Sentences with phrase «macroscopic properties of»

Recipient of several honors from the Humboldt Foundation and elsewhere, Xantheas conducts theory - based work on the structure and energetics of aqueous clusters and the development of interaction potentials to study the macroscopic properties of water and ice.

Their observations make it possible, for the first time, to infer the macroscopic properties of materials based on their structural arrangements of atoms, which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example.

Thermodynamic equilibrium is a MACROSCOPIC PROPERTY of systems; the average velocity (a VECTOR) is precisely zero when the system is in equilbrium.

Not exact matches

The author notes that one can not predict the properties of water at a macroscopic level on the basis of knowledge of water molecules.

A phase is a set of states of a macroscopic physical system that have relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (i.e. density, crystal structure, index of refraction, and so forth).

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

To that end, they developed a methodology titled the Node Prominence Profile (NPP) that accurately predicts the future degree centrality of nodes by incorporating both the macroscopic and microscopic properties of a social network.

The consistency of this interpretation relies on the macroscopic size of the pointer and on the properties of the final states associated with sub-ensembles.

By using an atomic - resolution aberration - corrected (scanning) transmission electron microscope in combination with micromagnetic simulations the authors could reveal for the first time the atomic structure of the single phases present and establish a direct correlation to the macroscopic magnetic properties.

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.

«This accurate local structure is the important piece in relating the microscopic to macroscopic, or intrinsic properties of the ions in solution to collective properties,» said Mundy, who led the studies at PNNL.

From the macroscopic standpoint, superconductivity is a property of certain materials that, when cooled below a given temperature, conduct electricity without any energy loss — i.e., with zero electrical resistance.

, but it is the foundation for this question itself: How do microscopic material properties (which are the basis for macroscopic properties) arise from quantum mechanical properties of fundamental particles and atoms?

The Laws of Thermodynamics are an emergent property of macroscopic systems that involve enough molecules that the probabilities of net flows going the wrong way become astronomically small.)