Physics
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:W. N. Cottingham & W. N. Cottingham & D. A. Greenwood [ and ]

Figure 13.1 Quark–antiquark annihilation is the principal process contributing to W and Z production in proton–antiproton collisions at present day collider energies. The quark–antiquark pair responsible for gauge boson production ...
( Category: Physics June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:J. B. Zirker

A Celebrity Rogue Wave The most famous wave in maritime history was recorded by instruments on the Draupner oil rig in the North Sea off Norway on January 1, 1995. ...
( Category: Physics June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-15 | Author:Harry Hochstadt [Hochstadt, Harry]

where δ(P, P0) is a delta function. Here P and P0 denote two points in space P = (r, θ, φ), P0 = (r0, θ0, φ0). P0 will be taken ...
( Category: Physics June 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Atkins, Peter [Atkins, Peter]

14.25‡ Ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiation in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum energetic enough to disrupt DNA in biological organisms and that is absorbed by no other abundant atmospheric constituent. ...
( Category: Chemistry June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Blatner [Blatner, David]

Echo, Echo When we explored light and its wavelengths, we were dealing with extremely small fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation—sizes on the order of millionths and billionths of a meter. Sound ...
( Category: Physics June 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Pickover, Clifford A

In this chapter, as in others, we’ve seen the prominent role that integers play in religion. However, the Urantia religion appears to attribute significance to multidigit numbers (e.g., 5,342,482,337,666), more ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:David Prutchi & Shanni Prutchi [Prutchi, David & Prutchi, Shanni]

where E is the energy of the original gamma photon (662 keV for 137Cs), and E’ is the energy of the backscattered photon. The Compton edge thus sits at Ee ...
( Category: Experiments, Instruments & Measurement June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Seth S. Horowitz & Seth Horowitz [Horowitz, Seth S. & Horowitz, Seth]

Chapter 7 Sticky Ears: Soundtracks, Laugh Tracks, and Jingles All the Way One of the first things you have to think about when you start a career in science is ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1991-10-28 | Author:Fritjof Capra

Although the physicists use their mathematical formalism and their diagrams to picture interactions ‘en bloc’ in four-dimensional space-time, they say that in the actual world each observer can only experience ...
( Category: Philosophy June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Paul Cockshott & Lewis M Mackenzie & Gregory Michaelson [Cockshott, Paul & Mackenzie, Lewis M & Michaelson, Gregory]

6.2 The quantum rules Quantum mechanics is a fundamentally epistemological theory. It is arguable that all of science is of this nature, but classical physics can be stated in strongly ...
( Category: Computer Science June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Stuart Kauffman [Kauffman, Stuart]

Chapter 8 High-Country Adventures "edges in the economy of nature," wrote Darwin in his diary, leaving us with a glimpse of his own first glimpse of natural selection. Each organism, ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Fisher, Len [Fisher, Len]

Generosity and Altruism Credible commitment works, even in the absence of underlying trust between parties. If we could have such underlying trust, though, the problems of cooperation would often be ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:James Gleick [Gleick, James]

THE EXPERIMENTER It’s an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that’s happened in his or her ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hermann Weyl

that is, the projection has a true affine character; this means that in the minor space affine geometry holds, of which the dimensions are less by one than those of ...
( Category: Physics June 16,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Louis A. Bloomfield [Bloomfield, Louis A.]

How does a foghorn turn on and off? — M, Brant Rock, MA Although I am not certain, I would guess that most automatic foghorns detect the fog optically. They ...
( Category: Physics June 15,2017 )