Scaling laws (Statistical physics)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004950
- info:lc/authorities/sh88004950
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh88004950#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Ratio and proportion (Statistical physics)
- Scale invariance (Statistical physics)
- Scaling hypothesis (Statistical physics)
- Scaling phenomena (Statistical physics)
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Finite size scaling (Statistical physics)
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12290560w
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Finite-size scaling, c1988 (Finite size scaling)
- found: LC database, Aug. 4, 1988.
- found: McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (Scaling law: Two quantities are proportional, which is known to be valid at certain orders of magnitude and is used to calculate the value of one of the quantities at another order of magnitude.)
- found: INSPEC (Scaling phenomena, also uses for : scale invariance)
- found: INIS:Thes.
- found: ASTI: p. 2017 (Scaling law (Physics) see Ratio and proportion)
- found: Encyc. physics: p. 246 (Scaling hypothesis)
- found: Encyc. phys. sci. tech.
- found: NASA (Scaling; use more specific term)
- notfound: Random House
LC Classification
- QC174.85.S34
Change Notes
- 2003-10-03: new
- 2003-11-28: revised

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