Isotropic : physical characteristic that is attributed to a material system when it presents the same physical properties in all directions, in the sense that if quantities such as electrical and thermal conductivity, expansion, etc. are measured, they do not depend on the direction.
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- 1 Example of isotropes
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Example of isotropes
All polycrystalline gases , liquids and solids , while not respecting this property, and are therefore called anisotropic, monocrystalline solids, for which physical properties often depend on direction. The isotropy is one of the fundamental properties of space.
In Physics
It refers to the fact that certain commensurable vector quantities give identical results regardless of the direction chosen for said measurement. When a certain magnitude does not have isotropy, it is said to have anisotropy .
In math
Refers to a geometric property of invariance in a differentiable variety
