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Fundamental Physical Constants

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Fundamental Physical Constants
Name and Symbol	Value
atomic mass unit (amu)	1.6605402 $\times$ 10⁻²⁷ kg
Avogadro’s number	6.02214076 $\times$ 10²³ mol⁻¹
Boltzmann’s constant (k)	1.380649 $\times$ 10⁻²³ J K⁻¹
charge-to-mass ratio for electron (e/m_e)	1.75881962 $\times$ 10¹¹ C kg⁻¹
fundamental unit of charge (e)	1.602176634 $\times$ 10⁻¹⁹ C
electron rest mass (m_e)	9.1093897 $\times$ 10⁻³¹ kg
Faraday’s constant (F)	9.6485309 $\times$ 10⁴ C mol⁻¹
gas constant (R)	8.205784 $\times$ 10⁻² L atm mol⁻¹ K⁻¹ = 8.314510 J mol⁻¹ K⁻¹
molar volume of an ideal gas, 1 atm, 0 °C	22.41409 L mol^–1
molar volume of an ideal gas, 1 bar, 0 °C	22.71108 L mol^–1
neutron rest mass (m_n)	1.6749274 $\times$ 10⁻²⁷ kg
Planck’s constant (h)	6.62607015 $\times$ 10⁻³⁴ J s
proton rest mass (m_p)	1.6726231 $\times$ 10⁻²⁷ kg
Rydberg constant (R)	1.0973731534 $\times$ 10⁷ m⁻¹ = 2.1798736 $\times$ 10⁻¹⁸ J
speed of light (in vacuum) (c)	2.99792458 $\times$ 10⁸ m s⁻¹

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