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| law of nature - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" | ||
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| concept, construct, conception an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | ||
| theory a belief that can guide behavior; "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales" | ||
| all-or-none law (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus | ||
| principle, rule a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy" | ||
| archimedes' principle, law of archimedes (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid | ||
| avogadro's hypothesis, avogadro's law the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules | ||
| bernoulli's law, law of large numbers (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics | ||
| benford's law a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers; "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time" | ||
| bose-einstein statistics (physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply) | ||
| boyle's law, mariotte's law the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume | ||
| coulomb's law a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles | ||
| dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures, dalton's law (chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature | ||
| distribution law (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution | ||
| equilibrium law, law of chemical equilibrium (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction | ||
| fechner's law, weber-fechner law (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber | ||
| fermi-dirac statistics (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies) | ||
| charles's law, gay-lussac's law, law of volumes (physics) the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature | ||
| henry's law (chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases | ||
| hooke's law (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced | ||
| hubble's law, hubble law (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer | ||
| kepler's law, kepler's law of planetary motion (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler | ||
| kirchhoff's laws (physics) two laws governing electric networks in which steady currents flow: the sum of all the currents at a point is zero and the sum of the voltage gains and drops around any closed circuit is zero | ||
| law of averages a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance | ||
| law of constant proportion, law of definite proportions (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight | ||
| law of diminishing returns a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness | ||
| law of effect (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated | ||
| law of equivalent proportions, law of reciprocal proportions (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together | ||
| law of gravitation, newton's law of gravitation (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them | ||
| law of multiple proportions, dalton's law (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation | ||
| law of mass action (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances | ||
| law of thermodynamics (physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system | ||
| mendel's law (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research | ||
| law of motion, newton's law, newton's law of motion one of three basic laws of classical mechanics | ||
| ohm's law electric current is directly proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance; I = E/R | ||
| pascal's law, pascal's law of fluid pressures pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid; "the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law" | ||
| exclusion principle, pauli exclusion principle no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers | ||
| mendeleev's law, periodic law (chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers | ||
| planck's law (physics) the basis of quantum theory; the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole; the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is given by Planck's constant | ||
| planck's radiation law (physics) an equation that expresses the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of an ideal black body | ||
| principle of relativity (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred | ||
| power law, stevens' law, stevens' power law (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity | ||
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