Avogadro constant Avogadro constant In chemistry and physics, the Avogadro constant, named after scientist Amedeo Avogadro, is the number of constituent particles, usually atoms or molecules, that are contained in the amount of substance given by one mole. Thus, it is the proportionality factor that relates the molar mass of a substance to the mass of a sample. The Avogadro constant, often designated with the symbol "N" or "L", has the value in the International System of Units (SI). (The parentheses there represent the degree of uncertainty.) Previous definitions of chemical quantity involved the Avogadro number, a historical term closely related to
Cartan formalism (physics) the normal Einstein–Hilbert action, using the relations formula_95 and formula_96. Note that in terms of the Planck mass, we set formula_97, whereas the last term keeps all the SI unit factors. Note that in the presence of spinor fields, the Palatini action implies that formula_98 is nonzero. So there's a non-zero torsion, i.e. that formula_99. See Einstein–Cartan theory. Cartan formalism (physics) The vierbein or tetrad theory much used in theoretical physics is a special case of the application of Cartan connection in four-dimensional manifolds. It applies to metrics of any signature. (See metric tensor.) This section is an approach to