English Explanatory Dictionary

Kapitza resistance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.

Word forms

Kapitza resistance Kapitza resistances

Etymology

For Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist.

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