• bearings, the Sommerfeld number (S) is a dimensionless quantity used extensively in hydrodynamic lubrication analysis. The Sommerfeld number is very important...
    4 KB (689 words) - 09:36, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Arnold Sommerfeld
    Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (German: [ˈaʁnɔlt joˈhanəs ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist...
    56 KB (6,094 words) - 17:35, 6 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bohr model
    the Bohr–Sommerfeld model was without its successes. Calculations based on the Bohr–Sommerfeld model were able to accurately explain a number of more complex...
    75 KB (10,385 words) - 11:28, 23 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Quantum number
    lecture, the next step was taken by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1915. Sommerfeld's atomic model added a second quantum number and the concept of quantized phase integrals...
    30 KB (3,266 words) - 03:49, 7 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fine-structure constant
    In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as the Sommerfeld constant, commonly denoted by α (the Greek letter alpha), is a fundamental physical...
    63 KB (7,119 words) - 06:07, 25 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Reynolds number
    was introduced by George Stokes in 1851, but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908 after Osborne Reynolds who popularized its use in...
    51 KB (6,446 words) - 13:17, 13 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bohr–Sommerfeld model
    The Bohr–Sommerfeld model (also known as the Sommerfeld model or Bohr–Sommerfeld theory) was an extension of the Bohr model to allow elliptical orbits...
    12 KB (1,602 words) - 18:22, 25 May 2025
  • short-wavelength limit for solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations (Sommerfeld–Runge method) or as a property of propagation of field discontinuities...
    29 KB (4,688 words) - 23:00, 29 May 2025
  • diagonals give common symbols for the quantities, and the given dimensionless number is the ratio of the left column quantity over top row quantity; e.g. Re...
    29 KB (816 words) - 10:33, 15 June 2025
  • in the Philosophical Magazine. The qualitative success of the Sommerfeld quantum number scheme failed to explain the Zeeman effect in weak magnetic field...
    22 KB (2,972 words) - 10:39, 9 July 2025
  • premised on Arnold Sommerfeld's enhancements to the Bohr model of the atom. The main tool of the old quantum theory was the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization condition...
    33 KB (4,834 words) - 21:57, 3 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal quantum number
    orbitals around each atom. The term "azimuthal quantum number" was introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1915: II:132  as part of an ad hoc description of...
    19 KB (2,143 words) - 08:39, 24 May 2025
  • Wolfgang Pauli added a fourth quantum number, "spin", during the old quantum theory period of the Sommerfeld-Bohr Solar System atom to complete the modern...
    28 KB (2,765 words) - 11:55, 25 April 2025
  • In applied mathematics, and theoretical physics, the Sommerfeld radiation condition is a concept from theory of differential equations and scattering theory...
    4 KB (685 words) - 09:23, 15 December 2024
  • to improve the bearings' performance. Plain bearing Kugel fountain Sommerfeld number Rowe, W. Brian (2012). Hydrostatic, Aerostatic and Hybrid Bearing...
    24 KB (3,018 words) - 16:00, 31 May 2025
  • application of the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rules to the classical equations. The radial quantum number determines the number of nodes of the radial...
    8 KB (1,135 words) - 13:04, 26 February 2025
  • Online version: (2006–) "number concentration". doi:10.1351/goldbook.N04260 Clayton T. Crowe; John D. Schwarzkopf; Martin Sommerfeld; Yutaka Tsuji (2011)...
    7 KB (808 words) - 15:26, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of things named after Arnold Sommerfeld
    expansion Sommerfeld effect Sommerfeld identity Sommerfeld number Sommerfeld parameter Sommerfeld radiation condition Sommerfeld's approximation Sommerfeld–Goubau...
    2 KB (81 words) - 18:10, 19 September 2024
  • Sommerfeld, who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi–Dirac statistics and hence it is also known as the Drude–Sommerfeld model...
    24 KB (3,426 words) - 17:10, 29 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hydrogen atom
    of these shortcomings were resolved by Arnold Sommerfeld's modification of the Bohr model. Sommerfeld introduced two additional degrees of freedom, allowing...
    39 KB (6,029 words) - 11:56, 21 June 2025
  • absolute valency seems to be that adopted by Grimm and Sommerfeld, that it is numerically equal to the number of electrons of the atom 'engaged' (beansprucht)...
    40 KB (2,912 words) - 12:59, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand von Lindemann
    Ferdinand von Lindemann (category German number theorists)
    theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for which he is best known, the...
    5 KB (304 words) - 11:36, 10 June 2025
  • The Orr–Sommerfeld equation, in fluid dynamics, is an eigenvalue equation describing the linear two-dimensional modes of disturbance to a viscous parallel...
    18 KB (2,815 words) - 09:43, 12 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gamow factor
    The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after physicists George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...
    18 KB (3,418 words) - 21:08, 17 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for 1868
    Max, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, 1868–1951, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society Volume 8, Number 21, pp. 274–296 (1952) Goran, Morris...
    41 KB (4,428 words) - 08:54, 11 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Werner Heisenberg
    1923 at Munich under Sommerfeld. In June 1922, Sommerfeld took Heisenberg to Göttingen to attend the Bohr Festival, because Sommerfeld had a sincere interest...
    129 KB (14,218 words) - 15:01, 7 July 2025
  • Richardson Rayo's number – Agustin Rayo Rydberg constant – Johannes Rydberg Sommerfeld constant – Arnold Sommerfeld Sagan's number – Carl Sagan Sackur–Tetrode...
    5 KB (500 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proto-writing
    especially the large number of so-called "knob-sickles" discovered in the Frankleben hoard, are discussed by Sommerfeld (1994). Sommerfeld favours an interpretation...
    13 KB (1,488 words) - 19:55, 10 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bernhard Riemann
    ISBN 978-3-319-26042-6. Arnold Sommerfeld, „Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik“, Bd.2 (Mechanik deformierbarer Medien), Harri Deutsch, S.124. Sommerfeld heard the story...
    26 KB (2,926 words) - 16:58, 21 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for SMS Gefion
    In 1920, she was sold, converted into a freighter, and renamed Adolf Sommerfeld. She served in this capacity for only three years, and was broken up for...
    31 KB (3,880 words) - 19:11, 12 June 2025