Talk:Excitation

Would someone care to explain why this is not just a dictionary entry? What interesting bodies of thought have arisen that examine "excitation" as a general concept? If there are none, this page will need to be deleted. I think this page is going to end up, at best, as a redirect page.

--Ryguasu 09:29 Nov 12, 2002 (UTC)

I support deleting this page. It is just confusing matters in the context of an article like Nuclear isomer, which really wants to link to excited state (or some other technical physics page). And I'm not sure how a general article (not specific to physics or some other field) could convey anything beyond the dictionary. --Kingdon 21 Feb 2006


 * For example, one may say that a child is excited or that someone in love glows.

Removed. First off, "glowing" is certainly irrelevant to this article. Second, though one could certainly say that a child is excited, it is meaningless to note this without mentioning the conditions under which this is appropriate. Can it be said of a sleeping child?


 * One may speak of a low level of excitement as depression.

Removed. Perhaps one could speak this way, but it would be nice to clarify in what contexts it is appropriate to do so. If "depression" here refers to clinical depression, then "low level of excitement" is a shallow parody thereof.


 * processes proceed faster as illustrated by the word for frenzied activity of a person, mania.

hey this is soo awesome!!

Removed. What is going on here? Are we trying to replace interesting psychological theories (say, about bipolar disorder) with sound bites? I think some discussion about the future of this article is in order. --Ryguasu 21:04 Dec 2, 2002 (UTC)

Disambiguation
There definitely should be a disambiguation page for this word and its variants. Perhaps there should be pages for Excitation (physics) and Excitation (emotions). In addition, Excite refers to the search engine, EXCITING refers to software. --George100 17:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Further Disambiguation necessary
Excitation is also found in Electrical engineering - that's why I'm here.

The Excitation system is used for creating the currents in the rotors of electrical motors or generators which do not use a permanent magnet. I don't know more than this - but more information should be linked from here.