Erwin Schordinger, an austrian physicist famous for his theory of wave equations, his name Schordinger is always written with two dots on top of O, why is that?
2007-06-27 05:54:08 · 11 answers · asked by deepak_hellboy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
One dot means the cat is dead, the other dot means the cat is alive.
You have to connect the dots to find out!
2007-06-27 06:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called an umlaut. It can appear above german vowels (a,e, i,o, u), which allows them to be pronounced different. Two words spelt the same, one with an umlaut over the vowel and one without will also mean different things.
Schrodinger seems to be a German derived surname (as most are in Austria), so the umlaut may have been down to differentiate between two houses - one with and one without the umlaut, hence pronounced differently.
2007-06-27 06:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Tsumego 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dots are called an umlaut, and it has to do with the Germanic origin of his name. The German alphabet uses the o with these marks, a type of diacritical mark, to add the sound of an "e" after the o. His name is also spelt Schroedinger sometimes, and pronounced "Shroh-eedinger" or sometimes "Shroydinger" instead of "Shrohdinger."
2007-06-27 05:59:30 · answer #3 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, first things first. The correct spelling is Schrodinger. The two dots above o represent a sound loke yo instead of o in German. It is called an umlaut.
2007-06-27 06:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by Swamy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is an umlaut, a symbol in the German language. In order to pronounce it, you shape your mouth like you're going to say "Oh" (except more exaggerated--really make your mouth into an "O") and say "A" (like the letter "A"). If that's too hard then you can "cheat" and pronounce it like "er." Also, when you're typing it and can't produce an umlaut, you should spell it "Schoerdinger."
2007-06-27 06:05:15 · answer #5 · answered by Colleen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schrodinger.
Those dots are called umlauts, which help to describe the type of sound that the O represents.
Learn more about umlauts and Schrodinger below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlauts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger
2007-06-27 05:58:27 · answer #6 · answered by Brian L 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a german umlaut. It is just a way of writing seen in the german language. It denotes a different vowel sound.
2007-06-27 05:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by yeeeehaw 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it has to do with the language not science the dots are an accent mark like ~ over some n's in spanish
2007-06-27 05:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by get_lost23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They call it umlat. That's how you correctly spell his name in German. And in German there is a way of pronouncing that letter other than the actual "O".
2007-06-27 05:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by JJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're called an umlat. they make the o sound really flat, more like an "uh" sound. it's a german punctuation mark.
2007-06-27 05:57:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋