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    science, an inverse-square law is any scientific law stating that the observed "intensity" of a specified physical quantity is inversely proportional...
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    Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically...
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  • that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. Separated objects...
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  • history of the inverse square law is that "by the late 1670s", the assumption of an "inverse proportion between gravity and the square of distance was...
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    second law is not special to the inverse square law of gravitation, being a consequence just of the radial nature of that law, whereas the other laws do depend...
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  • {\displaystyle I(r)\propto {\frac {1}{r^{2}}}.} This relationship is an inverse-square law. Sound intensity level (SIL) or acoustic intensity level is the level...
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  • {\displaystyle m} , and suppose the two bodies interact via a central, inverse-square law force (such as gravitation). In polar coordinates, the orbit equation...
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  • Free fall (redirect from Law of free fall)
    PMID 39021019. Foong, S K (2008). "From Moon-fall to motions under inverse square laws". European Journal of Physics. 29 (5): 987–1003. Bibcode:2008EJPh...
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    inverse-square law can be formulated in a way similar to Gauss's law: for example, Gauss's law itself is essentially equivalent to the Coulomb's law,...
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  • The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) is a fictional rogue computer operator created by Simon Travaglia, who takes out his anger on users (who are "lusers"...
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    satellites. The book: shows how astronomical observations verify the inverse square law of gravitation (to an accuracy that was high by the standards of Newton's...
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  • pun on inverse-square law, a term and concept from physics. The law states that: "The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the...
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  • Gauss's law (in electrostatics), which follows from the inverse-square Coulomb's law, and Gauss's law for gravity, which follows from the inverse-square Newton's...
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    point source follows an inverse-square law in relation to the distance from its source. Like any ideal law, the inverse-square law approximates a measured...
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  • with the square of distance between the antennas because the radio waves spread out by the inverse square law and decreases with the square of the wavelength...
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    PROPORTION (∺) Linear map Correlation Eudoxus of Cnidus Golden ratio Inverse-square law Proportional font Ratio Rule of three (mathematics) Sample size Similarity...
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    heat as energy. In physics, Hooke inferred that gravity obeys an inverse square law and arguably was the first to hypothesise such a relation in planetary...
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    a sphere is proportional to the square of its radius, a fact that is manifested physically by the inverse-square law describing how the strength of physical...
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  • masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Finding the shape of the orbits that an inverse-square force law will produce...
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    Gravity (redirect from Law of gravity)
    the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve." This statement was later condensed into the following inverse-square law: F...
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  • to decrease. It is thus an assertion that the mathematics of the inverse square law in physics can be applied to many geographic phenomena, and is one...
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  • radius r will be proportional to m / r 2 {\displaystyle m/r^{2}} (the inverse square law), so the overall gravitational effect is proportional to r 3 / r 2...
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    gravity, but through any other attractive scalar force field obeying an inverse-square law, with electrostatic attraction being the obvious physical example...
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    first law is the foundation of the fundamental concepts of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation and is utilized specifically for the inverse distance...
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    called the inverse-square law. This is in contrast to dipole parts of the EM field, the near field, which varies in intensity according to an inverse cube power...
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  • strong gravitational fields. The inverse square law behind the Kepler problem is the most important central force law.: 92  The Kepler problem is important...
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    inverse-distance squared, the reactive field by an inverse-cube law, resulting in a diminished power in the parts of the electric field by an inverse...
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    If two identical lamps are placed at A and B, the theorem and the inverse-square law imply that the light intensity at C is the same as when a single lamp...
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    three-dimensional space and their intensities would decrease according to the inverse square law. There are different types of waveguides for different types of waves...
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  • p_{2}={\frac {r_{1}}{r_{2}}}\,p_{1}.} The inverse-proportional law for sound pressure comes from the inverse-square law for sound intensity: I ( r ) ∝ 1 r 2...
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