Stokes' law
Physics 【物理】
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- a law stating that in fluorescence the wavelength of the emitted radiation is longer than that of the radiation causing it. This is not true in all cases.斯托克斯定律。
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- an expression describing the resisting force on a particle moving through a viscous fluid and showing that a maximum velocity is reached in such cases, e.g. for an object falling under gravity through a fluid斯托克斯定律。
词源
late 19th cent.: named after Sir George Stokes （1819-1903）, British physicist.