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Bolometric correction. In astronomy, the bolometric correction is the correction made to the absolute magnitude of an object in order to convert its visible magnitude to its bolometric magnitude. It is large for stars which radiate most of their energy outside of the visible range. A uniform scale for the correction has not yet been standardized.
In mathematics, Rodrigues' formula (formerly called the Ivory–Jacobi formula) generates the Legendre polynomials. It was independently introduced by Olinde Rodrigues ( 1816 ), Sir James Ivory ( 1824) and Carl Gustav Jacobi ( 1827 ). The name "Rodrigues formula" was introduced by Heine in 1878, after Hermite pointed out in 1865 that Rodrigues ...
Quadratic equation. In mathematics, a quadratic equation (from Latin quadratus ' square ') is an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as [1] where x represents an unknown value, and a, b, and c represent known numbers, where a ≠ 0. (If a = 0 and b ≠ 0 then the equation is linear, not quadratic.)
A formula of the predicate calculus is in prenex [1] normal form ( PNF) if it is written as a string of quantifiers and bound variables, called the prefix, followed by a quantifier-free part, called the matrix. [2] Together with the normal forms in propositional logic (e.g. disjunctive normal form or conjunctive normal form ), it provides a ...
The Euler–Maclaurin formula provides expressions for the difference between the sum and the integral in terms of the higher derivatives f(k)(x) evaluated at the endpoints of the interval, that is to say x = m and x = n . Explicitly, for p a positive integer and a function f(x) that is p times continuously differentiable on the interval [m,n ...
The Pediatric Risk of Mortality ( PRISM) score was developed from the Physiologic Stability Index (PSI) [1] to reduce the number of physiologic variables required for pediatric intensive-care unit (PICU) mortality risk assessment, from 34 (in the PSI) to 14, [2] and to obtain an objective weighting of the remaining variables. [citation needed ...
Mott–Bethe formula. The Mott–Bethe formula is an approximation used to calculate atomic electron scattering form factors, , from atomic X-ray scattering form factors, . [1] [2] [3] The formula was derived independently by Hans Bethe and Neville Mott both in 1930, [4] [5] and simply follows from applying the first Born approximation for the ...
Ackermann's formula. In control theory, Ackermann's formula is a control system design method for solving the pole allocation problem for invariant-time systems by Jürgen Ackermann. [1] One of the primary problems in control system design is the creation of controllers that will change the dynamics of a system by changing the eigenvalues of ...