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... velocity /ddtvr= or, in compo- nent form, (, ,)(/,/,/)vvv dx dt dy dt dz dt xyz = , and the acceleration //ddtd dtav r 22 == . 1.3 Newtonian Mechanics and Galilean Relativity Newton’s force law relates ... sixteen he wondered how a light wave would appear if one were moving along with it. 2 Galilean relativity would predict a static, nonoscillatory wave. But such a static wave does not...

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... generation. Dr./Salwa Hassan Teama 2012 DNA Double Helix  Linked as a twisted ladder.  The curving sides of the ladder represent the sugar-phosphate backbone of the two DNA strands; the rungs ... polarity.  Stabilized by hydrogen bonds between the bases. Dr./Salwa Hassan Teama 2012 DNA Double Helix Madprime. Source: Wikipedia The Gene  The gene; it is a segment within a very long s...

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... undergraduate students of physics without assuming a background in astrophysics. We have aimed at a level between introductory texts and advanced monographs. Students who want to know about cosmology ... cosmology without a detailed understanding are well served by the popular literature. Graduate students and researchers are equally well served by some excellent monographs, some of which a...

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... g µα,λ dx λ d , (6.26) we get δ =  d  η α  1 2 g µν,α dx µ d dx ν d − g µα,λ dx λ d dx µ d − g µα d 2 x µ d 2  + d dσ  g µα dx µ d η α   . = −  d η α (σ)g µα  d 2 x µ d 2 +Γ µ κλ dx κ d dx λ d  . (6.27) The ... =  δds ; 2dsδds =(δg µν )dx µ dx ν +2g µν dx µ d ν + O (d 2 ) =(∂ α g µν )η α dx µ dx ν +2g µν dx µ d ν d d . (6.23) Now we make a restr...

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... particles and fields excluding gravity, and specifically includes all the quarks, leptons and gauge bosons in the world (excluding gravitons). At the classical level, one could include electromagnetism ... electromagnetism and perhaps a simplified model of a fluid. The total action would become a functional of the metric and matter fields. Independent variation of each field yields the equatio...

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... finiteness follows from simple power-counting rules, and all possible models (including possible 4D models whose existence is implied by the 1/N expansion of QCD and hadronic duality) can be straightforwardly ... group, which is SO (D, 2) for D- dimensional spacetime (for D& gt;2). We therefore use SO (D, 2) notation by writing (D+ 2)-dimensional vector indices which take the values ± as w...

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... finitude, or both—there is much we don’t know. And what we do know is tinged with uncertainty. Baseballsand hydrogenatoms behave, toa greateror lesserdegree, unpredictably. Uncertainties attend their ... independent,orsimply independent.Whenthe two outcomes are independent and the dice unbiased, the probability that both dice will show a“5” is the product (1/6)(1/6) = 1/36. While statistical i...

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... scalar field F(VV VV ), which has the following properties: F(VV VV +WW WW ) = F(VV VV ) + F(WW WW ) F(åVV VV ) = åF(VV VV ). for every pair of tangent vector fields VV VV and WW WW , and every ... , dx n dt  t=t 0 . Question In general, how are the dx i /dt related to the dy i /dt? Answer By the chain rule, dy 1 dt = ∂y 1 ∂x 1 dx 1 dt + ∂y 1 ∂x 2 dx 2 dt , and similarly for dy...

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