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Re:What Is an Eigenvalue? by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:47AM (#33520252)
Don't know if this counts as a "physical" system, but Google's original PageRank algorithm famously uses eigenvectors and eigenvalues: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/936757/why-is-pager...
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Re:What Is an Eigenvalue? by williamcotton on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:04AM (#33520482)
I have a brief overview of eigenvectors as a 2D shear transformation in this overview of PageRank:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130728183938/williamcotton.com...

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Re:What Is an Eigenvalue? by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:15PM (#33521450)
Oooh, this is great! Thanks very much.
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