thermal noise

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thermal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈθɜː.məl/us
/ˈθɝː.məl/
connected ...
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noise
noun
uk
/nɔɪz/us
/nɔɪz/
a sound or sounds, especially when it is unwanted, unpleasant, ...
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Thethermalnoisecan be reduced or damped by exerting a restraining force on the particle.
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The flagellar motor can smoothly rotate utilizing the energy of such small unit, by distinguishing it from thethermalnoise.
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Under these conditions, superthermal fluctuations of the field intensity are substantially higher than the level ofthermalnoise.
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Barlow (1957) first hypothesized that the two be physically coupled, so that red-shifting the spectrum would always carry a cost in increasedthermalnoise.
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In such mesoscopic heat engines, work per cycle of operation fluctuates due tothermalnoise.
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In mesoscopic heat engines, work per cycle of operation fluctuates due tothermalnoise.
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Thermalnoiseis approximately white, meaning that its power spectral density is nearly equal throughout the frequency spectrum.
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Additionally, the sensitive amplifiers used in radio telescopes are cooled using liquid helium to reducethermalnoise.
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Thermalnoiselimits the true number of bits that can be used in quantization.
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Thethermalnoiseof a practical resistor may also be somewhat larger than the theoretical prediction and that increase is typically frequency-dependent.
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A resistor at a certain temperature has athermalnoiseassociated with it.
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This approach is limited bythermalnoisewithin the circuit.
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When these spurious signals have a power level that is less than thethermalnoisepower level, then the receiver is operating normally.
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Example sources include measuring atmospheric noise,thermalnoise, and other external electromagnetic and quantum phenomena.
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Most noise processes will have a white spectrum, at least over the bandwidth of interest, identical to that ofthermalnoise.
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Since they are indistinguishable, the contributions of all noise sources can be lumped together and regarded as a level ofthermalnoise.
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Partially coherent sources are sources where the coherence time or coherence length are limited by bandwidth, bythermalnoise, or by other effect.
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