The linear attenuation coefficient, attenuation coefficient, or narrow-beam attenuation coefficient characterizes how easily a volume of material can be...
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The mass attenuation coefficient, or mass narrow beam attenuation coefficient of a material is the attenuation coefficient normalized by the density of...
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absorption coefficient or molar attenuation coefficient (ε) is a measurement of how strongly a chemical species absorbs, and thereby attenuates, light at...
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attenuation is usually measured in units of decibels per unit length of medium (dB/cm, dB/km, etc.) and is represented by the attenuation coefficient...
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Beer–Lambert law states that the total attenuation can be obtained by integrating the attenuation coefficient over small slices dz of the beamline: A...
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Extinction coefficient refers to several different measures of the absorption of light in a medium: Attenuation coefficient, sometimes called "extinction...
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Optical depth (section Attenuation coefficient)
is the attenuation coefficient or Napierian attenuation coefficient of that material at z, and if α(z) is uniform along the path, the attenuation is said...
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of the scattering spectrum. Attenuation of light in deep biological tissue depends on the effective attenuation coefficient ( μ e f f {\displaystyle \mu...
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Absorbance (section Attenuation coefficient)
decadic attenuation coefficient of that material at z. If a(z) is uniform along the path, the attenuation is said to be a linear attenuation, and the...
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Propagation constant (redirect from Attenuation constant)
telecommunications, the term attenuation constant, also called attenuation parameter or attenuation coefficient, is the attenuation of an electromagnetic wave...
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the absorption and attenuation coefficients, respectively "Extinction" in astronomy, which is equivalent to the attenuation coefficient Other measures of...
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material- and energy-dependent. Beer's Law Mean free path Attenuation coefficient Attenuation (electromagnetic radiation) Radiation length S. Eidelman;...
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In acoustics, Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's...
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Transmittance (section Other radiometric coefficients)
the beam of light through the material sample. Attenuation cross section and molar attenuation coefficient are related by ε i = N A ln 10 σ i , {\displaystyle...
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effect can be quantified through the Stokes's law of sound attenuation. Sound attenuation may also be a result of heat conductivity in the media as has...
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attenuation coefficient, also called mass extinction coefficient, is the attenuation coefficient divided by density; see mass attenuation coefficient...
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Scattering (section Attenuation due to scattering)
many different concepts, including scattering cross section (σ), attenuation coefficients, the bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF), S-matrices...
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linear attenuation coefficient, μ/ρ is the mass attenuation coefficient and ρ is the density of the material. The mass attenuation coefficient can be...
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Reflectance (section Other radiometric coefficients)
Fresnel reflection coefficient, which is the ratio of the reflected to incident electric field; as such the reflection coefficient can be expressed as...
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μ {\displaystyle \mu } is the linear attenuation coefficient, which is the sum of the attenuation coefficients of the various contributions: μ = μ p...
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unit (HU) scale is a linear transformation of the original linear attenuation coefficient measurement into one in which the radiodensity of distilled water...
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minimum at 418 nm, at which wavelength the attenuation coefficient is about 0.0044 m−1, which is an attenuation length of about 227 meters. These values...
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"opacity" is another term for the mass attenuation coefficient (or, depending on context, mass absorption coefficient, the difference is described here) κ...
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attenuation of seismic energy in the Earth Attenuation (or verb attenuate) may also refer to: Attenuation (botany) Attenuation (brewing), the percent of sugar converted...
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\infty } this coefficient goes to 0 (perfect shielding). When μ r ≫ 1 {\displaystyle \mu _{\text{r}}\gg 1} , then the attenuation coefficient takes on the...
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Water clarity (section Light attenuation)
the beam attenuation. Beam attenuation is essentially the opposite of light transmission. Clearer water with a low beam attenuation coefficient will have...
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us. Attenuation in water, also called beam attenuation or the beam attenuation coefficient, is the sum of all absorption and scattering. Attenuation of...
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Thompson in a Wave Motion publication. In viscoelastic materials, the attenuation coefficients per length α ℓ {\displaystyle \ \alpha _{\ell }\ } for longitudinal...
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{\displaystyle \mu (x,y)} is the attenuation coefficient as a function of position. Therefore, generally the total attenuation p {\displaystyle p} of a ray...
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Flow velocity Luminosity (scattering theory) Linear attenuation coefficient Mass attenuation coefficient Neutron cross section Nuclear cross section Gamma...
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