What is Behavior: Definition and 337 Discussions

Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English; see spelling differences) is the actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment. It is the computed response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.Taking a behavior informatics perspective, a behavior consists of actor, operation, interactions, and their properties. This can be represented as a behavior vector.

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  1. A

    Strange charging voltage behavior in a resistor-capacitor circuit

    hi, i tried to simulate a simple capacitor and resistor charging circuit like this i used an imaginary resistor value "10M ohm" the result as you see appear to be strange, why this happened? is capacitor's charge is relative to the voltage on the capacitor it self? and i need some...
  2. opus

    B Behavior of polynomial functions at their zeros

    Just a general question here. So for a polynomial function, the behavior of the graph at the zeros is determined by the evenness or oddness of the magnitude of the zeros. If the magnitude is odd, the graph will cross the zero. If the magnitude is even, it will bounce at the zero. Why is this...
  3. A

    Bizarre Behavior in Discrete PMOS

    Some of my colleagues and I captured the i_D vs V_ds/V_sd curves for the CD4007 MOSFET IC (http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cd4007ub.pdf). We did this for the NMOS and PMOS transistors. I have attached the curves to this post. The NMOS curve is as expected. However, the PMOS curve seems to be...
  4. J

    Ansys Workbench Fracture and Cracking Behavior using Solid65

    I am trying to simulate concrete material under three-point bending in Ansys Workbench 16.0. The concrete beam (unnotched) will be under displacement load at the center while as the both ends will be fixed. The design geometry is simple which I have already completed. I ran the simulation using...
  5. Svein

    Understanding Electrical Safety: The Role of Grounding in Circuit Protection

    To begin: This is not a question, but an anecdote. The other day my wife called to me from the floor above: "Svein, there is no light". OK, I checked the fuses, and sure enough one fuse had tripped. I resat it, only to hear "Svein, it is blinking!". I went up to see what she meant by that and...
  6. ORF

    Why does this ant react like this?

    Hello This is the video: Question: why does the ant seem to be trapped by the ink circle? Thank you for your time. Regards, ORF
  7. O

    I Behavior that seems to violate the arrow of time, but....

    Very simply put, I have an intense desire to understand an experimental result which, on the surface, violates entropy and the arrow of time-- although, since the experimenters predicted exactly that outcome, a deeper analysis must show that it does not actually violate entropy and the arrow of...
  8. P

    I Understanding Kaon Behavior: Decays and Predictions by Gell-Mann and Pais

    Hello, I am startfing to study kaons and I can not understand why (or how) We know that the decay process of k → 2 π is much faster than the K → 3π. In the Griffits´ book he says that: The reason is the energy released is greater. But I don´t get it. Can someone explain me this issue a bit...
  9. P

    Behavior of inductors -- Why flux linkage does not change instantaneously?

    Why is it that the flux linkage does not change instantaneously ? is it some property of magnetic fields?
  10. C

    A Calculating asymptotic behavior of a correlation function

    I was hoping to get some assistance in reproducing a calculation from https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1292 (https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012304 for the published version). A certain four-spin correlation function for Kitaev's spin-1/2 model on the honeycomb lattice is...
  11. R

    Exploring Oscillatory Behavior of Sinusoidal Functions

    Homework Statement This isn't really part of my homework, my homework was to draw a pretty graph, but I am curious about some behavior. I was given a picture of a sinusoidal function. I found it was ##2sin(\frac{\pi}{3}t-\frac{\pi}{6}) + 6##. Then I used trig identities to get...
  12. V

    Regimes of Particulate and Wave-like Behavior

    Homework Statement A gamma-ray burster is an astrophysical object (probably a fireball of hot gas exploding outward from the vicinity of a newborn black hole or colliding neutron stars or colliding neutron star and black hole) at a cosmological distance from Earth (∼ ##10^{10}## light years)...
  13. D

    I Similar behavior between anti-particles and waves?

    when antiparticles meet then they destroy each other... It sounds like how waves act when opposite waves pass over one another and you have destructive interference, is there any correlation?
  14. ORF

    Can a microorganism change the behavior of an animal?

    Hello. Can a microorganism change behavior of an animal? ( including humans). Thank you for your time. Regards, ORF
  15. E

    The Peculiar Behavior of a large electromagnetic coil

    I have these two very large (ferrous core) coils, They are basically identical, each 200mm long and have a diameter of 100mm. The core is medium grade steel One coil is receiving an input of 8V(peak-to-peak) @ 4 MHz from the function generator. The second coil is placed 1m away, and is...
  16. M

    I Behavior of successive measurements

    [Mentors' note: Split off from this thread as it was a digression there] After you make a measurement and find the particle to be in a particular eigenstate, if you measure that particle again will you find it to be in that same eigenstate?
  17. Docdan6

    Classical behavior, 3 dimension wave function and reflection

    Homework Statement I'm a pharmacologist and I have a modern physics course to do. This is not my field and I'm completely lost... We were given this problem to do. Thanks a lot in advance. Consider a potential where U(x) = 0 for x ≤ 0 U(x) = -3E for x > 0 Consider a particle of energy E...
  18. A

    PN junction's behavior near corners

    Hey all, Consider a general 2D configuration of a P+N junction where a small P+ material rectangle is placed upon a much larger N-material rectangle. So, the interface between the P+ and the N comprises a flat boundary line terminated on each side by a right-angled corner (hope I'm being clear...
  19. W

    Behavior of an ultrasound wave on a particle

    Hello, at the moment, I am working on my project of particle acoustic levitation, but I want to move the particles in a certain direction. In order to generate ultrasound wave for moving a particle, I want to use two transducers. Now, my question is: Has the reflection of those sound waves...
  20. M

    MHB Analyzing Local Behavior at x→0+ of y'+xy=1/x^3

    Asked to find first three terms in the local behavior as x→0+of the solutions of y′+xy=1/x^3 This was taken by bender and orszag book Working : I tried to use method of dominance but later realized that we can find using the series expansion. But I am not sure how to proceed. Please advise...
  21. V

    I Understanding Chaos: Unraveling the Complexities of Nature's Behavior

    Hello, I'm not very familiar with this problematics. So sorry for (maybe) incomprehensible terminology. I study physics and math and now I heard about chaotic behavior of many very fundamental equations describing a nature, when they evolve (when we want to know what will happen in future). I...
  22. FallenApple

    I Strange Spacetime behavior inside Event Horizon

    This question is regarding classical black holes. So inside the event horizon, spacetime behaves strangely. Space is now one dimensional and only in the forward direction(that is, into the singularity) and time of events is preceived as forward and backwards since light from a source comes...
  23. S

    Wave Behavior of Light: Exploring Physical Context

    Hi, I want to ask about the Wave behavior of light. Fine, I know all about the slit experiments and the resultant interference patterns - but I want to ask about the physical context. So light is the carrier of electromagnetic force, and thus its wave oscillation pattern represents an...
  24. M

    B Does this formula accurately represent the behavior of the zeta function?

    Consider Z(s)=Sum(1/N^s) For n=1 to infinity. Let s=(xi+1/2). The divisor is then: N^(xi+1/2) This is equivalent to (N^xi)(N^(1/2)) As n increases, the n^1/2 term will more greatly slow the increase of the divisor and accelerate z(s) away from zero. This means that zeroes will occur less...
  25. petrushkagoogol

    Behavior of charged particles in Free and Bound states

    If there are 3 positive charges of +1, +3, +5 coulombs equidistant from a negative charge of 1 coulomb what positive charge will this negative charge be attracted to ? Is the result different if the charges exist in a “bound” state (resulting in electrovalent compounds) where a positive charge...
  26. curiosity colour

    Is the Book's Answer to Ideal Gas Behavior Conditions Incorrect?

    Ideal gas behavior condition is high temperature and low pressure, right? so is the book's answer to 10(a) ii wrong? https://scontent-kul1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/14996536_1455768127770250_1228715611_n.jpg?oh=750e2555f8229aa9a4eeb17e3e80b1fb&oe=5829A2EE...
  27. Eagle9

    Detailed protocol of the open field test for social behavior

    Good day guys :cool: I need your help. I am going to run the open field test for social behavior, I need to put two rats in open field arena and then to measure what time they will spend close to each other or far from each other, also to see the distance they cover. Essentially, I need to...
  28. Eagle9

    Seeking free software for animal behavior tracking

    Good day guys :smile: I need to conduct the behavioral tests on rats. I need some free program for social behavior; the program should be able to track two rats simultaneously, their movement trajectories and time spent by these animals when they are close or far to each other (and to analyse...
  29. S

    Eddy Current Brake Behavior (Accelerating From Rest)

    Hey guys, So I'm interested in the application of an eddy current brake system as a high intensity shock absorber of some sort. The system would consist of permanent magnets concentrated on a stationary, non ferromagnetic metal. If a sudden, intense force were to act upon the non ferromagnetic...
  30. J

    I Limiting behavior of quantum elastic collision

    From the hyperphysics site http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/elacol2.html#c1 on classical elastic collisions I see that if an incoming particle of mass ##m_1## with velocity ##v_1## collides into a stationary target particle of mass ##m_2## then the velocity of the target particle after...
  31. C

    I Exploring the Behavior of Sin2thw with Respect to Scale

    Hi, everybody! I can not really understand the particular behavior of the sin2thw with respect to the scale (like on the plot below). Clearly there are three regimes from the left to the right: a plato, a degradation and a steep rise. But why exactly does the curve behave like this? The...
  32. M

    What dominates the high-freq. behavior of a CS-amplifier?

    Hello there. I am taking a closer look at the small-signal behavior of a common source amplifier with active load (see image) and I wonder which capacitances cause the decrease in gain for high frequencies (beyond 106 Hz). I do not know about the magnitudes of the input and output capacitances...
  33. M

    LaTeX Plotting a Line in TikZ: Investigating Unexpected Behavior

    Hi PF! I'm plotting a line in TikZ using the following code \draw[domain=0:25,samples=100,color=blue,variable=\x,line width=1.5] plot (\x,{0.9924686128641765 - 0.023406305144575135*\x - 0.0006942621866861979*\x^2 - .000001925581045950128*\x^3}); The largest zero is 24.0699 but latex is...
  34. N

    B Space-Time: Does it Follow Newton's Third Law?

    Do space-time have such behavior that if we give force on it and eventually it reacts according to the third law of Newton?
  35. newjerseyrunner

    B What's the confidence level of quantum to macro behavior?

    The 2016 Asimov Debate had a part where NGT was discussing whether or not if we could create the computer algorithm to compute all the fields, perturbations... of quantum physics and let it run, would the macro laws that we know fall out of the simulation? He mentioned the gas laws as an...
  36. durant35

    I Difference between atomic behavior in QM and classical physics

    I believe this question will be a no-brainer for many members. I want to conceptually grasp how do atoms (and molecules) behave using QM in contrast to the classical physics model. Now there's uncertainty principle and atoms don't have a fixed position and momentum, and that's fine, I know it's...
  37. I

    What happens to a protein built from mutated RNA?

    I was wondering if anyone knew what happens to a protein that gets wrongly assembled due to a mutated RNA? Does it just do a slightly different or very destructive action in the organism, or does the organism catch it and kick it out? Also an extra side question: Speaking of mutations of RNA...
  38. D

    Investigating the Behavior of a Diff. Eq. w/ Constant K & W

    So I have a diff eq dy/dx = ky - w where K and W are constant's I want to draw a phase portrait so i set ky - w = 0 and determine the expression equals 0 at y = w/k so I want to study the behavior of the solution greater w/k and less than w/k so I plug (2w/k) and (-2w/k) and check the...
  39. CollinsArg

    Are sexual hormones realated with animal's instints?

    Thing is, I have a male cat which is very wild, sometimes when I'm walking on a room it would came towards me to attact me as a pray, sometimes it hurts me...I told a friend about it and she told me that if I castrate my cat it wouldn't behave that way again. So, as I know that this behavior is...
  40. TheMathNoob

    What would be the best word to describe this behavior?

    Homework Statement I have the following matrices 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 8 7 0 As you can see, the only thing that changes in the matrices are their non-zero entries. How can you relate those matrices by using a simple word or definition?. I need it for a mathematical proof that I am...
  41. S

    Issue with behavior of ray-plane intersection algorithm

    I'm trying to determine the point, in 3D space, where an arbitrary line/ray intersects with an infinite plane. Using an article on Wikipedia, I tried to reproduce the presented formulas in code. This seems to work fine so long the ray is emitted from the origin of the coordinate system (0, 0...
  42. B

    Doubt about the behavior of a string of a piano

    Two doubts: First, when the hammer hits any string, the string begins to vibrate, until here, no problems, but, the vibration decays over time and this decay is linear, exponential or assume another form? Second, when the hammer hits a string and the string begins to vibrate, it vibrates in...
  43. ellipsis

    Behavior of triple pendulum with heavy end mass

    Is a triple pendulum with a significantly heavy end-mass supposed to spaz around? Using the Euler-Lagrange formula in Mathematica, I've found (and simulated http://poteat.github.io/triplependulum.html) a triple pendulum system with arbitrary masses and lengths. The rods are massless (so no...
  44. NihalRi

    What is the driving force behind siphon behavior?

    Hello everyone I'm new here:D I'm doing a project on siphons and I'm trying to understand how a practical siphon works. I did a hell of a lot of reading and the explanations havd gotten jumbled up due to so many misconceptions. So anyways I conducted some experiments and a few strange things...
  45. M

    Inductor behavior connected directly to DC (no resistor)?

    If an ideal inductor is connected directly (no resistor present) to a DC voltage source, why does it behave like a short-circuit at time t=0? If voltage across an inductor is related to the change in current (i.e. di/dt), then shouldn't the voltage across the inductor be very large at time t=0...
  46. M

    Exponential behavior in elasticity?

    Hi! I know some constitutive models for elastic materials like Neo-Hooke or Mooney-Rivlin, which give a relation between elongation ##\lambda=y/y_o## (where ##y## and ##y_o## are the length of the elastic material in a uniaxial compression test in the direction of the compression at stress ##P##...
  47. J

    Behavior of redshift over time

    [Moderator's note: post spun off from previous thread.] I'd really like some verification on the following. After thinking about light redshift, I came to the following conclusion: Is it true that λObs / λEmit for 1 particular star doesn't stay constant over time even if its recession speed...
  48. S

    Behavior of strings with displacement in the middle

    Homework Statement [/B] I have a string that's infinite on one side, as well as a string that's infinite on both sides. The displacement at the center (x=0) is the same for both, as shown in the pictures. Homework Equations [/B] I think the G term goes to 0 because there's no incoming wave...
  49. J

    Calculators What Could Be Causing My TI-89 to Lock Up Repeatedly?

    So, I foolishly bought a TI-89 Titanium on Ebay that was known to be in a locked up state. I've fixed locked up things before and figured I could here, too. Bad move. A thread here indicated that the hot car trick might fix it. I thought it had, but basically I think that was just due to...
  50. PinkGeologist

    Constitutive behavior of elasto-plastic vs visco-elastic?

    If someone were to ask you to define the difference, what would you said? (to justify modeling a material one way or the other) In an elasto-plastic solid you see permanent deformation after the yield strength is breached as a function of ... stress, right? (in the von Mises regime). If the...
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