voltage
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Researchers then adjusted the voltage until the electrostatic effect exactly balanced the gravitational effect, preventing the torsion balance from turning.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
When the researchers deliberately flexed the membrane, they observed stable voltage signals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
This creates a difference in electrical potential between the upper and lower surfaces of the membrane, producing the observed voltage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Utility company Consolidated Edison has detected stray voltage at the site weeks after the death, a possible cause for the horse’s sudden flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The EVA suit has electronics, but it runs on very low voltage.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
BelGaN, based in Belgium, specialized in making gallium nitride semiconductors, which allow for higher voltages compared with silicon-based chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
It’s called a solid-state transformer, and it’s designed to convert power to different voltages.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
These filaments tend to behave unpredictably and often require high voltages, which limits their practicality for large-scale computing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
Thanks to electroencephalography, researchers can even link slow-wave sleep to a process of synchronous changes in electrical voltages in thousands of neurons, known as up and down states.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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