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    In electromagnetism, a dielectric (or dielectric medium) is an electrical insulator that can be polarised by an applied electric field. When a dielectric...
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    Polarization (also polarisation) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave...
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  • the direction of propagation. The term linear polarization (French: polarisation rectiligne) was coined by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822. See polarization...
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    Optics (category Electromagnetic radiation)
    Polarisation is a general property of waves that describes the orientation of their oscillations. For transverse waves such as many electromagnetic waves...
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  • Polarization (redirect from Polarisation)
    up polarization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polarization or polarisation may refer to: Polarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics...
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    different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics" where the...
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    waveguides which direct light, and radio-frequency waveguides which direct electromagnetic waves other than light like radio waves. Without the physical constraint...
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    contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism...
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    exist. Electromagnetism is the only long-range force in the Standard Model. It is mediated by photons and couples to electric charge. Electromagnetism is...
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    d'Abbadia, 1916, p. 401. A. Fresnel, "Note sur le calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées" et seq., Annales de Chimie et...
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    In classical electromagnetism, polarization density (or electric polarization, or simply polarization) is the vector field that expresses the volumetric...
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    an electromagnetic wave, which is described by Maxwell's equations. Light waves incident on a material induce small oscillations of polarisation in the...
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    In electromagnetism, the absolute permittivity, often simply called permittivity and denoted by the Greek letter ε (epsilon), is a measure of the electric...
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  • density between the two media (unbounded current only, not coming from polarisation of the materials). Therefore, the tangential component of H is discontinuous...
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    electric and magnetic fields that constitute an electromagnetic wave, and the laws of electromagnetism, as shown below. The ratio of waves' electric field...
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  • mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be described as having right or left...
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  • words, the electric constant is scale dependent. In particular, for electromagnetism we can write the fine-structure constant as an effective momentum-transfer-dependent...
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    In classical electromagnetism, magnetization is the vector field that expresses the density of permanent or induced magnetic dipole moments in a magnetic...
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  • In electrodynamics, elliptical polarization is the polarization of electromagnetic radiation such that the tip of the electric field vector describes...
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    parameters are a set of values that describe the polarization state of electromagnetic radiation. They were defined by George Gabriel Stokes in 1852, as a...
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    coupling. While polarisation in laboratory lasers and masers may be achieved by selectively oscillating the desired modes, polarisation in natural masers...
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  • even in areas with high levels of electromagnetic noise in the vicinity of the probe. Furthermore, as the polarisation rotation due to the Pockels effect...
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    "magnet") is a dielectric material that has a quasi-permanent electrical polarisation. An electret has internal and external electric fields, and is the electrostatic...
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  • such as solid-state chemistry, quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics...
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    models used in classical electromagnetism, quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the Standard Model all view the electromagnetic vacuum as a linear system...
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  • In electromagnetism, the magnetic susceptibility (from Latin susceptibilis 'receptive'; denoted χ, chi) is a measure of how much a material will become...
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    The Versatile Ion polarisation Technique Online (VITO) experiment is a permanent experimental setup located in the ISOLDE facility at CERN, in the form...
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    applied the dipoles are forced to align and polarisation is created, when the electric field is removed polarisation remains. The hysteresis loop depends on...
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    research. Bose, Jagadish Chunder (1898-01-01). "On the Rotation of Plane of Polarisation of Electric Waves by a Twisted Structure". Proceedings of the Royal Society...
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    Birefringence Geometric phase Polarization Chirality (chemistry) Chirality (electromagnetism) Polarization rotator Hyper Rayleigh Scattering Optical Activity Raman...
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