If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If the house you plan to buy or build won't have big overhangs, you can still do a fair job of keeping the sun off walls and windows with properly designed trellises, fences and awnings.

If they have to take any car, they'd rather take the big one.

If they can't chalk up big business here then let's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing,

( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??

If the holes are too big the steamer can be lined with damp cheesecloth.

Buckley writes, " If Ziggy confused both his creator and his audience, a big part of that confusion centred on the topic of sexuality.

If f is a polynomial and p is big enough, then the remainder term vanishes.

A pattern is activated by certain expectations: If a person sees a big bird, he or she will classify it rather as a sea eagle than a golden eagle, assuming that his or her " sea-scheme " is currently activated and his " land-scheme " is not.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

If all players call the big blind, the big blind is then given an extra opportunity to raise.

If each player in a tournament starts with 5, 000 in chips and after 4 hours, the big blind is 10, 000 ( with a small blind of 5, 000 ), it will be very difficult for a player with only 15, 000 in chips to stay in the game.

If you go deeper into it and say ' Yeah, but if you are going to grow a human being, does he start that big and I've got to see him through everything?

If this type of energy were to exist, it would cause a big rip in the universe due to the growing energy density of dark energy which would cause the expansion of the universe to increase at a faster-than-exponential rate.

* If a wave is too big for the depth of water, it splits into two, one big and one small.

Responding to a remark made by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson about not having boots in which to go to school, Macmillan retorted: ' If Mr Wilson did not have boots to go to school that is because he was too big for them.

The same month, Foley offered to mow anyone's lawn who donated up to a certain amount to the organization, stating, " If you want to help survivors of sexual assault, or just want to see a big guy with long hair mowing your lawn in front of your friends, please take part ..."

If they were too big for his bed, he cut them to size.

" If a business opportunity promises no risk, little effort, and big profits, it almost certainly is a scam.

" If You're Ready ( Come Go With Me )" would become another big hit, reaching # 9 pop and # 1 on the R & B chart in 1973.

U. S. Representative George E. Brown, Jr. ( D-CA ) was quoted as voicing his support for planetary defense projects in Air & Space Power Chronicles, saying " If some day in the future we discover well in advance that an asteroid that is big enough to cause a mass extinction is going to hit the Earth, and then we alter the course of that asteroid so that it does not hit us, it will be one of the most important accomplishments in all of human history.

If a senior member of the machinist's mate's, damage controlman's, or engineman's rating is known for being exceptionally big and strong, a new person may be sent searching for the " MMC ," " DC " or " EN1 punch.

If, after birth, the complete amniotic sac or big parts of the membrane remain coating the newborn, this is called a caul.

If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.

If wave function collapse is regarded as ontologically real as well, an objective collapse theory is obtained.

If we take the simple valence bond structure and mix in all possible covalent and ionic structures arising from a particular set of atomic orbitals, we reach what is called the full configuration interaction wave function.

If a ray tracing is then made as if a light wave ( as understood in classical physics ) is wide enough to take both paths, then that ray tracing will accurately predict the appearance of maxima and minima on the detector screen when many particles pass through the apparatus and gradually " paint " the expected interference pattern.

If a crest of a wave meets a crest of another wave of the same frequency at the same point, then the magnitude of the displacement is the sum of the individual magnitudes – this is constructive interference.

If a crest of one wave meets a trough of another wave then the magnitude of the displacements is equal to the difference in the individual magnitudes – this is known as destructive interference.

* If the molecule has some symmetry, the degenerate atomic orbitals ( with the same atomic energy ) are grouped in linear combinations ( called symmetry-adapted atomic orbitals ( SO )), which belong to the representation of the symmetry group, so the wave functions that describe the group are known as symmetry-adapted linear combinations ( SALC ).

* If a storm or wave capsizes a small monohull, it may recover when the weight of the ballast in the keel rights the boat, if it does not broach and sink before it recovers.

If the pump waves and the signal wave are superimposed in a medium with a non-zero χ < sup >( 3 )</ sup >, this produces a nonlinear polarization field:

If two waves of the same wavelength and frequency are in phase, both the wave crests and wave troughs align.

If E < sub > i </ sub > is a sine wave, triangular wave, or wave of any other shape that is symmetrical around zero, the zero-crossing detector's output will be square.

If one knows the corresponding wave function at the instant before the measurement, one will be able to compute the probability of the wavefunction collapsing into each of the possible eigenstates.

If the wavelength is much shorter than the target's size, the wave will bounce off in a way similar to the way light is reflected by a mirror.

If an electron of energy E is incident upon an energy barrier of height U ( z ), the electron wave function is a traveling wave solution,

If a plane wave, confined to the xz plane, is incident on a dielectric with an angle and wavevector then a transmitted ray will be created with a corresponding angle of transmittance as shown in Fig.

If the first part of a tsunami to reach land is a trough — called a drawback — rather than a wave crest, the water along the shoreline recedes dramatically, exposing normally submerged areas.

If a traveling wave has a fixed shape that repeats in space or in time, it is a periodic wave.

If all the parts making up a medium were rigidly bound, then they would all vibrate as one, with no delay in the transmission of the vibration and therefore no wave motion.