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Relaxation time
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In the physical sciences, relaxation usually means the return of a perturbed system into equilibrium.
Each relaxation process can be categorized
by a relaxation time τ. The simplest theoretical description of relaxation as function of time t is an exponential law exp(-t/τ) (exponential decay).
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