Sentences with phrase «stable equilibrium points»

The functional response for cat trapping (the offtake with constant effort per unit time) overlaid against the curve of cat productivity suggested a stable equilibrium point at low cat densities (0.07 — 0.13 cats km — 2).

Not exact matches

Instead of picturing the bottom point of a normal pendulum's swing, the equilibrium, as a stable point in a stable swing, now, with the upside - down pendulum, the equilibrium is the top-most point.

It is appropriate as this point to add that if Bolin & Eriksson's conditions in the last paragraph were true, carbonated beer (Bohren, 1987) and soda «pop» as we know it would be an impossibility with their «buffer» factor (see below); rain and fresh water would not show the observed equilibrium pH of 5.7 (Krauskopf, 1979); and experiments would not had shown complete isotopic equilibrium between CO2 and water in just hours, which in turn is the prerequisite for routine stable isotope analysis involving CO2 (Gonfiantini, 1981).

``... the point is that a stable thermal equilibrium of an isolated ideal gas with a lapse rate violates the second law of thermodynamics... the zeroth law clearly states that the two locations (with different temperatures) are not in thermal equilibrium.»

But it is the adiabatic lapse rate (itself a function of the acceleration due to gravity) that determines the surface temperature, along with the long - established temperature gradient from the core to the surface which has established a stable approximate equilibrium point at the interface of the surface and atmosphere over the life of the Earth..

At that point, the temperature becomes stable, and the system is in «equilibrium».

The S indicates the point beyond which a stable equilibrium with active NADW formation can not exist.

The outward pressure from fusion counteracts the inward pressure from gravity and an equilibrium point was reached where they are equal and opposite in force and the sun has a relatively stable diameter that will persist until it starts running out of hydrogen fuel to sustain the outward pressure.

Worst of all, a 4 C world may not be a stable climate state — climate feedbacks at 4 C may make a higher equilibrium point inevitable.