... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

2013 ? ... Andrei Romashchenko (Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet Moscow ? ... The Complexity year will extend the existing cooperation between the researchers from Moscow State University (Kolmogorov complexity seminar, Math Dept), Moscow Physics Technical University, Steklov institute, and researchers from LIAFA, LIRMM and other laboratories in France. ... Laurent Bienvenu visits Poncelet lab for the Complexity Year. He will teach a course (+seminar) on Kolmogorov Complexity and Computability. ...

This set of tutorials teaches you the laboratory skills needed in first year physics. The tutorials are divided into three sections - uncertainties, data handling and circuits. These tutorials are used in the Australian National University's Physics 1 course (PHYS1101). Back to Paul Francis' Web Page .

... The package stsdas.graphics needs to be loaded (to run imdisp_pos for getting # the NDC's of the display image) # set imtype="fits" # print " " print " *** Start of impol FOC demo *** " print " [stecf.impol and stsdas.graphics need to be loaded] " print " " # # (First delete any model reflection nebulae left over from previous demos) # print " Deleting any old demo files " imdel reflneb1*.fits verify=yes # # An input (intensity) image is required. ... First delete any previous list files # ! ...

... Meantime catalogue represents data collected by MSU-E & MCU-SK devices from spacecrafts "Resurs" , "Okean-O" and "Meteor-3M". ... Select in particular fields on the main page of catalogue ' Search MSU-E ' or ' Search MSU-SK ' for immidiate search using selected criteria, then provide coordinate data, time as well as quality and percentage of clauds and submit your request. ... For browsing archived data refer to ' Data ordering ' item on the main page. ...