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  2. Density - Wikipedia

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    Density ( volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ (the lower case Greek letter rho ), although the Latin letter D can also be used. Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided by volume: [1] where ρ is the density, m is the mass, and V is the volume ...

  3. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    Here Ω 0,R is the radiation density today (when a = 1), Ω 0,M is the matter (dark plus baryonic) density today, Ω 0,k = 1 − Ω 0 is the "spatial curvature density" today, and Ω 0,Λ is the cosmological constant or vacuum density today. Useful solutions. The Friedmann equations can be solved exactly in presence of a perfect fluid with ...

  4. Matter - Wikipedia

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    Matter is a general term describing any 'physical substance'. By contrast, mass is not a substance but rather a quantitative property of matter and other substances or systems; various types of mass are defined within physics – including but not limited to rest mass, inertial mass, relativistic mass, mass–energy .

  5. Nuclear density - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear density is the density of the nucleus of an atom. For heavy nuclei, it is close to the nuclear saturation density nucleons / fm 3, which minimizes the energy density of an infinite nuclear matter. [1] The nuclear saturation mass density is thus kg/m 3, where mu is the atomic mass constant. The descriptive term nuclear density is also ...

  6. Cosmological constant - Wikipedia

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    e. In cosmology, the cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ ), alternatively called Einstein's cosmological constant, is the constant coefficient of a term that Albert Einstein temporarily added to his field equations of general relativity. He later removed it, however much later it was revived and ...

  7. Density wave theory - Wikipedia

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    Density wave theory or the Lin–Shu density wave theory is a theory proposed by C.C. Lin and Frank Shu in the mid-1960s to explain the spiral arm structure of spiral galaxies. [1] [2] The Lin–Shu theory introduces the idea of long-lived quasistatic spiral structure (QSSS hypothesis). [1] In this hypothesis, the spiral pattern rotates with a ...

  8. State of matter - Wikipedia

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    In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many intermediate states are known to exist, such as liquid crystal, and some states only exist under extreme conditions, such as Bose–Einstein condensates and Fermionic ...

  9. Density of states - Wikipedia

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    In condensed matter physics, the density of states ( DOS) of a system describes the number of allowed modes or states per unit energy range. The density of states is defined as , where is the number of states in the system of volume whose energies lie in the range from to . It is mathematically represented as a distribution by a probability ...