Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. Chemistry with Dr Nicole Hondow and Stuart Micklethwaite.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The team avoids the possible pitfalls of feedback by using mathematical models to inform the design of the compensators for each pool. The models are informed by the physics of channel flow and encode the dynamic relationships between upstream inflow, downstream outflows, supply point off-takes and downstream water levels.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Composite material — a substance that is made up of different components with different chemical and physical properties. In the area of complex engineering system designs, a systems and control engineering approach enables manufacturers to build a physically meaningful model of a system. “A Key findings and successes.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 16, 2022

But, you might say, that’s nothing like an “intelligence” there; there’s just a “pure physical system” that operates through physical laws. And ultimately whatever is happening on Earth must be a physical process of some kind—operating according to the laws of physics. Everything is ultimately “just physics” after all.

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Futurum

JULY 5, 2022

There are three main theories about how corrosion-protective paints work: The paint acts as a physical barrier between the metal and any oxygen or water in the environment. Mathematical models help us understand how corrosive and anti-corrosive substances behave,” says Stuart. “In When I was young, I was very interested in chemistry.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

the same integral could still be done, but only in terms of elliptic integrals : Mathematical Functions: A Milestone Is Reached. Special functions are in a sense a way of packaging mathematical knowledge : once you know that the solution to your equation is a Lamé function , that immediately tells you lots of mathematical things about it.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. The lambda hyperon.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But our Physics Project has changed that picture. Why does the Second Law work?

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