Sentences with phrase «order approximation»

Thus in the second order approximation, the Earth's global temperature depends linearly on both the mean radiative forcing and the standard deviation of radiative forcing.

This line is so pronounced because both the spectral type and the luminosity depend only on a star's mass, at least to zeroth order approximation, as long as it is fusing hydrogen at its core — and that is what almost all stars spend most of their «active» life doing.

The delta between the per capita existing consumption and the efficiency improvement percentage times the average solar panel install would yield at least a first order approximation as to what the contribution of architectural style might be.

I don't mean to put down Spencer's work by pointing this out — this kind of «zero - dimensional» climate model is very commonly used by scientists as a first - order approximation of how the system behaves, at least in situations where they aren't bothering to look at the spatial distribution of climate effects.

«This is a first - order approximation.»

Because transit measurements are relative measurements stellar spectra cancels out — in the first order approximation: the difference of a spectrum taken before transit and during transit will provide the transmission spectrum of the exoplanet atmosphere.

The first order approximation is to see how it correlates with gold and how it behaves in times of economic uncertainty.

In other words, to a first - order approximation, the S&P 500 is always at an all - time high.

Here, ln denotes the natural logarithm, and ln (2) happents to have value 0.693... Now, to a first - order approximation, ln (1 + x) equals x (actually a little bit less) when x is small, and so an investment yielding 100x % per annum should double approximately 69.3 / x years.

This means that approaches that use the first order approximation to estimate climate sensitivity from the instrumental period (such as Lewis) will underestimate climate sensitivity and approaches that use the first order to estimate climate sensitivity using paleoclimate data (Hansen and others) will overestimate climate sensitivity.

Well one way to see how reasonable the first order approximation is to perform the second order approximation, which is

The model calculations provide a first - order approximation of the relative uplift of North America and the subsidence of Indonesia (courtesy of M. Gurnis, California Institute of Technology).

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».