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thomson problem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables
thom-son prob-lem
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The problem of determining the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of a given number of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law.

Etymology

The physicist J. J. Thomson posed the problem in 1904.

Inflected Forms

the Thomson problem (canonical)

Questions

What does thomson problem mean?
The problem of determining the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of a given number of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law.
Where does thomson problem come from?
The physicist J. J. Thomson posed the problem in 1904.

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