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Materials science
The the study of matter and their applications in various areas of science and engineering.
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thermal reservoir
Materials science; Material physics
When one couples a quantum system to its environment, and that environment is in thermal equilibrium at some temperature, one can assume that the large system (the reservoir, or ...
dynamic similarity
Materials science; Material physics
When problems of similar geometry but varying dimensions have similar dimensionless solutions. See dimensional analysis.
degeneracy
Materials science; Material physics
When states with different quantum numbers have identical energy. One example are the Zeeman substates in an atom in the absence of a magnetic field. The degeneracy can be lifted ...
entrance region
Materials science; Material physics
When the flow in the entrance to a pipe is uniform, its central core, outside the developing boundary layer, is irrotational. However, the boundary layer will develop and grow in ...
entry length
Materials science; Material physics
When the flow in the entrance to a pipe is uniform, its central core, outside the developing boundary layer, is irrotational. However, the boundary layer will develop and grow in ...
nuclei.
Materials science; Material physics
When the incident energy is sufficiently high, one may treat the process as a single scattering of the incident nucleon from one nucleon in the nucleus; i.e., one keeps only the ...
fusion
Materials science; Material physics
When two nuclei coalesce into a larger nucleus, nuclear fusion has occurred. Nuclear fusion is usually associated with the combination of two deuterium atoms to form a helium atom ...
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