Sentences with phrase «of water physics»

46 Hydroelectric Power Principle Potential Energy (PE) of a mass of water Physics for the IB Diploma 5th Edition (Tsokos) 2008 Hydroelectric Power Principle Potential Energy (PE) of a mass of water where h is the height of the water Mass (m) is given by Where ρ is the density of the water (1000kg / m3) And V is the volume occupied Recall, the definition of power (P) Volume flow rate Q is So, Physics for the IB Diploma 5th Edition (Tsokos) 2008 46

I must admit, the inclusion of water physics was a great idea, and adds a new element to gameplay, though it's not perfect - the water has a sort of «globby» feel to it, sometimes not quite reacting how you might expect and running more like oil.

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To ask such a question is to plunge us into the murky waters not of physics but of metaphysics.

To ask such a question is to plunge us into the murky waters not of physics but of metaphysics — and no one has bothered much with that topic for years.

Most geologists and scientists say there is however a fairly large amount of data that proves a major regional floods have occured that would imitate some of the Genesis flood account details, however with the book claiming it was a global flood being specific as to how far over every mountain the water reached, physics easily debunks the Genesis account.

Physics is sufficiently advanced today to define many substances very perfectly, in their very essence, in terms of those causes which constitute them, and in this we see that the active relationship by which, let us say, oxygen and hydrogen are defined as causes of water in a given relativity, is an active potency in those causes of dynamic finality with respect to the composite substance which is water.

Physics has long understood waves on the surface of the water and sound waves.

One of the cups has a hole in the bottom, allowing water to flow through and activate the pinwheel attached to the bottom, teaching water - operated physics and cause and effect.

Grown - ups will recognise the pipes and taps of the Little Tikes Fountain Factory Water Table as a colourful experiment in engineering, plumbing and physics — and for kids it's a whole lot of fun!

This kind of water doesn't exist naturally on Earth, the scientists report in Nature Physics, but it may be present in the mantles of icy planets like Neptune and Uranus.

«This raises the possibility that water may re-accumulate after extraction, but we need to better understand the physics of why and how this happens to understand the timescale over which water may be renewed.»

Hints of the special phase, called superionic ice, appeared in water ice exposed to high pressures and temperatures, researchers report February 5 in Nature Physics.

Their findings shed new light on the physics of black holes with the first laboratory evidence of the phenomenon known as the superradiance, achieved using water and a generator to create waves.

«The Amazon water cycle is of course pure physics and biology, but it is also one of nature's great wonders,» says co-author Henrique M.J. Barbosa from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In a new twist, a group of South Korean researchers from Seoul National University and Dankook University report an anomalous water droplet - bouncing phenomenon generated by Leidenfrost levitation on nanotextured surfaces in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.

Another advantage to a shared sewer is that such systems are usually built to withstand heavy loads and can better accommodate periods of heavy precipitation or storm surges that might overwhelm smaller, poorly conceived or maintained home - based septic tanks, which are by virtue of their size and the laws of physics more prone to overflow and send contaminants into nearby surface and ground waters.

I was a North Carolina newspaper reporter with an undergraduate degree in physics, writing about waste water treatment plants, school board meetings, and church socials, when the physics department at the University of North Carolina offered me a pay raise to go back to school.

These new views on how active sieving could improve systems such as those used in water purification and dialysis were reported this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing.

Arms crossed, he spews out mile - a-minute descriptions of thousand - foot shafts in the sea, where the familiar physics of crystallization, gravity, and pressure gradients will separate salt and produce distilled water.

The physics of the water bell is exactly the same as the falling curtain of chocolate; and the reason the chocolate falls inwards turns out to be primarily surface tension.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

«One of our tasks is to determine the exact sequence of steps for breaking apart water and CO2 into atoms and piecing them back together to form ethanol and oxygen,» says William Goddard (PhD» 65), the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, who led the Caltech team.

He'll be both Aeolus and Neptune, but his ability to create walls of water will depend solely on the soundness of his physics.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has committed more than $ 1.3 million in funding from 2006 through 2011 for a project led by Alexey Onufriev, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's departments of Computer Science and Physics, to represent water computationally, because water is key to modeling biological molecules.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have looked beyond physics to figure out why a splash of spilled water only goes so far.

Her calculations suggest that the condensation of billions of litres of water above giant forests produces a giant effect (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi.org/kbx).

Bandi, a professor of physics at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), wets the tip of a chopstick with liquid soap, amusement written on his face, and asks his dinner guests their predictions: what will the flakes do when the soap meets the water's surface?

It was another Russian researcher, Moisey Alexandrovich Markov, a «poet» of astroparticle physics, who suggested using natural bodies of water as neutrino detectors.

Now, physicists report June 12 in Nature Physics that they've glimpsed the effect for the first time, in a black hole doppelgänger made with a vortex of water, similar to water swirling down a bathtub drain.

Theories of icicle growth had traditionally had nothing to say about such features, but Farzaneh and Ueno suggested surface tension between the freezing water and the surrounding air was the culprit: the higher the surface tension, the fewer ripples on the icicles (Physics of Fluids, vol 22, p 017102).

«It's clear there is liquid water, but we're not sure how much,» says planetary scientist Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, lead author of the sodium study.

In a paper published today in Nature Physics, a research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester provides experimental evidence for superionic conduction in water ice at planetary interior conditions, verifying the 30 - year - old prediction.

This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes» explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water, leaving nothing but a small ripple in theiPhysics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes» explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water, leaving nothing but a small ripple in theiphysics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes» explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water, leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

«The Amazon water cycle is of course pure physics and biology, but it is also one of nature's great wonders,» says co-author Henrique M.J. Barbosa from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Shiraiwa, M., Pfrang, C., Koop, T., and Pöschl, U.: Kinetic multilayer model of gas - particle interactions in aerosols and clouds (KM - GAP): linking condensation, evaporation and chemical reactions of organics, oxidants and water, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 2777 - 2794, 2012.

Stodolsky and Andrzej Drukier, both of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Germany, noted that a coherent detector would be relatively small and compact, unlike the more common neutrino detectors containing thousands of gallons of water or liquid scintillator.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how ocean chemistry affects biology or how the geology on the seafloor affects the physics of flowing water.

Mars» atmosphere is «now too cold, too thin to support liquid water,» said Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Methods: The theoretical chemistry team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory built and ran simulations of how hydroxide ions and water molecules moved based on the basic principles of physics.

«The jets must be supersonic, with Mach numbers of two or greater, but because of cooling of the water vapor in the eruption throat, the actual velocity may not be as high as we thought previously,» said Larry Esposito, a conference organizer and a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The authors first present the analytic equations and solutions for the limiting efficiencies of photoelectrochemical water - splitting devices based on the ultimate limits of device physics as well as two more realistic scenarios based on currently achievable material and device parameters.

He also conveniently ignores positive feedbacks (e.g. increased water vapor) and most of the actual physics of climate change.

Sotiris is known in the chemical physics community for his research on intermolecular interactions in aqueous ionic clusters and the use of ab - initio electronic structure calculations to elucidate their structural and spectral features and the development of interaction potentials for water.

«The MAVEN science mission focuses on answering questions about where did the water that was present on early Mars go, about where did the carbon dioxide go,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the University of Colorado, Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

«Our findings are consistent with the presence of hydrated salts, because you can have hydrated salt without having enough for the water to start filling pore spaces between particles,» said Christopher Edwards, a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University and one of the study's authors.

Entropy of Cellulose Dissolution in Water and in the Ionic Liquid 1 - Butyl -3-Methylimidazolim Chloride, Adam Gross, Alexis T. Bell, Jhih - Wei Chu, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, doi: 10.1039 / C2CP40417F, March 27, 2012.

Sequential pairs of images (2.5 ms apart in time) were recorded and cross-correlated to study the flow physics in the illumination plane, which was parametrically varied along the depth of the water tunnel, see Figure 3.

His research interests are the basic physics of the atmospheric response to climate change, particularly the water vapour feedback.

September Physics News Roundup October 01, 2014 The age of water on Earth, neutrinos in the heart of the sun, and spintronic flashlights round up this month in physicPhysics News Roundup October 01, 2014 The age of water on Earth, neutrinos in the heart of the sun, and spintronic flashlights round up this month in physicsphysics news.

«Researchers studying the physics of water can now settle on the model that water has a critical point in the supercooled regime.