{"id":8729,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phase\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:53","slug":"phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in physics, it is the state-evolving periodic quality or process that may vary in a sinusoidal fashion such that after a minimum time period, the order parameter assumes the same value. &nbsp;When periodic quantities have the same waveform (or frequency), they are in-phase, otherwise they are out-of-phase, and which includes the more specific circumstances of anti-phase. &nbsp;The difference between two sinusoidal quantities gives a measure of relative phase that can be expressed as a phase angle difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"order_parameter\">Order parameter<\/a>, <a href=\"phase_transition_-or_shift-\">Phase transition (or shift)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in physics, it is the state-evolving periodic quality or process that may vary in a sinusoidal fashion such that after a minimum time period, the order parameter assumes the same value. &nbsp;When periodic quantities have the same waveform (or frequency), they are in-phase, otherwise they are out-of-phase, and which includes the more specific circumstances of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}