Sentences with phrase «simple physics says»

Simple physics says, if you increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the temperature of the earth should respond and warm.

«Simple physics says that if I drop a ball and a feather they will fall at the same rate.

Simple physics says that warmer water is lighter, and therefore this heat should rise to the surface.

Not exact matches

Applying principles of «freshman physics» the way they have done, he says, «is one of those elegant, simple things that could have been thought of a long time ago.»

«We can now start with a pretty simple disk, pretty simple physics, and reproduce the outer solar system — and that's never been done before,» says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

«Simple physics models are elegant and can explain a lot,» says study coauthor Dan Zitterbart, a physicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

But using that argument to deduce the Fermi bubbles» age is more circumstantial, Finkbeiner says, whereas the new estimate comes from dividing the distance by the speed to get the time, something so simple a high school physics student can do it.

«There's nothing simpler in basketball, because you can take all the time you want to make it, and there's nobody waving their arms in front of you trying to block you,» says Peter Brancazio, a physics professor emeritus from Brooklyn College and author of SportsScience: Physical Laws and Optimum Performance.

Following the reductionist approach of physics, his plan was to construct simple computer models of the brain that employed a variety of learning algorithms and «see which ones work,» said Hinton, who splits his time between the University of Toronto, where he is a professor of computer science, and Google.

«Metamaterials seem simple, but their physics is more complicated,» she says, explaining that she and her team focused on dielectric metamaterials, which are built of elements that don't conduct electricity.

«The physics is simplest if you can just look at the motions of stars,» she says.

«There's nothing simpler in basketball, because you can take all the time you want to make it, and there's nobody waving his arms in front of you trying to block you,» says Peter Brancazio, a physics professor emeritus from Brooklyn College and author of SportsScience: Physical Laws and Optimum Performance.

«We have demonstrated an alternative approach that is simple, reliable, and relatively inexpensive,» says paper coauthor Kerry Vahala, the Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics as well as the executive officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science.

Gavin says in # 463: [Response: You confuse statistical forecasting which knows nothing about the underlying physics (and in your case is simple linear extrapolation) with physical modelling based on first principles.

There is no certainty in simple physics — but uncertainty comes — as I keep saying — at the risk of an inherent climate instability.

If that is not happening, then everything I am saying is complete BS:) If it is happening, then you might just want to dust off your old thermodynamics books, blow off GHG theory and look at what really controls our climate, simple physics..

At about 14:50 he says: «You can not deny the simple physics of CO2 dissolving into the ocean.»

So you fall back on a very simple physics model and say, it explains it all.

It is often said that the greenhouse effect and man - made global warming theories are «simple physics», and that increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere must cause global warming.

Physicists like to do thermodynamic calculations at constant volume as the equations are simpler, or that's what I remember Feynman saying in freshman physics.