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  2. Momentum - Wikipedia

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    In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (pl.: momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. . It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a directi

  3. Expectation value (quantum mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    In quantum mechanics, the expectation value is the probabilistic expected value of the result (measurement) of an experiment. It can be thought of as an average of all the possible outcomes of a measurement as weighted by their likelihood, and as such it is not the most probable value of a measurement; indeed the expectation value may have zero probability of occurring (e.g. measurements which ...

  4. Momentum (technical analysis) - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between different moving average trading rules is explained in the paper "Anatomy of Market Timing with Moving Averages". [4] Specifically, in this paper the author demonstrates that every trading rule can be presented as a weighted average of the momentum rules computed using different averaging periods.

  5. Momentum-transfer cross section - Wikipedia

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    In physics, and especially scattering theory, the momentum-transfer cross section (sometimes known as the momentum-transport cross section [1]) is an effective scattering cross section useful for describing the average momentum transferred from a particle when it collides with a target. Essentially, it contains all the information about a ...

  6. Partition function (statistical mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    This provides us with a method for calculating the expected values of many microscopic quantities. We add the quantity artificially to the microstate energies (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, to the Hamiltonian), calculate the new partition function and expected value, and then set λ to zero in the final

  7. Momentum operator - Wikipedia

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    Since the partial derivative is a linear operator, the momentum operator is also linear, and because any wave function can be expressed as a superposition of other states, when this momentum operator acts on the entire superimposed wave, it yields the momentum eigenvalues for each plane wave component. These new components then superimpose to ...

  8. Magnetic moment - Wikipedia

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    The angular momentum of a moving charged particle is defined as: = =, where μ is the mass of the particle and v is the particle's velocity. The angular momentum of the very large number of charged particles that make up a current therefore is: L = ∭ V r × ( ρ v ) d V , {\displaystyle \mathbf {L} =\iiint _{V}\,\mathbf {r} \times (\rho ...

  9. Impulse (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by J or Imp) is the change in momentum of an object. If the initial momentum of an object is p 1, and a subsequent momentum is p 2, the object has received an impulse J: =. Momentum is a vector quantity, so impulse is also a vector quantity.