physics, length scale is a particular length or distance determined with the precision of at most a few orders of magnitude. The concept of length scale is...
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The integral length scale measures the correlation distance of a process in terms of space or time. In essence, it looks at the overall memory of the process...
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Scale length may refer to: Length scale (or "scale length"), a significant concept in physics used to define the order of magnitude of a system Scale...
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The scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string...
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Planck units (redirect from Planck length)
Planck length. This is sometimes expressed by saying that "spacetime becomes a foam at the Planck scale". It is possible that the Planck length is the...
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The macroscopic scale is the length scale on which objects or phenomena are large enough to be visible with the naked eye, without magnifying optical...
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units of an inverse length squared, and by dimensional analysis leads to the definition of the characteristic length scale: Debye length λ D = ( ε k B T ∑...
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to classify and describe very small objects. One common microscopic length scale unit is the micrometre (also called a micron) (symbol: μm), which is...
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characteristic length scale for the eddies, which are also characterized by flow velocity scales and time scales (turnover time) dependent on the length scale. The...
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and T {\displaystyle T} is the absolute temperature in kelvins. This length scale arises naturally in discussions of electrostatic, electrodynamic and...
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physics, mathematics and statistics, scale invariance is a feature of objects or laws that do not change if scales of length, energy, or other variables, are...
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instrument measuring length or measuring angles, but in particular on a vernier caliper, which measures lengths of human-scale objects (including internal...
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In meteorology, the synoptic scale (also called the large scale or cyclonic scale) is a horizontal length scale of the order of 1,000 km (620 mi) or more...
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Kolmogorov microscales (redirect from Kolmogorov scale)
Typical values of the Kolmogorov length scale, for atmospheric motion in which the large eddies have length scales on the order of kilometers, range...
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The Fujita scale (F-Scale; /fuˈdʒiːtə/), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes...
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Taylor microscale (redirect from Taylor scale)
Taylor microscale, which is sometimes called the turbulence length scale, is a length scale used to characterize a turbulent fluid flow. This microscale...
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Classical electron radius (redirect from Thompson scattering length)
radius is a combination of fundamental physical quantities that define a length scale for problems involving an electron interacting with electromagnetic radiation...
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such as the size of the breasts, length of the penis, volume of the testes, and growth of pubic hair. This scale was first quantified in 1969 by James...
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the ratio of the molecular mean free path length to a representative physical length scale. This length scale could be, for example, the radius of a body...
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roughness lengths than tundra. The roughness length does not exactly correspond to any physical length; however, it can be considered as a length-scale representation...
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have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between...
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freedom to describe physical phenomena occurring at a chosen length scale or energy scale, while ignoring substructure and degrees of freedom at shorter...
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A scale ruler is a tool for measuring lengths and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length; two common examples are an architect's scale and...
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photon. It is also the appropriate length scale for describing high-energy electromagnetic cascades. The radiation length for a given material consisting...
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throughout the universe over length scales longer than 300 million light-years (ly) or so. However, over shorter length-scales, matter tends to clump hierarchically;...
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Femtometre (redirect from Fermi (length))
Italian naturalized to American physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. 1000000 zeptometres = 1 femtometre = 1 fermi = 0...
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determination of a length as a multiple of the fundamental length unit. Architect's scale Caliper Diagonal scale Engineer's scale Feeler gauge, used in...
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The characteristic energy length scale χ {\displaystyle \chi } describes the size of the region from which energy flows to a rapidly moving crack. If material...
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meteorology Synoptic scale meteorology Orders of magnitude (length) Scale (analytical tool) Scale (geography) Scale (map) Scale (ratio) "Scale". The Pennsylvania...
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flow near a wall where the wall-parallel length-scale of interest is much larger than the wall-normal length-scale of interest. Start with the EE. Assume...
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