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- Point_particle abstract "A point particle (ideal particle or point-like particle, often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its defining feature is that it lacks spatial extension: being zero-dimensional, it does not take up space. A point particle is an appropriate representation of any object whose size, shape, and structure is irrelevant in a given context. For example, from far enough away, an object of any shape will look and behave as a point-like object.In the theory of gravity, physicists often discuss a point mass, meaning a point particle with a nonzero mass and no other properties or structure. Likewise, in electromagnetism, physicists discuss a point charge, a point particle with a nonzero charge.Sometimes, due to specific combinations of properties, extended objects behave as point-like even in their immediate vicinity. For example, spherical objects interacting in 3-dimensional space whose interactions are described by the inverse square law behave in such a way as if all their matter were concentrated in their centers of mass. In Newtonian gravitation and classical electromagnetism, for example, the respective fields outside of a spherical object are identical to those of a point particle of equal charge/mass located at the center of the sphere.In quantum mechanics, the concept of a point particle is complicated by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, because even an elementary particle, with no internal structure, occupies a nonzero volume. For example, the atomic orbit of an electron in the hydrogen atom occupies a volume of ~10−30 m3. There is nevertheless a distinction between elementary particles such as electrons or quarks, which have no known internal structure, versus composite particles such as protons, which do have internal structure: A proton is made of three quarks. Elementary particles are sometimes called \"point particles\", but this is in a different sense than discussed above. For more details see elementary particle.".
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- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink 0_(number).
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Addison-Wesley.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Atomic_orbital.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Benjamin_Motte.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge_University_Press.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Classical_mechanics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Concepts_in_physics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Center_of_mass.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Charge_(physics).
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Classical_electron_radius.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Coulombs_law.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Dimension.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Earnshaws_theorem.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Electric_charge.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Electric_field.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Electromagnetism.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Electron.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Electrostatics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Elementary_particle.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Encyclopedia_Americana.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Equation.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Extension_(metaphysics).
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Field_(physics).
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Gravitational_field.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Gravity.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Grolier.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Hydrogen_atom.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Idealization.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Infinity.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Integral.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Inverse-square_law.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Lepton.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink List_of_particles.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Mass.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Matter.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Mechanical_equilibrium.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Neutron.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Newtons_law_of_universal_gravitation.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Particle.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Photon.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Physics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Point_(geometry).
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Probability_distribution.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Proton.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Quantum_field_theory.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Quantum_mechanics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Quantum_state.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Quantum_superposition.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Quark.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Random_variable.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Self-propelled_particles.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Statistics.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Uncertainty_principle.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink University_of_California_Press.
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- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink Wave_packet.
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- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLink File:Scalar_potential_of_a_point_charge.jpg.
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText ""point-like" particles".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "''point-like''".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "''punctual''".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "Point particle".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "Point particle#Point mass".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "Point particle#Point_mass".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "material point".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "material points".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "particle".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "particles".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point charge".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point charges".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point mass".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point masses".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point particle".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point-like objects".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point-like particles".
- Point_particle wikiPageWikiLinkText "point-like".
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- Point_particle subject Category:Classical_mechanics.
- Point_particle subject Category:Concepts_in_physics.
- Point_particle hypernym Idealization.
- Point_particle type Concept.
- Point_particle type Mechanic.