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  2. Energy–momentum relation - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called relativistic energy) to invariant mass (which is also called rest mass) and momentum. It is the extension of mass–energy equivalence for bodies or systems with non-zero momentum.

  3. Threshold energy - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, since momentum is also conserved, the threshold energy is significantly greater than the rest energy of the desired particle. The threshold energy should not be confused with the threshold displacement energy , which is the minimum energy needed to permanently displace an atom in a crystal to produce a crystal defect in radiation ...

  4. Internal energy - Wikipedia

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    The internal energy of a thermodynamic system is the energy of the system as a state function, measured as the quantity of energy necessary to bring the system from its standard internal state to its present internal state of interest, accounting for the gains and losses of energy due to changes in its internal state, including such quantities as magnetization.

  5. Mass–energy equivalence - Wikipedia

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    Mass near the M87* black hole is converted into a very energetic astrophysical jet, stretching five thousand light years. In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system's rest frame, where the two quantities differ only by a multiplicative constant and the units of measurement.

  6. Partition function (statistical mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    In the case of degenerate energy levels, we can write the partition function in terms of the contribution from energy levels (indexed by j) as follows: =, where g j is the degeneracy factor, or number of quantum states s that have the same energy level defined by E j = E s.

  7. Degenerate energy levels - Wikipedia

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    In quantum mechanics, an energy level is degenerate if it corresponds to two or more different measurable states of a quantum system.Conversely, two or more different states of a quantum mechanical system are said to be degenerate if they give the same value of energy upon measurement.

  8. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    In physics, specifically classical mechanics, the three-body problem is to take the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses that orbit each other in space and calculate their subsequent trajectories using Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation.

  9. Principle of minimum energy - Wikipedia

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    The principle of minimum energy is essentially a restatement of the second law of thermodynamics. It states that for a closed system, with constant external parameters and entropy, the internal energy will decrease and approach a minimum value at equilibrium. External parameters generally means the volume, but may include other parameters which ...