Physics definitions G485

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Electric field strength
The electric field strength at a point is the force per unit charge exerted on a positive charge placed at that point.
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Coulomb's law
Any two point charges exert an electrical force on each other that is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of their separation.
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Magnetic flux density
The magnetic flux density is 1T when a wire carrying a current of 1A is placed at right angles to the magnetic field and experiences a force of 1N per metre of its length.
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Faraday's law
The magnitude of the induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linkage.
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Lenz's law
Any induced current or emf will be established in a direction so as to produce effects which oppose the change that is producing it.
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Capacitance
The capacitance of a capacitor is the charge stored per unit potential difference across it.
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Work done
The work done is proportional tot the product of potential difference and charge.
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Isotope
Isotopes are nuclei of the same element with a different number of neutrons but the same number of protons.
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Mass defect
The mass defect of a nucleus is equal to the difference between the total mass of the individual, separate nucleons and the mass of the nucleus.
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Binding energy
The minimum energy needed to pull a nucleus apart into its separate nucleons.
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Decay constant
The probability that an individual nucleus will decay per unit time interval.
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Activity
The activity of a radioactive sample is the rate at which nuclei decay or disintegrate.
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Half-life
The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the mean time taken for half of the active sample to decay.
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Intensity
The power per unit cross-sectional area.
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Astronomical unit
The average distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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Light year
The distance travelled by light through a vacuum in one year.
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Arc second
1/3600 degrees
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Parsec
The distance that give a parallax angle of 1 arc second.
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Olbers' paradox
For an infinite, uniform and static universe, the night sky should be bright because of light in all directions from stars.
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Any two point charges exert an electrical force on each other that is proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of their separation.

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Coulomb's law

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The magnetic flux density is 1T when a wire carrying a current of 1A is placed at right angles to the magnetic field and experiences a force of 1N per metre of its length.

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The magnitude of the induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linkage.

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Any induced current or emf will be established in a direction so as to produce effects which oppose the change that is producing it.

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