Fundamental Plane

The fundamental plane may refer to:

  • Fundamental plane (spherical coordinates), which divides a spherical coordinate system
  • Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies), which shows an empirical relationship among mean surface brightness, velocity dispersion and effective radius of an elliptical galaxy

Famous quotes containing the words fundamental and/or plane:

    “Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.”
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    “In time the scouring of wind and rain will wear down the ranges and plane off the region until it has the drab monotony of the older deserts. In the meantime—a two-million-year meantime—travelers may enjoy the cruel beauties of a desert in its youth,....”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)