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Definition of Field strength

1. Noun. The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Strength

Literary usage of Field strength

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"Relation between the field strength and Rotation. — The angular rotation increases in general in proportion to the strength of the field, but this rule is ..."

2. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"Campaign of 1864—General Grant in the Field—Strength of the Armies— Their Positions—Description of the Wilderness—The Battle opened—A Brisk Day's ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"At that field strength where the length once more becomes equal to the ... In iron this field strength is about at the point where saturation occurs. ..."

4. Opportunities In High Magnetic Field Science by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"The Role of field strength in NMR In a typical NMR measurement, a sample that has come to equilibrium in a magnetic field is subjected to a series of ..."

5. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1902)
"one by varying the field strength, the voltage on the armature remaining ... The method which first presents itself is, varying the field strength of the ..."

6. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"Combined with displacements observed in the solar spectrum, these yield for each line a value of the field-strength at the magnetic pole. ..."

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