Sentences with phrase «macroscopic behavior»

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«The laws of thermodynamics give a macroscopic description of microscopic behavior,» he says.

Water's behavior was tested with three different approaches: ultrafast optical measurements, which revealed the arrangement of molecules on the nanometric scale; a computer simulation on the atomic scale; and measurement of the water's surface structure and tension, which was done at the macroscopic level.

Quantum theory allows tiny things like atoms or photons to be in two places at once, but nobody has ever seen such behavior in a macroscopic material object.

Prof. Leticia Tarruell comments: «These droplets are fascinating macroscopic objects: even if they are made up of thousands of particles, their behavior is still fully determined by quantum fluctuations and correlations.

This new discipline seeks to create a picture of biological function and behavior that spans the size scale from atomic to macroscopic.

The research, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that underneath the shroud of inherently uncertain probability, the behavior of quantum particles may very well be similar to their macroscopic counterparts.

The innovative aspect of this activity was the notion that the concept of macroscopic devices could be extended to the molecular level, and that it was possible to design supramolecular systems that, upon stimulation with external energy stimuli such as UV / Visible light, are capable of performing a variety of specific functions: (i) systems for information processing (e.g., wires, switches, antennas, plug / socket systems, extension cables, memories, logic gates, encoder / decoder, rudimentary neuron - like systems), (ii) devices that when powered by chemical energy or electrochemical energy or by light exhibit machine - like behavior (e.g., piston / cylinder systems, shuttles, lifts, rotary rings, dendritic photo - switchable boxes), and (iii) components for artificial photosynthetic systems.

In order to accurately model the behavior of the accretion disk that orbits our galaxy's supermassive black hole, the researchers used a method that tracked the motion and path of individual particles — rather than one that treats the motion of plasma as a macroscopic fluid.

To me, the middle ground «frontier» is how you maintain quantum mechanical behavior of an object as you bring it to a macroscopic scale.

According to our thermodynamics assignment help experts, this section deals with the behavior of matter with the macroscopic analyzation of the same.

In a system such as the climate, we can never include enough variables to describe the actual system on all relevant length scales (e.g. the butterfly effect — MICROSCOPIC perturbations grow exponentially in time to drive the system to completely different states over macroscopic time) so the best that we can often do is model it as a complex nonlinear set of ordinary differential equations with stochastic noise terms — a generalized Langevin equation or generalized Master equation, as it were — and average behaviors over what one hopes is a spanning set of butterfly - wing perturbations to assess whether or not the resulting system trajectories fill the available phase space uniformly or perhaps are restricted or constrained in some way.

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).