News tagged with nonlinear equations

Nonlinear thinker: Making sense of previously insoluble problems

If an airplane is cruising along and raises the flaps on its wings a degree or two, it will tilt upward. If it raises the flaps twice as much, it will tilt upward about twice as much. But if it tilts upward ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 4 | with audio podcast




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Wringing more energy out of everyday motions

Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing – especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link: Physicists gain new insight into solitons

(PhysOrg.com) -- A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A math-based model for deep-water oil drilling

Oil well control is one of the most important processes during drilling operations. In deepwater drilling, controlling pressure in the oil well is crucial, as excessive pressures in the drilled hole can result in blowouts, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover new water waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In a new study, Jean Rajchenbach, Alphonse Leroux, and Didier Clamond ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast feature

Bright sparks among 'Asia's Nobel Prize' winners

Two scientists who are probing the brightest flashes in the universe were Tuesday named among the winners of the Shaw Prize, the $1 million award known as the Nobel Prize of the east.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking mathematics to heart

Did you know that heart attacks can give you mathematics? That statement appears on the web site of James Keener, who works in the mathematics of cardiology. This area has many problems that are ripe for unified ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patterned pulses boost the effects of deep brain stimulation, research shows

Electrical stimulation has been used as a sort of defibrillator of consciousness, rousing a victim of traumatic brain injury to at least partial awareness, after years in a coma. The procedure, termed deep brain stimulation, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Galileo revisited: How ribbons roll

Galileo Galilei’s experiments on the motions of falling and rolling objects, described in his 1638 book, “Two New Sciences,” are considered by many to be the beginning of modern science. Now researchers at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New view of tectonic plates

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology have developed new computer algorithms that for the first time allow ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Peregrine's 'Soliton' observed at last

(PhysOrg.com) -- An old mathematical solution proposed as a prototype of the infamous ocean rogue waves responsible for many maritime catastrophes has been observed in a continuous physical system for the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 19 | with audio podcast


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