Talk:Electrical mobility

It seems the article on electron mobility says much of the same thing as this article. I think that since there is no article on ion mobility, I'll just merge electron mobility into here. IlyaV

Merge proposal

It seems that 'great minds think alike' (or is that 'fools seldom differ'). I was going to propose that we merge electron mobility into electrical mobility. It might be better, though, to merge them both into a new article; ideas might be mobility (physics), charge mobility, ion mobility, particle mobility. I am partial to mobility (physics) as it will be easiest to find and the most general. Unfortunately, the term ion does not apply to electrons.

Unfortunately, I am up to my ears in other mergers to do this soon. Plus I would like to get some feedback before I will do this. TStein (talk) 17:19, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Mobility may refer to something different from Electrical Mobility, so I think you need to include 'electrical' in the title. (see http://www.springerlink.com/content/01550673743p485t/ , where electrical mobility $\mu$ of an ion is given by $\mu =zeu$ in terms of mobility $u$, valency $z$ and electron charge $e$. ) I agree that electron mobility should be merged here though. -- Rjw62 (talk) 19:50, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Merge. Rothbrad —Preceding undated comment added 17:53, 8 July 2009 (UTC).

I am sorry for sudden interruption, but I have to insist this merge is scientifically impossible (two incompatible notions from two remotely related areas of physics, particle/plasma physics and solid state physics) and remove the mergers. In particular, electron mobility is a fundamental concept in SSP and there is no way whatsoever it can be called electrical mobility. Materialscientist (talk) 22:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

The definitions are not incompatible, they are identical: Apply a uniform electric field E, watch how fast something moves on average in response, divide the velocity by the electric field. That "something" can be an electron in a solid, or an ion in a fluid, or whatever, it's still the same definition.

However, they shouldn't be merged because there's an enormous amount to be said about electron mobility that isn't relevant to other kinds of electrical mobility. Instead, the article should make it clearer that electron mobility is a special case of the general definition, and should "main article" link to the article electron mobility. I just put a hatnote link for now. :-) --Steve (talk) 04:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)