Polarization (disambiguation)
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Polarization or polarisation of transverse waves describes the orientation of oscillations in the plane perpendicular to the wave's direction of travel.
Polarization or polarisation can also refer to:
In the physical sciences:
- Polarization density, the vector field that results from permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a material
- Spin polarization, the degree by which the spin of elementary particles is aligned to a given direction
In mathematics:
- Polarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics of complex manifolds
- Polarization of an algebraic form, a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables
In the social sciences:
- Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes
- Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
- Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups
[edit] See also
- Polarity (disambiguation)
- Polarizer, a device which polarizes light
- Depolarization and hyperpolarization of neuronal membrane potentials (in neuroscience).
- Category:Polarization, for articles about polarization of light and other electromagnetic waves
- Polarization in astronomy
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