Dictionary of Energy
Covering all aspects of energy and its role in society, this unique text provides a comprehensive and organized body of knowledge on what is certain to become an increasingly vital area of scientific study in the 21st century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Dictionary of Energy
L: La Cour, Poul lysimeter
La Cour, Poul lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR)
La Cour, Poul
1846 1908, Danish engineer, a pioneer of modern aerodynamics and electricity-generating wind turbines who built his own wind tunnel for experiments. La Cour founded a society of wind electricians in 1905, and also founded the world s first journal of wind electricity.
lacustrine
Earth Science. having to do with a lake; relating to or occurring in lakes.
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
1736 1813, French mathematician regarded as the greatest in this field in the 18th century. He developed the calculus of variations, established the theory of differential equations, and provided many new solutions and theorems in number theory.
Lagrangian
Physics. for a discrete mechanical system, a quantity equal to the system s kinetic energy minus its potential energy, regarded as a function of the generalized coordinates, generalized velocities, and time.
laissez-faire
Economics. literally, leave alone; a concept developed in the late 18th century based on the principle that government should generally refrain from involvement in the economic affairs of the nation.
Lakeview gusher
History. an oil well between the towns of Taft and Maricopa in the Central Valley of California, noted for having one of the largest outputs of any single well in the world, an estimated nine million barrels of oil in about 18 months beginning in March 1910, before the well caved in and was abandoned.
Lambert
Lighting. ...
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