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    Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental...
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  • electrical circuits. They were first described in 1845 by German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. This generalized the work of Georg Ohm and preceded the work of James...
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  • Kirchhoff's laws, named after Gustav Kirchhoff, may refer to: Kirchhoff's circuit laws in electrical engineering Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation Kirchhoff...
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    approximation for the energy they emit. The term black body was introduced by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860. Blackbody radiation is also called thermal radiation, cavity...
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  • Ulrich Kirchhoff (born 1967), German show jumper 10358 Kirchhoff, a main-belt asteroid Kirchhoff (crater), the lunar crater named for Gustav Kirchhoff Kirchhoff...
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    In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic...
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  • case of finite deformations, the Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensors (named for Gabrio Piola and Gustav Kirchhoff) express the stress relative to the reference...
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    1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff. Bunsen also developed several...
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  • mathematical field of graph theory, Kirchhoff's theorem or Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem named after Gustav Kirchhoff is a theorem about the number of...
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    wavelengths. Gustav Kirchhoff was Max Planck's teacher and surmised that there was a universal law for blackbody radiation and this was called "Kirchhoff's challenge"...
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    The Kirchhoff–Love theory of plates is a two-dimensional mathematical model that is used to determine the stresses and deformations in thin plates subjected...
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  • In fluid dynamics, the Kirchhoff equations, named after Gustav Kirchhoff, describe the motion of a rigid body in an ideal fluid. d d t ∂ T ∂ ω = ∂ T ∂...
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    the estimated age of the universe. German chemists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered rubidium in 1861 by the newly developed technique, flame...
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  • and dark red was observed in spectral emissions by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, leading to the discovery of two alkali metals, caesium (sky-blue)...
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    about 260 picometers. The German chemist Robert Bunsen and physicist Gustav Kirchhoff discovered caesium in 1860 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy...
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    of resistivity ρ (rho). This reformulation of Ohm's law is due to Gustav Kirchhoff. In January 1781, before Georg Ohm's work, Henry Cavendish experimented...
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    independent observation of the Balmer lines of hydrogen. By 1859, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen noticed that several Fraunhofer lines (lines in the...
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  • The Kirchhoff stress ( τ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\tau }}} ). The nominal stress ( N {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {N}}} ). The Piola–Kirchhoff stress...
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  • Kirchhoff's diffraction formula (also called Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction formula) approximates light intensity and phase in optical diffraction: light...
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    sunlight can detect many thousands of lines. About 45 years later, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen noticed that several Fraunhofer lines coincide with...
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    Heidelberg working with Robert Bunsen and Leo Königsberger and in 1871 with Gustav Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz in Berlin. In 1873 Boltzmann joined the University...
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    psychology Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934), German right-wing politician in Bavaria Gustaf Kalliokangas (1873–1940), Finnish president Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887)...
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    Kirchhoff is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Montes Taurus range. It was named after German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff...
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  • Kirchhoff's integral theorem (sometimes referred to as the Fresnel–Kirchhoff integral theorem) is a surface integral to obtain the value of the solution...
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    through K and weaker lines with other letters. About 45 years later, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen noticed that several Fraunhofer lines coincide with...
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    Berlin for a year of study with physicists Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff and mathematician Karl Weierstrass. He wrote that Helmholtz was never...
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    analysis was flame emissive spectrometry developed by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff who discovered rubidium (Rb) and caesium (Cs) in 1860. Most of the...
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  • equilibrium with the radiant energy within the cavity. First proposed by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860 and used in the study of black-body radiation (hohlraumstrahlung)...
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    electromagnetic energy. The idea of a black body originally was introduced by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860 as follows: ...the supposition that bodies can be imagined...
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    Spectroscopy (category Gustav Kirchhoff)
    elemental composition. After inventing the spectroscope, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered new elements by observing their emission spectra. Atomic...
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