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  2. Adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Adhesive materials fill the voids or pores of the surfaces and hold surfaces together by interlocking. Other interlocking phenomena are observed on different length scales. Sewing is an example of two materials forming a large scale mechanical bond, velcro forms one on a medium scale, and some textile adhesives (glue) form one at a small scale.

  3. Surface energy - Wikipedia

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    The surface energy of a liquid may be measured by stretching a liquid membrane (which increases the surface area and hence the surface energy). In that case, in order to increase the surface area of a mass of liquid by an amount, δA, a quantity of work, γ δA, is needed (where γ is the surface energy density of the liquid).

  4. Coupling constant - Wikipedia

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    In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the quantity Λ is called the QCD scale. The value is Λ M S = 332 ± 17 MeV {\displaystyle \Lambda _{\rm {MS}}=332\pm 17{\text{ MeV}}} [ 4 ] for three "active" quark flavors, viz when the energy–momentum involved in the process allows production of only the up, down and strange quarks, but not the heavier quarks.

  5. Dispersive adhesion - Wikipedia

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    The strength of adhesion by the dispersive mechanism depends on a variety of factors, including the chemical structure of the molecules involved in the adhesive system, the degree to which coatings wet each other, and the surface roughness at the interface.

  6. Hardness - Wikipedia

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    The device used to take this measurement is known as a scleroscope. [3] Two scales that measures rebound hardness are the Leeb rebound hardness test and Bennett hardness scale. Ultrasonic Contact Impedance (UCI) method determines hardness by measuring the frequency of an oscillating rod.

  7. Viscosity - Wikipedia

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    The relative strength of this force is a measure of the fluid's viscosity. In a general parallel flow, the shear stress is proportional to the gradient of the velocity. In materials science and engineering , there is often interest in understanding the forces or stresses involved in the deformation of a material.

  8. Stress (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Stress expresses the internal forces that neighbouring particles of a continuous material exert on each other, while strain is the measure of the relative deformation of the material. [3] For example, when a solid vertical bar is supporting an overhead weight , each particle in the bar pushes on the particles immediately below it.

  9. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic field strength: H: Strength of a magnetic field A/m L −1 I: vector field Magnetic flux density: B: Measure for the strength of the magnetic field tesla (T = Wb/m 2) M T −2 I −1: pseudovector field Magnetic moment (or magnetic dipole moment) m: The component of magnetic strength and orientation that can be represented by an ...