ˈeigenfrequency Physics.
[tr. G. eigenfrequenz.]
One of the frequencies that cause a given system to vibrate; a resonant frequency.
| 1955 W. Heisenberg in W. Pauli Niels Bohr 14 Schrödinger attempted..to resolve quantum theory into a simple classical wave theory. The motive for this attempt was the discovery that the discrete eigenvalues appeared in wave mechanics not as energies, but as the eigenfrequencies of waves. |