Sentences with phrase «building physics at»

The primary reason for requiring airtightness in buildings has nothing to do with energy efficiency or occupant comfort, writes Helen Brown, head of building physics at Encraft — it's for the protection of the building fabric.

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More than a decade before he started Tesla, Musk was studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania and then battery technology at Stanford, both key fields for learning how to build an electric car.

For a real multicultural adventure, walk around some physics building at MIT.

Pace Johnson, civilization is not built upon physics but on metaphysics, and it is the abandonment of the latter which began the inexorable decline of civilization, until at last we reach the level of the primeval soup of Lennon's «nothing,» or at least nothing but physics.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

The flames destroyed several buildings that house the physics and psychology departments, a dormitory and at least one faculty home, college spokesman Scott Craig told the Associated Press.

The designation of UChicago as a National Historic Chemical Landmark joins the University's 2006 designation by the American Physical Society as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellphysics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellphysics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. EllPhysics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave.

Those directions might have served equally well for locating Barbour's house at the time it was built in 1659, a few decades before another English physicist, Isaac Newton, wrote his Principia, setting down the ideas about motion and gravity that dominated physics for almost three centuries.

The SESAME synchrotron being built near Amman, Jordan, with a goal of promoting peace between Middle Eastern nations, as well as particle physics, has faced similar bank problems, says Christopher Llewellyn - Smith, director of energy research at the University of Oxford, UK, and president of the SESAME council.

«I am building up a team of physicists but in a biomedical research unit, so I will be in a perfect environment to develop projects at the interface between physics and biology.»

The study, published this week Science, builds on pioneering work from the»80s which is at the interface between theoretical computer science and physics.

«People wonder why we are not content with one gravitational - wave detector, why we wish to build bigger ones,» says Harald Lück, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany who is a member of the GEO600 and Einstein Telescope teams.

Vladan Vuletic, one of the paper's authors and the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, likens the process to «building a small crystal of atoms, from the bottom, up.»

If Verne had his heroes travel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in a pimped - out luxury submarine, his personal code required him to explain how such a contraption could be built according to the principles of physics as they were understood at the time of writing: 1870.

«It's one of those obvious, basic things you don't think about until you actually start building the thing,» says Ted Hartka, the mission's lead mechanical engineer, who supervised assembly of the probe at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

Krauss: Well the physics community has been thinking, these machines take decades, at least a decade or two to design and build, if you have the political will and the economic will.

«As the LAT builds up an increasingly detailed picture of the gamma - ray sky, it simultaneously reveals how dynamic the universe is at these energies,» said Peter Michelson, the instrument's principal investigator and a professor of physics at Stanford University in California.

De León considers himself a «scapegoat,» and says the audit that caused his demise was prompted by envious rivals at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT), which shares a building with ICMAT.

«We are not trying to fly the best and the latest, if what is available will meet the mission requirements,» says Stamatios Krimigis, head of the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which is building the probe.

European physicists are currently discussing plans to build a similar, but less powerful, proton - proton collider called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva.

Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines — tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.

European particle physicists will draw up plans for a pair of circular particle colliders, to be built one after the other, that would measure 80 to 100 kilometers in circumference and smash particles at unprecedented energies, officials at the European particle physics laboratory CERN announced today.

The electromagnetic trap was designed and built in the Department of Medical Physics at LMU.

Between 1996 and 2003, for example, NASA had a program to explore what it calls Breakthrough Propulsion Physics to build spacecraft capable of traveling at speeds faster than light (299,790 kilometers per second).

Unfortunately, there is no fundamental solution to the problem of building tamper - resistant chips, at least not using classical physics alone.

New research from Pupa Gilbert, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, provides evidence that at least one species of coral, Stylophora pistillata, and possibly others, build their hard, calcium carbonate skeletons faster, and in bigger pieces, than previously thought.

Known as Magpie (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) and being built by the plasma physics group at Imperial College, it is a tangible break from the traditional approaches to fusion research.

The International Astronomical Union will assemble at the Honolulu Convention Center for six symposia and 22 focus meetings that will cover everything from the «Search for Water and Life's Building Blocks in the Universe» to «Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology» and everything in between.

In a hotel next door, Aryesh Mukherjee, a physics graduate student at Harvard University, was explaining how he built, with the help of rubber glove - like material, a synthetic voice box that could imitate a range of birdsongs.

At the DESY laboratory in Germany, photographers will view the past and present of particle physics during a visit to the former underground home of the HERA B detector, where new particle detectors are now being built and tested.

Before arriving at Goddard, Parker Solar Probe was at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., where it was designed and built.

Besides string theory, Ooguri has another long - term project: to help build an infrastructure for physicists exploring at the frontiers of high - energy physics.

«Reaching this stage means a lot to the team and our stakeholders,» said Andy Driesman, Solar Probe Plus project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), which manages the mission for NASA and is building the spacecraft.

Technical introductions to advanced nanotechnology have emphasized theoretical studies of what our current knowledge of physics and chemistry tells us about the kinds of systems we will eventually be able to build as our ability to control the structure of matter at the nanometer scale increases.

The lab is hosted in the new CIMeC building at the Manifattura in Rovereto and the experimental equipment is provided by the Department of Physics of the University of Trento.

What this is saying I think is that no one had managed at that point to build a physics - based model which produces a very high sensitivity while agreeing well with observations such as the effect of the Pinatubo eruption.

Before arriving at Goddard, New Horizons underwent vibration testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which designed and built the spacecraft.

At the 3DO Company in the early and mid 90s, he was very involved in the generational video game transition from games built on simple algorithms with 2D sprite graphics to games with real - time 3D photorealistic graphics and physics engines.

When ninth graders at High Tech High wanted to build Battle - Bots, their physics teacher saw a curricular opportunity.

He'd grown up in Vladivostok, studied art and physics in school, and spent nights making imitation Quake III characters in the campus's computer labs, which he would later use to build a portfolio that would get him his first job at a game developer in Moscow.

Unlike our own world, however, the streets of Limbo are twisted into unnatural shapes, buildings jut at physics - defying angles and every alley hides a gaggle of demons»

yeah killzone 2 does not use Resistance 2's water at all... in fact I've never seen water that looks like that of killzone 2 yet... it has multiple layers with multiple real - time reflections... but, at least for the big moving water body in the demo... there are no physics like uncharted or R2 incorporated... if you shoot it, there is a huge plume of water that jets upward, but no real ripples in the body... it still looks great, at the ripples wouldn't look right with the waves and the current of the water... but its definitely not an R2 water engine or anything... however killzone 2 does have the ripples in other areas... puddles will react to bullet fire apparently... and there are areas of flooded buildings with «still» water... that do have the uncharted like ripples according to some... but the big flowing river does not...

Interestingly they're also promising «stunning visuals and car physics that hug the road even at top speeds all built around a gripping storyline.».

From playing the PC version at a recent preview event held atMilestone's studio in Milan, the Italian developer appears to have made significant strides, building on the foundation set by MXGP 3 with a slew of graphical and physics improvements while adding innovative new features.

As much a physics puzzler as it is a bridge building game, Poly Bridge makes the depths of its maths - based mechanics accessible, so you can at least have a decent stab at getting people where they need to go without plunging them into the river below.

It features: — 3D real - time sandbox game built with Unity game engine — metallic shader, lighting, particle effects, lens flare, explosions, fx — space combat RPG with extensive skill tree — open and living universe where 600 + ships fly around autonomously — epic story with dialogue system that allows real choices — recruit 6 wingmen and 2 can fly with you at a time — even discover romance with another wing pilot — recruit 5 corporate pilots who can fly trade routes on your behalf — trade, fight, mine, pirate, scan for derelict ships and wormholes — many mission types: epic, freelance, dynamic, wingman acquisition, faction loyalty — deep combat mechanics, AI, and faction standings — 20 + ships, 180 + modules, 33 solar systems with a unique follow - through - warp mechanic — 15 + factions to vie favor or destroy — cinematic camera shows you the action when it happens — fly manually with or without Newtonian physics or use autopilots exclusively — 22 track theatrical - quality award - winning soundtrack by renown composer, Sean Beeson — cloud save lets you continue your game at home or on the go MEMORY: Dangerous uses a lot of memory during play, so if you have an older device, please close extraneous programs and reboot prior to playing.

The engine that the games were built in does disagree with the frame rate at times, with the physics occasionally going awry and not working as intended.

Yet its focused use of real physics means that you'll find yourself following NASA in building multi-stage rockets, space stations and exploring the Kerbal's strange universe on EVAs, before bringing your discoveries back to research on the Kerbal planet - that's if you can get off the ground at all.

A YouTube video of Markus creating a similar installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts building shows it's a tedious and time - consuming process with the help of physics.