Sentence examples for negative quantity from inspiring English sources

"That has already been done, and now he is trying to reduce him to a negative quantity".

In serving their own ends they were serving public ends, while Gould was a negative quantity in the development of the country where he was not an absolutely retarding and destructive quantity.The common term of reproach against an "operator" is that he is a gambler, but it would be very unjust to apply this term to Gould.

When decelerating particles the LINAC electrode potential is treated as a negative quantity.

Thus, the sign of Equation (30) is determined by its second part, which is a negative quantity.

end{aligned} (6.38 Since (E(Omega )) is a negative quantity, from (6.35) we have that (E(B /E(Omega )ge 1).

We observe that, formally, when the real part of the variable Ω is a negative quantity, that is R e < 0, the introduced functions H and f have the following limits for quite long time intervals: lim t → ∞ H Ω, D, t = - 1 2 D Ω, when Re Ω < 0 ; (33) lim t → ∞ f Ω, t = - 1 2 Ω 2, when Re Ω < 0. (34).

In his early essay on Negative Quantities, he remarks "There is something great and I think, very correct in Leibniz's notion that the soul embraces the entire universe with its representational powers, although only an infinitely small part of this representation is clear……Outer things can carry the condition of their presentation, but not the force to bring themselves into existence for us.

The True Measurement of Living Forces, (1747), the Physical Monadology (1756), New Elucidation (1755), the Essay on some Treatments of Optimism (1759), Negative Quantities (1763) and the Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766) are all technically "pre-critical," but they are critical with respect to logical, physical, and theological Leibnizian principles and doctrines.

Varekamp et al. (1984) indicated that using only the main phases occurring in pumices to obtain the modal composition of ashes always yielded negative quantities of augite by including excess Na and S as plagioclase and anhydrite.

For p ∈ ∂J (v), we define the non-negative quantity D p u, v ≡ D J p u, v ≡ J u − J v − < p, u − v > (4).

In this paper we first establish a new variational characterisation of spherical designs: it is shown that a set XN="{x1,…,xN}⊂Sd, where Sd:="{x∈Rd+1:∑j= 1dxj2="1}, is a spherical L-design if and only if a certain non-negative quantity AL,N XN) vanishes.