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- William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ˈræŋkɪn/; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor...22 KB (2,504 words) - 14:17, 3 July 2024
- In fluid dynamics, the drag equation is a formula used to calculate the force of drag experienced by an object due to movement through a fully enclosing...11 KB (1,693 words) - 16:10, 23 June 2024
- The sone (/ˈsoʊn/) is a unit of loudness, the subjective perception of sound pressure. The study of perceived loudness is included in the topic of psychoacoustics...6 KB (466 words) - 19:03, 20 April 2024
- A figure-8 laser is a fiber laser with a figure-8-shaped ring resonator. It is used for making pico- and femtosecond soliton pulses. The typical spectrum...3 KB (288 words) - 14:46, 10 February 2024
- Olinto De Pretto (26 April 1857 – 16 March 1921) was an Italian industrialist and geologist from Schio, Vicenza. It is claimed by an[additional citation(s)...11 KB (1,178 words) - 15:33, 14 May 2024
- Roughness length ( z 0 {\displaystyle z_{0}} ) is a parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the...7 KB (890 words) - 11:09, 18 February 2024
- Molecular laser isotope separation (MLIS) is a method of isotope separation, where specially tuned lasers are used to separate isotopes of uranium using...4 KB (501 words) - 20:46, 1 June 2024
- Hugh Frank Newall, FRS FRAS (21 June 1857 – 22 February 1944) was a British astrophysicist. He was Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at Cambridge. He was...4 KB (419 words) - 19:12, 11 June 2024
- In the aerodynamics of rotorcraft like helicopters, phase lag refers to the angular difference between the point at which a control input to a rotor blade...2 KB (322 words) - 20:10, 23 May 2024
- Ulrich Wolfgang Arndt FRS (23 April 1924 – 24 March 2006) was a scientist committed to the development of X-ray crystallography technology and instrumentation...2 KB (227 words) - 07:18, 28 December 2023
- Brian Henderson (26 March 1936 – 20 August 2017) was an English solid-state spectroscopic physicist whose career included spells at Atomic Energy Research...3 KB (315 words) - 20:44, 29 January 2022
- Ernst Helmut Brandt (17 September 1941 – 1 September 2011) was a German theoretical physicist. He is best known for working on the Abrikosov vortex lattice...3 KB (261 words) - 15:57, 29 July 2024