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Material physics
Material physics is the use of physics to describe materials in many different ways. It covers a number of related fields such as chemistry, solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, condensed matter, solid state physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics, and thermodynamics.
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Material physics
de Boer parameter
Materials science; Material physics
Parameter which expresses the importance of quantum mechanical effects in a liquid, especially one of the inert elements. The parameter is approximately the square root of the ratio of the ...
exchange energy
Materials science; Material physics
Part of the energy of a system of many electrons (or any other type of fermion) that depends on the total spin of the system. So called because the total spin determines the symmetry of the spatial ...
laser wakefield accelerator
Materials science; Material physics
Particle accelerator that uses an intense short pulse of laser light to excite plasma oscillations that are used to accelerate charged particles to high energy.
Coulomb collision
Materials science; Material physics
Particle collisions where the Coulomb force (electrical-force attraction or repulsion) is the governing force that results in deflection of the particles away from their initial paths.
anomalous plasma diffusion
Materials science; Material physics
Particle or heat diffusion in a plasma that is larger than what was predicted from theoretical predictions of classical plasma phenomenon. Classical diffusion and neo-classical diffusion are the two ...
viscous diffusion
Materials science; Material physics
Penetration of the effects of motion in a viscous fluid where the boundary layer grows outward from the surface. Near the surface, fluid parcels are accelerated by an imbalance of shear forces. As ...
toroidal pinch
Materials science; Material physics
Perhaps the earliest proposed magnetic confinement fusion scheme (Thomson and Blackman, 1946, in the UK), this is a toroidal variant of the Z pinch, in which a transformer primary drives a rapidly ...
