Sentences with phrase «physical phenomena»

I do numerical modelling of physical phenomena for a living, so I know something about model validation procedures.

Some explain the origins of fire, heavenly bodies and other physical phenomena.

The mathematical order underlying physical phenomena is most easily observed in the motions of the heavenly bodies.

Each exhibition piece features authentic imagery captured and uses real physical phenomena and techniques in place of computer generated graphics.

Even stranger, the distribution of violence within each conflict closely followed a power law, a relationship between two quantities often seen in physical phenomena such as metabolic rates and earthquakes.

For physicists, it's about understanding some of nature's most important physical phenomena.

In science, a theory is a collection of scientifically verified hypotheses that together form a complex understanding of at least loosely related physical phenomena.

While demonstrating that mathematics is essential to describing nature and predicting physical phenomena, he inadvertently showed that math can be successful without being right.

Nursing home abuse is typically thought to be a purely physical phenomenon, but it can also manifest psychologically and emotionally.

Through the use of colour and light in time and space, the artworks generate complex responses via physical phenomena (sensation) and symbolic codes (knowledge).

Scientific language has replaced myth for the understanding of physical phenomena, but it has not replaced poetry and art as the expression of the human spirit.

This combination is particularly bad as the small difference between the two forms is taken as a real physical phenomenon.

Because of its extreme scale, lightning is a complex physical phenomenon.

Almost all areas of the sciences use models to study and predict physical phenomena, but predictions and conclusions are only as good as the models on which they are based.

The group also reported a «new physical phenomenon in which two concurrent wetting states — Leidenfrost and contact - boiling — can be designed in a single droplet [heated] above its boiling point.»

Physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard» t Hooft stressed that the lesson should be general: Since the information required to describe physical phenomena within any given region of space can be fully encoded by data on a surface that surrounds the region, then there's reason to think that the surface is where the fundamental physical processes actually happen.

Researchers working at the low tempetature frontier hope to see new physical phenomena as they push towards absolute zero.

Although serious scientific work was done in terms of Aristotle's metaphysics, especially in biology, the ready appeal to final causes in explaining physical phenomena blocked needed inquiry into efficient causes.

Legal effects never depend entirely on physical phenomena.

This process of analysis is worked out by Whitehead in amazing detail and is productive of numerous suggestions as to how specific physical phenomena are to be understood.

The ability to probe such exquisite physical phenomena at these tiny scales is why ORNL purchased the HERMES.»

The attraction of opposites is a mental as well as physical phenomenon.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

Sonoluminescencethe physical phenomenon by which sound turns into lightis as mystifying as a magic trick.

Under these conditions, the system is described by certain types of «spin» models, which are a vital mathematical representation of numerous physical phenomena including magnetism.

Energy dissipation is a key ingredient in understanding many physical phenomena in thermodynamics, photonics, chemical reactions, nuclear fission, photon emissions, or even electronic circuits, among others.

Due to the diversity of physical phenomena involved, no digital simulation is able to modelize the entire process.

Furthermore, the combined effect of all the random variations in all of the layers manifests an important physical phenomenon called Anderson localization, but in a regime where it was believed to have vanishingly small effects.

Discovering gravity waves confirms Einstein and illustrates the power of the human mind to discern physical phenomena hidden in mathematical equations.

Discovering gravity waves confirms Einstein, opens a new window on the universe and illustrates the power of the human mind to discern physical phenomena hidden in mathematical equations.

«The direct contact with actual physical phenomena was the key to developing science topics in more depth.»

Grade Level: 9 - 12 The Physics Education Technology (PhET) project offers free fun and interactive simulations of physical phenomena for teaching and learning physics.

His multi-media works explore physical phenomena through sculpture.

Investigating historical efforts at understanding physical phenomena associated with electricity, air movement and water properties have been at the core of his visual arts practice.

What people used to attribute in the past to acts of God and then science explained are actually physical phenomena, and in reality they don't conflict with the concept of God.

Quantum internet and hybrid quantum computers, built out of subsystems that operate by means of various physical phenomena, are now becoming more than just the stuff of imagination.