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- Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
- Biot-Savart's law [r]: Gives the magnetic field at some distance of an electric current-carrying wire. [e]
- Black hole [r]: Area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light. [e]
- Christiaan Huygens [r]: (14 April 1629 - 8 June 1695) an internationally renowned Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer. [e]
- Displacement current [r]: Time derivative of the electric displacement D; Maxwell's correction to Ampère's law. [e]
- Electric constant [r]: The permittivity of empty space, equal to 1 in centimeter-gram-second electrostatic units and to 107/4πc2 farads per meter or, numerically, to 8.854 × 10-12 farad per meter in International System units. [e]
- Electric field [r]: force acting on an electric charge—a vector field. [e]
- Electromagnetic radiation [r]: a collection of electromagnetic waves, usually of different wavelengths. [e]
- Electromagnetic spectrum [r]: The range of electromagnetic waves covering all frequencies and wavelengths. [e]
- Electromagnetic wave [r]: a change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
- Ether (physics) [r]: Medium that can carry electromagnetic waves (obsolete) [e]
- Frequency [r]: For a periodic (i.e., repeating) phenomena, the number of repetitions per unit of time, usually one second; measured in Hertz [e]
- Gaussian units [r]: A centimeter-gram-second system of units often used in electrodynamics and special relativity. [e]
- Gravitational lens [r]: A lens formed when light from a very distant, bright source (such as a quasar) is 'bent' around a massive object (such as a cluster of galaxies) between the source object and the observer. [e]
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [r]: Dutch theoretical physicist (1853 - 1928) [e]
- James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
- Joule [r]: The SI unit of energy (symbol: J) which is a measure of the capacity to do work or generate heat. [e]
- Lambert W function [r]: Used to solve equations in which the unknown appears both outside and inside an exponential function or a logarithm. [e]
- Laser rangefinder [r]: A device, analogous to radar but using light rather than radio waves, which measures the distance to an object of interest. [e]
- Light day [r]: Distance that light travels in a vacuum in one day; 1 light day = 25,902,068,371,200 m = 2.5902067 * 1013m. [e]
- Light hour [r]: Distance that the light travels in vacuum in one hour, 1.0792528 * 1012m [e]
- Light minute [r]: Distance that light travels in vacuum in one minute; 17,987,547,480 m = 1.7987547 * 1010m. [e]
- Light second [r]: Distance that light travels in vacuum in one second; 2.99792458 * 108m. [e]
- Lightning [r]: An atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. [e]
- Lorentz force [r]: Force on an electrically charged particle that moves through a magnetic and an electric field. [e]
- Magnetic constant [r]: Is proportionality factor in Ampère's equation which relates mechanical force and electric current. [e]
- Mass [r]: The total amount of a substance, or alternatively, the total energy of a substance. [e]
- Maxwell equations [r]: Mathematical equations describing the interrelationship between electric and magnetic fields; dependence of the fields on electric charge- and current- densities. [e]
- Metre (unit) [r]: Unit of length; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Momentum [r]: mass of a particle times its velocity (a vector). [e]
- Number [r]: One of the fundamental concepts of mathematics, used for such purposes as counting, ordering, and measuring. [e]
- Oersted (unit) [r]: Unit of magnetic-field strength |H| in the Gaussian system of units; symbol Oe; 1 Oe = 1000/4π A⋅turn/m. [e]
- Photon [r]: elementary particle with zero rest mass and unit spin associated with the electromagnetic field. [e]
- Polarizability [r]: The ease by which a charge-distribution polarizes; describes the amount of charge separation caused by an electric field. [e]
- R-hadron [r]: Hypothetical particles composed by a Supersymmetric particle and at least one quark. [e]
- Radiation [r]: Transmission of energy through space. [e]
- Second [r]: Unit of time; one of the seven SI base units. [e]
- Special relativity [r]: Theory of space and time, based on the postulates that all the laws of physics are equally valid in all frames of reference moving at a uniform velocity and that the speed of light from a uniformly moving source is always the same, regardless of how fast or slow the source or its observer is moving. [e]
- Statcoulomb [r]: Unit of electric charge in cgs-esu units: 1 statC = C/(10⋅c), with c the speed of light in m/s. [e]
- Statvolt [r]: Unit of electric voltage; symbol statV; 1 statV = 10−6×c volt; c speed of light in m/s. [e]
- Wavelength [r]: For a repeating phenomenon such as a radio signal with a given frequency, the wavelength is the length, in meters, of a single repetition [e]
