Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Cited passages: §§3.2–3.5.6, printed pp. 16–19, 22–28, 33–37: apparatus, dark subtraction, readout, corrections and check-lamp procedure.
Publisher: International Commission on Illumination.
Cited passages: Definition, Notes 1–2 and 5: ratio of luminous to radiant flux, photometric condition and units; Luminous efficacy of radiation, Note 3: defining frequency, standard-air wavelength and distinction from the peak.
SI base unit: candela (cd) by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Publisher: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
Cited passages: Definition: lumen per watt equals candela steradian per watt; Equivalent expression: one candela for radiant intensity (1/683) watt per steradian at the defining frequency; SI base unit: candela, defining constant and equivalent radiant intensity.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cited passages: pp. 166–167: Table 1, equations 1–4, gravitational potential term and integration of actual flight paths.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cited passages: pp. 168–170: Table 1, electronic counter, correlated rate-change analysis, magnetic shielding and common environmental effects.
Zur Elektronentheorie der Metalle by Paul Drude by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Published in Annalen der Physik.
Cited passages: OCR reproduction of Drude's original I. Teil, printed pp. 568–569: motivation for combining transport phenomena; OCR has spelling and formula errors.
Publisher: Department of Physics, Indiana University.
Cited passages: Tayloe, p. 1, Experiment, and p. 3, As a function of temperature: tracking carrier sign and Hall-voltage sign changes; Tayloe, pp. 1–3, Equipment, Fig. 1, and At room temperature: conductivity sweep and four polarity combinations.
Cited passages: Designer Quantum Materials Lab, Lecture notes on the electrodynamics of metals and superconductors, p. 2, Eqs. (1)–(11), and pp. 5–6, Eqs. (23)–(27).
Cited passages: Grosfeld, Lecture notes in Solid State 3, pp. 2–3, Eqs. (1.2)–(1.11): collision averaging, electron force, drift and conductivity; Grosfeld, pp. 2–3, Eqs. (1.2)–(1.4): constant collision probability and vanishing post-collision mean momentum.
Heat Capacity (University of Toronto laboratory handout) by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Cited passages: p. 3, Figure 1 and the area-ratio cooling correction; pp. 1–3, The Method of Mixtures and Cooling Correction, Figure 1.
ME 354 - Thermofluids Laboratory by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Louisiana Tech University (institutional web host).
Modules on High Reynolds Number Flows by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (institutional web host).
Publisher: School of Physics, The University of New South Wales.
Cited passages: pp. 10–11, Standing waves. Reflection and transmission. Speed of sound; apparatus, microphone scan, and pressure-node distinction.
wavenumber in medium by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Cited passages: Definition and Note 1: reciprocal wavelength in a medium; vacuum convention in spectroscopy.
Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Tufts University digital repository (hosting institution).
Publisher: American Institute of Physics.
Published in Physics Today.
Cited passages: Gingerich, Physics Today 64(9), 2011, pp. 51-53: Fig. 2, refraction checks, 13 August log table, Earth-orbit correction and angular errors.
Torsion dynamometer 0.01 N operating instructions by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Publisher: PHYWE SYSTEME GMBH.
Cited passages: 02416.00, §§1–4: metallic-band compensation, zero procedure, force indication and scale specification.

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