English Definition and 304 Threads

Hi! I'm a new member to this site. :smile: I hope this is the right place to ask for opinions on which language to learn for science purposes. I want to become a research molecular biologist working in the field of genetics. I am comfortable in English currently. I've also started learning...

Hi, let me ask probably dumb questions to physics experts... Why does the cue ball goes almost straight when its right (or left) side is struck by a cue (right English)? This is quite different from when a ball hits another ball, in which case the ball goes almost perpendicular from the contact...

Homework Statement Hi everybody! I know, it's a strange question... Problem is that I'm searching how to translate the german words "stromrichtig" and "spannungsrichtig" ("current correct" and "voltage correct" literally) in English. Any idea? Do they even have a name in English? And if not...

Hello Physics Forums! I realize that only I can answer my own question, but I was wondering if someone could help me answer my own question. First off, I want to major in Education. There is no question about that. However, I am stuck between majoring in Physics and English. I feel like I'm...

"For every x in domain D , Q(x) "is false if Q(x) is false for some x in D . "For every x in domain D , Q(x) "is false if Q(x) is false for all x in D . Which of the following is correct ? Or both are correct ?

Hi folks, I am interested in the historical original documents. Newtonian mechanics could be learned from--> Principia and Euler's Mechanica Lagrangian mechanics--> Analytical Mechanics Poisson--> I found his teatrise on mechanics where I expect to find out his "brackets", but I have not yet...

I have a little bit odd request to participants of PF. Would you please write here your impression about my English. And please be completely honest. I am not a touchy person. And it is very important for me. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I need a help for a term that it wil be used in a publication. I have a force signal collect on a moving vehicle. I have framed it into 4 segments (i.e. s1, s2, s3 and s4) where the width of the segments is 100 m. The signal is time sampled, the vehicle speed is variable and therefore...

Hello! I am a beginner in English terminology. I know that direct current is a flow of electricity that moves in one direction only (i.e. does not change its direction). I also know that alternating current is an electric current that reverses direction at regular intervals. However, I cannot...

I AM I am a Minecrafter that wants a pet anaconda. I wonder how we, humans, will evolve, in the future. I hear the stars talking, ever so quietly through the night. I see Jupiter playing jump rope. I want to know all the peculiarities that exist. I am a Minecrafter that wants a pet anaconda. I...

Homework Statement Express the following English sentence as a symbolic statement. Do not use the there exist symbol “There is a unique natural number n which is both even and prime.” We also have properties like let P(n) be the property that n is prime, L(n, m) the relation that n < m, and...

Homework Statement An object has a mass of 10 lbm. b. Find the change in kinetic energy ft·lbf when its velocity decreases from 50 mph to 15 mph. Homework Equations KE=1/2mv^2 Ke=(ft*lbf) 1MPH=1.4667 ft/s The Attempt at a Solution When calculating this, does it need to be in slugs, lbm, or...

This is a term I found in a programming tutorial. Since English is not my first language, and this term is also kind of a computer term, I am not so clear with the meaning. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks.

Hi everyone I am applying to University of Michigan. There is prompt in the application that is giving me some hard time so I need some suggestion from anyone who is willing to help me. Essay prompt : Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things)...

Homework Statement Hello guys, I just have a very quick question about English units. On my fluids homework, I got the answer 9714.806 slugs*ft/(s^2) which seems to be right according to the solutions manual. The homework problem is asking for the force , and the solution manual is dividing...

How many strings of eight English letters are there that contain exactly one vowel, if letters can be repeated? My attempt: Let us first find the number of strings that contain at least one 'a' and no other vowels. Total number of strings including 'a' but excluding the other vowels $=22^8$...

Dear all, Can someone please recommend a english version of a linear algebra book. "Lineare algebra, Siegfried Bosch" I don't speak German so I cannot understand the chapters. If someone can help to identify a book with similar chapters that will be very helpful. you can find the full book...

Hi, anyone who studied in Germany will be familiar with the theoretical and experimental physics books written by Nolting and Demtroeder respectively. These books are really the standard at undergraduate level but are much more rigorous and detailed than a lot of English language textbooks, e.g...

I am a career switcher who is extremely interested in getting a masters astrophysics. I have an undergraduate in English with very few science credits (I took 8 units of geology). I am currently enrolled in community college taking as many science and physics classes as I can. Does anyone know...

Can anyone direct me to an online English translation of Birgit Dopfer's Phd Thesis? Dopfer, Birgit (1998). Zwei Experimente zur Interferenz von Zwei-Photonen Zusẗanden (PhD Thesis) (PDF). Univ. Innsbruck. Thanks, S T Note to Moderators: I am posting a new question rather than adding it to...

If you see that this not a right place to ask this question . Please shift this question to right place my question is "Some words in english have same meanings but their use is different why .? Can we use synonyms of the word in same sentence . For example abandon it or give up it or abdicate...

I want to make my own notes of whatever sir says in class i mean how to take lecture notes ... but my english is weak ... please give me some tips ...

I know this is mainly a site for scientific discourse. But anyone good at writing English herer? I have this paper coming up and my teacher is extremely specific about word choice, tense(s), "to be" verbs and more of those types of things. So my topic of the paper "Geothermal energy" I must...

The concept's main theorem goes as follows: Suppose that w = F(x,y) satisfies the following criteria at point A = (a,b). \begin{cases}\exists\delta > 0\colon F\ is\ continuous \forall (x,y)\in B(A,\delta)\\ \exists \frac{\partial}{\partial y}F , continuous \\ F(A) = 0, F_y \neq 0\end{cases}...

Hey all, been wanting to get into NLP (natural language processing) but I require a text file with a list of all English words (not the definitions) and a tag indicating their part of speech, I know it exists because I had it on my old laptop but I can't seem to refind it. Any help apreciated.

Hello all. I plan on appearing for the SAT / ACT soon (I'm still sort of on the fence between the two), and I've heard that the SAT English difficulty level is absolutely brutal. This is tipping the scales in favor of ACT, but then I've also heard that scoring in ACT writing can prove to be very...

Greetings, I am writing a paper for my university English class. The purpose of it is to recognize or acknowledge the amount of writing (or lack thereof) in our future career choice. As an Aerospace Engineering major, I want to find out if writing is a big part of Aerospace Engineering. I have...

English isn't my first language (and not of my friend's too :) ), but I have been reading and writing English text for a long time now. This has greatly improved my vocabulary and comprehension, but I recently realized that it wasn't doing any help to my pronunciation skills. Not having heard...

One of the things that I enjoy and so sometimes do, is reading poems. And as you probably know, Persian literature is rich in that and there are a huge number of really nice Persian poems. But when, from time to time, I try to read English poems, e.g. Shakespeare's, its just hopeless. Because...

Hey folks, I am a greek high student, and I want to write and share my ideas about science the only problem is that i don't know the orology to use in order to explain myself..Do any of you know a site ( i don't trust google translate) that i can do this job...? thanks in advance i would also...

We're going to write a new lab instruction for this laboratories: 1. Fundamental Physics I: Dynamics 2. Fundamental Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism 3. Fundamental Physics III: Oscillation and Waves 4. Geometric Optics I'm willing to read lab booklets of different universities to know...

What languages, except English, did J. Robert Oppenheimer speak?

I need to write, "(k)1/2= a finite term recursive expression of 'k' where 'k' is the set of all Reals where 'k' is greater than 0 and 'k' for all complex values" in math. Thanks!

Hi, I am a 20 year old looking to work on my prerequisites for something like computer science. The problems are that: 1) Commuting is going to be difficult, I don't currently have a car. Otherwise busing is 40 minutes. 2) Work may conflict, but I can quit if necessary. Are there...

Native English speakers! Please tell me all the words you know which is in the same genre as :Thou,thy,thine,shalt and Lo!. They are the only old words I know.

Well many people in this forum suggested me to improve my English in many of my threads. So I am looking forward to do that. Should i read the whole dictionary? Which books should i start reading? I am also weak in grammar. One more thing I am also bad in my English handwriting. Well I have 2...

Hi, As a non-native English speaker, I regularly am not sure how to correctly express some ideas in English, including mathematics-related ideas. So if it's OK, I would like to ask questions about English from time to time. The first two questions are organizational. 1. Which subforum suits...

I've been trying to think of the grammatically correct way to translate A\cupB and A\capB. So, let's say A is the set of all animals and B is the set of all boats. Then, A\cupB is the set of all entities which are either animals or boats (or both). And A\capB is the set of entities...

"Iron ion" If the question is too silly for this forum you can move it elsewhere, but after reading about this in a linguistic forum, I would like get the answer from anyone with some Chemistry background. How do people from England or from places with similar accent pronounce "iron ion"...

I can't do much about the crappy pronunciation, but if anything acts on your nerves, please tell. And in general, if you think something is wrong about the idea/approach/execution - fire away. Note: it is about video, not about the software. That is, I have nothing against comments about the...

I'm a native English speaker and many songs, especially rock songs, sound like gibberish to me. I'm not particularly unusual this way, and I think we've had threads on that before. But I can't imagine how hard it must be for non-native speakers! Now that we have the innerwebs we can find song...

Hey guys was wondering what you thought about teaching english the summer between graduate and undergraduate. I've been accepted to a PhD program in engineering for fall 2014. However I don't know what to do with my summer. I was thinking that spending my time traveling teaching English might...

Hello, I am taking a fluid mechanics class right now, so I deal a lot with water flowing through a pipe, and equations involving the density of the fluid. The problem is, that since I'm an engineering major, we use way too many english units. There is something inherent about non-SI units I...

A very famous one which starts with: "What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what ..." I'm a little curious because I'm not an English native and feel so strange by grammar of the essay. And I guess he did write it originally in...

What are the differences between Mega city Global city And Metropolitian city ?

Hi guys. I'm an education major. I'm about to transfer to a university where I was planning on getting my undergraduate degree in education with a concentration in English. However, both my uncle and my dad were great at math. My uncle was accepted into a highly prestigious college for...

So I looked at some of the research in a couple of literature journals. One of the several similar articles found was a 50 page analysis on a comic: Persepolis. What's the point though? You're putting in more work than the author did, to do an analysis of a comic book. The author doesn't care...

I am giving a presentation on the principle of induction. I'll be showing how acoustic energy (sound) is converted into an electrical signal (via mic) & thus converted back into acoustic energy (via loudspeaker). Now I need to address the following, How & Why? How doesn't bother me. I can...

Old English fascinates me but finding material on the net is difficult, anyone have an idea where to find Old English script?

I am trying to translate this poem can anyone help? The Rune Poem Verse Indeterminate Saxon feoh byþ frofur fira gehwylcum. Sceal ðeah manna gehwylc miclun hyt dælan gif he wile for drihtne domes hleotan. ur byþ anmod and oferhyrned, 5 felafrecne deor...