Radioactivity is the random and spontaneous breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei involving the emission of alpha, beta or gamma...

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Electric charge is an intrinsic property of matter carried by some fundamental particles. Charge can take a positive or...

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The electrical conductance of a component in an electric circuit is a property of a component that describes how the electric...

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The electrical conductivity of a material is an intrinsic, bulk property that, together with the spatial dimensions and shape...

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The electric current at a point in a circuit is defined as the rate of flow of charge past that point.

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All particles can show wave-like properties. The de Broglie wavelength of a particle indicates the length scale at which wave...

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For a particular decay mechanism, the radioactive decay constant for a nuclide is defined as the probability per unit time...

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Displacement is a vector quantity; it describes the difference in position between two points, measured from one to the other.

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An electric field exists in any region where a charged particle is subject to a force that depends only on the particle’s...

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The electrostatic potential at a point is often defined as the ratio between the work done in bringing a test charge from...

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The energy of a system that is completely isolated is a quantity that is conserved: it cannot change and is therefore useful...

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Forces arise from interactions between objects, or between an object and a field. There are just four distinct ways in which...

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