?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Weber's+Law+Modeled+by+the+Mathematical+Description+of+a+Beam+Balance&rft.creator=Lanzara%2C+Richard+G.&rft.subject=Psycoloquy&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Behavioral+%26+Brain+Sciences&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psychophysiology&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Physiological+Psychology&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.description=A+beam+balance+is+analyzed+as+a+model+that+describes+Weber's+law.++The+mathematical+derivations+of+the+torques+on+a+beam+balance+produce+a+description+that+is+strictly+compatible+with+that+law.++The+natural+relationship+of+the+beam+balance+model+to+Weber's+law+provides+for+an+intuitive+understanding+of+the+relationship+of+Weber's+law+to+sensory+and+receptor+systems.+Additionally%2C+this+model+may+offer+a+simple+way+to+compute+perturbations+that+result+from+unequal+effects+on+coupled+steady+state+systems.+A+practical+outgrowth+from+this+work+is+that+a+relatively+simple+mathematical+description+models+sensory+phenomena+and+may+aid+in+the+understanding+of+sensory+and+receptor+systems.&rft.publisher=Elsevier+Science+Inc.&rft.contributor=Jacquez%2C+Prof.+John+A.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4094%2F1%2FWeber%2527s_Law.pdf&rft.identifier=++Lanzara%2C+Richard+G.++(1994)+Weber's+Law+Modeled+by+the+Mathematical+Description+of+a+Beam+Balance.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4094%2F