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physical constant
physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and constant in time
molar gas constant
physical constant; the molar equivalent to the Boltzmann constant
elementary charge
the electric charge carried by a single proton or a single positron
Planck time
smallest describable unit of time
Faraday constant
physical constant: electric charge of one mole of electrons
Bohr radius
physical constant; the most probable distance between an electron and the nucleus in a nonrelativistic model of the hydrogen atom with infinitely heavy nucleus
Rydberg constant
physical constant
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
ratio between the radiative power of a black body to the fourth power of its temperature
Bohr magneton
unit of magnetic moment (approx. 9.2 J/T); the magnetic dipole moment of an electron orbiting an atom with angular momentum ℏ in the Bohr model
parts-per notation
set of pseudo units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities
Madelung constant
сonstant in crystallography
classical electron radius
physical constant providing length scale to interatomic interactions
Loschmidt constant
physical constant - number density of molecules in an ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure
Hartree energy
The hartree (symbol: Eh), also known as the Hartree energy, is the unit of energy in the atomic units system, named after the British physicist Douglas Hartree. Its CODATA recommended value is = The name "hartree" was suggested for this unit of energy.
impedance of vacuum
physical constant relating the magnitudes of the electric and magnetic fields of electromagnetic radiation travelling through free space
g-factor
Relation between observed magnetic moment of a particle and the related unit of magnetic moment
magnetic flux quantum
quantized unit of magnetic flux threading a loop in a bulk superconductor
Gaussian gravitational constant
constant used in orbital mechanics of the solar system
Curie constant
property that relates a material’s magnetic susceptibility to its temperature through Curie’s law
electron mass
mass of a stationary electron
Particle Data Group
organization
Oort constants
empirically derived parameters A and B that characterize the differential rotational properties of our galaxy at the position of our Sun
astronomical constant
type of constant
Weinberg angle
electroweak coupling constant describing the position of the electromagnetic U(1) within the electroweak gauge group; the arccosine of the W-boson/Z-boson mass ratio
electron magnetic dipole moment
spin of an electron
characteristic length
dimension that defines the scale of a physical system
molar mass constant
physical constant in chemistry
nuclear radius
measure of the size of atomic nuclei