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  2. A value - Wikipedia

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    A-values can help predict the steric effect of a substituent. In general, the larger a substituent's A-value, the larger the steric effect of that substituent. A methyl group has an A-value of 1.74 while tert-butyl group has an A-value of ~5. Because the A-value of tert-butyl is higher, tert-butyl has a larger steric effect than methyl. This ...

  3. Planck constant - Wikipedia

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    Planck was able to calculate the value of from experimental data on black-body radiation: his result, 6.55 × 10 −34 J⋅s, is within 1.2% of the currently defined value. [2] He also made the first determination of the Boltzmann constant k B {\displaystyle k_{\text{B}}} from the same data and theory.

  4. Fine-structure constant - Wikipedia

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    [1] This value for α gives µ 0 = 4π × 0.999 999 999 87 (16) × 10 −7 H⋅m −1, 0.8 times the standard uncertainty away from its old defined value, with the mean differing from the old value by only 0.13 parts per billion. Historically the value of the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant is often given

  5. Gravitational constant - Wikipedia

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    In SI units, its value is approximately 6.6743 × 10 −11 m 3 kg −1 s −2. ‍ [1] The modern notation of Newton's law involving G was introduced in the 1890s by C. V. Boys . The first implicit measurement with an accuracy within about 1% is attributed to Henry Cavendish in a 1798 experiment .

  6. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    For example, 1 and 1.02 are within an order of magnitude. So are 1 and 2, 1 and 9, or 1 and 0.2. However, 1 and 15 are not within an order of magnitude, since their ratio is 15/1 = 15 > 10. The reciprocal ratio, 1/15, is less than 0.1, so the same result is obtained.

  7. Percentage - Wikipedia

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    The percent value is computed by multiplying the numeric value of the ratio by 100. For example, to find 50 apples as a percentage of 1,250 apples, one first computes the ratio ⁠ 50 / 1250 ⁠ = 0.04, and then multiplies by 100 to obtain 4%. The percent value can also be found by multiplying first instead of later, so in this example, the 50 ...

  8. Energy conversion efficiency - Wikipedia

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    6–40% (technology-dependent, 15–20% most often, median degradation for x-Si technologies in the 0.5–0.6%/year [20] range with the mean in the 0.8–0.9%/year range. Hetero-interface technology (HIT) and microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si) technologies, although not as plentiful, exhibit degradation around 1%/year and resemble thin-film ...

  9. Back-of-the-envelope calculation - Wikipedia

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    Another example is Victor Weisskopf's pamphlet Modern Physics from an Elementary Point of View. [8] In these notes Weisskopf used back-of-the-envelope calculations to calculate the size of a hydrogen atom, a star, and a mountain, all using elementary physics.