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Equilibrium configurations of N equal charges on a sphere

✍ Scribed by Erber, T; Hockney, G M

Book ID
120886861
Publisher
Institute of Physics
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
314 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0305-4470

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