Sentence examples for smooth continuum from inspiring English sources

In the general population, variation in daily alcohol consumption is distributed along a smooth continuum.

Even today, most people think that the myriad events of daily life play out against a smooth continuum of space and time -- a viewpoint that dates back at least to Isaac Newton in the 17th century.

In an unstructured smooth continuum or manifold, in Weyl's words "a completely formless four-dimensional continuum in the sense of analysis situs," there are very few calculus-based operations available.

The X-ray spectrum deviates strongly from a smooth continuum and reveals complex structures which are probably a mixture of absorption and emission line patterns.

Replies also reveal that many older adults in these three cultures conceptually map the future not as a smooth continuum of time but rather as segmented into states, one kind of which is wanted and one which is not.

DC maintains the subjective/objective split is nonexistent -- a smooth continuum, the surface of a calm sea.

The purpose of this study is to investigate of effect of presplitting on the generation of a smooth wall in continuum and jointed rock mass.

These results let us confirm that for smooth walls the continuum mechanics laws for convection and fluid mechanics remain valid in microchannels of hydraulic diameter greater than or equal to 100 μm.

Note that the dip at 5.3 arcsec in our polarimetric data is simply our motivation to seek a planet around 62 AU. Figure 1 shows the geometric mean of the four surface intensities and a smooth declining curve, "continuum", as a function of radial distance from the central star.

But if you ignore the fact that air is made of atoms and instead approximate it as a continuum, a smooth substance that has a density, pressure and velocity at each point, you find that this idealised air obeys a beautifully simple equation that explains almost everything we care about: how to build airplanes, how we hear them with soundwaves, how to make weather forecasts, etc.

In several respects, the requirements of an elimination program conflict with those of a control regimen 3; thus, an additional challenge is successfully managing smooth transitions along the continuum from control to elimination and beyond to prevention of reintroduction.