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An arithmetically simple method has been developed for the evaluation of Biot--Savart integrals on tetrahedralized distributions of vorticity. In place of the usual approach of analytical formulae for the velocity induced by a linear…
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A new scheme of field quantization is proposed. Instead of associating with different frequencies different oscillators we begin with a single oscillator that can exist in a superposition of different frequencies. The idea is applied to the…
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