Related terms: PVD, peripheral arterial disease, PAD, venous thrombosis, deep vein thrombosis, DVT. Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) involves damage to or blockage in the blood vessels distant from your heartâthe peripheral arteries and veins.Your peripheral arteries and veins carry blood to and from your arm and leg muscles and the organs in and below your stomach area.hen PVD affects only the arteries and not the veins, it is called peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The main forms that PVD may take include blood clots (for example, deep vein thrombosis or DVT), swelling (inflammation), or narrowing and blockage of the blood vessels.
THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT AND MAXWELL'S CONSTANT. The use of the velocity of light, or more generally, the velocity of propagation in vacuum of the electromagnetic waves as a fundamental constant, comes from James Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory.
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 7008299792458000000â 299,792,458 metres per second. It is exact because the unit of length, the metre, is defined from this constant and the international standard for time. According to special relativity, c is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of information in the universe can travel. Though this speed is most ...