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Publications and source records attributed to Frank G. Borg.
The essay presents Special Relativity (SR) from historical and conceptual points of view. It also touches on some attempts to go beyond SR. However, still more than 100 years old SR seems as vigorous as ever and no serious challenger for a better local theory of spacetime is in sight yet. This preliminary version of the essay is mainly in Scandinavian. Dictionary: rum = space; tid = time.
We present a summary of the basic properties of the radio wave generation, propagation and reception, with a special attention to the gigahertz bandwidth region which is of interest for wireless sensor networks. We also present some measurement results which use the so-called RSSI indicator in order to track how the field strength varies with position and distance of the transceivers. We hope the paper may be useful to anyone who looks for a quick review of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory with application to antennas.
The first part of this Review describes a few of the main methods that have been employed in non-linear time series analysis with special reference to biological applications (biomechanics). The second part treats the physical basis of posturogram data (human balance) and EMG (electromyography, a measure of muscle activity).
Presents a minireview of topics concerned with balancing in quiet (bipedal) standing, and balancing of a stick. In the focus is the apparent stochastic nature of the swaying of the human inverted pendulum.
Although osmosis is a familiar phenomenon, and of pivotal importance in natural systems, it is seldom explained how it might work on the molecular level (if treated at all in physics text books). The standard treatment of osmosis in thermodynamics employs the concept of the chemical potential and does not give any clues how the process "really" works. On the other hand one may also encounter conflicting qualitative and molecular explanations of osmosis. We use the case of osmosis in the present paper to elucidate different ways to "explain" and "understand" physical phenomena. The role of qualitative understanding of physical phenomena is emphasized. However, as the case of osmosis demonstrates, there may be a big gap between the abstract macroscopic theory and molecular conceptions of the mechanism.