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Effect
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As a verb, to do; to produce; to make; to bring to pass; to execute; enforce; accomplish. As a noun, that which is produced by an agent or cause; result; outcome; consequence. The result that an instrument between parties will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will produce upon the existing law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act. The phrases take effect, be in force, and go into operation, are used interchangeably.

In the plural, a person's effects are the real and Personal Property of someone who has died or who makes a will.


EFFECT. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its effect.
     2. By the laws of the United States, a patent cannot be granted for an effect only, but it may be for a new mode or application of machinery to produce effects. 1 Gallis. 478; see 4 Mason, 1; Pet. C. C. R. 394; 2 N. H. R. 61.


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Though the book advises readers to have a background in physics and calculus and a working knowledge of complex numbers and vectors, physicist McMahon clearly defines the notions of blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, the Schrodinger equation, and vector space.
Albert Einstein in 1905 published revolutionary scientific papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, and special relativity.
But not Einstein, who parlayed the photoelectric effect into a scientific revolution.
 
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