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  • 61Oenopides — is also the name of a lunar crater Oenopides of Chios (Greek: Οἰνοπίδης) was an ancient Greek mathematician (geometer) and astronomer, who lived around 450 BCE. He was born shortly after 500 BCE on the island of Chios, but mostly worked in Athens …

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  • 62Synchronization of chaos — is a phenomenon that may occur when two, or more, chaotic oscillators are coupled, or when a chaotic oscillator drives another chaotic oscillator. Because of the butterfly effect, which causes the exponential divergence of the trajectories of two …

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  • 63Modified Newtonian dynamics — MOND redirects here. For other uses, see Mond. In physics, Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a hypothesis that proposes a modification of Newton s law of gravity to explain the galaxy rotation problem. When the uniform velocity of rotation of …

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  • 64Poverty of the stimulus — The poverty of the stimulus (POTS) argument is a variant of the epistemological problem of the indeterminacy of data to theory that claims that grammar is unlearnable given the linguistic data available to children. As such, the argument strikes… …

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  • 65Dual inheritance theory — (DIT), also known as gene culture coevolution, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution. DIT is a… …

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  • 66Euclidean geometry — A Greek mathematician performing a geometric construction with a compass, from The School of Athens by Raphael. Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to the Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his… …

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  • 67Tensor — For other uses, see Tensor (disambiguation). Note that in common usage, the term tensor is also used to refer to a tensor field. Stress, a second order tensor. The tensor s components, in a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, form the… …

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  • 68Luminosity — has different meanings in several different fields of science.In photometry and color imagingIn photometry, luminosity is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to luminance, which is the density of luminous intensity in a given direction. The SI… …

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  • 69Antikythera mechanism — The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment) The Antikythera mechanism (  / …

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  • 70Fermi energy — The Fermi energy is a concept in quantum mechanics usually referring to the energy of the highest occupied quantum state in a system of fermions at absolute zero temperature. This article requires a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics.Note that… …

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