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51Mach's principle — Physics. the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe. [after E. MACH] * * * Hypothesis that the inertial forces acting on a body in… …
52ḤIBAT ALLAH, ABU AL-BARAKĀT (Nathanel) BEN ALL (Eli) AL-BAGHDĀDĪ — (second half 11th–first half 12th century), philosopher, physician, and biblical commentator. Abu al Barakāt spent most of his life in Baghdad. He was a well known physician and served at the court of Caliph al Mustanjid (1160–70). At the age of… …
53Deccan Traps — The Deccan Traps as seen from Matheran, MH, India The …
54Christopher Wren — Sir Christopher Michael Wren F.R.S. Sir Christopher Wren in Godfrey Kneller s 1711 portrait Born …
55Brachistochrone curve — A Brachistochrone curve (Gr. βραχίστος, brachistos the shortest, χρόνος, chronos time), or curve of fastest descent, is the curve between two points that is covered in the least time by a point like body that starts at the first point with zero… …
56George Atwood — (October 1745–July 11, 1807) was an English mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the law of uniformly accelerated motion. He was also a renowned chess player whose skill for recording many games of his own and of other players,… …
57Bernard Haisch — is a German born American astrophysicist who has done research in solar stellar astrophysics and stochastic electrodynamics.[1] He has developed with Alfonso Rueda a speculative theory that the non zero lowest energy state of the vacuum, as… …
58Walter A. Shewhart — Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like Shoe heart , March 18, 1891 March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control .W. Edwards Deming said of him:: As a… …
59Atwood machine — The Atwood machine (or Atwood s machine) was invented in 1784 by Rev. George Atwood as a laboratory experiment to verify the mechanical laws of uniformly accelerated motion. Atwood s machine is a common classroom demonstration used to illustrate… …
60Particle acceleration — In a compressible sound transmission medium mainly air air particles get an accelerated motion: the particle acceleration or sound acceleration with the symbol a in metre/second sup2;. In acoustics or physics, acceleration (symbol: a ) is defined …
