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...c]] scale. Contact area may depend on the [[normal force]] between the two objects due to [[deformation (engineering)|deformation]]. <ref>{{cite journal| last ...etermining the actual contact area is to determine it indirectly through a physical process that depends on contact area. For example, the [[Electrical resista ...

...sure zone (sucked in). Gases and liquids cannot generate pulling forces on objects<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quora |title=There's No Suction In Space, Because Suct '''Suction''' is the day-to-day term for forces experienced by objects that are exposed to the movement of [[gas]]es or [[liquid]]s moving along a ...

where ''D_L'' is measured in [[parsec]]s. For nearby objects (say, in the [[Milky Way]]) the luminosity distance gives a good approximat The relation is less clear for distant objects like [[quasar]]s far beyond the [[Milky Way]] since the apparent magnitude ...

...angular diameter distance''' is a distance defined in terms of an object's physical size, <math>x</math>, and its [[angular size]], <math>\theta</math>, as vie The angular diameter distance depends on the assumed [[physical cosmology|cosmology]] of the universe. The angular diameter distance to an ...

{{short description|Force between two objects that are in physical contact}} A '''contact force''' is any [[force]] that occurs as a result of two objects making contact with each other.<ref name = "PGC">{{cite book ...

...gy that is able to eliminate or negate the effects of [[inertia]] that all objects with mass possess. ...the resistance against changes in the motion of an object. Objects within objects each possess their own inertia, and will collide with each other when the c ...

{{Short description|Potential energy of two interacting objects as a function of their distance}} ...' is a function that describes the [[potential energy]] of two interacting objects solely as a function of the distance between them.<ref>{{cite journal |last ...

...ction is defined as what takes place when many sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the centra ...ir pressure, touch is from the signals in our skin feeling the pressure of objects touching us and taste/smell is from the molecules in the air or in our sali ...

...pe and may refer to animals; natural features such as mountains; inanimate objects such as tables; numbers or sets as symbols written on a paper; human contri {{quote|In an ontic inquiry... one asks about the properties or the physical relations and structures peculiar to some entity – in the pen's case, for e ...

{{redirect|Physical dimension|the dimension of a physical quantity|Dimension (physics)}} ...a human is distorted by the incomplete view of both, and the appearance of physical contact between the two.]] ...

...hy: Construction, Metamorphosis and Revelation.” Writing Design: Words and Objects. By Grace Lees-Maffei. Berg: Oxford, 2011. N. pag. Print.</ref><ref>Frances ...

...ree-body system. In general, if the behaviour of a system of more than two objects cannot be described by the two-body interactions between all possible pairs ...Nd Scattering: Possible Evidence for Three-Nucleon Force Effects | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=81 | issue=6 | date=1998-08-10 | issn=0031-9007 | d ...

It is a physical quantity of [[Kind of quantity|kind]] [[acceleration]], with [[Dimension (p ...l be present in all frames. This specific force is zero for freely-falling objects, since gravity acting alone does not produce g-forces or specific forces. ...

...ce is a type of information design in which representations of information objects are situated in a principled space. In a principled space location and dire ...cisely defined and is set as a [[dialectical]] opposition to the material, physical, object space.<ref>Sergei Pereslegin, Elena Pereslegina, [http://www.archip ...

{{Short description|Pictures or objects used as symbols}} ...e a type of [[augmentative and alternative communication]] (AAC) that uses objects or pictures that share a perceptual relationship with the items they repres ...

...henomena|isophote]], may be used for spherically and circularly asymmetric objects. [[Category:Physical quantities]] ...

...This idea had been used for centuries, and was the basis of thinking about physical phenomena, such as electricity, as liquids. Other 18th century examples of ...ust a larger version of the small sparks that appeared between two charged objects. He therefore predicted that lightning could be shaped and directed by usin ...

...of a homogeneous material), while emittivity refers to specific samples or objects.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905919280|titl [[Category:Physical quantities]] ...

{{Redirect|Physical distance|the general concept|Distance (physics)}} ...logy)|distance measures]] used by cosmologists to define distances between objects. ''Comoving distance'' factors out the expansion of the universe, giving a ...

{{Short description|Definitions for distance between two objects or events in the universe}} ...sical cosmology]] to give a natural notion of the [[distance]] between two objects or events in the [[universe]]. They are often used to tie some ''observabl ...