A purely speculative particle, which is presumed to travel faster than light. According to Einstein's equations of special relativity, a particle with an imaginary rest mass and a velocity greater than c would have a real momentum and energy. Ironically, the greater the kinetic energy of a tachyon, the slower it travels, approaching c asy [..]

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A famous experiment which shows the wave nature of light (and indeed of other particles). Light is passed from a small source onto an opaque screen with two thin slits. The light is diffracted through these slits and develops an interference pattern on the other side of the screen. Navigation. Erik Max Francis -- TOP      Welcome to my homepage [..]

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The constant of the Wien displacement law. It has the value 2.897 756 x 10-3 m K.

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A characteristic constant dependent on the material, used in calculating the susceptibility of paramagnetic materials. See Curie-Weiss law.

The principle of quantum mechanics which implies that light (and, indeed, all other subatomic particles) sometimes act like a wave, and sometime act like a particle, depending on the experiment you are performing. For instance, low frequency electromagnetic radiation tends to act more like a wave than a particle; high frequency electromagnetic [..]

The idea within general relativity that the worldline of a freefalling body is independent of its composition, structure, or state. This principle, embraced by Newtonian mechanics and gravitation when Newton set the inertial and gravitational masses equal to each other. This principle is incorporated into a stronger version with the equivalenc [..]