Physics
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:N. David Mermin [Mermin, N. David]

References 1.R. K Merton, Science 159, 56 (1968). 2.R. P. Feynman, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 21, 471 (1982). 26. Postscript 1. My plea to readers for evidence that Feynman characterized ...
( Category: Physics March 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Samuel Arbesman

When Physics and Biology Meet The biological aspects of technology—its klugeyness, its growth and change due to evolutionary tinkering, its many miscellaneous details—are extensive. But does this mean that we ...
( Category: Strategic Planning March 1,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Garfield

David Burnett was the man who didn’t get the picture. He was working in Vietnam for Time, Life and the New York Times, and he was standing right by Nick ...
( Category: Time February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eisinger, Josef.

AT SEA AGAIN: HAVANA AND PANAMA After only one day at sea, the weather was noticeably warmer and it was pleasantly humid. Einstein went back to work. Together with Mayer, ...
( Category: Scientists February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Robert K. Adair

THE SPIN OF THE BATTED BALL For almost all bat-ball collisions, the line of momentum transfer through the ball does not coincide with the final direction of the ball’s flight, ...
( Category: Applied February 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Gerald L. Schroeder [Schroeder, Gerald L.]

CHOOSING A REASONABLE MODEL FOR CONVERGENT EVOLUTION I want to learn the statistical probability that nature will produce, independently by random mutations, two structures that are externally similar, although they ...
( Category: Science & Religion February 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:John le Carré

Oldrich Cerný should in no way be compared with either Bakatin or Primakov, both professed communists of their day. In 1993, four years after the Berlin Wall came down, Oldrich ...
( Category: Espionage February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-04 | Author:Jacobs, Greg [Jacobs, Greg]

Rapid Review • Energy is the ability to do work. Both energy and work are scalars. • The work done on an object (or by an object) is equal to ...
( Category: Advanced Placement February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ihor Lubashevsky

5.3.2 Physical and Non-physical Dualistic points of view discussed above operate with the categories of physical and non-physical (mental) opposing them to each other. If in this context we use ...
( Category: Humanism February 25,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-04 | Author:Pejrolo, Andrea & Metcalfe, Scott B. [Pejrolo, Andrea]

Steps for Plan B 1. With just one carrier (no need for a modulator), take its output and feed it back into its own modulation input. 2. With an input ...
( Category: Acoustics February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

Figure 4.2 The patterns produced on the body of an animal by self-organized chemical processes during the development of an embryo (see below) are related to the size of the ...
( Category: Chaos Theory February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gino Segrè

25 CHICAGO BOUND Fermi moved to Chicago at the end of April, but Laura stayed behind in Leonia until the end of June so that the children could finish the ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Dunne, J.W. [Dunne, J.W.]

( Category: Time February 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Barry B. Luokkala

Exactly how many stars in the galaxy have planets is not yet known. What is known is that the fraction f p in Eq. (5.1) is a number less than ...
( Category: Shows February 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-19 | Author:Dan Falk [Falk, Dan]

The Problem of “Now” The slowing down of fast-moving clocks is just one of the ways in which special relativity assaults our commonsense view of time. It also forces us ...
( Category: Time January 20,2017 )