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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balsa%20wood%20bridge | The building of balsa-wood bridges is often used as an educational technology. It may be accompanied by a larger project involving varying areas of study.
Typically classes which would include a balsa wood bridge cover the subject areas of physics, engineering, static equilibrium, or building trades, although it may b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft%20f%C3%BCr%20Angewandte%20Mathematik%20und%20Mechanik | Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist Ludwig Prandtl and the mathematician Richard von Mises. The society awards the Richard von Mise... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20S.%20McCready | Rear Admiral Lauren S. McCready (July 26, 1915 – November 15, 2007) was one of the builders and founders of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, "Kings Point."
He graduated from New York University in 1937 with a degree in mechanical engineering, soon after he received his marine engineers license. He continued ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20Barz | Monkey Barz is the debut solo studio album by American Brooklyn-based rapper Sean Price of Heltah Skeltah. It was released on May 31, 2005 through Duck Down Records as a part of the label's "Triple Threat Campaign", followed by Buckshot's Chemistry and Tek & Steele's Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded. The cover art is based on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20%28Buckshot%20and%209th%20Wonder%20album%29 | Chemistry is the first collaborative studio album by American rapper Buckshot and record producer 9th Wonder. It was released on June 21, 2005 through Duck Down Music as a part of the label's "Triple Threat Campaign", preceded by Sean Price's Monkey Barz and followed by Tek & Steele's Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded. Recordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Colombo%2C%20Centre%20for%20Instrument%20Development | Centre for Instrument Development (aka CID) is a multidisciplinary research group / centre that is part of the department of physics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It offers technical courses in certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
History
CID is founded by Professor T R Ariyaratne in 2000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Mathematical%20Sciences | The International Society for Mathematical Sciences is a mathematics society, primarily based in Japan. It was formerly known as the Japanese Association of Mathematical Sciences, and was founded in 1948 by Tatsujiro Shimizu.
The ISMS publishes a bimonthly scientific journal, Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (), which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Biological%20Sciences | The Journal of Biological Sciences is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research relating to general biology, biochemistry, genetics, and biotechnology. It was established in 2001 and is published by Science Alert on behalf of the Asian Network for Scientific Information. The publisher Science Ale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza%20Tahmasbi | Alireza Tahmasebi (, born 1961) is Iran's former Minister of Industry and Mines. He resigned on the 10 of August 2007.
He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Université Laval. His master's degree was from Shiraz University.
External links
Presidential Bio
Government ministers of Iran
Shiraz University alumn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20map | A finite map can be one of the following:
In computer science, finite map is a synonym for an associative array.
A finite map in algebraic geometry is a regular map such that the preimage of any point is a finite set, plus a closedness property. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20force | In physics the term exchange force has been used to describe two distinct concepts which should not be confused.
Exchange of force carriers in particle physics
The preferred meaning of exchange force is in particle physics, where it denotes a force produced by the exchange of force carrier particles, such as the elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuret%20test | In chemistry, the Biuret test (IPA: , ), also known as Piotrowski's test, is a chemical test used for detecting the presence of at least two peptide bonds in a molecule. In the presence of peptides, a copper(II) ion forms mauve-colored coordination complexes in an alkaline solution. The reaction was first observed in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamm%20equation | The Lamm equation describes the sedimentation and diffusion of a solute under ultracentrifugation in traditional sector-shaped cells. (Cells of
other shapes require much more complex equations.) It was named after Ole Lamm, later professor of physical chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology, who derived it durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorenje%20Dialog | Dialog was a microcomputer system developed by Gorenje in 1980s. It was based on the 8-bit 4 MHz Zilog Z-80A microprocessor. The primary operating system was FEDOS (CP/M 2.2 compatible), developed by Computer Structures and Systems Laboratory (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana) and Gorenje.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Genetics%20and%20Society | The Center for Genetics and Society (CGS) is a non-profit information and public affairs organization based in Berkeley, California, United States. It encourages responsible use and regulation of new human genetic and reproductive technologies.
CGS provides analysis and educational materials; furthermore, they organiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Darr | Lisa Darr (born April 21, 1963) is an American actress.
Life and career
Darr was born Lisa Darr Grabemann in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Mollie, an actress, and Karl Grabemann, a lawyer. She attended Stanford University and graduated in 1985 with a degree in biology. She went on to receive an MFA in Acting from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Morrison | Ron Morrison was the head of School of the computer science department of the University of St. Andrews where he worked on programming languages, inventing S-algol, and coinventing PS-algol and Napier88. He had graduated from St. Andrews with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1979. He is also heavily involved with loca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Guralnik | Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recogni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Waugh%20%28historian%29 | Daniel C. Waugh is a historian based at the University of Washington. He did his undergraduate work at Yale University, and in 1963 graduated with a B.A. in Physics. In 1965, he finished his Master's on the Regional Studies of the Soviet Union at Harvard University, and seven years later he completed his Ph.D. at the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arend%20Joan%20Rutgers | Arend Joan Rutgers (20 October 1903 – 2 September 1998) was a Dutch-Belgian physical chemist.
Arend Joan Rutgers went to high school in Almelo, after which he studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. He later obtained his master's degree in 1926 he went to Leiden, where he studied theoretical physics under Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20Aloud%3A%20Off%20the%20Record | Girls Aloud: Off the Record is a six-part series recorded by Girls Aloud for E4 that started on 11 April 2006 at 10:30pm. The show was produced by E4 and Monkey Kingdom Productions for Channel Four Television Corporation.
The series follows Girls Aloud in the buildup to their 2006 Chemistry arena tour, from appearing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Tahoe%E2%80%93Nevada%20State%20Park | Lake Tahoe–Nevada State Park is a state park comprising multiple management units and public recreation areas on the northeast shores of Lake Tahoe in the U.S. state of Nevada. The park covers approximately . The Marlette Lake Water System, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Rabinow | Paul M. Rabinow (June 21, 1944 – April 6, 2021) was a professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He is perhaps... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Institute%20for%20Theoretical%20Astrophysics | The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) is a national research institute funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, located at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. CITA's mission is "to foster interaction within the Canadian theoretical Astrophysics community a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebiotic | Prebiotic may refer to:
Prebiotic (chemistry), inorganic or organic chemistry in the natural environment before the advent of life on Earth
Prebiotic (nutrition), non-digestible food ingredients
See also
Probiotic, live microorganisms claimed provide health benefits when consumed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20chemistry | Soil chemistry is the study of the chemical characteristics of soil. Soil chemistry is affected by mineral composition, organic matter and environmental factors. In the early 1870s a consulting chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society in England, named J. Thomas Way, performed many experiments on how soils exchange io... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stressed%20skin | In mechanical engineering, stressed skin is a type of rigid construction, intermediate between monocoque and a rigid frame with a non-loaded covering. A stressed skin structure has its compression-taking elements localized and its tension-taking elements distributed. Typically, the main frame has rectangular structure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition%20%28biology%29 | Competition is an interaction between organisms or species in which both require a resource that is in limited supply (such as food, water, or territory). Competition lowers the fitness of both organisms involved since the presence of one of the organisms always reduces the amount of the resource available to the other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogiji%20Maharaj | Yogiji Maharaj (23 May 1892 – 23 January 1971), born Jina Vasani, was a Hindu swami and the fourth spiritual successor of Swaminarayan in the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), a major branch of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. According to the metaphysics of BAPS, Yogiji Maharaj is considered to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Emmanuel%20%28mathematician%29 | David Emmanuel (31 January 1854 – 4 February 1941) was a Romanian Jewish mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy, considered to be the founder of the modern mathematics school in Romania.
Born in Bucharest, Emmanuel studied at Gheorghe Lazăr and Gheorghe Șincai high schools. In 1873 he went to Paris, where he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM%20%28disambiguation%29 | GSM is the Global System for Mobile communications, a standard for networking mobile devices such as mobile telephones.
GSM may also refer to:
Education
GSM London, a higher education provider in England
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, formerly Guildhall School of Music, England
Graduate Studies in Mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20representation | A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality or its abstractions.
Mental representation is the mental imagery of things that are not actually present ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropatterning | Micropatterning is the art of miniaturisation of patterns. Especially used for electronics, it has recently become a standard in biomaterials engineering and for fundamental research on cellular biology by mean of soft lithography. It generally uses photolithography methods but many techniques have been developed.
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Vaidman | Lev Vaidman (born 4 September 1955) is a Russian-Israeli physicist and Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for his theoretical work in the area of fundamentals of quantum mechanics, which includes quantum teleportation, the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, and the weak values. He was a member of the Edit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, the Adams spectral sequence is a spectral sequence introduced by which computes the stable homotopy groups of topological spaces. Like all spectral sequences, it is a computational tool; it relates homology theory to what is now called stable homotopy theory. It is a reformulation using homological alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20index | In combinatorial mathematics a cycle index is a polynomial in several variables which is structured in such a way that information about how a group of permutations acts on a set can be simply read off from the coefficients and exponents. This compact way of storing information in an algebraic form is frequently used i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran%20Libeskind-Hadas | Ran Libeskind-Hadas is the founding chair of the Department of Integrated Sciences at Claremont McKenna College. He was previously a professor of computer science at Harvey Mudd College where he served as chair of that department and associate dean of faculty. His research interests lie in the area of algorithms for co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Levine | Jerome Paul Levine (May 4, 1937 – April 8, 2006) was a mathematician who contributed to the understanding of knot theory.
Education and career
Born in New York City, Levine received his B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1962, studying un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20Klein%20bottle | In mathematics, a solid Klein bottle is a three-dimensional topological space (a 3-manifold) whose boundary is the Klein bottle.
It is homeomorphic to the quotient space obtained by gluing the top disk of a cylinder to the bottom disk by a reflection across a diameter of the disk.
Alternatively, one can visualize th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Sterling | Professor Leon Sterling is a career academic with a distinguished academic record. After completing a PhD at the Australian National University, he worked for 15 years at universities in the UK, Israel and the United States. He returned to Australia as Professor of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne in 199... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20partial%20differential%20equation | In mathematics, a first-order partial differential equation is a partial differential equation that involves only first derivatives of the unknown function of n variables. The equation takes the form
Such equations arise in the construction of characteristic surfaces for hyperbolic partial differential equations, in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20inequality | In mathematics, the Poincaré inequality is a result in the theory of Sobolev spaces, named after the French mathematician Henri Poincaré. The inequality allows one to obtain bounds on a function using bounds on its derivatives and the geometry of its domain of definition. Such bounds are of great importance in the mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Wilson | Robin Wilson may refer to:
R. N. D. Wilson (1899–1953), Irish poet
Robin Wilson (author) (1928–2013), science fiction author
Robin Wilson (mathematician) (born 1943), head of pure mathematics at the Open University, UK
Robin Wilson (field hockey) (born 1957), New Zealand field hockey player
Robin Wilson (musician) (bor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20points%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29 |
Critical point
References
CRC.a-d
David R. Lide (ed), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Edition, online version. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida, 2003; Section 6, Fluid Properties; Critical Constants. Also agrees with Celsius values from Section 4: Properties of the Elements and Inorganic Compounds, Meltin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20physics | Space physics, also known as solar-terrestrial physics or space-plasma physics, is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere (aeronomy) and within the Solar System. As such, it encompasses a far-ranging number of topics, such as heliophysics which includes the solar physics of the Sun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%27s%20theorem | In metalogic and metamathematics, Frege's theorem is a metatheorem that states that the Peano axioms of arithmetic can be derived in second-order logic from Hume's principle. It was first proven, informally, by Gottlob Frege in his 1884 Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (The Foundations of Arithmetic) and proven more forma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, synchronization is the task of coordinating multiple of processes to join up or handshake at a certain point, in order to reach an agreement or commit to a certain sequence of action.
Motivation
The need for synchronization does not arise merely in multi-processor systems but for any kind of conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20linked%20list | In computer science, a doubly linked list is a linked data structure that consists of a set of sequentially linked records called nodes. Each node contains three fields: two link fields (references to the previous and to the next node in the sequence of nodes) and one data field. The beginning and ending nodes' previo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha%20Institute%20of%20Nuclear%20Physics | The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha.
Previous Directors
Gautam Bhattacharyya
Ajit Mohanty
Bikas Chakrabarti
Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand%20isomerism | In coordination chemistry, ligand isomerism is a type of structural isomerism in coordination complexes which arises from the presence of ligands which can adopt different isomeric forms. 1,2-Diaminopropane and 1,3-Diaminopropane are the examples that each feature a different isomer would be ligand isomers.
Chemical b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Selmi | Francesco Selmi (7 April 1817 – 13 August 1881) was an Italian chemist and patriot, one of the founders of colloid chemistry.
Selmi was born in Vignola, then part of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. He became head of a chemistry laboratory in Modena in 1840, and a professor of chemical pharmacology and toxicology at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Bialik | Carl Bialik is an American journalist and YouGov America's vice president of data science and U.S. politics editor. Earlier, Bialik was known for his work for The Wall Street Journal. In 2013, Bialik was hired by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com. In 2017 he was named data science editor of Yelp, working on Yelpblog.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppe%20sequence | In mathematics, the Puppe sequence is a construction of homotopy theory, so named after Dieter Puppe. It comes in two forms: a long exact sequence, built from the mapping fibre (a fibration), and a long coexact sequence, built from the mapping cone (which is a cofibration). Intuitively, the Puppe sequence allows us to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20cut | In mathematics, specifically in symplectic geometry, the symplectic cut is a geometric modification on symplectic manifolds. Its effect is to decompose a given manifold into two pieces. There is an inverse operation, the symplectic sum, that glues two manifolds together into one. The symplectic cut can also be viewed a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier%20%28computer%20science%29 | In parallel computing, a barrier is a type of synchronization method. A barrier for a group of threads or processes in the source code means any thread/process must stop at this point and cannot proceed until all other threads/processes reach this barrier.
Many collective routines and directive-based parallel language... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTB%20mechatronics | KTB mechatronics GmbH is the former name of qfix robotics GmbH, located in Senden, near Ulm, in the southern part of Germany.
The company develops and produces industrial products in the mechatronics and robotics field.
The main product is the qfix family of robot kits.
References
External links
qfix robotics GmbH... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAR%201 | NAR 1 or just NAR (Serbian Nastavni Računar, en. Educational Computer) was a theoretical model of a computer created by Faculty of Mathematics of University of Belgrade professor Nedeljko Parezanović (In Serbian:Недељко Парезановић). It was used for Assembly language and Computer architecture courses.
Specifications
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAR%202 | NAR 2 (Serbian Nastavni Računar 2, en. Educational Computer 2) is a theoretical model of a 32-bit word computer created by Faculty of Mathematics of University of Belgrade professor Nedeljko Parezanović as an enhancement to its predecessor, NAR 1. It was used for Assembly language and Computer architecture courses. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambros%20D.%20Callimahos | Lambros Demetrios Callimahos (December 16, 1910 – October 28, 1977) was a US Army cryptologist and a flute player.
Early life and education
Callimahos was born in Alexandria of Greek parents; the family emigrated to the United States when he was four. His father was a journalist.
His main interests at school were in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motosaburo%20Masuyama | was a Japanese statistician who championed the ideas of R.A. Fisher and went on to influence the fields of quality control and biometrics.
Life
Born Otaru, Hokkaidō, Masuyama graduated in physics from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1937 and earned his doctorate in 1943. Characterising Fisher's approach to statist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-silicon%20effect | The beta-silicon effect in organosilicon chemistry, also called silicon hyperconjugation, is a special type of hyperconjugation that describes the stabilizing influence of a silicon atom on the development of positive charge at a carbon atom one position removed (β) from the silicon atom. The C-Si σ orbital is said to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/189%20%28number%29 | 189 (one hundred [and] eighty-nine) is the natural number following 188 and preceding 190.
In mathematics
189 is a centered cube number and a heptagonal number.
The centered cube numbers are the sums of two consecutive cubes, and 189 can be written as sum of two cubes in two ways: and The smallest number that can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20M.%20Cover | Thomas M. Cover [ˈkoʊvər] (August 7, 1938 – March 26, 2012) was an American information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics.
Early ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans%20instability | In stellar physics, the Jeans instability causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation, named after James Jeans. It occurs when the internal gas pressure is not strong enough to prevent gravitational collapse of a region filled with matter. For stability, the cloud must be in hydrostatic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E0 | E0 or E00 can refer to :
ε0, in mathematics, the smallest member of the epsilon numbers, a type of ordinal number
ε0, in physics, vacuum permittivity, the absolute dielectric permittivity of classical vacuum
E0 (cipher), a cipher used in the Bluetooth protocol
E0 (robot), a 1986 humanoid robot by Honda
Eo, in elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%20loop | In mathematics and abstract algebra, a Bol loop is an algebraic structure generalizing the notion of group. Bol loops are named for the Dutch mathematician Gerrit Bol who introduced them in .
A loop, L, is said to be a left Bol loop if it satisfies the identity
, for every a,b,c in L,
while L is said to be a right... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20%28mutual%20inductance%29 | In electrical engineering, dot marking convention, or alphanumeric marking convention, or both, can be used to denote the same relative instantaneous polarity of two mutually inductive components such as between transformer windings. These markings may be found on transformer cases beside terminals, winding leads, nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Statistical%20Mathematics | The Institute of Statistical Mathematics is Japan's national research institute for statistical science. In October 2009, it relocated from the Azabu district of Tokyo to Tachikawa. Founded in 1944, since 2004 it has been part of the Research Organization of Information and Systems ().
The Institute is represented on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20linkage | In electrical engineering the term flux linkage is used to define the interaction of a multi-turn inductor with the magnetic flux as described by the Faraday's law of induction. Since the contributions of all turns in the coil add up, in the over-simplified situation of the same flux passing through all the turns, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Fangguo | Zhang Fangguo is an associate professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of the School of Information Science and Technology at Sun Yat-sen University in P.R. China. His main research interests include Pairings Based Cryptosystems, Elliptic Curve and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, Prova... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20Theory%20of%20Crystal%20Lattices | Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices is a book in solid state physics, authored collaboratively by Max Born and Kun Huang. The book was originally started by Born in c. 1940, and was finished in the 1950s by Huang in consultation with Born. The text is considered a classical treatise on the subject of lattice dynamics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advancing%20Physics | Advancing Physics is an A-level physics course examined by OCR which was developed in association with the Institute of Physics (IOP) with assessment through written examinations and teacher-assessed coursework. It may also be referred to Physics 'B' to distinguish it from OCR's other A-Level Physics course.
Assessmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Szydlo | Andrew Zbigniew Szydlo ( ; born 1949) is a British chemist and chemistry teacher, best known for his talks and lectures on chemistry.
Biography
Szydlo was born in London, England to Polish parents, and attended Latymer Upper School, and then Imperial College London and University College London. He currently teaches –... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke%20Pleijel | Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel (10 August 1913 – 24 September 1989) was a Swedish mathematician.
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1940 (with Torsten Carleman as supervisor), and later became Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala University.
Åke Vilhelm Carl Pleijel published the paper in whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20half-exact%20functor | In mathematics, a topological half-exact functor F is a functor from a fixed topological category (for example CW complexes or pointed spaces) to an abelian category (most frequently in applications, category of abelian groups or category of modules over a fixed ring) that has a following property: for each sequence of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminal | In chemistry, the descriptor geminal () refers to the relationship between two atoms or functional groups that are attached to the same atom. A geminal diol, for example, is a diol (a molecule that has two alcohol functional groups) attached to the same carbon atom, as in methanediol. Also the shortened prefix gem may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Sophus%20Epstein | Paul Sophus Epstein (; Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire, March 20, 1883 – Pasadena, California, United States, February 8, 1966) was a Russian-American mathematical physicist. He was known for his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, part of a group that included Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, Thom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20multipole%20moments | In physics, spherical multipole moments are the coefficients in a series expansion of a potential that varies inversely with the distance to a source, i.e., as Examples of such potentials are the electric potential, the magnetic potential and the gravitational potential.
For clarity, we illustrate the expansion for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Swannack%20Jr. | Charles Henry "Chuck" Swannack Jr. (born March 9, 1949) is a former general officer in the United States Army who, once retired, called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Swannack is a 1971 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He later earned an M.S. degree in mechanical engineer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku%20State%20University | Baku State University (BSU) () is a public university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Established on 1 September 1919 by the Parliament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the university started with faculties of history and philology, physics and mathematics, and law and medicine, with an initial enrollment of 1094. The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysical%20solipsism | In metaphysics, metaphysical solipsism is the variety of idealism which asserts that nothing exists externally to this one mind, and since this mind is the whole of reality then the "external world" was never anything more than an idea. It can also be expressed by the assertion "there is nothing external to these pres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Tes%C3%A1nek | Jan Tesánek () (1728–1788) was a Bohemian scholar and author of scientific literature.
Biography
Tesánek studied at a gymnasium (school) in Prague and later at Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. In 1745, he became a Jesuit and studied mathematics, physics and astronomy under Joseph Stepling, a student of Ign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradeep%20Sindhu | Pradeep Sindhu is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman, chief development officer (CDO) and co-founder of data center technology company Fungible. Previously, he co-founded Juniper Networks, where he was the chief scientist and served as CEO until 1996.
Biography
Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting%20oscillation | Hunting oscillation is a self-oscillation, usually unwanted, about an equilibrium. The expression came into use in the 19th century and describes how a system "hunts" for equilibrium. The expression is used to describe phenomena in such diverse fields as electronics, aviation, biology, and railway engineering.
Railway... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%3A%20The%20Modern%20Synthesis | Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, a popularising 1942 book by Julian Huxley (grandson of T.H. Huxley), set out his vision of the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology of the mid-20th century. It was enthusiastically reviewed in academic biology journals.
Significance
In the book, Huxley tackles the subject of evol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20acoustics | In physics, quantum acoustics is the study of sound under conditions such that quantum mechanical effects are relevant. For most applications, classical mechanics are sufficient to accurately describe the physics of sound. However very high frequency sounds, or sounds made at very low temperatures may be subject to qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan%20Jiazhen | Tan Jiazhen (15 September 1909 – 1 November 2008), also known as C. C. Tan, was a Chinese geneticist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of United States National Academy of Sciences. Tan was a main founder of modern Chinese genetics.
Biography
Tan was born in Cixi, Ningbo, Z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20%28disambiguation%29 | Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object.
Weight or The Weight may also refer to:
Mathematics
Weight (graph theory) a number associated to an edge or to a vertex of a graph
Weight (representation theory), a type of function
Weight (strings), the number of times a letter occurs in a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20of%20wonder | A sense of wonder (sometimes jokingly written sensawunda) is an intellectual and emotional state frequently invoked in discussions of science and biology, higher consciousness, science fiction, and philosophy.
Definitions
This entry focuses on one specific use of the phrase "sense of wonder." This phrase is widely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD50 | Rad50 may refer to:
RADIX-50, a character encoding scheme in computing
RAD50 (gene), in biology, encodes a DNA repair protein involved in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA | In molecular biology, small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are a class of small RNA molecules that primarily guide chemical modifications of other RNAs, mainly ribosomal RNAs, transfer RNAs and small nuclear RNAs. There are two main classes of snoRNA, the C/D box snoRNAs, which are associated with methylation, and the H/ACA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuddhashuddha%20tattvas | The Shuddhashuddha tattvas or "Pure-Impure" tatwas, in Shaivite and Shakta Tantric metaphysics, refer to the seven of the 36 tattvas from maya to purusha. It is also one of the five main divisions (kala) or stages of Involution of the supreme consciousness, in Kashmir Shaivite cosmology.
The tattvas are:
Māyā tatt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20University%20of%20Iowa%20shooting | The University of Iowa shooting was a mass shooting that occurred in Iowa City, Iowa, on November 1, 1991. Gang Lu, a 28-year-old former graduate student at the University of Iowa, killed three members of the Physics and Astronomy Department faculty, an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and a fellow studen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20addition | The Standard addition method, often used in analytical chemistry, quantifies the analyte present in an unknown. This method is useful for analyzing complex samples where a matrix effect interferes with the analyte signal. In comparison to the calibration curve method, the standard addition method has the advantage of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20T.%20Bielby | William T. Bielby is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is Distinguished Research Scholar at the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. He was the President of the American Sociological Association in 2002–2003. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Illino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20fundamental%20physics%20discoveries | This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Heinrich%20Dieke | Gerhard Heinrich Dieke (1901 in Rheda, Germany – August 26, 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland) was a German/U.S. physicist. He was a pioneer in investigating the structure of atoms and molecules by spectroscopic methods.
Dieke studied at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, and received a Ph.D. in physics at the Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20sociology | Mathematical sociology or the sociology of mathematics is an interdisciplinary field of research concerned both with the use of mathematics within sociological research as well as research into the relationships that exist between maths and society.
Because of this, mathematical sociology can have a diverse meaning de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehrden | Gehrden is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately southwest of Hanover.
Notable people
Werner von Siemens (1816-1892), inventor, founder of electrical engineering and industrialist
Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823-1883), industrialist
Werner Lueg (1931-2014), athlete,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K12 | K–12 refers to primary and secondary education in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
K12 may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
K–12 (album), by Melanie Martinez
K–12 (film), the accompanying film
Sonata in A, K. 12, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A fictional ski slope in the film Better Off Dead
Science ... |
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