The spherical model is a model of ferromagnetism similar to the Ising model, which was solved in 1952 by T. H. Berlin and M. Kac. It has the remarkable...

status" and proposes a spherical model that assigns occupations to a 3-dimensional space incorporating occupational prestige. In this model, 18 regions of interest...

The spherical cow is a humorous metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of complex phenomena. Originating in theoretical physics, the metaphor...

hold. Instead, as in spherical geometry, there are no parallel lines since any two lines must intersect. However, unlike in spherical geometry, two lines...

A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...

is not exactly spherical, mainly because of its rotation around the polar axis that makes its shape slightly oblate. However, a spherical harmonics series...

A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps...

The spherical collapse model describes the evolution of nearly homogeneous matter in the early Universe into collapsed virialized structures - dark matter...

scientific fields. The table of spherical harmonics contains a list of common spherical harmonics. Since the spherical harmonics form a complete set of...

psychophysiologist and psychophysicist, the principal author of the spherical model of color space. Chingis Izmailov was born in Derbent, USSR, in 1944...

the concepts underlying geodesic polyhedra. In Magnus Wenninger's Spherical models, polyhedra are given geodesic notation in the form {3,q+}b,c, where...

typically assumed to be a circle, drawn on the surface of a perfectly spherical model of the relevant celestial body, i.e., a small circle of the local osculating...

latitude, as defined in this way for the sphere, is often termed the spherical latitude, to avoid ambiguity with the geodetic latitude and the auxiliary...

the cosmos that explains the visible rotation of the stars. When the spherical model of the Earth was proposed, early Greek cosmology as a whole began to...

ancient near eastern cosmology. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory. The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek...

In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system is a coordinate system for three-dimensional space where the position of a given point in space is specified...

at that point". It is also common to refer to any mean radius of a spherical model as "the radius of the earth". When considering the Earth's real surface...

The roughly spherical shape of Earth can be empirically evidenced by many different types of observation, ranging from ground level, flight, or orbit...

{R_{\mathrm {E} }}{y_{\mathrm {atm} }}}}}\approx 38.87\,.} The homogeneous spherical model slightly underestimates the rate of increase in air mass near the horizon;...

transforms from the plane back onto the sphere. The formulae presume a spherical model and use these definitions: λ {\displaystyle \lambda } is the longitude...

shape used to model planet Earth. The kind of figure depends on application, including the precision needed for the model. A spherical Earth is a well-known...

is a 2016 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram. It is a spherical model of the Moon, with a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft). Several copies tour...

introduced the spherical model of a ferromagnet, a variant of the Ising model, and, with J. C. Ward, found an exact solution of the Ising model using a combinatorial...

since involved better modeling of the line opacity (opacity sampling instead of opacity distribution functions), spherical modeling and including an increasing...

Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...

The NGA provides the models in two formats: as the series of numerical coefficients to the spherical harmonics which define the model, or a dataset giving...

the resulting collection ("electron cloud") tends toward a generally spherical zone of probability describing the electron's location, because of the...

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope...

Earth's core. Apart from the 168 spherical-harmonic "Gauss" coefficients, the model also has an equal number of spherical-harmonic secular variation coefficients...

titled Farben-Kugel (color ball) published by Goethe in 1810.: 84  His spherical model of colors equally spaced red, yellow, and blue longitudinally with...