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POINT ATTRACTION [6 records]

Record 1 2019-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Light attraction brings the squid to the vessel by attracting prey such as small crustaceans and fish on which the squids feed.... it is important that a shadow is cast on the water surface at about the point where the jigs enter the water, so that the squid can attack their prey in the lighted area from the relative security of darkness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

L'attraction par la lumière est faite par le senneur qui utilise de fortes lampes électriques ou à gaz. […] Le lampiste allume la lampe du skiff au centre de la zone éclairée. À ce moment-là les lampes du senneur sont progressivement éteintes et il ne reste plus que la lampe du skiff qui attire le poisson.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pesca comercial
PHR

Se demostró que lllex illecebrosus es una especie que responde positivamente a la atracción por la luz, pescándose con eficacia durante la noche con poteras automáticas.

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Record 2 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
CONT

It is the tendency of a magnetic moment to point in a particular crystalline direction because of the electrical attraction or repulsion between its attached electronic charge cloud and the neighboring charged ions.(The energy of this interaction is often called the crystal field energy).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
CONT

[…] les complexes de Fe II et Fe III à conversion de spin sont des composés présentant une transition d’état de spin. La transition provient du fait que l’on peut adopter différentes configurations électroniques dans l’état fondamental en fonction de la balance entre l’énergie de champ cristallin et l’énergie d’appariement des spins.

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

An attractor that consists of a single point in phase space and describes a stationary state of a system.

CONT

Let us first examine the simplest attractor: a point. The "orbit" following the motion of a small ball put inside a funnel begins with wiggles that depend on its initial position and velocity, but converges eventually to the funnel’s tip; if the ball is bigger than the funnel aperture it comes to rest at the tip. The tip is a stable equilibrium point, or stable fixed point, for the ball .... The funnel’s tip is called an attractor point.

CONT

The point attractor is a solution which is independent of time that is, a steady state attractor. The system does not evolve.

OBS

See dynamical dissipative system, basin of attraction, limit cycle, torus. Compare to repelling point, saddle-point.

Key term(s)
  • attractor point

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Le plus simple type d'attracteur. Point singulier correspondant à une solution stationnaire de l'équation du mouvement et caractérisant un système qui évolue toujours vers un état unique.

CONT

Quand le module initial de z est assez petit, le point représentatif tend vers un point particulier; quand le module initial est assez grand, il croît indéfiniment, et l'infini joue alors le rôle d'attracteur. Le premier point attracteur et l'infini constituent donc deux orbites attractives pour les points du plan complexe (...)

OBS

Le point d'équilibre unique d'une pendule amortie en est l'exemple classique de ce type d'attracteur. S'oppose à répulseur, point répulsif.

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A computer-based method using an underlying lattice for deciding whether two or more attractive fixed points belong to the same basin of attraction or to different basins. One could also test a basin of attraction(of an attractive or parabolic point) versus a Siegel disk, or versus a Herman ring, or even versus a divergent set(having repelling fixed points).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Méthode de balayage infographique qui sert à déterminer l'appartenance de deux points fixes au même bassin d'attraction.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

Fatou had shown in 1906 that for certain c's the point at infinity attracts all the complex plane, except for a Julia set that is very "thin" and forms what is now called a "fractal dust". A dust bounds no domain of any sort, hence cannot bound a domain of attraction. Therefore, the set I was seeking had to be a subset of the set of c's for which the Julia set is not a dust, hence is connected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

Mirror symmetry, that is, invariance against "flipping sides", is perhaps the most widely noticed symmetry. Nature built many of her organisms in nearly symmetric ways, and most fundamental laws of physics, such as Newton's law of gravitation, have an exact mirror symmetry : there is no difference between left and right in the attraction of heavenly(and most earthbound) bodies. However, the nonconservation of parity in radioactive decay-that is, the violation of point symmetry in the "weak" interactions-has finally taught even the physicists to take the distinction between right and left seriously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

[...] symétrie signifiant que le corps est divisé en deux parties, chacune image de l'autre dans un miroir. C'est la notion courante de symétrie bilatérale.

Spanish

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