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  2. Transverse wave - Wikipedia

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    The same equation describes a plane linearly polarized sinusoidal light wave, except that the "displacement" S(, t) is the electric field at point and time t. (The magnetic field will be described by the same equation, but with a "displacement" direction that is perpendicular to both d ^ {\displaystyle {\widehat {d}}} and u ^ {\displaystyle ...

  3. Bessel function - Wikipedia

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    Bessel's equation arises when finding separable solutions to Laplace's equation and the Helmholtz equation in cylindrical or spherical coordinates.Bessel functions are therefore especially important for many problems of wave propagation and static potentials.

  4. Gibbs free energy - Wikipedia

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    This is one form of the Gibbs fundamental equation. [10] In the infinitesimal expression, the term involving the chemical potential accounts for changes in Gibbs free energy resulting from an influx or outflux of particles. In other words, it holds for an open system or for a closed, chemically reacting system where the N i are changing. For a ...

  5. Damping - Wikipedia

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    A damped sine wave or damped sinusoid is a sinusoidal function whose amplitude approaches zero as time increases. It corresponds to the underdamped case of damped second-order systems, or underdamped second-order differential equations. [ 6 ]

  6. Electromagnetic radiation - Wikipedia

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    Both differential equations have the form of the general wave equation for waves propagating with speed , where is a function of time and location, which gives the amplitude of the wave at some time at a certain location: = This is also written as: = where denotes the so-called d'Alembert operator, which in Cartesian coordinates is given as

  7. Thermal conductivity and resistivity - Wikipedia

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    At higher temperatures (10 K < T < Θ), the conservation of energy = + and quasimomentum = + +, where q 1 is wave vector of the incident phonon and q 2, q 3 are wave vectors of the resultant phonons, may also involve a reciprocal lattice vector G complicating the energy transport process. These processes can also reverse the direction of energy ...

  8. Photon - Wikipedia

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    However, the probability of detecting a photon is calculated by equations that describe waves. This combination of aspects is known as wave–particle duality. For example, the probability distribution for the location at which a photon might be detected displays clearly wave-like phenomena such as diffraction and interference.

  9. dBm - Wikipedia

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    1.5 kW is the maximum legal power output of a US ham radio station. [12] 60 dBm: 1 kW = 1,000 W: Typical combined radiated RF power of microwave oven elements 55 dBm ~300 W: Typical single-channel RF output power of a K u band geostationary satellite: 50 dBm: 100 W: Typical total thermal radiation emitted by a human body, peak at 31.5 THz (9.5 μm)