Zeno’s paradoxes are often said, all together, to have been settled by the calculus. What this paper shows is that the four fall to four different tools, and that one of them does not fall to the calculus at all. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──the s...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Zeno’s paradoxes are often said, all together, to have been settled by the calculus. What this paper shows is that the four fall to four different tools, and that one of them does not fall to the calculus at all. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──the s...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
A liquid with small spheres mixed in at volume fraction φ has, when dilute, (1 + 2.5φ) times its original viscosity. Einstein wrote the coefficient as 1 in his 1906 doctoral thesis and corrected it to 2.5 in 1911. This paper checks the Stokes solution for a sphere in a uniform straining flow by symbolic computation, ob...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
In Tractatus 6.341 Wittgenstein likened mechanics to a net laid over the world: the shape of the mesh (square or triangular) is arbitrary, and all that can be said of the world is that it can be described by a net of this fineness. This paper counts the simile with lattice points. Three lattices of the same density are...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
How many demands of the form “null this frequency” can be met? What this paper shows is that the ceiling is set by the number of coefficients, and that falling short does not cost one demand but all of them. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──the fundam...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
In 1909 Einstein showed that the energy fluctuation of a single mode of black-body radiation is the sum of a term like that of light quanta and a term like that of classical waves. This paper checks by three routes, the formula, the distribution of the occupation number and thermodynamics, that the ratio of the two ter...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
In 1909 Einstein showed that the energy fluctuation of a single mode of black-body radiation is the sum of a term like that of light quanta and a term like that of classical waves. This paper checks by three routes, the formula, the distribution of the occupation number and thermodynamics, that the ratio of the two ter...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
The Kauzmann paradox is spoken of as a property of supercooled liquids. This paper shows that crossing zero follows from holding the heat-capacity difference constant──held constant, however small, it always crosses. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──t...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
The circumference of a rotating disk is longer than π times its diameter (Ehrenfest 1909). Einstein used this disk as a clue that geometry under gravity would not be Euclidean. This paper obtains the Gaussian curvature of the spatial metric of a rotating frame by two routes, symbolic computation and numerical different...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
The Kauzmann paradox is spoken of as a property of supercooled liquids. This paper shows that crossing zero follows from holding the heat-capacity difference constant──held constant, however small, it always crosses. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──t...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Whether a fission chain reaction keeps going is decided by the balance between neutrons gained in the content and neutrons leaking through the skin. This paper counts that balance in a bare one-group diffusion core (no reflector, no extrapolation distance, lengths measured in the diffusion length L, and the material re...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Whether π + e, πe or γ is transcendental is not known. On the other hand, it is known that for almost all real numbers the geometric mean of the partial quotients of the continued fraction approaches Khinchin’s constant (Khinchin). This paper expands to 3000 terms the continued fractions of numbers known to be transcen...
Yuuki Yamagishi· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
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