Sentences with phrase «large macroscopic»

Thus, we can determine the wavelength of very small particles, but not of large macroscopic items such as basketballs.

Not exact matches

The math says that these multiple layers must exist, and the «microscopic» multiple layers suggest that the universe itself is part of «macroscopic» multiple layers in a larger «bulk.»)

Designing materials for use in the large variety of gadgets and structures that support our everyday lives involves understanding them at their atomic, electronic and macroscopic scales.

In the macroscopic view, such particles are indeed large, but in the microscopic view, each small part of a large dust particle scatters radio waves and produces unique polarization features.

Around the mid-1980s, however, scientists discovered that gold's chemical aloofness only manifests at large, or macroscopic, scales.

The uncertainty in the latest measurement is 150 parts per million, or 0.015 % — only slightly larger than that of the conventional method of determining G, which is to quantify the mutual pull of two macroscopic masses.

Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.

(Larger objects also exist in particle and wave form, but the effect is not noticeable in the macroscopic world.)

One strategy she uses is to cool the macroscopic components of the device (i.e., the mirrors) into a coherent quantum state; such components, large enough to see without magnification, exhibit bizarre quantum properties previously observed only at the atomic level.

The bias is larger for more «macroscopic» systems, and basically nonexistent for truly «microscopic» systems.

They should be composed of macroscopic solids larger than millimeters, but smaller than kilometers in size.

That's the reason that the article that you linked — after all — into the discussion requires an external agency that causes the macroscopic movement of large parcels of air vertically to establish a DALR.

A «parcel» of air, or «differential» volume of air in any macroscopic discussion is a volume large enough to contain enough molecules that thermodynamic averages pertain to the behavior of the parcel as if the air inside were a continuous fluid, so that when conducting this sort of discussion we can ignore the movement of individual molecules across the surface of (which are in detailed balance anyway, at equilibrium).

They neglect the fact that thermodynamics is the valid macroscopic heuristic for statistical mechanics, and that stat mech computations can not be done on an heuristic basis at all; they are horrendously difficult, involving taking limits of nearly infinite sums in just the right way to get the relevant part of the answer and discard the parts that don't scale up to relevance as one goes to large systems.

All may comments are on this case and similar other cases, they are not about cases, where experiments can be repeated arbitrarily many times or were the physical system consists of a large number of particles that are controlled with identical constraints as the gas molecules are in a macroscopic volume of gas.

Even for large, macroscopic systems, there is some infinitesimal probability that the second law could be violated.