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:
- 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.