Sentences with word «zeroth»

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 new chip will borrow some cognitive capabilities from Qualcomm's Zeroth platform, which are supposed to allow the chip to learn about user patterns over time and anticipate what you might want to do next with your phone.

Caved, cliffs and lagoons filled zeroth amazing sea creatures and wild life.

Much later Asimov added a «zeroth law,» requiring robots to protect all of humankind even if that meant violating the other three laws.

According to the experts, this is something that could never happen, but I, Robot provides a very reasonable explanation for the machines» sudden change of behavior when it is revealed that an AI named VIKI has introduced the «Zeroth law» which states: «A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.»

What it gets wrong: Adding the Zeroth law or any other overriding directive to the robots» programming could certainly allow them the change their behavior and violate the traditional Three Laws of Robotics, but this doesn't explain why or how VIKI came to the decision to implement the Zeroth law to begin with.

The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics: One approach to the definition of temperature is to consider three objects, say blocks of copper, iron and alumninum

That one's named the Zeroth law.

(One could invoke the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics if one must.)

Carrying through this numerical calculation will substantially improve your appreciation of the predictive power and generality of the Zeroth Law, Doug Cotton / PSI members / Climate Etc readers!

They don't even represent a zeroth approximation model.

If I stick a thermometer in at the top of static, isolated air column, and it reads some temperature, and I stick it in somewhere else and it reads another temperature, the zeroth law clearly states that the two locations (with different temperatures) are not in thermal equilibrium.

Yet — as I've shown by reference to an actual textbook on thermodynamics — a thermal lapse rate of any sort in a system that supposedly in thermal equilibrium explicitly contradicts two laws of thermodynamics: The zeroth law and the second law.

a zeroth order thermodynamical model in which there are two large (in thermo speak infinite) heat baths, the sun @ 6000 K and space at 3 K.