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Modifications of the authors' previously-published, generalized, lumped-element, reflectionless filter topologies are presented which remove the original constraints on the relative values of its prototype parameters. Thus, any transfer…

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Freestanding thin films, a class of low-dimensional materials capable of maintaining structural integrity without substrates, have emerged as a forefront research focus. Their unique advantages-circumventing substrate clamping, liberating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-26 Li Liu , Peixin Qin , Guojian Zhao , Zhiyuan Duan , Jingyu Li , Sixu Jiang , Xiaoyang Tan , Xiaoning Wang , Ziang Meng , Zhiqi Liu

This article explains and illustrates the design of a laboratory experience for blind students to measure the inertia of simple objects, in this case, that of a disc around its axis of symmetry. Our adaptation consisted in modifying the…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-01-18 A. Lisboa , Francisco J. Peña

A freely falling chain from a cup at certain height can jump. The process can be divided into two parts: a stable suspension and an accelerating procedure. Variational principle and force analysis demonstrate that the shape of stable…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Wenyu Wang , Wu-Long Xu , Yang Xu , Xu-Dong Yang

Compliant walls are widespread in biological and engineering systems. Because of their singular nature, adapted tools are required to accurately study their rheological properties as well as the consequences of the latter within a given…

The main result of this paper is an explicit construction of the free commutative skew brace -- that is, a skew brace whose circle group is commutative -- on an arbitrary generating set $X$. We embed this object into a set of rational…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Thomas Letourmy

In this paper, we investigate the scalability of a given frame in $\mathbb{R}^n$ by using graphs. For each frame $\phi$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we associate a simple undirected graph $G(\phi)$ and use it to verify the scalability of $\phi$. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Ayyanar K , P. Sam Johnson , A. Senthil Thilak

I investigate the scattering properties of transformation devices as the traditional impedance matching criteria are altered. This is demonstrated using simple theory and augmented by numerical simulations that investigate the role of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-04 Paul Kinsler

We presents an independence relation on sets, one can define dimension by it, assuming that we have an abstract elementary class with a forking notion that satisfies the axioms of a good frame minus stability.

Logic · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Adi Jarden , Alon Sitton

A flexible, scalable and affordable virtual reality software system architecture is proposed. This solution can be easily implemented on different hardware configurations: on a single computer or on a computer cluster. The architecture is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Stoyan Maleshkov , Dimo Chotrov

A compound pendulum of simple geometry was built from a lightweight rod to which a pair of masses are clamped, one above and the other below the axis of rotation. By making the position of the upper mass variable, it was found that the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Peters

The free-free opacity in dense systems is a property that both tests our fundamental understanding of correlated many-body systems, and is needed to understand the radiative properties of high energy-density plasmas. Despite its importance,…

The recently introduced and characterized scalable frames can be considered as those frames which allow for perfect preconditioning in the sense that the frame vectors can be rescaled to yield a tight frame. In this paper we define…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Gitta Kutyniok , Kasso A. Okoudjou , Friedrich Philipp

In this paper, we propose a lensless compressive imaging architecture. The architecture consists of two components, an aperture assembly and a sensor. No lens is used. The aperture assembly consists of a two dimensional array of aperture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gang Huang , Hong Jiang , Kim Matthews , Paul Wilford

This work creates two categories of "array-weighted sets" for the purposes of constructing universal matrix-normed spaces and algebras. These universal objects have the analogous universal property to the free vector space, lifting maps…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Will Grilliette

We demonstrate the instability of the free surface of a soft elastic solid facing downwards. Experiments are carried out using a gel of constant density $\rho$, shear modulus $\mu$, put in a rigid cylindrical dish of depth $h$. When turned…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-29 Serge Mora , Ty Phou , Jean-Marc Fromental , Yves Pomeau

In this present work we consider a falling body through the air under the influence of gravity. In particular, we consider the experimental data based upon the free fall of six men in the atmosphere of the earth. In order to describe this…

General Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 Kwok Sau Fa

When talking to secondary school students, first impressions are crucial. Accidentally say something that sounds boring and you'll lose them in seconds. A physical demonstration can be an eye-catching way to begin an activity or spark off a…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-06-14 Philip Pearce , Tom Shearer

In this letter, we describe a very general procedure to obtain a causal fit of the permittivity of materials from experimental data with very few parameters. Unlike other closed forms proposed in the literature, the particularity of this…

Orientation and Motion Sensing are widely implemented on various consumer products, such as mobile phones, tablets and cameras as they enable immediate interaction with virtual information. The prototyping phase of any orientation and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Fabio Varesano