Sentences with phrase «function as particles»

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At most simple levels of material synthesis, individual nodes of organization like subatomic particles are only determinate as functions within a bigger framework, so it is perhaps not surprising that their behaviour can only be expressed in terms of statistical probability.

Instead of using classical concepts of precisely defined x and p we will now say that the wave function describes the state of the particle as accurately as possible.

However, in other respects they turned out to function not as particles but more like waves.

Researchers refer to the dislodged surface electrons as «secondary electron emissions» (SEE); trapping them prevents such particles from causing electric current that interferes with the functions of machines.

For nearly a century, physicists have explained the peculiarities of their quantum properties — such as wave - particle duality and indeterminism — by invoking an entity called the wave function, which exists in a superposition of all possible states at once right up until someone observes it, at which point it is said to «collapse» into a single state.

In that limit he found the equation describing the system is the same as Schrödinger's, with the disk itself being described by the analog of the wave function that defines the distribution of possible positions of a quantum particle.

From their observations, the scientists derived a promising basic concept to specifically adjust the size and structure of platinum particles as a function of the catalytic activity required during operation.

Entangled particles share a mathematical description, known as the quantum wave function.

As is demonstrated by the contrast between the wave functions of a free electron and those of a bound electron, the formation of bonds between particles doesn't so much collapse their wave function as localize it, by making it energetically improbable that a particle will exist outside a particular well of potentiaAs is demonstrated by the contrast between the wave functions of a free electron and those of a bound electron, the formation of bonds between particles doesn't so much collapse their wave function as localize it, by making it energetically improbable that a particle will exist outside a particular well of potentiaas localize it, by making it energetically improbable that a particle will exist outside a particular well of potential.

The barrier function was not unique to HIV particles and would likely trap other enveloped viruses as well.

Visualising a wave function as a real thing is fine for a single particle, but things rapidly get more tricky.

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

Now an international team of researchers led by the lung researcher Marianne Geiser from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern and the aerosol researcher Josef Dommen from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has shown that secondary particles from gasoline combustion in Euro 5 engines directly damage lung tissue as well as weaken its defense functions.

In the case of the analogous spacetime rainbow, a similar relationship has also been proposed: the beta function, a measure of the extent to which the structure of classical spacetime differs as experienced by different particles.

In particular, physicists can use an equation, known as an evolution equation or splitting function, to predict the pattern of particles that spray out from an initial collision, and therefore the overall structure of the jet produced.

contain immunoprotective respiratory epithelium, the tissue lining the respiratory tract, which moistens and protects the airway and functions as a barrier to potential pathogens and foreign particles;

In work that unmasks some of the magic behind memristors and «resistive random access memory,» or RRAM — cutting - edge computer components that combine logic and memory functions — researchers have shown that the metal particles in memristors don't stay put as previously thought.

Sodium, chloride and potassium function in your body as electrolytes, small particles that carry an electrical charge.

These charged particles make muscles contract, which includes your heart beat, are responsible for nerve function, such as the cognition in your brain that is based on these nerve impulses, and keep fluid balance in control

For more details on the relationship of particle surface area as a function of concentration and particle size, see the Colloid Surface Area table.

The model consists of two components whose refractive indices resemble those of detritus - minerallike and planktonlike particles, whose size distributions are constrained by underwater light linear polarization signatures, and whose mixing ratios change as a function of particulate backscattering efficiency.

The trouble with the latter is that those particles are at particle physics scale — many orders of magnitude too small to function as CCN — and no one has managed to explain how they might coalesce to a suitable size.

In this way the CCN measures activated ambient aerosol particle number concentration as a function of supersaturation.