Why retardation takes more time than relaxation in a linear medium

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Jäckle, Josef ^a   Richert, Ranko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

EXPONENTIAL RESPONSES; RETARDATION TIME;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149173303     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031201     Document Type: Article

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