The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay ; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others.

" In the second case, it means " an hypothesis or set of hypotheses that have been verified by observation and experiment.

Mathematical and logical propositions ( e. g. " that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides ") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world ( e. g. " the sun rises in the East ") are examples of the second.

Galileo performed close observation of a second asteroid, 243 Ida, at 16: 51: 59 UT on 28 August 1993 at a range of 2, 410 km.

The second law is an observation of the fact that over time, differences in temperature, pressure, and chemical potential tend to even out in a physical system that is isolated from the outside world.

A second moon followed within the first month of observation.

Generally, if a structure pre-dates another structure in evolutionary terms, then it often appears earlier than the second in an embryo ; this general observation is sometimes summarized by the phrase " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

An Allan deviation of 1. 3 × 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup > at observation time 1 s ( i. e. τ = 1 s ) should be interpreted as there being an instability in frequency between two observations a second apart with a relative root mean square ( RMS ) value of 1. 3 × 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup >.

Some water towers are also used as observation towers, and some restaurants, such as the Goldbergturm in Sindelfingen, Germany, or the second of the three Kuwait Towers, in the City-State of Kuwait.

Hartley then combined the above quantification with Nyquist's observation that the number of independent pulses that could be put through a channel of bandwidth B hertz was 2B pulses per second, to arrive at his quantitative measure for achievable line rate.

At the observation in her honour on the second day of the month Gorpiaeus, one of the young men lay on the ground vicariously experiencing the throes of labour.

He was well-acquainted with many of the great masters from first hand observation, as he wrote in 1874, " I have learned in Venice to admire Tintoretto immensely and to consider him perhaps second only to Michelangelo and Titian.

Hardly believing a second discovery so soon after the first, Hyakutake reported his observation to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan the following morning.

The altitude-intercept method of celestial navigation requires that the observer know exact Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) at the moment of his observation of the celestial body, to the second.

This requirement has been very influential in the past, in the first place as a result of direct observation of causal processes ( like pushing a cart ), in the second place as a problematic aspect of Newton's theory of gravitation ( attraction of the earth by the sun by means of action at a distance ) replacing mechanistic proposals like Descartes ' vortex theory ; in the third place as an incentive to develop dynamic field theories ( e. g., Maxwell's electrodynamics and Einstein's general theory of relativity ) restoring contiguity in the transmission of influences in a more successful way than did Descartes ' theory.

The third qualification, related to the second, is that variation in physical structures can be overlooked, provided this does not imperil the uniformity of conclusions drawn from observation: the sun is different from the Earth, our galaxy is different from a black hole, some galaxies advance toward rather than recede from us, and the universe has a " foamy " texture of galaxy clusters and voids, but none of these different structures appears to violate the basic laws of physics.

The observation was able to very accurately determine the latitude of Providence ( to the nearest second of arc ), after which the longitude was determined by comparing observations of the moons of Jupiter with similar observations made in Cambridge, England.

* Sydney Tower ( the second tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere )

The second observation was made by Koestler himself in his analysis of hierarchies and stable intermediate forms in both living organisms and social organizations.

second law of thermodynamics amounts to an observation that nature shows

The republic gained the second Order on 15 March 1935 during the observation of its 15th anniversary.

In 1979, the " Sky Studio " was installed on the second floor of the observation deck, broadcasting a morning show with weather, traffic conditions, etc.

One of the magazine's longest-running features was " Shut-Ups ," which were two-panel gags in which a character would make an observation or excuse in the first panel, and then be told to " SHUT UP " in the second, as the true situation was visually revealed.

# Under the null hypothesis the distributions of both groups are equal, so that the probability of an observation from one population ( X ) exceeding an observation from the second population ( Y ) equals the probability of an observation from Y exceeding an observation from X, that is, there is a symmetry between populations with respect to probability of random drawing of a larger observation.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The second mistake is Tibet.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.