Sentences with phrase «macroscopic scales»

IR is important on macroscopic scales, not on micro scale.

Combining the careful observations of the botanist and the intuitive understanding of an artist, the paintings operate in both microscopic and macroscopic scales offering insight to the dimension of another world.

It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets.

Gravity, however, operates predominantly on macroscopic scales.

Statistical mechanics was developed to study solids, gasses and liquids at macroscopic scales, but is now used to describe a variety of complex states of matter, from magnetism to superconductivity.

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.

The individual forces are the weakest binding forces that exist in nature, but they add up to reach magnitudes that we can perceive very clearly on the macroscopic scale — as in the example of the gecko.

These microfabrication technologies are now poised to perform a similar revolution with NB — the MFCs provide an interface between the macroscopic scale and the nanoscale.

«On a macroscopic scale this is equivalent to observing the world through a set of louvers... that allow light to enter from one direction only,» Pendry says.

I think at the macroscopic scale any life we discover will have evolved by Darwinian evolution; at the microscopic scale it will be based on carbon chemistry.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics.

Even if the kilogram is redefined in this way, it will still take work to translate it to the macroscopic scale of everyday life.

If scientists can nail down the mass of the silicon atom, the spheres would translate that mass to the macroscopic scale.

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.

In the familiar heat engine model at macroscopic scale, referred to as the Carnot heat engine, the efficiency increases as a function of the ratio between the temperatures of the low - and high - temperature baths.

At the macroscopic scale, we are familiar with the idea that sensors and actuators have to deal with the physical world, but the information - processing unit is isolated from the physical world.

Publishing in Physical Review Letters, scientists at EPFL have put forward an experimental protocol for demonstrating QE at the macroscopic scale by using a device that can be controlled by light.

The HCP seeks to map brain connectivity at a macroscopic scale, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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

The researchers have managed to make the catalysis work at a molecular level, but have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness on a macroscopic scale.

Merrick I think Tom makes the common mistake that chemists see physicists make here, and that is assuming that microreversibility applies on the macroscopic scale.

If we, say, found that on a macroscopic scale it somehow becomes proportional to the second power of Nv that would be a little alarming.

Not exact matches

The superimposition of the «macroscopic» scale ruins all these parallels, however, by intruding «past» and «future» being outside of the temporal disclosure space.

An actual supernatural thing would, for us to interact with it in any way, be required to impinge upon this space - time continuum, and we see that, regardless of scale, i.e. microscopic or macroscopic, there is absolutely zero evidence that there is anything interacting with us or our universe in any way.

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.

Ye is most excited about the future possibility of using the atoms in the clock as a gravity sensor, to see how quantum mechanics, which operates on very small spatial scales, interacts with general relativity, the theory of gravity, a macroscopic force.

X-ray imaging will allow them to visibly see materials and features at the macroscopic level as they evolve during deformations, while simultaneous X-ray diffraction measurements will permit them to examine the deformations at the microscopic scale.

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

The system thus takes advantage of physical measurements at the microscopic scale, while enabling computationally efficient evaluation of macroscopic designs.

The technique integrates the micro - and macroscopic control of structural features that printing provides with the molecular and nano - scale control enabled by self - assembly.

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

Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers study nature's most intricate processes on scales from the subatomic to the macroscopic.

«We've been able to seal defects, at least on the lab scale, to realize molecular filtration across a macroscopic area of graphene, which has not been possible before,» Karnik says.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

Together, they will focus on the great opportunities that lie in scaling up from atomic assembly and individual nanodevices to macroscopic systems and structures with emergent properties and functionality.

His group has research activities in fundamental optical and magnetic interactions in semiconductor quantum structures, spin dynamics and coherence in condensed matter systems, macroscopic quantum phenomena in nanometer - scale magnets, and implementations of quantum information processing in the solid state.

The land can only be measured on a singular scale, yet the land presents us with a scale which spans from the micro to the macroscopic.

There's an epiphany along all those different scales: from the detail moment of the string being wrapped around or next to a Fernand Léger or Max Ernst, to the object - ness of it — say, that room — to the macroscopic view of the whole exhibition in relation to 1 mile.

Quantum mechanical weirdness that operates at atomic scale does not invalidate this physical description of the macroscopic range that is of interest.

100 % certainty means we know every possible potential driver of global temperature on the scales of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, the microscopic, the macroscopic, the Earth, the Solar System, the galaxy, and the Universe.

Physics in the macroscopic world gets real complicated real fast trying to analyze it at the quantum scale.

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.

This is a pretty serious picking of nits — thermo textbooks regularly state that there is «no heat flow» between reservoirs in thermal equilibrium because there is no net macroscopic flow of heat between the two reservoirs, for the simple reason that thermodynamics averages over molecular (or in the case of radiation, single photon) scale local fluctuations.

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.

Besides back yard solar concentrators and water heaters, I am of the opinion that widespread small scale use of solar energy and electricity storage will require microscopic solutions and not macroscopic solutions.

(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.)