PHYSICS DICTIONARY

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Latitude

A measure of relative position north or south on the Earth's surface, measured in degrees from the equator, which has latitude of 0°, with the poles having latitude of 90° north and south.


Lattice Vector

Unit cell in a crystal structure is defined by axial lengths called as lattice vectors.


Lattice Constant

The magnitude of lattice vector in a unit cell is called as lattice constant.


Lattice Energy

Energy required for separation of the ions of a crystal to an infinite distance from each other.


Lattice Parameters

The unit cell geometry is completely defined in terms of six parameters; the three edge lengths and three inter axial angles which were referred to as lattice parameters.


Lattice

Three dimensional array of points which coincide with atomic positions is called as Lattice.


Laue Method

In this method, a single crystal is held stationary in a beam of continuous wave length X-ray radiation. Various crystal planes select the appropriate wave length for constructive interference, and a geometric arrangement of bright spots is obtained on a film.


Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum

When no external torque acts, then angular momentum of rotating system remains conserved.


Law of Conservation of Energy

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to other.


Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum

When no external force acts upon a system, then the vector sum of momentum of all bodies of that system remains constant.


Law of Equipartition of Energy

The law has been deduced by James Clarke Maxwell. As per this law “total kinetic energy of a dynamical system is equally divided among all its degrees of freedom and it is equal or ½ KT per degree of freedom.


Law of Kinetic Friction

Kinetic friction is independent of area of contact; kinetic friction is independent of relative speed between two contact surfaces and is directly proportional to normal force.


Law of Radioactive Disintegration

In any radioactive substance, the number of atoms disintegrating per second is directly proportional to the number of atoms present.


Law of Static Friction

It states that static friction is independent of area of contact, depends on nature of surfaces in contact & maximum value is directly proportional to normal force.


Laws of Reflection

i)      Incident point, reflected point and normal drawn to plane of reflection are coplanar.

ii)    Angle of reflection is equal to angle of incidence.


Laws of Refraction

i)      Incident point, refracted point and normal drawn to plane of refraction are coplanar.

ii)    The relationship between angle of incidence (ØI) and angle of refraction (ØR) is expressed by    =   ;  n2 &n1 are refractive indices of two medium.


Least Count

It is the least amount of a quantity that can be measured accurately with an instrument.


Leak Rate

The real leak rate is quantity of gas flowing per unit time into the system. The leak rate of given system is expressed as pressure rise in a given time and for specific volume.

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 The time required for a given quantity of gas to flow into the system.


Least Energy Principle

The principle that the potential energy of a system in stable equilibrium is minimum relative to that of nearby configurations. 


Least Squares Method

A method for determining the best value of an unknown quantity relating one or more sets of observations or measurements especially to find a curve that best fits a set of data. It states that sum of squares of deviations of the experimentally determined value from its optimum value should be minimum.  

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A statistical technique to determine the line of best fit for a model. The least squares method is specified by an equation with certain parameters to observed data. This method is extensively used in regression analysis and estimation.


Leavo Rotatory

These are substances which rotate the plane of polarization of incident plane polarized light in the anti-clock wise direction when seen in direction of light are called Leavo rotatory. 

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