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"Dissymmetry" Quotes from Famous Books
... first time by the late M. Curie. This illustrious physicist pointed out the advantage of introducing into the study of physical phenomena the considerations on symmetry familiar to crystallographers; for a phenomenon to take place, it is necessary that a certain dissymmetry should previously exist in the medium in which this phenomenon occurs. A body, for instance, may be animated with a certain linear velocity or a speed of rotation; it may be compressed, or twisted; it may be placed in an electric or in a magnetic field; it may be affected by an electric ... — The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare |
Words linked to "Dissymmetry" : mathematics, lopsidedness, imbalance, spatiality, symmetry, handedness, footedness, eyedness, math, irregularity, maths, skewness, spatial property, radial asymmetry, laterality, geometrical irregularity |
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