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  2. Inverse-square law - Wikipedia

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    The divergence of a vector field which is the resultant of radial inverse-square law fields with respect to one or more sources is proportional to the strength of the local sources, and hence zero outside sources. Newton's law of universal gravitation follows an inverse-square law, as do the effects of electric, light, sound, and radiation ...

  3. Percentage depth dose curve - Wikipedia

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    PDD increases with increasing radiation field size due to greater primary and scattered photons from the irradiated medium; PDD increases with increasing SSD because inverse square variations over a fixed distance interval are smaller at large total distance than small total distance [1]

  4. Radiant intensity - Wikipedia

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    Radiant intensity is used to characterize the emission of radiation by an antenna: [2], = (), where E e is the irradiance of the antenna;; r is the distance from the antenna.; Unlike power density, radiant intensity does not depend on distance: because radiant intensity is defined as the power through a solid angle, the decreasing power density over distance due to the inverse-square law is ...

  5. Free-space path loss - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, the free-space path loss (FSPL) (also known as free-space loss, FSL) is the attenuation of radio energy between the feedpoints of two antennas that results from the combination of the receiving antenna's capture area plus the obstacle-free, line-of-sight (LoS) path through free space (usually air). [1]

  6. De motu corporum in gyrum - Wikipedia

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    Problem 4 then explores, for the case of an inverse-square law of centripetal force, how to determine the orbital ellipse for a given starting position, speed, and direction of the orbiting body. Newton points out here, that if the speed is high enough, the orbit is no longer an ellipse, but is instead a parabola or hyperbola .

  7. Industrial radiography - Wikipedia

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    The further a person is from a radioactive source the lower the level of radiation they receive, this is largely due to the inverse square law. Lastly the more a radioactive source is shielded by either better or greater amounts of shielding the lower the levels of radiation that will escape from the testing area.

  8. Earnshaw's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Earnshaw's theorem applies to classical inverse-square law forces (electric and gravitational) and also to the magnetic forces of permanent magnets, if the magnets are hard (the magnets do not vary in strength with external fields).

  9. Intensity (physics) - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of the inverse-square law. Applying the law of conservation of energy, if the net power emanating is constant, =, where P is the net power radiated; I is the intensity vector as a function of position; the magnitude | I | is the intensity as a function of position;