curvature effect
1effect — n 1 Effect, result, consequence, upshot, aftereffect, aftermath, sequel, issue, outcome, event are comparable in signifying something, usually a condition, situation, or occurrence, ascribable to a cause or combination of causes. Effect is the… …
2Coriolis effect — For the psychophysical perception effect, see Coriolis effect (perception). Classical mechanics Newton s Second Law …
3Eötvös effect — In the early 1900s a German team from the Institute of Geodesy in Potsdam carried out gravity measurements on moving ships in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. While studying their results the Hungarian nobleman and physicist Baron Roland… …
4Gibbs-Thomson effect — The Gibbs Thomson effect (also called the Gibbs Kelvin effect or Kelvin effect) relates surface curvature to vapor pressure and chemical potential. It is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. (It is not to be… …
5Casimir effect — Casimir forces on parallel plates Casimir forces on parallel pl …
6Butterfly effect — For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation). Point attractors in 2D phase space. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result …
7Aharonov-Bohm effect — The Aharonov Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg Siday Aharonov Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon by which a charged particle is affected by electromagnetic fields in regions from which the particle is excluded. Werner… …
8Geodetic effect — This article is about precession of orbiting bodies. For observing binary stars, see de Sitter double star experiment. A representation of the geodetic effect …
9Cheerio effect — In fluid mechanics, the cheerio effect is the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another. The comedian and author Rich Hall called this effect cheeriomagnetization , using it as an example of a word that needed to be… …
10Novaya Zemlya effect — The Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage caused by high refraction of sunlight between atmospheric thermoclines. The Novaya Zemlya effect will give the impression that the sun is rising earlier than it actually should (astronomically speaking)… …
