Letter C - Physics dictionary by Futura-Sciences

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Candela The candela is the legal (SI) unit of luminous intensity ...	Capacitor A capacitor is a device consisting of two conducting ...
Carnot cycle The Carnot cycle is a thermodynamic transformation cycle for ...	Carnot principle Thermodynamics. The Carnot principle states that work cannot ...
Casimir effect The Casimir effect, from the name of its discoverer Hendrik ...	Casimir force The Casimir force is the force produced by the Casimir ...
Cavitation Cavitation is the formation of bubbles of vapour in water ...	Celsius Celsius is a temperature scale Symbol of degrees Celsius: ...
Centre of mass Centre of gravity	Centrifugal force A centrifugal force is a force acting on a body on a ...
Centripetal force Centripetal force is the force exerted on a body to force it ...	CERN CERN is the European organisation for nuclear research, the ...
Chain reaction A chain reaction is a complex reaction during which one or ...	Charm quark The charm quark is a particle of matter. It is one of the ...
Cherenkov radiation Cherenkov radiation is the blue coloured radiation that is ...	Chromatic aberration The concept of chromatic aberration covers several different ...
Clausius postulate The Clausius postulate is the formulation given by Rudolph ...	CNO Cycle The CNO, cycle, for Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, is one of the ...
Coalescence Coalescence is the uniting of previously separated parts as ...	Coanda effect The Coanda effect is a very strange phenomenon in fluid ...