List of equations explained

This is a list of equations, by Wikipedia page under appropriate bands of their field.

Eponymous equations

The following equations are named after researchers who discovered them.

Mathematics

• Cauchy–Riemann equations
• Chapman–Kolmogorov equation
• Maurer–Cartan equation
• Pell's equation
• Poisson's equation
• Riccati equation
• sine-Gordon equation
• Verhulst equation

Physics

• Ampère's circuital law
• Bernoulli's equation
• Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy of equations
• Bessel's differential equation
• Boltzmann equation
• Borda–Carnot equation
• Burgers' equation
• Darcy–Weisbach equation
• Dirac equation
  • Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space
• Dirac–Kähler equation
• Doppler equations
• Drake equation (aka Green Bank equation)
• Einstein's field equations
• Euler equations (fluid dynamics)
• Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics)
• Relativistic Euler equations
• Euler–Lagrange equation
• Faraday's law of induction
• Fokker–Planck equation
• Fresnel equations
• Friedmann equations
• Gauss's law for electricity
• Gauss's law for gravity
• Gauss's law for magnetism
• Gibbs–Helmholtz equation
• Gross–Pitaevskii equation
• Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation
• Helmholtz equation
• Karplus equation
• Kepler's equation
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
• Kirchhoff's diffraction formula
• Klein–Gordon equation
• Korteweg–de Vries equation
• Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
• Lane–Emden equation
• Langevin equation
• Levy–Mises equations
• Lindblad equation
• Lorentz equation
• Maxwell's equations
• Maxwell's relations
• Newton's laws of motion
• Navier–Stokes equations
• Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations
• Prandtl–Reuss equations
• Prony equation
• Rankine–Hugoniot equation
• Roothaan equations
• Saha ionization equation
• Sackur–Tetrode equation
• Samik Hazra equation
• Schrödinger equation
• screened Poisson equation
• Schwinger–Dyson equation
• Sellmeier equation
• Stokes–Einstein relation
• Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
• Van der Waals equation
• Vlasov equation
• Wiener equation

Chemistry

• Arrhenius equation
• Butler–Volmer equation
• Eyring equation
• Henderson–Hasselbalch equation
• Michaelis–Menten equation
• Nernst equation
• Schrödinger equation
• Urey–Bigeleisen–Mayer equation

Biology

• Breeder's equation
• Hardy–Weinberg principle
• Hill equation
• Lotka–Volterra equation
• Michaelis–Menten equation
• Poiseuille equation
• Price equation

Economics

• Black–Scholes equation
• Fisher equation

Other equations

Mathematics

• Polynomial equation
  • Linear equation
  • Quadratic equation
  • Cubic equation
  • Biquadratic equation
  • Quartic equation
  • Quintic equation
  • Sextic equation
• Characteristic equation
• Class equation
• Comparametric equation
• Difference equation
  • Matrix difference equation
• Differential equation
  • Matrix differential equation
  • Ordinary differential equation
  • Partial differential equation
  • Total differential equation
• Diophantine equation
• Equation
• Modular equation
• Parametric equation
• Replicator equation

Physics

• Advection equation
• Barotropic vorticity equation
• Continuity equation
• Diffusion equation
• Drag equation
• Equations of motion
• Equation of state
• Equation of time
• Heat equation
• Ideal gas equation
• Ideal MHD equations
• Mass–energy equivalence equation
• Primitive equations
• Relativistic wave equations
• Vis-viva equation
• Vorticity equation
• Wave equation

Chemistry

• Chemical equation (aka molecular equation)
• Thermochemical equation

Telecommunications engineering

• Password length equation
• Telegrapher's equations

• Functional equation
• Functional equation (L-function)

Lists of equations

• Constitutive equation
• Laws of science
• Defining equation (physical chemistry)
• List of equations in classical mechanics
• Table of thermodynamic equations
• List of equations in wave theory
• List of electromagnetism equations
• List of relativistic equations
• List of equations in fluid mechanics
• List of equations in gravitation
• List of photonics equations
• List of equations in quantum mechanics
• List of equations in nuclear and particle physics

See also

• Variables commonly used in physics
• Equation solving
• Theory of equations