Tag Archives: Erwin Schrodinger
Chasing solitons
Every once in a while, I dive into a topic in science for no reason other than that I find it interesting. This is how I learnt about Titan, laser-cooling, and random walks. This post is about the fourth topic … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhmediev breather, Bose-Einstein condensate, breather soliton, David Tong, Draupner wave, Erwin Schrodinger, fluid dynamics, Froude number, guitar string, Howell Peregrine, John Scott Russell, Kelvin wake, Korteweg-de Vries equation, Kuznetsov-Ma breather, nonlinearity, partial differential equations, Peregrine soliton, sine-Gordon breather, solitons, wave of translation
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Roundup of missed stories – February 8, 2016
Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time. Continue reading
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Tagged bioaccumulative pollutants, calcium-48, compliance enforcement, cross-cultural studies, Erwin Schrodinger, fractality, gravitational time dilation, open-access publishing, particle aggregation models, roundup, self-awareness tests, The Selfish Gene, universal decoherence
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Bohr and the breakaway from classical mechanics
One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the center like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot of clarity to the … Continue reading
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Tagged classical mechanics, epistemology, Erwin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, principle of correspondence, Quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality
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Bohr and the breakaway from classical mechanics
One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the centre like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot of clarity to the … Continue reading
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Tagged classical mechanics, epistemology, Erwin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, principle of correspondence, Quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality
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