Curie’s law

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magnetic susceptibility

  • magnetic field from current loop
    In magnetism: Magnetic properties of matter

    …approximate relationship is known as Curie’s law and the constant C as the Curie constant. A more accurate equation is obtained in many cases by modifying the above equation to χ = C/(T − θ), where θ is a constant. This equation is called the Curie–Weiss law (after Curie and…

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work of Pierre Curie

  • Pierre Curie
    In Pierre Curie

    …proportion to the absolute temperature—Curie’s law. He then established an analogy between paramagnetic bodies and perfect gases and, as a result of this, between ferromagnetic bodies and condensed fluids.

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