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  • The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems (after Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking) are a set of results in general relativity that attempt to answer the...
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  • The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958. It involves the resonant...
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    Vacuum deposition is a group of processes used to deposit layers of material atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule on a solid surface. These processes operate...
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  • A pulsar kick is the name of the phenomenon that often causes a neutron star to move with a different, usually substantially greater, velocity than its...
    11 KB (1,574 words) - 13:57, 17 March 2024
  • Electron-beam machining (EBM) is a process where high-velocity electrons concentrated into a narrow beam that are directed towards the work piece, creating...
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  • Clifford analysis, using Clifford algebras named after William Kingdon Clifford, is the study of Dirac operators, and Dirac type operators in analysis...
    22 KB (3,393 words) - 03:48, 15 November 2022
  • The signal velocity is the speed at which a wave carries information. It describes how quickly a message can be communicated (using any particular method)...
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  • A numerical model of the Solar System is a set of mathematical equations, which, when solved, give the approximate positions of the planets as a function...
    11 KB (1,876 words) - 09:21, 25 February 2023
  • Mehdi Golshani (Persian: مهدی گلشنی, born 1939 in Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist, academic, scholar, philosopher and distinguished...
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  • CRAC-II is both a computer code (titled Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences) and the 1982 report of the simulation results performed by Sandia...
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    Stability derivatives, and also control derivatives, are measures of how particular forces and moments on an aircraft change as other parameters related...
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  • In superconductivity, a Josephson vortex (after Brian Josephson from Cambridge University) is a quantum vortex of supercurrents in a Josephson junction...
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  • Time-bin encoding is a technique used in quantum information science to encode a qubit of information on a photon. Quantum information science makes use...
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