English Definition and 313 Threads

Homework Statement I have a problem that I've mostly solved using Ideal-gas specific heats for Oxygen. It has the form C_p = a + bT + cT^2 + dT^3 I am supposed to give the answer in English units of \frac{Btu}{lbm}, but I am having some difficulties in my conversion. Homework...

Hey guys, I know you all wish you never had to do all the weird conversions required for our current system of measurement. I know I'd rather convert 17km to m than 17mi to feet or ever inches. I thought that since I know so many people who would rather just do the easy metric conversions...

Hi folks! I've considered a career as a technical writer for the mechatronics/electronics fields for a while now (yes I have engineering education), but I'm wondering if I'd want to work in a European country like Netherlands, Germany...do they need technical writers in English? Or, do they...

inanimate object thinking its own thoughts? I am going over this bible verse which states the following: "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith" I am reading "the hope of righteousness" like the word "righteousness" is actually "hoping" for something. --But...

Is the statement "if you are a comedian then you are funny." equivalent to what is defined in part (a)?

I heard from a native speaker that words like *analysts, texts, sex etc* should be pronounced as */analysts/, /texkts/, sexks* That is impossible (those in bold) for me but Do native speakers when speaking never miss those single letters in bold ? Thank you.

Dear forumers, I'm looking for the translation in ENGLISH for the following article : On the Dispersion Mechanism in Laminar Flow through Tubes Kunio Arai1), Shozaburo Saito1), Siro Maeda1) 1) Department of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University Chemical engineering Vol. 31 (1967) No. 1 P...

Homework Statement I'm a student of a correspondance university in Japan. I want to learn physics and mathematics in English,but I can't find which books are suitable to study from very basic mathematics and Physics. "Very basic", I mentioned, means on a level like pupils at school in the U.K...

Hello all. I registered here to make some inquires, hoping that you might be of help. My fascination of Physics and my desire for adventure drives me to study Physics somewhere outside my country of origin. I am particularly interested in studying in Central or Eastern Europe because of the...

Homework Statement Determine the force necessary to accelerate a mass of 20 lbm at a rate of 60 ft/s^2 vertically upward.Homework Equations How do you properly account for weight? What exactly is pound force? How do you go from pound mass (lbm) to pound force (lbf)? The Attempt at a Solution F...

I really don't see the point in analyzing a text or writing a creative. You can argue that learning English allows one to acquire essential skills such as communication, reading comprehension etc... but such skills can be acquired much more effectively in ways other than watching a movie then...

Homework Statement The reading on a mercury manometer at 25 degrees Celsius (open to the atmosphere at one end) is 25.62 inches. The local acceleration of gravity is 32.243(ft)(s^2) Atmospheric pressure is 29.86 (in Hg). What is the absolute pressure in psia being measured? The density of...

Homework Statement Translate these statements into English, where C(x) is “x is a comedian” and F(x) is “x is funny” and the domain consists of all people. a) ∀x(C(x)→F(x)) b)∀x(C(x)∧F(x)) c) ∃x(C(x)→F(x)) d)∃x(C(x)∧F(x)) Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution...

Capillaries? Sorry about my whining last night, Evo, I was having a bad night. I won't bore you guys with the details. Is there a link where I could learn how to utilize these features. If I want to mark a quote where the OP is featured, the only way I can do it is quote the whole post...

Its from midsummer nights dream, act 5 scene 1. Quince is giving his perfomamnce as a lion, and he has just assured the audience that he isn't really a lion, he's just acting one out. So what i don't understand is the analogies that are used --fox, goose, valour, wisdom etc --- and how they all...

When applying as a transfer to a 4-year college from community college, is there anything detrimental about this? I don't want to be insulting and ask him to get someone to proof read his letter of recommendation, but he's not exactly a Nobel laureate or NAS member so I'm afraid if his letter is...

The current photo contest - https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=657811 - made me wonder about tongue-twisters. For PFers who aren't native English speaking, what are some tongue-twisters in your native language? And of course I'd like to know native English speakers'...

Homework Statement I'm working on a bipedal walker and as part of initial research I found hybrid zero dynamics as a solution to help detect terrain. The current method used is combining data from accelerometer and gyroscope and using Kalman Filter to find angle in x,y,z planes...

One of the professors I'm asking to write a letter of rec for grad school isn't the best at English. She's from Romania, so I think it's understandable. She's one of my favorite professors and I've always done extremely well in her classes, so it was an obvious choice to me for me to ask her...

Hello everyone, An example from a homework assignment has me stymied. There are two parts. Here they are: First part: Let M(x,y) be "x has sent y an e-mail message" and T(x,y) be "x has telephoned y," where the domain consists of all students in your class. Use quantifiers to express each of...

I decided to give it a shot at writing something, i should start off letting you all know i have never gotten an A in english(high grades) I'm 22 years old and I'm now a fully qualified IT Technical Support Officer. English was never a strong point for me and still is far from decent, i used to...

I am quite troubled by a certain singularity in thought which has crept into our common usage. In general, we strive for precision in our words, and tend to inflate and separate words, broadening vocabulary, manufacturing new separate words when we run across ambiguity. Sometimes several...

So I was reading an english text and I enounctered the following strange words: nebagonagibuop and nebegonalepudown. It's a science-fiction text, so it doesn't mean anything. I just wanted to ask how people on this forum would pronounce these words??

Hello - I am from India and my first language is Hindi and second English. I want to improve my English as I sometimes find myself short of words and I am not that fluent. Also after my college I'll give exams like GRE and TOEFL so I need to improve my English for a good score. My question is...

Hello People, I am seeking for universities/schools some where in Europe that offers English bachelor programs in technology fields "low tuition fees are preferable", it would be great if any of these universities don't require much like higher grades or transcripts coz I only got a High School...

I apologise for choosing not so related topic, but I could'n find better one. I will have to read some math expressions in English for audience and I'm not sure how to say it. And when I ask English teacher, they don't know what it means in the first place and can't give me any advise either...

Please help me with these two sentences Which one is supposed to be better ? 1. Why do you want to work in this field ? Because we want to and know how. 2. Why do you want to work in this field ? Because we want to and we know how.

Find the probability of scoring a total of 7 points (a) once, (b) at least once, (c) twice, in 2 tosses of a pair of dice. My question. 1. What does scoring a total of 7 points mean? Is it 1+6 or 2+5 or 3+4 or 4+3 or 5+2 or 6+1 2. Is in 2 tosses of a pair of dice means that throwing 2...

I'm a little confused about the conversion between lbm and lbf (mass pounds and force pounds). I'm doing a problem where I'm using Newton's 2nd law to calculate mass flow rate. F= Δ((Mass flow rate)*Velocity) I know my force is 400 lbf and velocity is 40 ft/s so mass flow rate is...

I'm in high school and my english final was basically analyzing a short story and then writing an essay on what I thought the theme/message was. I completely and utterly screwed up, it was a really challenging piece but the conclusion I came to turned out to be completely wrong, and in hindsight...

Hi guys, Where can I find english version of G. Lemaitre's paper Ann. Soc. Scient. bruxelles A47, 49(1927), and Ann. Soc. Scient. bruxelles A53, 51(1927) . I can find only french version in google, and I don't know french. Our library does not have this journal. Thanks.

For non native speakers here. For example, the spelling, the grammar (be specific please), the sentence structure, the vocabulary, etc. One specific example that comes to mind: the way the word "over" is used. It can mean "above" contrasted with "below"; or as contrasted with "under". It can...

Homework Statement I am going back and reviewing some elementary material in logic/set theory. Among the problems in the quantifier section is the following english sentence to logic sentence translation: Everyone likes Mary, except Mary herself. Now, my attempt was: (∀x)[(x≠m →...

From my understanding, the line of descent of the English language looks like this: Modern English << Middle English << Old English << Anglo-Saxon << Old Saxon/other Old Germanic languages. Also, from my understanding, somewhere between 50-70% of all modern English words have Latin and/or...

Hi there! I am puzzling over the choice of a European university where to study physics. I have to start from scratch, that is from a bachelor degree, since my BSc is in a different field, computer science engineering. Courses must be taught completely in English because I don't have any...

Where is English the "Official Language"? I figure: Canada US England Ireland Scotland Australia New Zealand I am not sure about: Wales India Philippines Guam South Africa

So I have heard gibberish versions of languages, such as gibberish German or gibberish Japanese and gibberish Chinese, and even gibberish Russian (where you can't tell that someone isn't speaking the real language if you don't speak it). So I have always wondered what American English sounds...

Hi guys, I'm in year 11 (UK) and will be choosing A levels to do in sixth-form next year. I would like to be a physicist and will be choosing physics, maths and further maths definitely. I hope to do four A levels but I can't decide whether to do Chemistry or English Language. Chemistry will...

Hello Friends, I have been searching to take my masters in physics in Germany and found Stuttgart Uni. I am looking forward into it. But i have few doubts related to course, fees and city. I have no knowledge of German. 1) How is the reputation to study Physics in Stuttgart Varsity? 2) The...

I need to publish a list of a committee members. Is there any better way of preceding each persons name by Mr/Ms ? Like 1. Mr/Ms Rajendra Adhikari ---- Chairman 2. Mr/Ms Ramkumar kafle ----- Vice-Chairman . . etc. I am searching for single word replacement for Mr/Ms if there is any?

i am not quite good in english , so anyone would be kind enough to help me with these? Q1. Which of these words mean " to be in harmony with" ? a) uniformity b) alike c) conformity d) akin Q2. Rearrange these The Purpose / with ability / independent thinking / to create /...

Hi I am a UK student and I'll be applying for undergrad physics courses in the UK and hopefully mainland Europe to start next September - just in time for the £9000/year fees to kick in! Most of my chosen UK courses are "Year in Europe" courses anyway, since I would like to study abroad...

How are ordinal numbers in set theory/order theory related to ordinal numbers in English? There should somehow be a bit of relationship for them to share the same name.

Homework Statement Consider a submarine cruising 32 ft below the free surface of seawater whose density is 64 lbm / (ft^3). What is the increase in the pressure in psi exerted on the submarine when it dives to a depth of 172 ft below the free surface? Assume that the acceleration due to...

So I had no idea what forum this question should have been posted in, but here it is... Is it possible for a person, (like for example a Chinese man, or for even more simply, an alien), that knows literally 0 words in the English language, to pick up an English dictionary (assuming that he...

I am aware that Dover has a compendium of some of the early works from 1907-1926 (I think), but I am looking for later ones, specifically the papers of Vladimir Fock in Z. Phys. where he develops the Fock operator, and the Dirac-Fock operator (these are from 1929-1931 I think). I can sort of...

I'm trying to learn Mid Welsh because I am running into it more and more. I've just started reading "An introduction to early Welsh". http://www.archive.org/stream/introductiontoea00strauoft#page/4/mode/2up I was wondering if anyone knew of other books that might be better. I don't need...

Trying to translate a mathematical term from Hebrew to English ("regression rule") If I translate it word by word in Hebrew, it's the "regression rule" Such as, I am told that "a series is defined for every natural n by the regression rule"...

Hello I'm a student from Germany and I'm studying Engineering Physics in the end of the 5th semester. I really want to study in an english speaking country like USA, Australia or UK. It is the biggest dream I ever had. Unfortunally I never was the best student in my courses. I would say...

Homework Statement A pressure of 3000atm is measured with a dead-weight gauge. The piston diameter is 0.17in. What is the mass in pound-mass (lbm)?Homework Equations 1) P=F/A 2) F=PA 3) F=mg 4) F/g=mThe Attempt at a Solution I first used the given diameter to find the cross-sectional area of...