English Explanatory Dictionary

Thomson problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.

Word forms

Thomson problem the Thomson problem

Etymology

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

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