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  2. Brownian motion - Wikipedia

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    Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). [2] This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside a fluid sub-domain, followed by a relocation to another sub-domain. Each relocation is followed by more fluctuations within the new closed volume.

  3. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    curvilinear motion The motion of a moving particle or object that conforms to a known or fixed curve. Such motion is studied with two coordinate systems: planar motion and cylindrical motion. cyclotron A type of particle accelerator in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the center along a spiral path.

  4. Solid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A solid is a material that can support a substantial amount of shearing force over a given time scale during a natural or industrial process or action. This is what distinguishes solids from fluids, because fluids also support normal forces which are those forces that are directed perpendicular to the material plane across from which they act and normal stress is the normal force per unit area ...

  5. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.

  6. List of equations in fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Defining equation (physical chemistry) List of electromagnetism equations; List of equations in classical mechanics; List of equations in gravitation; List of equations in nuclear and particle physics; List of equations in quantum mechanics; List of photonics equations; List of relativistic equations; Table of thermodynamic equations

  7. Material derivative - Wikipedia

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    The definition above relied on the physical nature of a fluid current; however, no laws of physics were invoked (for example, it was assumed that a lightweight particle in a river will follow the velocity of the water), but it turns out that many physical concepts can be described concisely using the material derivative.

  8. Population balance equation - Wikipedia

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    Consider the average number of particles with particle properties denoted by a particle state vector (x,r) (where x corresponds to particle properties like size, density, etc. also known as internal coordinates and, r corresponds to spatial position or external coordinates) dispersed in a continuous phase defined by a phase vector Y(r,t) (which again is a function of all such vectors which ...

  9. List of equations in nuclear and particle physics - Wikipedia

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    Radioisotope time constant, mean lifetime of an atom before decay τ (no standard symbol) = / s [T] Absorbed dose, total ionizing dose (total energy of radiation transferred to unit mass) D can only be found experimentally N/A Gy = 1 J/kg (Gray) [L] 2 [T] −2: Equivalent dose: H =