Tensor — For other uses, see Tensor (disambiguation). Note that in common usage, the term tensor is also used to refer to a tensor field. Stress, a second order tensor. The tensor s components, in a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, form the… … Wikipedia
Magnetic susceptibility — In electromagnetism, the magnetic susceptibility χm (latin: susceptibilis “receptiveness”) is a dimensionless proportionality constant that indicates the degree of magnetization of a material in response to an applied magnetic field. A related… … Wikipedia
Electric susceptibility — The electric susceptibility χe of a dielectric material is a measure of how easily it polarizes in response to an electric field. This, in turn, determines the electric permittivity of the material and thus influences many other phenomena in that … Wikipedia
Application of tensor theory in physics — Tensors are used in various parts of physics, both as abstract constructs in mathematical physics and for describing relations between quantities represented by matrices. Common applications * Electromagnetic tensor (or Faraday s tensor) in… … Wikipedia
Crystal optics — is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in anisotropic media, that is, media (such as crystals) in which light behaves differently depending on which direction the light is propagating. The index of refraction depends on… … Wikipedia
Surface second harmonic generation — is a method for probing interfaces in atomic and molecular systems. In second harmonic generation (SHG), the light frequency is doubled, essentially converting two photons of the original beam of energy E into a single photon of energy 2 E as it… … Wikipedia
Residual dipolar coupling — The residual dipolar coupling between two spins in a molecule occurs if the molecules in solution exhibit a partial alignment leading to an incomplete averaging of spatially anisotropic dipolar couplings.Partial molecular alignment leads to an… … Wikipedia
Lerche–Newberger sum rule — The Lerche–Newberger, or Newberger, sum rule, discovered by B. S. Newberger in 1982,[1][2][3] finds the sum of certain infinite series involving Bessel functions Jα of the first kind. It states that if μ is any non integer complex… … Wikipedia
Polarization density — In classical electromagnetism, the polarization density (or electric polarization, or simply polarization) is the vector field that expresses the density of permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a dielectric material. The polarization… … Wikipedia
Polarizable vacuum — In theoretical physics, particularly fringe physics, polarizable vacuum (PV) most often refers to a proposal by Harold Puthoff to develop an analogue of general relativity to describe gravity in optics like terms. Puthoff himself has apparently… … Wikipedia