• In physical theories, a test particle, or test charge, is an idealized model of an object whose physical properties (usually mass, charge, or size) are...
    4 KB (711 words) - 15:46, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relativistic Lagrangian mechanics
    moving particle is different from non-relativistic mechanics. It is instructive to look at the total relativistic energy of a free test particle. An observer...
    36 KB (5,560 words) - 02:18, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnetic particle inspection
    Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) is a nondestructive testing process where a magnetic field is used for detecting surface, and shallow subsurface, discontinuities...
    18 KB (2,361 words) - 14:02, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Point particle
    A point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its...
    10 KB (1,049 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Higgs boson
    Higgs boson (redirect from Higgs particle)
    Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...
    241 KB (26,393 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravitational field
    The field around multiple particles is simply the vector sum of the fields around each individual particle. A test particle in such a field will experience...
    11 KB (1,303 words) - 00:38, 16 June 2024
  • general relativity, Schwarzschild geodesics describe the motion of test particles in the gravitational field of a central fixed mass M , {\textstyle M...
    65 KB (12,016 words) - 12:52, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for English phrasal verbs
    constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition...
    25 KB (3,101 words) - 22:12, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spacetime
    the test particle should not be attracted towards either stream.: 245–253  It is not at all clear that the forces exerted on the test particle are equal...
    173 KB (24,123 words) - 14:04, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isotropy
    and an isotropic field exerts the same action regardless of how the test particle is oriented. Within mathematics, isotropy has a few different meanings:...
    10 KB (1,245 words) - 09:56, 23 June 2024
  • assumes that one of the inner binary's components, the secondary, is a test particle – an idealized point-like object with negligible mass compared to the...
    27 KB (3,176 words) - 16:22, 20 August 2024
  • test particles, the result of transporting spacetime vectors that can denote a particle's velocity (time-like vectors) will vary with the particle's trajectory;...
    193 KB (22,618 words) - 09:35, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Field (physics)
    framework of the quantum field theory, even without referring to a test particle, a field occupies space, contains energy, and its presence precludes...
    33 KB (3,987 words) - 12:01, 22 July 2024
  • the ISCO) is the smallest marginally stable circular orbit in which a test particle can stably orbit a massive object in general relativity. The location...
    8 KB (1,347 words) - 23:12, 21 June 2024
  • Wave-particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that quantum entities exhibit particle or wave properties according to the experimental circumstances...
    29 KB (3,085 words) - 11:28, 17 August 2024
  • motion for a test particle in Kerr spacetime are integrable. Using these constants of motion, the trajectory equations for a test particle can be written...
    52 KB (6,603 words) - 20:40, 17 August 2024
  • \end{aligned}}} Given the Christoffel symbols, one can compute the geodesics of a test-particle. Instead of working in the holonomic basis, one can perform efficient...
    18 KB (3,383 words) - 17:03, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay
    The Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay (also called TPPA test) is an indirect agglutination assay used for detection and titration of antibodies...
    4 KB (494 words) - 12:52, 31 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Introduction to general relativity
    a test particle moves along a straight line at a constant speed. In the language of spacetime, this is equivalent to saying that such test particles move...
    72 KB (9,133 words) - 07:03, 22 June 2024
  • In performing a test, laboratory clinicians will mix a patient's cerebrospinal fluid, serum or urine with the coated latex particles in serial dilutions...
    3 KB (330 words) - 08:24, 16 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brownian motion
    motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside...
    55 KB (7,130 words) - 20:16, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Equivalence principle
    non-gravitational forces." "... in a gravitational field the acceleration of a test particle is independent of its properties, including its rest mass." Mass (measured...
    49 KB (5,557 words) - 20:30, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravitoelectromagnetism
    Gravitoelectromagnetism (category Tests of general relativity)
    GEM is valid only far from isolated sources, and for slowly moving test particles. The analogy and equations differing only by some small factors were...
    29 KB (3,461 words) - 18:19, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coulomb's law
    When no acceleration is involved in a particle's history, Coulomb's law can be assumed on any test particle in its own inertial frame, supported by...
    42 KB (6,758 words) - 08:56, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hill sphere
    and that the test particle is orbiting at a distance r H {\displaystyle r_{\mathrm {H} }} from the secondary. When the test particle is on the line...
    26 KB (2,936 words) - 13:41, 11 August 2024
  • the throat. There being no gravity in force, an inertial observer (test particle) can sit forever at rest at any point in space, but if set in motion...
    14 KB (2,385 words) - 03:22, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jacobi integral
    m1, m2 and the gravitational constant G r1, r2 are distances of the test particle from the two masses Note that the Jacobi integral is minus twice the...
    5 KB (770 words) - 18:40, 16 July 2024
  • field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre...
    5 KB (675 words) - 18:42, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Particle physics
    Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...
    41 KB (4,197 words) - 02:17, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beta particle
    A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay...
    14 KB (1,515 words) - 10:29, 25 June 2024