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unusual facts about non-linear



11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR

Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (Marseille) originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift (Warner Observatory) on October 11, 1880 and realised to be the same comet.

Almost ideal demand system

For instance it satisfies the axioms of choice, aggregates over consumers without invoking parallel linear Engel curves, is consistent with budget constraints, and is simple to estimate.

Ambient device

The New York Times Magazine announced ambient devices as one of the Ideas of the Year in 2002 on the heels of a start-up company, Ambient Devices, releasing their first product Ambient Orb, a frosted-glass ball lamp which maps information to a linear color spectrum and displays the trend in the data.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

CBS Laboratories

1972-1973: CMX 600 Non-Linear Video Tape Editing System (developed by CMX Systems, a CBS/Memorex company) utilizing a computer to aid the decision-making process, store the editing decisions and implement them in the final assembly of takes

Clifford Truesdell

"Non-linear Field Theories of Mechanics", with Walter Noll, volume III/3 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge.

Comet Hyakutake

Observations of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) with the Chandra satellite in 2000 determined that X-rays observed from that comet were produced predominantly by charge exchange collisions between highly charged carbon oxygen and nitrogen minor ions in the solar wind, and neutral water, oxygen and hydrogen in the comet's coma.

Common Children

Christine Glass (who married Byrd in 2000 and later formed GlassByrd) also contributed to the songs "Always On The Outside" and "How Many Times," and contributed 'angelic vocals' (per the linear notes) for The Inbetween Time, released on Galaxy 21 Music.

Contact dynamics

The evaluation of these inequalities/inclusions is commonly done by solving linear (or nonlinear) complementarity problems, by quadratic programming or by transforming the inequality/inclusion problems into projective equations which can be solved iteratively by Jacobi or Gauss–Seidel techniques.

Decathlon scoring tables

All of the earliest attempts at formalizing decathlon scoring, from the first formal submission (prepared by the U.S. in 1884) until 1915, involved linear scoring equations.

Eikonal

Eikonal equation, a non-linear partial differential equation encountered in problems of wave propagation.

Endre Szemerédi

With Wolfgang Paul, Nick Pippenger, and William Trotter, he established a separation between nondeterministic linear time and deterministic linear time, in the spirit of the infamous P versus NP problem.

Enkhelyawon

Because of this it is assumed that he was a king (Mycenaean wanax, Linear B wa-na-ka), and ruled over Pylos.

Filippo Brunelleschi

These were not, however, the first paintings with accurate linear perspective, which may be attributed to Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Annunciation, 1344).

Foreglen

The village is a small linear settlement with a mix of public authority and private sector housing, and a number of local services and facilities including a local primary school, church, shop, post office, public house, and recreational facilities at O'Brien's GAC playing fields.

Gächlingen

About 6000 BC, a group of Linear Band Ceramic Culture farmers moved south over the Danube river.

Green's matrix

In mathematics, and in particular ordinary differential equations, a Green's matrix helps to determine a particular solution to a first-order inhomogeneous linear system of ODEs.

Hill's muscle model

The model is constituted by a contractile element (CE) and two non-linear spring elements, one in series (SE) and another in parallel (PE).

Home Security Store

Brands include GE Security, Visonic, Winland Electronics, Lorex, Optex, Sensaphone, SVAT, Dakota Alert, Rokonet, Cyre, Ademco, DSC, Linear Security, SkyLink, USP, Honeywell, ELK, Chamberlain, and Altronix.

Jaco Van Dormael

He wanted to make a more linear film than Toto le héros, one which explored the world through the eyes of a man with Down syndrome.

Jenny Burton

She was lead singer of the dance music band C-Bank's 1983 Top 5 Hot Dance Music/Club Play single "One More Shot", notable for record producer John Robie's use of a "non-linear" approach to its production.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

Kalām cosmological argument

In addition work undertaken by John Wheeler and Richard Feynman in the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory suggested that causes need not result in events in a chronological and linear fashion and this idea has been confirmed by the delayed choice quantum eraser without coincidence counting.

Linear A

Packard, D.W. (1974) Minoan Linear A. University of California Press.ISBN 0-520-02580-6.

Linear city

The linear city design was first developed by Arturo Soria y Mata in Madrid, Spain during the 19th century, but was promoted by the Soviet planner Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin in the late 1920s.

Linear entropy

The linear entropy and von Neumann entropy are similar measures of the degree of mixing of a state, although the linear entropy is easier to calculate, as it does not require diagonalization of the density matrix.

Linear epitope

While performing molecular assays involving use of antibodies such as in the Western blot, immunohistochemistry, and ELISA, one should carefully choose antibodies that recognize linear or conformational epitopes.

Linear Park Arts Discovery Trail

The Linear Park Arts Discovery Trail is a trail covering several adjacent parks in Warragul, Victoria.

Margaret Boozer

For this exhibit, Boozer used samples of excavated sedimentary rock and soil found at the nearby construction site of CityCenterDC, to recreate a geologically accurate linear progression of the earth below the gallery and city, by laying stratum after stratum in a narrow lengthwise band down the centre of the gallery floor.

Markus Zürcher

With linear and minimalist works, he was considered an important representative of the concept art, influenced by Lawrence Weiner, Daniel Buren, Meret Oppenheim and Robert Filliou.

Mikhail Kravchuk

His two-volume monograph on the solution of linear differential and integral equations by the method of moments was translated circa 1938-1942 by John Vincent Atanasoff who found this work useful in his computer-project (Atanasoff–Berry Computer).

Mikio Sato

Further, it led to the theory of microfunctions, interest in microlocal aspects of linear partial differential equations and Fourier theory such as wave fronts, and ultimately to the current developments in D-module theory.

Molecular clock

This means that the observed number of changes is no longer linear with time, but instead flattens out.

Molecular knot

Lactoferrin has an unusual biochemical reactivity compared to its linear analogue.

Multilateration

There are many robust linear algebra methods that can solve for the values of (x,y,z), such as Gaussian Elimination.

New York State Route 25B

East of the parkway and surrounded by homes once again, NY 25B heads northeast on a linear path for a half-mile to an intersection with the Little Neck Parkway.

PCSat2

It also carried a PSK31 Linear/FM Satellite translator accepting 3 kHz SSB channel in the 10 meter band at 29.4 MHz and repeating that in baseband on a VHF or UHF narrow-band FM downlink.

Peter McCullagh

He is the coauthor with John Nelder of Generalized Linear Models (1983, Chapman and Hall – second edition 1989), a seminal text on the subject of generalized linear models (GLMs) with more than 23,000 citations.

Polynomial signal processing

Polynomial systems maybe interpreted as conceptually straight forward extensions of linear systems to the non-linear case.

Quantum Turing machine

Iriyama, Ohya, and Volovich have developed a model of a Linear Quantum Turing Machine (LQTM).

Renaat Braem

He graduated as an architect from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1935, with a constructivism-inspired design for a linear city between Antwerp and Liège.

Scott Russell

Scott Russell linkage, converts linear motion, to (almost) linear motion in a line perpendicular to the input

Shock capturing method

The schemes proposed by Jameson and Baker, where linear numerical dissipation terms depend on

Shubie Park

Heavily forested, Shubie Park is roughly linear in shape as it is bounded on the north and west by Highway 118 expressway and on the south and east by Lake Micmac and the southern edge of Lake Charles.

Stokeleigh Camp

It has been suggested that Stokeleigh was connected with the Wansdyke, a series of defensive linear earthworks, consisting of a ditch and an embankment running at least from Maes Knoll in Somerset, to the Savernake Forest near Marlborough in Wiltshire, however there is little evidence for this.

Stonehenge Apocalypse

In the 1970s, a thorough examination of the statistical significance of various sites seemingly on a linear path, conducted by the Royal Statistical Society and Simon Broadbent, attempted to determine the normality of the distribution of these megalithic sites.

T. A. Springer

Tonny Albert Springer (13 February 1926 – 7 December 2011) was a mathematician at Utrecht University who worked on linear algebraic groups, Hecke algebras, complex reflection groups, and who introduced Springer representations and the Springer resolution.

Truck Dogs

A La Trobe University review of the book is overall positive, stating that it is an entertaining, with a straightforward storyline and linear plot.

Vibrations of a circular membrane

Going back to the equation for R(r), its solution is a linear combination of Bessel functions J m and Y m.


see also

Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem

In the Summer of 1953 Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and Mary Tsingou conducted numerical experiments (i.e. computer simulations) of a vibrating string that included a non-linear term (quadratic in one test, cubic in another, and a piecewise linear approximation to a cubic in a third).

I Won't Give Up

Jason Lipshutz from Billboard found some similarities to Terrence Malick's film The Tree of Life, "with its lingering shots of wholesome Americana, sun-stroked imagery, non-linear structure and contrast between out-of-focus landscape shots and striking close-ups."

Julian Barnes

In 1989 Barnes published A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, which was also a non-linear novel, which uses a variety of writing styles to call into question the perceived notions of human history and knowledge itself.

Nonlinear gameplay

Another unique take on the concept is combining non-linear branching storytelling with the concepts of time travel and parallel universes.

Numerically controlled oscillator

Spurious products are the result of harmonic or non-harmonic distortion in the creation of the output waveform due to non-linear numerical effects in the signal processing chain.

Voltmeter

The first digital voltmeter was invented and produced by Andrew Kay of Non-Linear Systems (and later founder of Kaypro) in 1954.

WDGC-FM

The cart machines at the North studio were replaced with Sony minidisc systems and a non-linear computer based audio editing program.