English Explanatory Dictionary

Einstein–de Haas effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.

Word forms

Einstein–de Haas effect Einstein—de Haas effect Einstein–de Haas effects Einstein-de Haas effect

Etymology

Named after physicists Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, who jointly published the first observation of the effect in 1915. It had been predicted by Owen Willans Richardson in 1908.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on E Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary