What is Splitting: Definition and 258 Discussions

Wood splitting (riving, cleaving) is an ancient technique used in carpentry to make lumber for making wooden objects, some basket weaving, and to make firewood. Unlike wood sawing, the wood is split along the grain using tools such as a hammer and wedges, splitting maul, cleaving axe, side knife, or froe.

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  1. D

    Splitting an exponential complex number into real and imaginary parts

    e-z2 where z is a complex number a+ib
  2. H

    Splitting infrared and visible light.

    Hi all, is there an efficient way of splitting both of these waves of sunlight?? I've came across http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/classroom_activities/herschel_example.html and thought of an idea of using a prism. But, do you think that is is efficient? ( I'm going to use...
  3. M

    Exchange Splitting: Atomic Orbitals, Zeeman Effect & More

    I would like to understand what is "exchange splitting" in atomic orbitals. For which orbitals does it happen ? Is there any similarity between this phenomenon and the Zeeman effect (which breaks the degeneracy on the magnetic quantum number and then splits the orbital into sub-orbitals having...
  4. S

    Splitting apart bases with a power

    Say I have (a+b+c)^n and I want to split it apart into a^something + b^something + c^something. Is this easily done?
  5. S

    Splitting a vector into a rowspace component and a nullspace component

    Homework Statement Find a basis for the orthogonal complement of the row space of A: A = [1 0 2 1 1 4] Split x = (3,3,3) into a row space component xr and a nullspace component xn. The Attempt at a Solution For the first part of the problem I took A to RREF R = [1 0 2 0 1 2]...
  6. T

    Mathematica Mathematica: Splitting a function into a list of terms

    Hi, I need to split an expression into a list of terms, i.e. an expression like: a+b-c-d+... into: {a,b,-c,-d,...}. Can you help? Thanks in advance.
  7. L

    Splitting up exponential terms when integrating

    1. Relevant problem integrate from 0 to infinity of r^2exp^(-r/a0)dr Homework Equations I'm also given; integral from 0 to infinity of x^nexp^-x dx = n! The Attempt at a Solution I'm just wondering if I can split up the exponential to make it look like this form. Eg; integrate from 0 to...
  8. K

    Why don't pure mathematicians like to split derivatives?

    I remembered the other day that a while back my teacher (can't remember what topic, think it was implicit differentiation) had something like dy/dx and said to us that you could times both sides of the quation by dx as long as you don't tell any pure mathematician. I was wondering why pure...
  9. I

    Splitting photons are entangled?

    I'm sorry if this is a silly question and please forgive me but, if you split photons into two by any medium or matter can it entangle photons? Do the photons have to go through a beta barium borate crystal or any other crystals? Are there any alternatives to split photons? Please provide good...
  10. B

    Thermodynamics: Ideal gas splitting invention problem

    Homework Statement 4. An inventor would like to patent a thermodynamic device and is making the following claims: The device can accept a stream of gas and split it into a hot and cold jet of the same gas. This device is said to contain no moving parts, consumables, or power supply...
  11. lisab

    Atom Splitting In Your Kitchen

    I hate to discourage anyone from doing science ("Stand Back!" indeed), but this goes a bit too far. While I admire his enthusiasm, if I lived next to this guy I'd be concerned.
  12. D

    Splitting a single light source into two out-of-phase sources?

    I've been contemplating an experiment on a 1-dimensional system which would require a single light source to be split into two separate sources which are exactly out of phase with each other. The idea is to focus the beams near each other (but not overlapping) along the 1D object. Any phonons...
  13. A

    When the light enters calcite it is splitting in two rays

    When the light enters calcite it is splitting in two rays perpendicular polarized to each other ordinary and extraordinary,right?But then which ray is perpendicular to the optic axis and which are parallel.I do not understand this because some books say ordinary wave is perpendicular and...
  14. jaketodd

    Energy released when splitting H2

    I would greatly appreciate anyone who can tell me reliably how much energy is released from splitting a single H2 molecule's nucleus. Thanks, Jake
  15. B

    Calculating Magnetic Flux Density for Zeeman Splitting 0.05 /cm

    Homework Statement What magnetic flux density is required to produce a zeeman splitting of 0.05 /cm in the ground state of hydrogen? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I\'ve worked out that delta E in the ground state is Ub B where Ub is the Bohr magneton. But how do...
  16. A

    Crystal field splitting energy

    In this diagram I can't figure out what that barycentre part of the diagram means. The first section of the diagram represents the energy of the d orbitals before the ligands come into the picture and the 3rd section represents the energy of the d orbitals after the 6 ligands have arranged in...
  17. B

    Operator splitting? What is it in the context of transport modeling?

    Hello all: I'm a thermodynamicist wanting to get into transport modeling. In my reading, I have come across "operator splitting." I'm confused about exactly what this means in the context of transport modeling. This is probably a silly question, but does it refer to an advective term...
  18. D

    Understanding J Splitting in XPS

    Hi everyone, i have a doubt regarding XPS, i read that a doublet is formed, for example in argon when an electron from 2p orbital leaves and leads to the formation of 2p 3/2 and 2p 1/2 states, and an electron with slightly lesser energy than one in the 2p orbital is emitted, giving rise to...
  19. J

    MWI: Does Splitting Continue Forever?

    In MWI does everytime something splits it splits into an infinite number of worlds? Can something continue to split forever? If MWI is true does this mean for example that every proton in effect consists of an infinite number of indistinguishable protons and that every person consists of...
  20. soothsayer

    Energy splitting from spin-orbit interaction.

    Homework Statement The spin-orbit interaction splits the hydrogen 4f state into many (a) Identify these states and rank them in order of increasing energy. (b) If a weak external magnetic field were now introduced (weak enough that it does not disturb the spin-orbit coupling), into how many...
  21. G

    Hyperfine Splitting the same as Polarization?

    Is hyperfine splitting the same as polarization? If not, what's the difference? Thanks.
  22. G

    Engineering Problem with current splitting in circuit

    I have no idea why my working is incorrect. This is my starting equation: v1/5.8k + (v1 - 2.3)/2.4k = 2/k From there, I got v1 = 5.02 V and i0 = 1.13 mA To check my answer, I run a simulation on PSPICE, but it returned v1 = 5.8 V and i0 = 1mA Essentially, the current splits equally at node...
  23. R

    Splitting field of a polynomial over a finite field

    Homework Statement Assume F is a field of size p^r, with p prime, and assume f \in F[x] is an irreducible polynomial with degree n (with both r and n positive). Show that a splitting field for f over F is F[x]/(f). Homework Equations Not sure. The Attempt at a Solution I know from...
  24. H

    Splitting H atom = High energy?

    Hydrogen Fusion = High energy? Where does the energy come from when a Hydrogen atom is fused? Is the energy stored in some part (proton, neutron, electron)? Thank you if someone can give me some idea about this. I guess it is about the strong nuclear force, but I'd like to know in a bit more...
  25. M

    Splitting Atoms: Exploring the Strong Force

    If the strong force is what is used to describe the attraction in the atomic nucleus, how is it possible to split atoms without them constantly re-pairing? a free charge doesn't seem like it would exist due to the strong force. I'm missing something right?
  26. T

    Splitting and recombining laser beams

    Homework Statement Coherent light from a laser is split into two beams with intensities 16I0 and 2.25I0, respectively. What is the range of possible light intensities when the beams are recombined? Homework Equations A = sqrt(I)k; I = (A/k)^2 The Attempt at a Solution A1 = sqrt(16)k = 4k...
  27. Astronuc

    Can UN Uranium Nitride Split Molecules and Survive the Process?

    Uranium nitride rips the hydrogen atoms off a carbon atom -- but unfortunately, the UN is destroyed in the process. http://news.discovery.com/tech/uranium-nuclear-power.html I don't why is considered new, since UN has been around for more than 25 years. It was considered for compact...
  28. M

    Splitting the tim eindependent schroedinger equation

    splitting the time independent schroedinger equation Homework Statement how would i go about splitting the time independent Schroedinger equation into 3 separate 1-D problems of the main 3-d problem whose total energy is E = E_x + E_y + E_z ? Homework Equations \frac{-\hbar^2}{2m}...
  29. V

    Simplex splitting using center of gravity

    hello to all INTRODUCTION: i have created application that splits triangles (2d simplex) and tetrahedrons (3d simplex) to 1 triangle -> 3 quadrilaterals 1 tetrahedron -> 4 bricks (8 nodal elements) my application uses element center of gravity in both cases. and than splits...
  30. M

    N"Confirming Answers to Vector Splitting Problem

    a little help pleasezz http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/NMchugh/Various/vectors.png i'd like just some confirmation on my answers and thanks alot.the link is the question. well calling AB=T1, BC=T2 and BD=T3 recommend splitting vectors into components and equating them... Vertical...
  31. N

    Splitting wave equation into x-component and y-component

    Hello, I've been working for a while with the following wave equation PDE: \[ \frac{{\partial ^2 p}}{{\partial x^2 }} + \frac{{\partial ^2 p}}{{\partial y^2 }} = A\frac{{\partial ^2 p}}{{\partial t^2 }} + B\frac{{\partial p}}{{\partial t}} \] In preparation for the application of a...
  32. N

    Splitting PDE into system of PDEs

    Hello: I am wondering if there is a general way of splitting the following PDE into two separate equations. I would like to re-write the second-order spatial derivatives on the LHS as first-order derivatives. \[ \frac{{\partial p^2 }}{{\partial x^2 }} + \frac{{\partial p^2 }}{{\partial...
  33. G

    Determine if sqrt(-3) is an element in a splitting field

    Homework Statement L is the splitting field generated by x^2+x+1 (over \mathbb{Q}) a) Is \sqrt{-3} an element of L? b) Is sqrt(-3) an element of \mathbb{Q}(a), where a is a complex root of x^3+x+1? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Really no idea.
  34. M

    Splitting 2nd order DE into two 1st order DE's

    Homework Statement 1.a) Taking the Schrodinger second order differential equation given, split it into two first order differential equations for numerical solving. We're given the relevant constants in a table, such as \hbar, \alpha, etc. 'z' is taken to be an indepedent variable which we...
  35. H

    Zeeman Splitting, Paschen-Back Effect

    Homework Statement In a very strong applied field the sodium resonance lines is foudn to have components at 588.5 nm, 589 nm and 590.1 nm. What is the strength of the applied field? The Attempt at a Solution So I have: 3P_(1/2) --> 3S_(1/2) AND 3P_(3/2) ---> 3S_(1/2)...
  36. L

    Building Up Principle & Fine Splitting

    Hi 2 all, building up principle is defined in the following form for, for example, Scandium (21): 3d^{1}4s^{2} building up principle defines: 4s < 3d so, the energy of 4s level should be smaller than for 3d the energy is defined as: e[\text{n$\_$},\text{j$\_$},\alpha...
  37. F

    Signal Splitting Help Needed: Seeking Electronics Expert in Central OK

    Hello, This is no April Fools request. I am serious about developing a simple electronics/physics experiment. Sometimes when I post a question I get a very good response, & other times I get nothing. So in addition to getting a few good responses I would like to further correspond via e-mail or...
  38. K

    Splitting a vector into two

    hello everybody can somebody help me how to do this exercise. i don't know how to start... exercise: a van is traveling north at a speed of 28m/s.after turning a corner it is heading 40° east of north at 25 m/s. work out the change in velocity of the van. first of all what i don't...
  39. A

    Calculating Magnetic Field Strength for Sodium Zeeman Splitting

    Homework Statement Estimate the strength of the magnetic field for which Zeeman splitting of the 3p energy levels in sodium equals the energy due to spin-orbit coupling Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I know the equations for spin orbit and the zeeman effect, and I...
  40. S

    Splitting a Light Wave: Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations

    It is possible to split a single light wave/photon into two using a half-silvered mirror. Is it then possible to split the two waves into four, eight, etc? I've not found an experiment that has done this – has it been done?
  41. K

    Splitting an integral with an absolute value

    This is a physics problem, but I only need help with the calculus portion of it. I was having trouble figuring out how to split the integral to properly integrate. Homework Statement Homework Equations \int\stackrel{\infty}{-\infty}(x/x_0)e-2|x|/x_0dx where x_o is a constant...
  42. FeDeX_LaTeX

    Electron Splitting: What Happens When You Split It?

    What happens when you split an electron? I heard that, if you took an electron ( say it had a charge of 1 ), and you split it (how would you do this, anyway?), would the two new electrons created (if that is what happens, if not what happens?) have charges of 1/2 and 1/2 respectively?
  43. T

    Electrostatic Effects and Energy Level Splitting

    Textbook: "Chemistry" by Silberberg. 5th Edition. Page 306 "Electrostatic effects play a major role in determining the energy states of many-electron atoms." Can someone help me understand this statement? "Electrostatic effects" is not in the textbook glossary, and I'm not having luck...
  44. A

    Drawing FBD & Splitting Force Components - Quick Tips!

    Hi, When drawing the FBD (ex. block on incline), and when you split a force into x and y components, where do you put theta when giving the angle of let's say, the incline? Is there a trick to this? I generally know where to put it (basic trig), but for some reason I can't use trig for some...
  45. Y

    Crystal field effect on level splitting

    Hello, is there any detailed table about the s,p,d,f,etc level splitting due to various crystal symmetry(like O,Oh,D4h,...). I think it should be somewhere since it is a well established material. Can anyone help?
  46. T

    Splitting an Asteroid: Calculating Alterations in Course with Explosive Charge

    An explosive charge breaks up an asteroid into two pieces, of 2x1012kg and 3x1012kg respectively. If the first alters course by 2ms-1, by how much does the second alter course? I really don't know where to start on this. It must be about conservation of momentum, but i don't get how to do...
  47. M

    What is the Degree of a Splitting Field for a Polynomial over a Field?

    Homework Statement Let f in K[x] be a polynomial over a field K. De fine the notion of a splitting field L of f over K. Show that if deg f = d, then f has a splitting fi eld over K of degree dividing d! The Attempt at a Solution If f is reducible, then this seems true by induction. I'm...
  48. B

    Pole Splitting equation question

    I'm trying to follow along with the equations on the wikiepdia page for pole splitting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_splitting. However, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the equation about halfway down that relates the load output to the amplifier input, Vl/Vi. Where does the...
  49. F

    Determine the degree of the splitting field.

    Homework Statement What is the degree of t^5-6 over \mathbb{Q}? 2. Homework Equations and the attempt at a solution Let z=e^{\frac{2\pi i}{5}} and let \alpha = \sqrt[5]{6}. (The real one). Then the roots of t^5-6 are \alpha z^0, \alpha z^1, \alpha z^2, \alpha z^3, \alpha z^4...
  50. B

    Split Wave: Practical Approach to Separate Components

    Homework Statement how do u split a resultant wave(formed by interference of many)into its constiuent waves?(practically){not light,i'm actually thinking of sound,beats} Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution i tried to use the Fourier series,and split it into sine and cosine waves.how...
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