In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (pl.: momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and...
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physics, angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum. It is an important...
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mechanics, the angular momentum operator is one of several related operators analogous to classical angular momentum. The angular momentum operator plays a...
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Stress–energy tensor (redirect from Energy-momentum tensor)
stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity that describes the density and flux of energy and momentum in spacetime...
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Impulse (physics) (redirect from Change in momentum)
by J or Imp) is the change in momentum of an object. If the initial momentum of an object is p1, and a subsequent momentum is p2, the object has received...
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Spin (physics) (redirect from Intrinsic angular momentum)
Spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms...
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up momentum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Momentum, or linear momentum, is a vector quantity in physics. Momentum may also refer to: Momentum (finance)...
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In quantum mechanics, the momentum operator is the operator associated with the linear momentum. The momentum operator is, in the position representation...
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relativity, four-momentum (also called momentum–energy or momenergy) is the generalization of the classical three-dimensional momentum to four-dimensional...
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Momentum Movement (Hungarian: Momentum Mozgalom, shortly Momentum) is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national...
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Momentum is a British left-wing political organisation which has been described as a grassroots movement supportive of the Labour Party; since January...
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Photon (redirect from Momentum of photon)
(the speed of light) and its energy and momentum are related by E = pc, where p is the magnitude of the momentum vector p. This derives from the following...
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Momentum diffusion most commonly refers to the diffusion, or spread of momentum between particles (atoms or molecules) of matter, often in the fluid state...
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Canonical coordinates (redirect from Canonical momentum)
Cartesian coordinates, and p i {\displaystyle p_{i}} to be the components of momentum. Hence in general, the p i {\displaystyle p_{i}} coordinates are referred...
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Population momentum is a consequence of the demographic transition. Population momentum explains why a population will continue to grow even if the fertility...
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total angular momentum quantum number parametrises the total angular momentum of a given particle, by combining its orbital angular momentum and its intrinsic...
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Momentum investing is a system of buying stocks or other securities that have had high returns over the past three to twelve months, and selling those...
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In special relativity, hidden momentum or hidden mechanical momentum is the mechanical momentum (mass times velocity) that is unaccounted for by Newtonian...
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In solid-state physics, crystal momentum or quasimomentum is a momentum-like vector associated with electrons in a crystal lattice. It is defined by the...
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Demographic momentum is the tendency for growing populations to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution. This...
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Recoil (section Physics: momentum, energy and impulse)
discharged. In technical terms, the recoil is a result of conservation of momentum, as according to Newton's third law the force required to accelerate something...
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Uncertainty principle (section Position-momentum)
with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In other words, the more accurately one property...
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In mathematics, specifically in symplectic geometry, the momentum map (or, by false etymology, moment map) is a tool associated with a Hamiltonian action...
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Spacetime (section Energy and momentum)
the four-momentum (also called 4-momentum) is also called the energy–momentum 4-vector. Using an uppercase P to represent the four-momentum and a lowercase...
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In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called...
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physics, the center-of-momentum frame (COM frame), also known as zero-momentum frame, is the inertial frame in which the total momentum of the system vanishes...
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Mass in special relativity (redirect from Relativistic energy–momentum relationship)
requires that the measurement be taken in the center of momentum frame where the system has no net momentum. Under such circumstances the invariant mass is equal...
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Reaction wheel (redirect from Momentum wheels)
control system. Satellites using this "momentum-bias" stabilization approach include SCISAT-1; by orienting the momentum wheel's axis to be parallel to the...
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In finance, momentum is the empirically observed tendency for rising asset prices or securities return to rise further, and falling prices to keep falling...
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Planck constant (redirect from Angular-momentum quantum)
matter wave equals the Planck constant divided by the associated particle momentum. The constant was postulated by Max Planck in 1900 as a proportionality...
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