Perfect conductor — A perfect conductor is an electrical conductor with no resistivity. The concept is used to model systems in which the electrical resistance or resistivity is negligible compared to other effects. One such model is ideal magnetohydrodynamics, the… … Wikipedia
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London equations — The London equations, developed by brothers Fritz and Heinz London in 1935, [cite journal last= London first= F. coauthors= H. London month= March title= The Electromagnetic Equations of the Supraconductor journal= Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) volume … Wikipedia
Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… … Universalium
superconductivity — superconduction /sooh peuhr keuhn duk sheuhn/, n. superconductive /sooh peuhr keuhn duk tiv/, superconducting, adj. superconductor /sooh peuhr keuhn duk teuhr/, n. /sooh peuhr kon deuhk tiv i tee/, n. Physics. the phenomenon of almost perfect… … Universalium
Superconductivity — is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials generally at very low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect).The electrical resistivity of a metallic … Wikipedia
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Step potential — The Schrödinger equation for a one dimensional step potential is a model system in quantum mechanics and scattering theory. The problem consists of solving the time independent Schrödinger equation for a particle with a step like potential in one … Wikipedia
