News tagged with oscillations

Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Play on: Google posts synthesizer tribute to Moog

(AP) -- Bob Moog's synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage ...

Technology / Other

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Energy dissipation from vibrating gold nanoparticle strongly influenced by surrounding environment

Metal nanoparticles could play a key role in next-generation light detectors, optical circuits, and cancer therapies. For these future technologies to be realized, it is important to understand what happens ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First results from RENO: Observation of the weakest neutrino transformation

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations (RENO) research team announced the first result of the search for the remaining, most elusive puzzle of the neutrino transformation. They have found disappearance of neutrinos ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Long term North Atlantic surface temperature fluctuations linked to aerosols

(PhysOrg.com) -- Manmade pollution doesn’t always cause atmospheric warming, a group of researchers from Britain’s Met Office Hadley Centre, write in their paper published in the journal Nature, someti ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Detection of cosmic effect may bring universe's formation into sharper focus

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first observation of a cosmic effect theorized 40 years ago could provide astronomers with a more precise tool for understanding the forces behind the universe's formation and growth, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Weird weather: heat, twisters, 250K tons of snow

(AP) -- America's weather is stuck on extreme.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 52

12% of marine species in tropical Eastern Pacific threatened

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Hitches emerge as culprit in 'faster-than-light' particle (Update)

Scientists who last year found particles that appeared to break the Universe's speed limit are looking at two technical issues that could have skewed the controversial finding, CERN said Thursday.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 20

Climate change plays major role in decline of blackbird species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Populations of the rusty blackbird, a once-abundant North American species, have declined drastically in recent years, and Auburn University researchers say climate change is to blame.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Europe hammered by winter, is North America next?

For the first half of this year's winter, the big news was warm temperatures and lack of snow. Ski resorts were covered in bare dirt, while January temperatures in southern California topped July highs.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Boost for wave energy: half the Wave Hub berths now filled

Two of the four berths at an EU-funded grid-connected offshore marine-energy test site have now been filled. Wave Hub, located off the Cornish coast in the United Kingdom, is the largest test site of its type in the world. ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A quantum connection between light and motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Precision time: A matter of atoms, clocks, and statistics

Time is of the essence, especially in communications, navigation, and electric power distribution, which all demand nanosecond precision or better. Keeping these beating hearts of technology in near-perfect global synchronization ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physics team calculates that graphene disks could be complete optical absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In optical devices designed and used to collect light, there has always been a loss of light due to reflection, now, new research by a team of physicists from Spain and England has found, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Oscillation

Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples include a swinging pendulum and AC power. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with "oscillation". Oscillations occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.

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