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
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
A safe cable contains wires that enable communication with the phone’s battery management system, which monitors temperature, tracks voltage and detects short circuits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The shorter the voltage has to travel, the faster and more efficient the charge can be, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We always wanted to go to extreme of temperature, extreme of pressure, extreme of voltage, extreme of vacuum, extreme of something or other.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
Solid-state transformers convert power to different voltages, and go largely unnoticed, attached to telephone poles everywhere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
According to the framework, the electrical voltages created across the membrane can be surprisingly strong.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
Tuve’s electrostatic accelerator would produce high voltages, all right, Lawrence told Brady.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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