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  2. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    Energy per unit temperature change J/K L 2 M T −2 Θ −1: extensive Heat flux density: ϕ Q: Heat flow per unit time per unit surface area W/m 2: M T −3: Illuminance: E v: Wavelength-weighted luminous flux per unit surface area lux (lx = cd⋅sr/m 2) L −2 J: Impedance: Z: Resistance to an alternating current of a given frequency ...

  3. Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    For a body consisting of 2 particles (ex. a diatomic molecule) in a 3-D space with constant distance between them (let's say d) we can show (below) its degrees of freedom to be 5. Let's say one particle in this body has coordinate ( x 1 , y 1 , z 1 ) and the other has coordinate ( x 2 , y 2 , z 2 ) with z 2 unknown.

  4. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The angstrom (symbol Å) is a unit of distance used in chemistry and atomic physics equal to 100 pm. The micron (μ) is a unit of distance equal to one micrometre (1 μm). The basic module (M) is a unit of distance equal to one hundred millimetres (100 mm). The myriametre (mym) is a unit of distance equal to ten kilometres (10 km).

  5. List of international units - Wikipedia

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    In SI base units In other SI units SI: Physics: Basic: second [n 1] s: T: time: The duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. s: SI: Physics: Basic: metre: m: L: length: The distance travelled by light in vacuum in ⁠ 1 / 299 ...

  6. List of physical constants - Wikipedia

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    These include the Boltzmann constant, which gives the correspondence of the dimension temperature to the dimension of energy per degree of freedom, and the Avogadro constant, which gives the correspondence of the dimension of amount of substance with the dimension of count of entities (the latter formally regarded in the SI as being dimensionless).

  7. Degrees of freedom (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    The position of a single railcar (engine) moving along a track has one degree of freedom because the position of the car is defined by the distance along the track. A train of rigid cars connected by hinges to an engine still has only one degree of freedom because the positions of the cars behind the engine are constrained by the shape of the ...

  8. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The light-nanosecond is defined as exactly 29.9792458 cm. It was popularized in information technology as a unit of distance by Grace Hopper as the distance which a photon could travel in one billionth of a second (roughly 30 cm or one foot): "The speed of light is one foot per nanosecond." [6] [7]

  9. Degrees of freedom - Wikipedia

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    In many scientific fields, the degrees of freedom of a system is the number of parameters of the system that may vary independently. For example, a point in the plane has two degrees of freedom for translation : its two coordinates ; a non-infinitesimal object on the plane might have additional degrees of freedoms related to its orientation .