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physics -> Modern Physics Most of classical physics is concerned with matter and energy on the normal scale of observation; by contrast, much of modern physics is concerned with the behavior of matter and energy under extreme conditions or on the very large or very small scale.
Bible -> English Translations of the Christian Bible John Wyclif was one of the first to project the publication and distribution of the Bible in the vernacular among the English people, and two translations go by his name.
Solid-state physics is concerned with the properties exhibited by atoms and molecules because of their association and regular, periodic arrangement in crystals.
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 Translation (geometry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Euclidean geometry, a translation, or translation operator, is an affine transformation of Euclidean space which moves every point by a fixed distance in the same direction.
The set of all translations form the translation group T, which is isomorphic to the space itself, and a normal subgroup of Euclidean group E(n).
Since a translation is an affine transformation but not a linear transformation, homogeneous coordinates are normally used to represent the translation operator by a matrix.
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 translation (geometry)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Euclidean geometry, translation is a transformation of Euclidean space which moves every point by a fixed distance in the same direction.
It can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector to every point, or as shifting the origin of the coordinate system.
A translation cannot be accomplished using a 3-by-3 matrix, so homogeneous coordinates are normally used.
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 Types of motion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Physics likes to come up with a small number of simple laws that can be applied to many different situations.
In this situation, the laws of physics apply in exactly the same way for the gymnast as for the ball, both can be viewed as "projectiles" moving only under the influence of gravity and air resistance.
For example, the translational (and rotational) motion of a ball changes very rapidly (in 1/2000 second) when struck by a golf club (the translational motion of the head of the golf club changes rapidly also).
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 Translation of Literary Style
Literary translation is to reproduce the original artistic images in another language, so that the reader of the translation may be inspired, moved and aesthetically entertained in the same way as the native reader is by the original.
In the process of translating, all the paragraphs, sentences and words should be attentively studied so that the best expressions may be chosen to satisfy the needs of reproducing the thought, feelings, and style of the original.
First, the translator should carefully appreciate the tone and spirit of the whole original work through words, sentences and paragraphs it is made up of and determine what kind of style it reflects from both the literary and linguistic points of view.
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 Translation
Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation.
Traditionally, translation has been a human activity, although attempts have been made to automate and computerise the translation of natural language texts—machine translation—or to use computers as an aid to translation—computer-assisted translation.
The goal of translation is to establish a relationship of equivalence between the source and the target texts (that is to say to ensure that both texts communicate the same message), while taking into account a number of constraints.
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 Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity
This is because, Einstein presumed, all results of physical measurement ultimately amount to verifications of such coincidences, such as the observation of the coincidence of the second hand of a clock with a mark on its dial.
In place of physical or heuristic principles to guide theoretical construction, such as the principle of equivalence, which put him on the path to general relativity, he increasingly relied on considerations of mathematical aesthetics, such as "logical simplicity" and the inevitability of certain mathematical structures under variously adopted constraints.
A "world geometry" is not the physical theory of such a world but a framework or "graphical representation" in whose terms existing physical theory might be displayed, essentially by the mathematical identification of known tensors of the existing physical laws of gravitation and electromagnetism, with tensors of the world geometry.
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 Einstein's Philosophy of Science
The physically real in the universe of events (in contrast to that which is dependent upon the choice of a reference system) consists in spatiotemporal coincidences.* [Footnote *: and in nothing else!] Real are, e.g., the intersections of two different world lines, or the statement that they do not intersect.
New translation by Sonja Bargmann in Einstein 1954, 270-276.
English translation: "The Philosophical Significance of the Principle of Relativity." In Schlick 1979, vol.
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 Even in Translation, Richter's 'Science' Unimpressive
Having read the exchange of let- ters about the value of Ronald Richter´s nuclear fusion work in Bariloche, Argentina, in the early 1950s (Physics Today, August 2003, page 12, and March 2004, page 14), I thought it unfortunate that most challenges to Richter's results are in Spanish.
Perhaps more to the point regarding the plasma physics involved is the second report, written by electrical engineer Mario Bancora, which describes the apparatus Richter used.
I took his course in experimental physics in Bariloche; he was an ingenious and resourceful experimentalist and an inspiring teacher.
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 Coverage of English-Translation Journals in Chemical Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This practice had been followed because of the often incomplete nature and poor currency of the translation editions.
However, it had become apparent in recent years that some of the translation journals were now published at the same times as the original foreign-language editions and contained the complete contents of the original editions.
Because of this, and because the English-language editions are often more widely distributed and archived than the foreign-language editions, CAS decided to begin to selectively switch its coverage to the English-language editions when CAS was confident that there would be no loss in comprehensiveness and timeliness.
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 Translation (physics) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Alternatively, we can define a translation as an operation on objects, such that all properties such as color, composition, etc. correspond.
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 Physics - Kinematics - Translation - Martin Baker
Translations or relative positions can also be represented by vectors of dimension 3.
These translations can be concatenated (applied one after another), this can be represented mathematically by adding the vectors.
Translation in 3D space can be held in a 3D vector (see class sfvec3f).
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 Science or Translation
Maria Karra was born in 1977 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
It was the beauty of French and Spanish in particular that made her realize that she should dedicate herself to language learning and translation.
Maria is currently working towards her Certificate in Translation and is planning to complete a Master's degree in Translation Studies, concentrating on technical translation.
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 Minutes
Physics is increasingly developing interdisciplinary fields in which physics plays an essential role in relation to other sciences.
Physics education thus needs to respond to these changes in the subject itself, and in how it is done.
However, it remains the case that the majority of physics courses are designed and taught without reference to the findings of previous research, or to the tools which that research has provided for improving and measuring their effectiveness.
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 Translation (physics) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Translation (physics) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In physics, a translation is the operation changing the positions of all objects according to the formula
Such an operation can be generalized to other coordinates, for example the time coordinate.
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 Curriculum Vitae -- Roberto Torretti
Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Physics, Dordrecht 1973 (Dialogos, 26: 176-181 (1974)).
Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.
(Spanish translation of Metaphysicae cum geometria junctae usus in philosophia naturalis cuius Specimen I continet Monadologiam Physicam, Koenigsberg 1756.)
plato.stanford.edu /entries/geometry-19th/vita.html   (2741 words)

  
 Physics of Archery
Archery demonstrates translation of energy and projectile motion.
Translation of energy— Here is an animation to show the way the bow converts potential energy to kinetic energy.
Read more about translation of energy in archery.
library.thinkquest.org /C0125680/physics.htm   (54 words)

  
 Cathy Flick * French-English, Russian-English, German-English, Italian-English Translation * chemist, physicist, and ...
Translation is usually billed by the target word (English character count basis), hourly, or by flat fee.
Examples of other hourly jobs include: alignments in Excel, for translation memories; consulting on chemical translations (researching queries, advising on terminology and style for non-chemists); revision of my prior translations to match new versions of source text; constructing and maintaining glossaries in my specialties.
Translated the entire Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Chemistry sections of the Doklady (Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for the July-December 1993 issues, until Plenum lost the contract for that journal in 1994.
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 Physics of Particles and Nuclei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Its English translation, Physics of Particles and Nuclei, appears simultaneously with the original Russian-language edition.
Published by leading physicists from the JINR member states, as well as by scientists from other countries, review articles in this journal examine problems of elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, experimental data processing, accelerators and related instrumentation.
Physics of Particles and Nuclei is abstracted and/or indexed in Current Physics Index, INSPEC, PASCAL, Physics Abstracts, SPIN.
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 Maria Karra - French to English translator. Translation services in Computers: Software ...
I am an electrical engineer, freelance translator, and linguist, with graduate degrees in all three fields.
I currently work full-time as a freelance translator and editor, specializing in technical and scientific texts.
Before becoming a full-time translator I worked as a software quality engineer (4 years), software developer (1 year), and researcher in the field of Magnetospheric Physics (theoretical work) and spacecraft instrumentation (design of spacecraft communications subsystems + testing of solid-state detectors for use onboard spacecraft) (2 years).
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 UMMITE PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS - A new website devoted to the Ummites - welcome page
The site's authors have slightly modified the presentation, removed paragraphs that had nothing to do with the object of study, and classified the letters thematically in a logical order, so as to provide a better understanding of the ideas developed within the texts.
In Europe, particularly in Spain (the origin of the Ummite letters) and France, the Ummo affair is more widely-known, due no doubt to the books written on the subject.
To our knowledge, this is the first time the "essential texts" have been translated into English.
www.ummo-sciences.org /en/index.htm   (263 words)

  
 Physics 128 Lecture: Translation and Rotation
For a translating and rotating rigid body the total kinetic energy is the sum of the transitional kinetic energy of the center of mass motion and the rotational kinetic energy about the center of mass.
An good example of translation and rotation is the movement of a high diver.
In order for the two motions to coincide correctly producing the rolling motion, the angular velocity of the wheel about the center of mass must equal the velocity of the center of mass times the radius of the wheel.
www.cord.edu /dept/physics/p128/lecture_24.html   (832 words)

  
 Accurate Russian Translation, Web Design and DTP
I am a freelance Russian translator with 28-years experience and I got my certification as early as in 1975.
Tremendous experience and almost encyclopedic education allow me to make translations into Russian in vast variety of subjects with invariable high quality and accuracy.
Language resources on the Net - translator databases, lists of translation agencies and translators' teams, language jobs, tools for translators, Russian dictionaries, language schools and centers, and other resources useful both for those who translates and who seeks translation.
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(German) [Estimates for differential operators in the half-space] Translated from the Russian by Ehrhard Herbst and Werner Plischke.
(German) [On the theory of Sobolev spaces] Translated from the Russian by J. Nagel.
EDP Sciences, Paris, 2005 (revised and extended translation from English).
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 translation - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 C & S Hallensleben - Translations into German - Subjects: Medicine, Physics, General
We translate English texts dealing with medical or physical subjects, as well as non-specialized texts.
We will provide a quick and reliable service, delivering to you translations which are both accurate and of good style.
If we should feel that we are not fully competent to translate a particular text, we will say so, and, if possible, give you the contact details of another translator who might be able to tackle it.
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 Encyclopedia: Translation (geometry)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Updated 270 days 18 hours 1 minutes ago.
, 1) would need to be multiplied with this translation matrix:
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