Poisson's Equation
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Poisson's And Laplace's Equation
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2025
The electric potential of the system can be calculated by relating it to the electric charge densities that give rise to the electric potential. The differential form of Gauss's law expresses the electric field's divergence in terms of the electric charge density. On the other hand, the electric field is expressed as the gradient of the electric potential. Combining the above two equations, an electric potential is expressed in terms of the electric charge density. This equation is called...
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Poisson's Ratio
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2024
Poisson's ratio is a material property that indicates their stress response. It explains the connection between the elongation or compression a material undergoes in the direction of an applied force and the contraction or expansion it experiences perpendicular to that force. When a slender bar is loaded axially, it stretches in the direction of the force and contracts laterally. Poisson's ratio is the negative ratio of this lateral contraction to the axial elongation. The negative sign ensures...
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Poisson Probability Distribution
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2023
A Poisson probability distribution is a discrete probability distribution. It gives the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space if these events happen at a known average rate and independently of the time since the last event. For example, a book editor might be interested in the number of words spelled incorrectly in a particular book. It might be that, on average, there are five words spelled incorrectly in 100 pages. The interval is 100 pages. The...
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Chemical Equations
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2020
Chemical equations represent the identities and relative quantities of substances involved in a chemical reaction. The substances undergoing reaction are called reactants, and their formulas are placed on the left side of the equation. The substances generated by the reaction are called products, and their formulas are placed on the right side of the equation. Plus signs (+) separate individual reactant and product formulas, and an arrow (→) separates the reactant and product (left and right)...
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Thermochemical Equations
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2020
For a chemical reaction (the system) carried out at constant pressure – with the only work done caused by expansion or contraction – the enthalpy of reaction (also called the heat of reaction, ΔHrxn) is equal to the heat exchanged with the surroundings (qp). The change in enthalpy is an extensive property, and it depends on the amounts of the reactants participating in the reaction (or the number of moles of reactants). The change in enthalpy is specific to the reaction, and the physical...
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The source term specifies how the field departs locally from a source-free state, while boundary conditions restrict the allowable field at the system’s edges. A solution must satisfy both requirements simultaneously. This interaction explains why identical charge or mass distributions can be associated with different field patterns when the surrounding geometry or edge constraints change.
When the source function f is zero, Poisson's equation reduces to Laplace's equation, describing a source-free state. This distinction separates fields shaped by internal charge, mass, or other distributed sources from fields whose spatial pattern is governed only by boundary conditions. Comparing the two cases shows how source terms alter curvature and the resulting field distribution.
The Laplacian provides a way to interpret how spatial curvature corresponds to the source distribution in a physical system. Examining this relationship connects the shape of a calculated field to the charge, mass, or other source represented by f. That interpretation helps link mathematical solutions with physical patterns in space.
A practical workflow begins by identifying the physical field u, expressing its source as f, and specifying boundary conditions. The equation can then be treated analytically when the geometry and materials permit a tractable solution. For more complex cases, researchers use numerical approaches such as finite differences or finite elements and interpret the resulting field physically.
Finite-difference and finite-element methods extend Poisson's equation to cases involving complex geometries and heterogeneous materials. They provide numerical routes for systems where an analytical solution is difficult to obtain in a direct form. Researchers can therefore calculate spatial fields in less uniform settings while preserving the equation’s source term and boundary-condition structure.
Its solutions can represent electric potential produced by charge density, gravitational potential produced by mass density, and steady-state temperature or fluid-pressure distributions. These applications use the same mathematical framework while assigning different physical meanings to the field u and source function f. The approach therefore connects one equation to several distinct areas of physics.