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  2. Gay-Lussac's law - Wikipedia

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    Under STP, a reaction between three cubic meters of hydrogen gas and one cubic meter of nitrogen gas will produce about two cubic meters of ammonia.. The law of combining volumes states that when gases chemically react together, they do so in amounts by volume which bear small whole-number ratios (the volumes calculated at the same temperature and pressure).

  3. Torricelli's experiment - Wikipedia

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    This validated his belief that air/gas has mass, creating pressure on things around it. The discovery helped bring Torricelli to the following conclusion: We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight. This test was essentially the first documented pressure gauge.

  4. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    where F is the gravitational force acting between two objects, m 1 and m 2 are the masses of the objects, r is the distance between the centers of their masses, and G is the gravitational constant. The first test of Newton's law of gravitation between masses in the laboratory was the Cavendish experiment conducted by the British scientist Henry ...

  5. Pressure-gradient force - Wikipedia

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    In fluid mechanics, the pressure-gradient force is the force that results when there is a difference in pressure across a surface. In general, a pressure is a force per unit area across a surface. A difference in pressure across a surface then implies a difference in force, which can result in an acceleration according to Newton's second law of ...

  6. Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity - Wikipedia

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    An asymptotically safe theory is thus the more predictive the smaller is the dimensionality of the corresponding UV critical surface. For instance, if the UV critical surface has the finite dimension n {\displaystyle n} it is sufficient to perform only n {\displaystyle n} measurements in order to uniquely identify Nature's RG trajectory.

  7. Thermal contact conductance - Wikipedia

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    Thermal contact resistance is significant and may dominate for good heat conductors such as metals but can be neglected for poor heat conductors such as insulators. [2] Thermal contact conductance is an important factor in a variety of applications, largely because many physical systems contain a mechanical combination of two materials.

  8. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    In this case the field is gravity, so Φ = −ρ f gz where g is the gravitational acceleration, ρ f is the mass density of the fluid. Taking the pressure as zero at the surface, where z is zero, the constant will be zero, so the pressure inside the fluid, when it is subject to gravity, is =.

  9. Fermi gas - Wikipedia

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    This pressure is known as the degeneracy pressure. In this sense, systems composed of fermions are also referred as degenerate matter . Standard stars avoid collapse by balancing thermal pressure ( plasma and radiation) against gravitational forces.