - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law [1] of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest. This electric force is conventionally called the electrostatic force or Coulomb force . [ 2 ]