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  2. Envelope (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Envelope (mathematics) Construction of the envelope of a family of curves. In geometry, an envelope of a planar family of curves is a curve that is tangent to each member of the family at some point, and these points of tangency together form the whole envelope. Classically, a point on the envelope can be thought of as the intersection of two ...

  3. Flory–Huggins solution theory - Wikipedia

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    Mixture of polymers and solvent on a lattice. Flory–Huggins solution theory is a lattice model of the thermodynamics of polymer solutions which takes account of the great dissimilarity in molecular sizes in adapting the usual expression for the entropy of mixing. The result is an equation for the Gibbs free energy change for mixing a polymer ...

  4. Phase diagram - Wikipedia

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    The phase diagram shows, in pressure–temperature space, the lines of equilibrium or phase boundaries between the three phases of solid, liquid, and gas. The curves on the phase diagram show the points where the free energy (and other derived properties) becomes non-analytic: their derivatives with respect to the coordinates (temperature and ...

  5. WKB approximation - Wikipedia

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    Formulation. [edit] Generally, WKB theory is a method for approximating the solution of a differential equation whose highest derivative is multiplied by a small parameterε. The method of approximation is as follows. For a differential equation assume a solution of the form of an asymptotic series expansion in the limit δ → 0.

  6. Slowly varying envelope approximation - Wikipedia

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    In physics, slowly varying envelope approximation[1] (SVEA, sometimes also called slowly varying asymmetric approximation or SVAA) is the assumption that the envelope of a forward-travelling wave pulse varies slowly in time and space compared to a period or wavelength. This requires the spectrum of the signal to be narrow-banded —hence it is ...

  7. Liquid junction potential - Wikipedia

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    Liquid junction potential (shortly LJP) occurs when two solutions of electrolytes of different concentrations are in contact with each other. The more concentrated solution will have a tendency to diffuse into the comparatively less concentrated one. The rate of diffusion of each ion will be roughly proportional to its speed in an electric ...

  8. Ion transport number - Wikipedia

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    Ion transport number. In chemistry, ion transport number, also called the transference number, is the fraction of the total electric current carried in an electrolyte by a given ionic species i: [1] Differences in transport number arise from differences in electrical mobility. For example, in an aqueous solution of sodium chloride, less than ...

  9. Singular solution - Wikipedia

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    A singular solution in this stronger sense is often given as tangent to every solution from a family of solutions. By tangent we mean that there is a point x where y s (x) = y c (x) and y' s (x) = y' c (x) where y c is a solution in a family of solutions parameterized by c. This means that the singular solution is the envelope of the family of ...