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- Dictionaryperturbation/ˌpəːtəˈbeɪʃn/
noun
- 1. anxiety; mental uneasiness: "she sensed her friend's perturbation"
- 2. a deviation of a system, moving object, or process from its regular or normal state or path, caused by an outside influence: "these shifts and swings in wildlife populations are possibly related to climatic perturbations"
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1 day ago · Lorentz force acting on fast-moving charged particles in a bubble chamber.Positive and negative charge trajectories curve in opposite directions. In physics, specifically in electromagnetism, the Lorentz force law is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields.The Lorentz force, on the other hand, is a physical effect that occurs in the ...
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1 day ago · the closing, desecration and pillaging of churches, removal of the word "saint" from street names and other acts to banish Christian culture from the public sphere. removal of statues, plates, and other iconography from places of worship. destruction of crosses, bells and other external signs of worship.
