• The spherical model is a model of ferromagnetism similar to the Ising model, which was solved in 1952 by T. H. Berlin and M. Kac. It has the remarkable...
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  • The spherical collapse model describes the evolution of nearly homogeneous matter in the early Universe into collapsed virialized structures - dark matter...
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    The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex phenomena. Originating in theoretical physics, the metaphor...
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    status" and proposes a spherical model that assigns occupations to a 3-dimensional space incorporating occupational prestige. In this model, 18 regions of interest...
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  • is not exactly spherical, mainly because of its rotation around the polar axis that makes its shape slightly oblate. However, a spherical harmonics series...
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    A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps...
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    In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system specifies a given point in three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates...
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    typically assumed to be a circle, drawn on the surface of a perfectly spherical model of the relevant celestial body, i.e., a small circle of the local osculating...
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  • hold. Instead, as in spherical geometry, there are no parallel lines since any two lines must intersect. However, unlike in spherical geometry, two lines...
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  • the visible rotation of the stars (an idea called "vortex"). Soon, a spherical model of the earth itself was proposed, which gradually gained acceptance...
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    National Geospatial Information Authorities (NGIAs) in the world Globe – spherical models of Earth International Map of the World – an international project...
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    the concepts underlying geodesic polyhedra. In Magnus Wenninger's Spherical models, polyhedra are given geodesic notation in the form {3,q+}b,c, where...
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    scientific fields. The table of spherical harmonics contains a list of common spherical harmonics. Since the spherical harmonics form a complete set of...
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    at that point". It is also common to refer to any mean radius of a spherical model as "the radius of the earth". When considering the Earth's real surface...
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    Latitude (redirect from Spherical latitude)
    latitude, as defined in this way for the sphere, is often termed the spherical latitude, to avoid ambiguity with the geodetic latitude and the auxiliary...
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    Flat Earth (redirect from Flat Earth model)
    flat-Earth cosmography. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory in the 21st century. The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient...
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    A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Global may refer to: Globe, a spherical model of celestial bodies Earth, the third planet from the Sun Global (Paul...
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    introduced the spherical model of a ferromagnet, a variant of the Ising model, and, with J. C. Ward, found an exact solution of the Ising model using a combinatorial...
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  • psychophysiologist and psychophysicist, the principal author of the spherical model of color space Chingiz Mustafayev (singer), Azerbaijani singer, songwriter...
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  • {R_{\mathrm {E} }}{y_{\mathrm {atm} }}}}}\approx 38.87\,.} The homogeneous spherical model slightly underestimates the rate of increase in air mass near the horizon;...
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    is a 2016 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram. It is a spherical model of the Moon, with a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft). Several copies tour...
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    transforms from the plane back onto the sphere. The formulae presume a spherical model and use these definitions: λ {\displaystyle \lambda } is the longitude...
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    Sphere (redirect from Spherical)
    spades: Spheres Hemisphere Spherical cap Spherical lune Spherical polygon Spherical sector Spherical segment Spherical wedge Spherical zone 3-sphere Affine...
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    Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...
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    the resulting collection ("electron cloud") tends toward a generally spherical zone of probability describing the electron's location, because of the...
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    tentatively proposed that it was everywhere in the atom, and that the atom was spherical. This was the mathematically simplest hypothesis to fit the available...
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    rings within an atomic-sized, positively-charged, spherical volume. Thomson showed that this model was mechanically stable by lengthy calculations and...
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    Atomic nucleus (redirect from Nuclear model)
    marbles) into a tight spherical or almost spherical bag (some stable nuclei are not quite spherical, but are known to be prolate). Models of nuclear structure...
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    The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope...
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