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  2. Negative temperature - Wikipedia

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    Negative temperatures can only exist in a system where there are a limited number of energy states (see below). As the temperature is increased on such a system, particles move into higher and higher energy states, and as the temperature increases, the number of particles in the lower energy states and in the higher energy states approaches ...

  3. Negative probability - Wikipedia

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    In Convolution quotients of nonnegative definite functions [5] and Algebraic Probability Theory [6] Imre Z. Ruzsa and Gábor J. Székely proved that if a random variable X has a signed or quasi distribution where some of the probabilities are negative then one can always find two random variables, Y and Z, with ordinary (not signed / not quasi ...

  4. Kinetic energy - Wikipedia

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    The speed, and thus the kinetic energy of a single object is frame-dependent (relative): it can take any non-negative value, by choosing a suitable inertial frame of reference. For example, a bullet passing an observer has kinetic energy in the reference frame of this observer.

  5. Negative energy - Wikipedia

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    Since the ergosphere is outside the event horizon, particles can escape from it. Within the ergosphere, a particle's energy may become negative (via the relativistic rotation of its Killing vector). The negative-energy particle then crosses the event horizon into the black hole, with the law of conservation of energy requiring that an equal ...

  6. Absolute zero - Wikipedia

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    Temperatures that are expressed as negative numbers on the familiar Celsius or Fahrenheit scales are simply colder than the zero points of those scales. Certain systems can achieve truly negative temperatures; that is, their thermodynamic temperature (expressed in kelvins) can be of a negative quantity. A system with a truly negative ...

  7. Potential energy - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the force can be defined as the negative of the vector gradient of the potential field. For example, gravity is a conservative force . The associated potential is the gravitational potential , often denoted by ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } or V {\displaystyle V} , corresponding to the energy per unit mass as a function of position.

  8. Negative frequency - Wikipedia

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    A negative frequency causes the sin function (violet) to lead the cos (red) by 1/4 cycle. The ambiguity is resolved when the cosine and sine operators can be observed simultaneously, because cos(ωt + θ) leads sin(ωt + θ) by 1 ⁄ 4 cycle (i.e. π ⁄ 2 radians) when ω > 0, and lags by 1 ⁄ 4 cycle when ω < 0.

  9. Energy condition - Wikipedia

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    These attempts generalize the Hawking-Ellis vacuum conservation theorem (according to which, if energy can enter an empty region faster than the speed of light, then the dominant energy condition is violated, and the energy density may become negative in some reference frame [5]) to spacetimes containing out-of-equilibrium matter at finite ...