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Critical phenomena — In physics, critical phenomena is the collective name associated with the physics of critical points. Most of them stem from the divergence of the correlation length, but also the dynamics slows down. Critical phenomena include scaling relations… … Wikipedia
Critical exponent — Critical exponents describe the behaviour of physical quantities near continuous phase transitions. It is believed, though not proven, that they are universal, i.e. they do not depend on the details of the physical system, but only on the… … Wikipedia
Critical opalescence — is a phenomenon which arises in the region of a continuous, or second order, phase transition. Originally reported by Thomas Andrews in 1869 for the liquid gas transition in carbon dioxide, many other examples have been discovered since. The… … Wikipedia
Critical radius — is the minimum size that must be formed by atoms or molecules clustering together (in a gas, liquid or solid matrix) before a new phase inclusion (a bubble, a droplet, or a solid particle) is stable and begins to grow. Formation of such stable… … Wikipedia
Critical point (thermodynamics) — Carbon dioxide creating a fog when cooling from supercritical to critical temperature In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions… … Wikipedia
Critical dimension — For the minimum feature size in photolithography, see Photolithography. In the renormalization group analysis of phase transitions in physics, a critical dimension is the dimensionality of space at which the character of the phase transition… … Wikipedia
Critical temperature — The critical temperature, Tc, of a material is the temperature above which distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. As the critical temperature is approached, the properties of the gas and liquid phases become the same resulting in only one… … Wikipedia
Critical value — In differential topology, a critical value of a differentiable function ƒ : M → N between differentiable manifolds is the image (value) ƒ(x) in N of a critical point x in M[1]. The basic result on critical values is Sard s lemma. The set of… … Wikipedia
Critical line (thermodynamics) — In thermodynamics, a critical line is the higher dimensional equivalent of a critical point [1]. It is the locus of contiguous critical points in a phase diagram. These lines cannot occur for a single substance due to the phase rule, but they can … Wikipedia
Critical theory — Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas David Rasmussen HEGEL, MARX AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY Critical theory1 is a metaphor for a certain kind of theoretical orientation which owes its origin to Hegel and Marx, its systematization to Horkheimer and … History of philosophy
Critical threshold — Critical threshold, a notion derived from the percolation theory, refers to a threshold, that summons up to a critical mass. Under the threshold the phenomenon tends to abort, above the threshold, it tends to grow exponentially. In cases where… … Wikipedia
