epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Allen St. John [St. John, Allen]

* * * * Wolfram, though, is quick to point out that the Butterfly Effect is more useful as a metaphor than a practical example. In the real world, the ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Brian Clegg [Clegg, Brian]

This way of representing the equations does cheat a little. They are equations in more than one dimension, working on matrices of numbers rather than a single value. So the ...

epub |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:Timothy Gay

BAD TO THE BOUNCE There are a number of reasons why kickers want the ball to tumble end-over-end. The first has to do with something we’ve already considered: conservation of ...

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, ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Don Lincoln

Figure 5.6. The damage to the LHC was considerable. Top, a vaporized copper conductor. This damage is localized, although there were several instances like this. Bottom, damage to the connections ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Mark Denny

Bombs Away In World War I it was difficult to aim from airplanes, as well as to aim at them. From the point of view of those on the planes, ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Kaku, Michio [Kaku, Michio]

ATOMIC TRANSISTORS One possible replacement for silicon chips is transistors made of individual atoms. If silicon transistors fail because wires and layers in a chip are going down in size ...