Dimensional Analysis

Bridgman, P. W. (1920). Dimensional Analysis. Yale University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1920

Link

https://archive.org/details/dimensionalanaly00bridrich

Cited from

data_science, physics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Curse Of Dimensionality
  • Not dimensional analysis. `dimensional_analysis` reasons about physical units and their consistency to derive scaling laws; the curse concerns degrees of freedom of a state space and how volume grows with their count.

    This sourceFoundational treatment of dimensional analysis: reasoning about physical units and their consistency to derive scaling laws — distinct from degrees-of-freedom dimensionality.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    Bridgman supports the description of dimensional analysis as unit-consistency reasoning used for scaling and model experiments; he says nothing about the curse of dimensionality.

    “the dimensions of all terms will remain the same. This is known as the principle of dimensional homogeneity”

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• Dimensional Analysis
  • (1959) and Bridgman

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    Bridgman's 1922 preface says he is giving the first systematic exposition of the principles of dimensional analysis, supporting his half of the 'formalized by' attribution.

    “I have, therefore, attempted a systematic exposition of the princi- ples underlying the method of dimensional analysis”

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Mechanisms

• Dimensional Analysis Table
  • The table confirms the formula is dimensionally homogeneous before a single number is plugged in.

    This sourcePresents symbolic dimensional-consistency checking as a method used before numerical substitution.

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