(physics) A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.

plural of maxwell

A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose. / A male given name transferred from the surname. / A census-designated place in Colusa County, California, United States.

Alternative form of Maxwellisation

Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli, a subspecies of the smooth-coated otter.

plural of Maxwell's demon

plural of Maxwell bridge

A type of Wheatstone bridge used to measure an unknown inductance in terms of calibrated resistance and capacitance, by the principle that the positive phase angle of an inductive impedance can be compensated by the negative phase angle of a capacitive impedance when put in the opposite arm and the circuit is at resonance.

A hypothetical creature created for a thought experiment. Maxwell’s demon, if it existed, would act as a sort of gate guard by sorting between higher-energy molecules and lower-energy molecules within an enclosed space. Because such a sorting process would tend to decrease entropy, it would violate the second law of thermodynamics.

(physics, statistical mechanics) A particular probability distribution originally defined and used for describing particle speeds in idealized gases. Mathematically, it is the chi distribution with three degrees of freedom (the components of the velocity vector in Euclidean space), with a scale parameter measuring speeds in units proportional to the square root of the ratio of temperature and particle mass.