Russian Definition and 85 Threads

Hi, What do you think are the best Russian/Soviet/MIR physics books that are available in English? Should be undergraduate level or higher. All time classics that really explain the subject matter well. Thanks.

The books from MIR publishers just seem so hardcore I loved a lot of the books, most of the introductory mathematics I learnt is from Russian texts. Any recommendations y'all for cool books around the time or rare texts in general My college has a nice library and I just want to read everything...

According to this article from The Guardian russian "troops" can refuse to fight and expect "light" punishment as the country is not officially at war. I cannot help but wonder why any russian soldiers would fight at all then? Surely this cannot be true? Proscripted soldiers probably don't...

Is it possible to determine the length of the boat by using the physics of the shrapnel arcs? Can the traces of the arcs be used to determine the distance the shrapnel travels and then be send to determine the boat length. Tex

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/that-time-when-soviet-rocket-scientists-nearly-nuked-new-york-city/ Details revealed in this article are eye popping. Must reading.

For a week I've been seeing Russian allegations that the U.S. was researching bioweapons in the Ukraine. Today's example specifically targets a company, Metabiota. To be clear, I have seen nothing persuasive so far, for the following reasons: Metabiota's entire role is to track emerging...

The current events took me back to my long-ago close encounter with the Finnish-Soviet border during the Cold War, during a bicycle-camping trip in the summer of 1980. I flew my bicycle and camping gear to Helsinki. My cousins drove me out to their summer cottage on a lake northeast of...

Cleaning out some old files, I ran across this link that my son sent me a couple of years ago about a Russian fellow who started collecting very old PCs and couldn't stop. It's not technical, and the computers are almost all Russian, but he's a charming fellow who loves old computers and has...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-09/russian-rocket-explosion-kills-two-sparks-radiation-concerns/11398604 Radiation has been released following a Russian rocket explosion at the Nyonoksa naval ballistic missile test site. Part of the White Sea has been closed. 5 people now reported killed...

Anyone been following this story? Sensational or did we really narrowly miss a global nuclear disaster? What were the possible consequences of the fire spreading to the reactor? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-08/stricken-russian-nuke-sub-crew-prevented-planetary-catastrophe

Russia has developed a micronized nuclear powered drive for ballistic misiles and cruize misiles. This is obviously a very aggressive and environment polluting action. However, could such nuclear powered drive be used for space ships, that would start in space and do not touch the atmosphere of...

I didn't know whether to post this in the "Weird News" thread or here in the Medical forum, but I'd be interested to hear what folks thought would be the huge advantage of taking meldonium to help with Curling...

I'm a Physics and Russian Langauge major at school and was wondering if anyone has had any good run-ins with any undergrad level textbooks in Russian. The venerable Landau and Lifshitz on mechanics has been wonderful. Also, if anyone knows where I can find Matveev's "Mechanics and Theory of...

I have been learning how to read scientific Russian, and my reading material is the Soviet high school math textbook Algebra and Beginning Analysis, (1976), edited by Kolmogorov. (I've seen the title also translated as Algebra and Elements of Analysis). The Russian title is Алгебра и Начала...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.3d3f0ce2546f Source: Signs of Russian Hack Found in Vermont Utility System | NBC Chicago...

Hi guys. I need ur suggestion. Firstly, (I got to say that I'm new about this topic) I'm studying mechanical engineering and It's my first year. I've never learned about fluid mechanics or termodynamic or differantial equations before but I'm dealing with Aircrafts especially UAV. I've read...

What do you think? RU2563511 MICROBIOLOGICAL METHOD OF TRANSMUTATION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND CONVERSION OF ISOTOPES OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS Viktor Kurashov, Tamara Sakhno SUBSTANCE: radioactive raw materials containing radioactive chemical elements or their isotopes, are treated with an aqueous...

Assuming a candidate for an astronomer position in the US fulfills the standard skills and requirements, would it be seen as an added plus to speak, write, and understand Russian fluently?

Dear Physics Forum friends, I recently got interested in the Russian textbooks in mathematics, which I am completely blown away by their exposition, insights, and excellent problem sets. I have been reading translated versions of Russian books written by authors like Kolmogorov, Arnold, and...

Many times I have seen the claim that some text on mathematics is written in a "good Russian style". What does that mean? Somehow I've got an impression that it is a kind of opposite to the Bourbaki style. Namely, a Russian style would not consist of a dry series of abstract general theorems...

Well this really complicates matters :frown: Turkey Says It Shot Down Russian Warplane Near Syria Border http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-24/unidentified-warplane-crashes-in-syria-near-turkish-border

Russian cosmonaut back after record 879 days in space Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned safely to Earth with two other astronauts from the International Space Station Saturday with the record for having spent the most time in space. Continue reading...

Boris Nemtsov was shot in the head 4 times. http://m.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31669061

There are several sites on the web that pose a physics problem that states that "the Russians" sometimes dropped soliders from planes into the snow without parachutes. (e.g. on physicsforums we have: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/parachuting-inside-bales-of-hay.792412/ ) Is this a...

Hello All, I am searching for the following article: O A Ovanov, L V Solina, and V A Demshina 1973 Phys. Met. Metallogr. 35 81. Or at least the link for the above. Thanks, Rajini.

I want to learn math and science from the ground up as my foundations are very weak. Most people I asked recommended that I try to get my hands on Russian textbooks as they are the 'best of the best'. Hearing this got me interested! I have six questions: 1. Are the Russian math and science...

Chinese warships in first call at an Iran port http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-warships-first-call-iran-port-205315307.htmlU.S., Canadian jets intercept 8 Russian aircraft http://news.yahoo.com/us-canadian-jets-intercept-8-russian-aircraft-232846452.html...

Hello everyone! I'm really interested in learning forigen languages. I'm taking Spanish in school, and have achieved enough fluency to be able to participate in most conversations. Now, I'd like to start learning Russian. I've started with teaching myself the Cyrillic alphabet. Is this a...

http://gpsworld.com/glonass-gone-then-back/ Bad software update?

Does anyone any good math (or physics) textbook written in style of the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics,by famous russian mathematicians like V.I.Arnol'd ,Dubrovin ,Gelfand,Piskunov...I mean book that teach you the math in all its rigour but with an orientation toward the natural sciences?

I have a well made stainless steel hip flask I just bought. Supposedly russian made with a Stalin emblem on the side. My problem is it's stamped on the bottom with the hammer and sickle and the word RUSSIA. If it was really russian would it have the word RUSSIA on the bottom instead of cyrillic...

Back in february, a meteor came down over Russia and exploded in midair. I can't help but compare this to the Tunguska event. Thus my question. Why were the two meteor explosions both in the same general area of Earth?

Why was there a delay between the explosion from the meteor in Russia and the sonic boom hitting the cities? And how long was it?

Astronomers have calculated that the Russian meteor and asteroid 2012 DA14 have very different orbits: Astronomers Calculate Orbit of Chelyabinsk Meteorite. Still because of the very unlikely probability of their occurring together purely by chance, I would like to see some simulations of...

I doubt it. The trajectory of meteor was very close to be horizontal, so it could make revolution('s) around the Earth and fly opposite direction to asteroid known as 2012 DA14, being a remnants of 2012 DA14.

Japanese, Chinese, or Russian?? Hi, all! I went to the SCUWiP about a week ago and it was soooo exciting! I LOVE physics! Anyway, just wanted to ask your opinion about the second language thing. I have heard that SpaceX is looking for physicists who speak both English and either Japanese...

Hello! The following question was asked in a Soviet Union mathematics Olympiad about 2-3 decades ago. A friend brought it up a few days ago and it has been bugging us since then. The problem goes along the lines of: "There are 10 ammo boxes each containing 10 bullets, and each bullet...

Somebody slept through their lecture on resonance. I don't know how to link video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQrt_w7gN4&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQrt_w7gN4&feature=related

We all the famous schrodinger's cat experiment and its outcomes which sound stupid in classic or macroscopic world. A similar thought came to my mind for Russian roulette game. Suppose you lock 2 game players in a room with a revolver of single shot and they start playing Russian roulette by...

I'm trying to learn Russian and finding one of the hardest parts is developing an "ear" for the language (it's mostly just one continuous stream of "Sh" and "rrrr" and the average Russian seems to speak at Mach 3 :smile:). I've found listening to podcasts (old BBC ones) in the car on the way...

Right now I am a freshman studying physics and considering adding russian as a second major. I already speak it pretty fluently, so the only challenging part would be the required literature classes. With a goal of going to grad school in physics, will a russian degree even matter, or would my...

Hi. This isn't exactly like the previous thread and not a homework problem. I'd just like to check the validity of my solution. It concerns the relation between a discrete and continuous probability distribution. The problem: A player inserts a bullet into a 6-chamber revolver. He then spins...

Hello! I've a problem understanding the following lines(Arzela lemma, and first two sentences of a proof) from Fichtengoltz's book. I know, that some(2 members?) of you know Russian, help me please translate these line into English, with a short explanation on bold lines. Thank you!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16024938 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16025648 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-russia-election-idUSTRE7B019B20111204 I am bit shocked to see these stories coming out of Russia. This one was from few weeks ago and there was lots...

I found this news in the yahoo. I think it's amazing. The first extra-ordinary proof of alien existence http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/11711701/russias-chilling-alien-discovery

I bought a stainless steel hip flask on Ebay supposedly russian military. Picture of Lenin and a flag with a cyrillic word on it over a red star. On the bottom it's stamped with a hammer and sickle and RUSSIA (didn't show that in the pics on Ebay). Would russia use the word RUSSIA? I would...

[FONT="Times New Roman"][SIZE="3"]The admission to Russian universities is open. Here is some information on general steps of application for a study in Russia. For getting in contact with the university you may send just of the documents by E-mail. Application packege consists of application...

We have all fallen right into his trap. DISCUSS

I recently have become aware of some old Soviet/Russian "classics" and am interested in learning more! It seems the style of the books I have found are always comprehensive but precise and to the point, much like Landau's Course in Theoretical Physics, and I appreciate this style. The ones I...

Dau--film about Russian physicist Lev Landau 1908-1968 The film-maker is Khrzhanovsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Khrzhanovsky Here is the Cannes Film Festival page about the Landau film ("Dau") http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/cinefoundation/ficheFilmAtelier/id/4347979/year/2006.html...