a course in mathematics for students of physics

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Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 22:51

... mi/sec) and 31 was the speed of electromagnetic waves, including light waves. This feature of Maxwell's theory caused a crisis in physics because it indicated that speed was not always relative. ... travel faster than the fundamental speed c. In Newton's gravitation theory, however, information about gravitation moved at infinite speed. If a star exploded into two...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... that are present on earth in such a small concentrations that they were previously unknown. For example, in analyzing the spectrum of minerals found in the water of a certain spring in Germany, ... area. d. a long and pointed stream of burning gas e. to recognize f. to discover g. a small amount of a substance scientifically examined and analyzed h. a pa...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 03:15

... three are equal. If something else balances the piece of brass, it also balances the wood and the gold and therefore has the same mass. The equal- arm balance gives us a way of comparing masses ... shoelace, or scratch an itch. Close your eyes and imagine waking up and going into your kitchen for breakfast. Now fantasize that as you walk in, all frictional forces ease to exist!...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 03:15

... not. In an inductive paragraph, the controlling idea of the paragraph lies right at the very beginning of the paragraph in the introductory part of the paragraph. It is contrary to the way we ... special theory of relativity, that mass and energy are equivalent. Consequently, the separate laws of conservation of mass and of energy found a more general and exact formu...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 01:15

... 1: Paragraph 2: TRANSLATION Task one: English-Vietnamese translation 1. Quantum holography , in which a pair of laser pulses reveals detailed information about an atom's state, has been ... models, in everyday life and in science, as a method of simplifying and making sense of everything we observe. A model is a way of explaining something difficult in term...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 01:15

... prepositions that are followed by a gerund after against as a result as well as because of besides by by means of despite for in in addition to in favor of in spite of instead of on account ... useful in understanding any physical process. The following are the adjectives with their prepositions that can take a gerund afraid of amazed at angry abo...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... ( Adapted from Physics, an Introduction by Jay Bolemon, 1989) Before you write the summary for each passage, find the main and sub-main ideas of each paragraph by underlining them. For example, ... example, a double line (===) for a main idea and a single line (______) for a sub-main idea. Then, from those underlined, you develop into a paragraph. This paragraph wil...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... of the voltage across the capacitor. Therefore, twice as much current will flow through a capacitor that has a capacity or size of 2 farads as in a capacitor of 1 farad capacity. In an ideal ... recall that volume is not a reliable measure of the quantity of matter, particularly in the case of a gas, since a gas expands and contracts appreciably as the pressur...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 23:15

... revealing a violation of a certain symmetry in the decay of neutral kaons (a type of meson, which in turn is a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks). As a result of this tiny ... nothing but radiation, or the matter and antimatter may have in some way separated. If so, where is the antimatter? From careful searches for the radiation tha...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 23:15