Search results for "Speed of sound" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- Under normal conditions of room temperature and pressure, it is a ... can significantly increase the power output of automobile internal combustion ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- to air. Furthermore, he studied the speed of sound in air and voiced a theory ... based on Boyle's law, of the speed of sound in air. ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the ... and Ben Jonson. He wrote a number of plays in imitation of the Elizabethan ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- A road is an identifiable route, way, or path for the passage of people ... or maintenance.Maxwell G. Lay. 1992. Ways of the World: A History of the ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as ... Columba) was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Uí Néill clan in Gartan ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- It generally is classified as a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus ... The word "dog" also is used to refer to some other members ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission ... in which the laser scans the surface of the disc. Other common applications ...41 KB (6,312 words) - 10:32, 10 June 2024
- popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... About 74 percent of the Sun's mass is hydrogen, 25 percent is ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent ... (television, computer monitor), echoes of aircraft detected by radar ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 21:19, 21 June 2024
- Elephant is the common name for any of the large land mammals comprising ... The three living species of elephants are the African bush elephant ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous ... Due to a short history of shark attacks on humans, most sharks inspire ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- It may be classified as a mineral consisting of hydrogen oxide (H2O). forms (phases) and several amorphous forms of ice. The most abundant type ...24 KB (3,832 words) - 17:09, 10 February 2024
- Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
