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...e comes from an observation made by [[William Morris Mordey|W. M. Mordey]] in 1893 that the curve resembles a letter V.{{sfn|M.I.E.E.|1906|p=591}} ...ecrease in power factor has to be accommodated by a corresponding increase in the armature current <math>I_A</math>.{{sfn|Dawes|1922|p=315}} At the low v ...

...e. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 32(187), 1-6.</ref> ..._0(\gamma-1)/2</math> is the stagnation sound speed (i.e., the sound speed in a gas at rest) and <math>h_0</math> is the [[stagnation enthalpy]]. Let <ma ...

...er at the Realgymnasium (high school) in [[Stargard Szczeciński|Stargard]] in [[Pommern]]. Gerber is known for his controversial work on the [[speed of g ...emann, whereby the [[speed of gravity]] is equal to the [[speed of light]] in his theory.<ref group=A>Levy 1890</ref> However, because the basic laws of ...

...William Airey, a [[stone mason]], and Elizabeth Airey, who were both born in Preston under Scar, North Yorkshire. He was the oldest from four siblings, ...re College, the college did not award its own degrees.}} which was awarded in 1894.<ref name="Nature, Obit" /> ...

{{Short description|Variation in pressure as a function of elevation}} ...of [[gravity]] on the fluid; namely, for the same given fluid, a decrease in elevation within it corresponds to a taller column of fluid weighing down o ...

...(EMW). It is 20,000 pages in length (6 volumes, ''i.e. Bände'', published in 23 separate books <ref name=books>Books 1-1, 1-2, 2-1-1, 2-1-2, 2-2, 2-3-1, ...ia. In 1904 he contributed a preparatory report on the publication venture in which the [[mission statement]] is given. ...

...al Society]] for his work.<ref>{{cite book|title=McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science|editor=Jay E. Greene|year=1966|publisher=McGraw-Hill|pages=12–13}}</ref> ...wound to the head on the driveway of his home. He was taken to a hospital in Schenectady, where he later died.<ref>http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%20 ...

...] {{convert|1000|in|m|sigfig=4|order=flip|abbr=off}} long. It was invented in 1878 by George Fuller, professor of engineering at [[Queen's University Bel ...dheld [[Curta]] mechanical calculator became available which also competed in convenience and price. However, for scientific calculations the Fuller rema ...

In [[mathematics]], '''potential flow around a circular cylinder''' is a class ...nd the steady velocity vector {{math|'''V'''}} and [[pressure]] {{mvar|p}} in a plane, subject to the condition that far from the cylinder the velocity v ...

{{short description|Theorem in general relativity}} ...tic, spherically symmetric matter configurations under certain conditions. In particular, for areal radius <math>R</math>, the mass <math>M</math> must s ...

...sychological Clinic (volume 5 number 1), which is now in the public domain in the United States and available as a free ebook online.|thumb|Image from an ...e Test by Binet and Simon stopped in 1911 due to the death of Alfred Binet in 1911.<ref name=":5" /> ...

In mathematics, the '''ATS theorem''' is the theorem on the approximation of a [[trigonometric sum]] by a shorter one. The application of the ATS theorem in certain problems of mathematical and theoretical physics can be very helpfu ...

| caption = Donald Sarason in January, 2003 at UC Berkeley ...he switched to mathematics, still at the University, completing his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of [[Paul Halmos]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|5021}}</ ...

The '''Goldschmidt alternator''' or '''reflector alternator''', invented in 1908 by German engineer [[Rudolph Goldschmidt]],<ref name="Burns">{{cite bo ...imilar [[Alexanderson alternator]], it was used briefly around World War I in a few high power [[longwave]] [[radio station]]s to transmit transoceanic [ ...

...n the 19th century, then advocated by the [[Schiller Institute]] beginning in the 1980s with reference to the composer, but naming a pitch slightly lower ...1916. "The reason for the choice of 256 as middle C in scientific work is in order that the number of vibrations corresponding with any C shall be a who ...

In [[physical chemistry]], the '''Polanyi potential theory,''' also called ''' ...n theory]] of [[William Henry (chemist)|William Henry]] is more applicable in low pressure and the adsorption isotherm equation from [[BET theory|Brunaue ...

...ited Kingdom)|National Physical Laboratory]].{{sfn|CWTL|2008|pp=229–230}} In 1904, she signed a petition for women to be admitted as a Fellow of the [[C ...|2008|p=265}} When Marshall was five years old, her father died at age 67. In 1922, her mother died. ...

...he credit for the introduction of more modern and advanced [[mathematics]] in the [[Denmark-Norway|Danish-Norwegian]] school system. ...f> and was elected to the [[Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]] in 1800.<ref name = Runeberg/> ...

...alter">Walter (2018)</ref><ref name="warwick">Warwick (1992), (2012)</ref> In addition, it can be shown that the conformal group of the plane (correspond === Development in the 19th century === ...

{{about|the dispute over the origin of general relativity|the dispute in special relativity|Relativity priority dispute}} The events of interest to historians of the dispute occurred in late 1915. At that time ...