theoretical physics
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftheoreticalandphysics
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theoretical
adjective
uk/θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌθiː.əˈret̬.kəl/
based on the ideas that relate to a subject, not the practical uses of ...
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physics
noun[U]
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪks/us/ˈfɪz.ɪks/
the scientific study of matter and energy and the effect that they have on ...
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(Definition oftheoreticalandphysicsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This device seems more natural, and is certainly much more widely applicable, than the standard eigenfunction expansions elaborated upon in textbooks ontheoreticalphysics.
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The final two papers are reviews from the perspective oftheoreticalphysicsin the area of quantum computing and quantum information.
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I suspect that these difficulties reflect my own limitations intheoreticalphysics.
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The model became an active field of research intheoreticalphysicsand in engineering but not in neuroscience.
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Linking auto-associative memory with collective phenomena intheoreticalphysicsand computation is a basic step in the construction of the model as a boundary object.
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Finally, there is some intuition fromtheoreticalphysicsthat seems relevant to semantics, in particular concerning time and dynamical systems.
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So it may not be astonishing that the validation of the model took place mostly in the context oftheoreticalphysics.
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The evident ease with which the authors use the general principles and ideas oftheoreticalphysicshere shows to advantage.
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Quite clearly it is not a chair oftheoreticalphysicsthat is being proposed.
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To be more explicit, it was "theoreticalphysics"; and that merits explanation in relation to the growth of chemistry.
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Physical chemistry is the highest chemistry, andtheoreticalphysicsthe highest physics.
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Authors claim space for being inventive in theirtheoreticalphysicsresearch.
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These physicists puttheoreticalphysicson the map.
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It is composed like a lecture for university courses intheoreticalphysics.
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And what was happening in the university outsidetheoreticalphysicsinstitutes?
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But he did not set its intellectual agenda nor that of the widertheoreticalphysicscommunity.
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Whereas the document of 1901 never touches on the theme oftheoreticalphysics, the 1909 recommendation is built around it.
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The need to find a constructive response to the new influences fromtheoreticalphysicspresents us with both an important test case and an opportunity.
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This heuristic argument led him away from the actual biological phenomena and intotheoreticalphysics.
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It was just an excellent piece of theoretical work that is still of interest totheoreticalphysicsand to epistemology, but scarcely more.
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