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Electricity and magnetism

Charges and fields, electric current, magnetism and induction, gas discharges and plasma physics.

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Charge conservation law

Charge conservation law , one of the fundamental exact laws of nature, which states that the algebraic sum of the electric charges of any closed (electrically isolated) system remains unchanged, whatever processes take p…

Sound

Sound , in the broad sense, is the oscillatory motion of the particles of an elastic medium propagating as waves in gaseous, liquid or solid media— the same as elastic waves; in the narrow sense it is a phenomenon percei…

A magnet for cooling

Thanks to recent advances, our refrigerators may work quite differently within a few years.