Ideograms for Physics and Chemistry

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• 作者：Pablo García Risueño ; Apostolos Syropoulos ; Natàlia Vergés
• 关键词：Communication of science ; Ideograms ; Understanding of Physics ; Psychology of science ; Clear notation ; Elementary particles ; Error ; Assumption
• 刊名：Foundations of Physics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：46
• 期：12
• 页码：1713-1721
• 全文大小：421 KB
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Relativity and Cosmology
  Biophysics and Biomedical Physics
  Mechanics
  Condensed Matter
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9516
• 卷排序：46

文摘

Ideograms (symbols that represent a word or idea) have great communicative value. They refer to concepts in a simple manner, easing the understanding of related ideas. Moreover, ideograms can simplify the often cumbersome notation used in the fields of Physics and physical Chemistry. Nonetheless only a few ideograms—like \(\hbar \) and Å—have been defined to date. In this work we propose that the scientific community follows the example of Mathematics—as well as that of oriental languages—and bestows a more important role upon ideograms. To support this thesis we propose ideograms for essential concepts in Physics and Chemistry. They are designed to be intuitive, and their goal is to make equations easier to read and understand. Our symbols are included in a publicly available package (svrsymbols).