What is Centi?
In the metric system, Centi is a unit prefix denoting a factor of one hundredth. Adopted in 1795, comes from the Latin word
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What is Centre of Gravity?
In physics, the centre of gravity is an arbitrary location in a body of matter where the total weight of the body can be
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Sep
What is Centre of Mass? Differences with Centre of Gravity
In physics, the centre of mass distribution in space is the distinctive point where the weighted relative position of the
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Sep
What is Centripetal Force?
Centripetal force (Fc) is the force required by the body of mass m to hold in circular motion at a distance of R, from the
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What is Chain Reaction?
Chain reaction in physics is a process that generates products that cause more processes of the same nature, a
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What is Capacitor?
A capacitor is an instrument that stores electrical energy in an electrical field. It is a passive, two-terminal, electronic
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Sep
What is Candela?
Candela (cd) is a luminous intensity unit within the Standard Unit System (SI). Described as the luminous intensity of a
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What is Brownian Motion?
Brownian motion is the unpredictable motion of suspended particles in a medium. This motion pattern usually consists of
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What is Boltzmann constant?
Max Plank introduces the Boltzmann constant, and is named after Ludwig Boltzmann. It is a physical constant which is obtained
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What is Binding Energy?
Binding energy is sum of energy used to detach a particle from a particle system, or to release all of the system’s
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Sep
What is Contact Binary?
Contact Binary is a type of Binary Star. Contact Binaries: Tidal forces will get into play when two stars are similar in
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Sep
What is Spectroscopic Binary?
Spectroscopic Binary is a type of binary star. Another way to calculate star masses is to measure their relative velocities
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What is Avogadro’s Number?
The number 6.022 × 1023 representing the number of atoms or molecules in a mole of any substance is called the Avogadro’s
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Sep
What is Background Radiation?
Background radiation is a measure of the amount of ionizing radiation found in the atmosphere at a given site and is not
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Sep
What is Beta Particle?
Beta Particle is an electron (negative charge) or positron (positive charge) naturally released by certain unstable atomic
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Sep
What is Big Bang Theory?
The Big Bang Theory is a cosmological concept of the observed universe and its subsequent large scale evolution from the
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Sep