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  2. Radiation pressure - Wikipedia

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    As the radiation pressure scales as the fourth power of the temperature, it becomes important at these high temperatures. In the Sun, radiation pressure is still quite small when compared to the gas pressure. In the heaviest non-degenerate stars, radiation pressure is the dominant pressure component. [25]

  3. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    Pressure gradient: Pressure per unit distance pascal/m L −2 M 1 T −2: vector Temperature gradient: steepest rate of temperature change at a particular location K/m L −1 Θ: vector Torque: τ: Product of a force and the perpendicular distance of the force from the point about which it is exerted

  4. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

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    [3]: 66n, 541 (This is a trivial conclusion, since the emissivity, , is defined to be the quantity that makes this equation valid. What is non-trivial is the proposition that ε ≤ 1 {\displaystyle \varepsilon \leq 1} , which is a consequence of Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation .

  5. Poynting vector - Wikipedia

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    The results can then be applied more generally, for instance, by representing incoherent radiation as a superposition of such waves at different frequencies and with fluctuating amplitudes. We would thus not be considering the instantaneous E ( t ) and H ( t ) used above, but rather a complex (vector) amplitude for each which describes a ...

  6. Photon gas - Wikipedia

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    In physics, a photon gas is a gas-like collection of photons, which has many of the same properties of a conventional gas like hydrogen or neon – including pressure, temperature, and entropy. The most common example of a photon gas in equilibrium is the black-body radiation .

  7. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    Name Standard symbol Definition Named after Field of application Activity coefficient = chemistry (Proportion of "active" molecules or atoms) : Arrhenius number = Svante Arrhenius

  8. Planck's law - Wikipedia

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    In 1916, Albert Einstein applied this principle on an atomic level to the case of an atom radiating and absorbing radiation due to transitions between two particular energy levels, [34] giving a deeper insight into the equation of radiative transfer and Kirchhoff's law for this type of radiation.

  9. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    The first Friedmann equation is often seen in terms of the present values of the density parameters, that is [7] =, +, +, +,. Here Ω 0,R is the radiation density today (when a = 1 ), Ω 0,M is the matter ( dark plus baryonic ) density today, Ω 0, k = 1 − Ω 0 is the "spatial curvature density" today, and Ω 0,Λ is the cosmological constant ...