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`` His interests range from astronomy and geology to electronics, tennis and swimming.
The undergraduate physics curriculum generally includes the following range of courses: chemistry, classical physics, kinematics, astronomy and astrophysics, physics laboratory, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, optics, modern physics, quantum physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and solid state physics.
Galactic astronomy should not be confused with galaxy formation and evolution, which is the general study of galaxies, their formation, structure, components, dynamics, interactions, and the range of forms they take.
After a number of discoveries were made in the 1950s and 1960s in radio astronomy, astronomers realized the information available outside of the visible wavelength range, and modern infrared astronomy was established.
Infrared and optical astronomy are often practiced using the same telescopes, as the same mirrors or lenses are usually effective over a wavelength range that includes both visible and infrared light.
The telescopes amateur telescope makers build range from backyard variety to sophisticated instruments that make meaningful contributions to the field of astronomy.
The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.
Astrophotography is a large sub-discipline in amateur astronomy where it is usually used to record aesthetically pleasing images, rather than for scientific research, with a whole range of equipment and techniques dedicated to the activity.
Concepts covered within the Chinese classic texts present a wide range of subjects including poetry, astrology, astronomy, calendar, constellations and many others.
ALMA is a revolutionary facility for the observation of the Universe in the millimeter / submillimetre range of radiation and is the largest ground-based astronomy project in existence.
This range makes the jansky a suitable unit for radio astronomy.
His scientific research encompassed a wide range of different scientific disciplines: meteorology, astronomy, mathematics, statistics, demography, sociology, criminology and history of science.
* Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds.
The maximum range of astronomy by radar is very limited, and is confined to the Solar system.
This contact with " the philosophy of the ancients " ( as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars ) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write hundreds of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging from metaphysics, ethics, logic and psychology, to medicine, pharmacology, mathematics, astronomy, astrology and optics, and further afield to more practical topics like perfumes, swords, jewels, glass, dyes, zoology, tides, mirrors, meteorology and earthquakes.
Speckle imaging ( also known as video astronomy ) describes a range of high-resolution astronomical imaging techniques based either on the shift-and-add (" image stacking ") method or on speckle interferometry methods.
John Michell ( 25 December 1724 – 29 April 1793 ) was an English natural philosopher and geologist whose work spanned a wide range of subjects from astronomy to geology, optics, and gravitation.
Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting contributions outside astronomy.
A wide range of subjects ranging from the Qur ’ an and hadith to philosophy and astronomy were taught at the Dar al -‘ ilm, which was equipped with a vast library.
Visible-light astronomy ( using wavelengths that can be detected with the eyes, about 400-700 nm ) falls in the middle of this range.
Within this frequency range, the VLBA observes in eight different frequency bands that are useful for radio astronomy.
In infrared astronomy, the K band refers to a different frequency range atmospheric transmission window centered on 2. 2 microns ( in the near-infrared 136 THz range ).

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Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.
Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.
According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.
Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes ; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information ; doing scientific studies using computers ; making computer systems behave intelligently ; creating and using communications and entertainment media ; finding and gathering information relevant to any particular purpose, and so on.
In effect, integer size sets a hardware limit on the range of integers the software run by the CPU can utilize.
TOPLAP, an ad-hoc conglomerate of artists interested in live coding was formed in 2004, and promotes the use, proliferation and exploration of a range of software, languages and techniques to implement live coding.
With Dhrystone, Weicker gathered meta-data from a broad range of software, including programs written in FORTRAN, PL / 1, SAL, ALGOL 68, and Pascal.
The most-vaunted advantage of Windows, and that most publicised by Microsoft, is that Windows is compatible with the widest range of computer hardware and software.
They are mainly used by Microsoft and can range from extremely restrictive to comparable with free open-source software.
In the 1980s, developing software that could function with a wide range of graphics hardware was a real challenge.
The main factors in RC4's success over such a wide range of applications are its speed and simplicity: efficient implementations in both software and hardware are very easy to develop.
Titles cover a very wide range of categories including: business, software development, education, home, multimedia, design, drivers, games, and utilities.
A range of percentages is set in the game software and selected remotely.
There are a wide range of software systems, such as CGI, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages ( JSP ), PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming languages, Active Server Pages and ColdFusion ( CFML ) that are available to generate dynamic web systems and dynamic sites.
In the mid-1980s, 3Com branded their Ethernet technology as EtherSeries, while introducing a range of software and PC-based equipment to provide shared services over a Local Area Network ( LAN ) using Xerox Network Systems ( XNS ) protocols.
This provided a range of equipment based on Motorola 68000 processors and using XNS protocols compatibly with 3Com's Etherterm PC software.
Current computer-aided design software packages range from 2D vector-based drafting systems to 3D solid and surface modelers.
A software upgrade in 2001 was designated F. Block II development began in 1996 using a new focal plane array sensor to improve the missile's effectiveness in " high clutter " environments and increase the engagement range to about 25, 000 feet ( 7, 600 m ).
As a result, z / OS hosts a broad range of commercial and open source software of any vintage.
For employee performance management, using integrated software, rather than a spreadsheet based recording system, may deliver a significant return on investment through a range of direct and indirect sales benefits, operational efficiency benefits and by unlocking the latent potential in every employees work day ( i. e. the time they spend not actually doing their job ).

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