Power law

The term power laws has several meanings:

• In mathematics , power laws are rules for calculating with powers , see here .
• In the natural sciences , power laws are understood to be dependencies between quantities in the form of a power function . Specifically: ${\displaystyle y=ax^{r}}$
  • In statistics and chaos theory, power laws are an expression of the scale invariance of many natural phenomena, see power law (statistics) .
  • In rheology, a number of flow laws for liquids can be expressed by power laws for fluids .
  • In meteorology, the wind speed at one height can be converted to various other heights using Hellmann's power law .
  • The Stevenssche power law on the relationship between stimulus intensity and sensation strength.

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