Sentences with phrase «macroscopic length»

Individual axons are microscopic in diameter - typically about one micrometre across - but may extend to macroscopic lengths.

Not exact matches

This ordered dispersion was extruded via solution spinning into continuous lengths of macroscopic neat SWNT fibers.

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.

(Of course, the distinction between «ice» and «water» begins to lose meaning at such a small length scale since phases of matter are themselves a macroscopic concept.)