phase space
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- noun
- /feɪz speɪs/
- Specialized
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espacio de fase
- In physics, the location of a system's state can be represented as a point in phase space.
- phase space volume
- phase space region
- total phase space
That's the definition for phase space of identical particles.
- That's the definition for phase space of identical particles.
- This six dimensional space is called phase space.
- And engineers like to represent a sine wave by a vector, by an arrow in an abstract space, which is called the phase space.
Examples
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That's the idea behind dynamical tunneling, or the hopping between separate, stable regions in phase space.
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The dots filling the area between islands indicate the phase-space positions of particles in chaotic motion.
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Take a pair of points in the phase space and follow them.
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Because of the behavior of the system in phase space?
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Every point in the phase space is unstable like that, right?
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Some points in that phase space will result in the coin landing heads up; color these points black.
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We looked at reshaping the phase space a couple different ways.
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The integral is equal to the phase space action S of classical mechanics.
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In particular, his explanation of the second law depends upon identifying a small fraction of the phase space volume with small probability.
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When aperiodic and irregular signals are analyzed, the phase space can quantitatively analyze the nonlinear dynamic behaviors in the system.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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9.3
A space with more than three dimensions used to show complex relationships
Surface Forms
Morphology
The nouns 'phase' (a stage or state) and 'space' (an area or domain) give a plausible compositional sense of 'a domain for phases', so a learner could guess it refers to some kind of space related to states. However, the precise technical meaning — a multidimensional mathematical space with axes representing variables specifying a system's state — is specialized and not predictable at B1 from the constituents alone, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Phase space comes from the idea of a phase (a complete 'state') and a space (like a map or room). Imagine a map where each point shows an object's position and speed, and as the object moves its point travels across that map, so phase space means the place where you can see every possible 'state' of a system.