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NIST Measurement Services: Photometric Calibrations by Yuqin Zong and others by
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Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
luminous efficacy of radiation, for a specified photometric condition by
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Publisher: International Commission on Illumination.
Online text: www.cie.co.at/eilvterm/17-21-090
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.
Publisher: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
Online text: www.bipm.org/en/si-base-units/candela
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.
Measurements of relativistic time dilatation for positive and negative muons in a circular orbit by J. Bailey and others by
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By J. Bailey, K. Borer, F. Combley, H. Drumm, F. Krienen, F. Lange, E. Picasso, W. von Ruden, F. J. M. Farley, J. H. Field, W. Flegel, P. M. Hattersley.
Published in Nature.
Online text: www.nature.com/articles/268301a0
Cited passages: 1977, abstract: storage-ring lifetimes, rest-lifetime comparison and 95% confidence statement; full apparatus and systematic-error analysis not inspected.
Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains by J. C. Hafele and others by
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Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Observed Relativistic Time Gains by J. C. Hafele and others by
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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.
By Paul Drude.
Published in Annalen der Physik.
Online text: doi.org/10.1002/andp.19003060312
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.
The Hall Effect and Conductivity in Germanium by Rex Tayloe by
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By Rex Tayloe.
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.
Lecture notes on the electrodynamics of metals and superconductors by
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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).
Lecture notes in Solid State 3: Classical free electron model for metals: The Drude model by Eytan Grosfeld by
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By Eytan Grosfeld.
Heat Capacity (University of Toronto laboratory handout) by
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Motion of fluids with very little viscosity by L. Prandtl by
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By L. Prandtl.
Publisher: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Publication information: ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930090813
Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Louisiana Tech University (institutional web host).
Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (institutional web host).
Publisher: OpenStax.
Interesting and inexpensive experiments for high school physics by Joe Wolfe by
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By Joe Wolfe.
Online text: www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/I%26Iexperiments.pdf
Cited passages: pp. 10–11, Standing waves. Reflection and transmission. Speed of sound; apparatus, microphone scan, and pressure-node distinction.
Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Online text: goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08301/plain
Cited passages: Definition and Note 1: reciprocal wavelength in a medium; vacuum convention in spectroscopy.
The Newtonian Revolution – Part One; Philosophy 167: Science Before Newton's Principia by
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Collection of sources; individual chapter authors and dates are recorded below.
Publisher: Tufts University digital repository (hosting institution).
The great Martian catastrophe and how Kepler fixed it by Owen Gingerich by
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By Owen Gingerich.
Publisher: American Institute of Physics.
Published in Physics Today.
Online text: www.infinitoteatrodelcosmo.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/catastrofe-marte-brahe-keplero.pdf
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
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Publisher: PHYWE SYSTEME GMBH.
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