Search results

  • Thumbnail for Louis de Broglie
    Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbroʊɡli/, also US: /də broʊˈɡliː, də ˈbrɔɪ/, French: [də bʁɔj] or [də bʁœj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19...
    35 KB (3,951 words) - 08:54, 22 April 2024
  • Elastic energy is the mechanical potential energy stored in the configuration of a material or physical system as it is subjected to elastic deformation...
    12 KB (1,920 words) - 19:21, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neutral-density filter
    In photography and optics, a neutral-density filter, or ND filter, is a filter that reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of...
    15 KB (1,687 words) - 04:11, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Specular highlight
    A specular highlight is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated (for example, see image on right). Specular highlights...
    14 KB (2,505 words) - 01:35, 28 December 2023
  • The term "bootstrap model" is used for a class of theories that use very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some...
    6 KB (730 words) - 00:21, 16 January 2024
  • In mathematics and physics, the inverse scattering problem is the problem of determining characteristics of an object, based on data of how it scatters...
    3 KB (323 words) - 04:05, 19 March 2024
  • The Heisenberg–Langevin equations (named after Werner Heisenberg and Paul Langevin) are equations for open quantum systems. They are a specific case of...
    1 KB (95 words) - 20:12, 3 October 2022