adjective(Physics)the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without. adjective(Geom.)the equation which expresses the relation which the length of a curve, measured from a given point of it, to a movable point, has to the angle which the tan...
I analyze the meaning of mass in Newtonian mechanics. First, I explain the notion of primitive ontology, which was originally introduced in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. Then I examine the two common interpretations of mass: mass as a measure of the quantity of matter and mass as a ...
When dealing with geometrical networks, namely, graphs built from points contained in a Riemannian manifold of a given dimension, the ID has a proper quantitative meaning. As the scale becomes larger, the ID tends to the dimension of the underlying manifold, as shown by the plateaus in Fig. ...
In physics, a fluid is a substance with zero resistance to shear force, meaning any applied stress causes persistent deformation. Underlying this behavior are two connected concepts: viscosity and intrinsic viscosity. Whilst viscosity is a measure of a fluid's resistance to flow, intrinsic viscosity...
Meaning of Intrinsic value from wikipedia- In ethics, intrinsic value is a property of anything that is valuable on its own. Intrinsic value is in contrast to instrumental value (also known as...- In finance, the intrinsic value of an ***et or security is its value as calculated with re...
light - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark" lightness visual property - an attribute of vision gloriole, halo, nimbus, aura, aureole, glory - an indication of radiant light drawn around the ...
Conscious nervous systems may have initially evolved in conformity with the physics of magnetic fields. Consciousness, understood as an attribute of living organisms, is firstly an evolutionary adaptation that contributed to the survival of species on earth. It may not be an emergent property of the...
This paradigm leads to the discovery of a striking symmetry in network controllability: if we exchange the fractions of any two types of dynamic units, the sys- tem's controllability (quantified by ND) remains the same. This exchange-invariant property gives rise to a global symmetry point, ...
A priori it is not at all clear what meaning should be given to such a process of "give and take;" in particular, if the exchange and thus the information flow tends to be symmetric. In such cases, the observer-object may best be conceived in a holistic manner; and not subdivided as...
The meaning of X(τ, σ) will change in different limits. This is the essence of T-duality. The field X(τ, σ) has a space-time interpretation in the original Polyakov path integral only in the limit of large radius. Furthermore, we note that dX = ∗dX˜ , i.e. ∂τ X ...