Zotero Reference Document

Author

Matthew Miklaucic

Zotero Reference Document

While perusing through Google Scholar, I came across some fun and interesting articles.

  • One of the articles was about black holes and their thermodynamics. I don’t even fully understand thermodynamics let alone black holes!(Broucke 1979; Davies 1978)

  • While pondering space related topics, I cam across an article talking about Lagrange points. I wonder if black holes have Lagrange points. If they do I bet they are massive!(Broucke 1979)

  • They say that sound can’t travel in a vacuum. However space is not a perfect vacuum. Is it possible that sound can exist in space?I found an article discussing how space and sounds interact, but it was way to dense for me to understand.(Harrison 1998)

  • While on the topic of things I do not understand, I decided to look up an article about fluid dynamics and something about Lamar friction. As I predicted, i also did not understand much in this article either.(Lighthill 1997)

  • This article is about Brownian motion, interesting stuff!(Maret and Wolf 1987)

Math equation practice

\[ x^n+y^n=z^n \tag{1}\]

Graph practice

# Define the function
f <- function(x) {x^4 - 20*x^2 + 2}
x <- seq(-5, 22, by = 0.1)
y <- f(x)

# Plot the function
plot(x, y, type = "l", col = "green", lwd = 3,
     xlab = "x", ylab = "f(x)", main = "Graph Practice")
grid()
Figure 1: Quadratic function is graphed from 0 to 1.

References

References

Broucke, R. 1979. “Traveling Between the Lagrange Points and the Moon.” Journal of Guidance and Control 2 (4): 257–63. https://doi.org/10.2514/3.55872.
Davies, P. C. W. 1978. “Thermodynamics of Black Holes.” Reports on Progress in Physics 41 (8): 1313. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/41/8/004.
Harrison, Jonty. 1998. “Sound, Space, Sculpture: Some Thoughts on the ‘What’, ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of Sound Diffusion.” Organised Sound 3 (2): 117–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771898002040.
Lighthill, Michael James. 1997. “The Response of Laminar Skin Friction and Heat Transfer to Fluctuations in the Stream Velocity.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 224 (1156): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1954.0137.
Maret, G., and P. E. Wolf. 1987. “Multiple Light Scattering from Disordered Media. The Effect of Brownian Motion of Scatterers.” Zeitschrift Für Physik B Condensed Matter 65 (4): 409–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01303762.