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The speedup of a program using multiple processors in parallel computing is limited by the time needed for the sequential fraction of the program. Named after Gene Amdahl. Relates the in-situ electrical conductivity of sedimentary rock to its porosity and brine saturation. Named for Gus Archie. In chemistry and physics, one of the gas laws, relating to the volume and molarity of a gas August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert In any collection of statistics, a given statistic has roughly a 30% chance of starting with the digit 1 Describes the magnetic field set up by a steady current density. Named for Jean-Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart. One of the gas laws, relating the volume and pressure of an ideal gas held at a constant temperature Discovered by Robert Boyle. Adding manpower to a late software program makes it later. Named after Fred Brooks Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Augustin Louis Cauchy, Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton Alonzo Church and Alan Turing Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it Is an inverse-square law indicating the magnitude and direction of electrostatic forse that one stationary, electrically charged object of small dimensions exerts on another The total pressure exerted by a gaseous mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressure of each individual component in a gas mixture Apply to formal logic regarding the negation of pairs of logical operators The sideral period of major satellites tends to follow a gfeometric series Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac An organism is unable to return, even partially, to a previous stage already realized in the ranks of it ancestors. Simply put this law states that evolution is not reversible Winner-takes-all (or first-past-the-post) electoral systems tend to create a 2 party system, while proportional representation tends to create a multiple party system States that the mass of a substance produced at an electrode during electrolysis is proportional to the number of moles of electrons transferred at that electrode A principle of human movement published in 1954,which predicts the time required to move from a starting position to a final target area Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Gives the relation between the electric flux flowing out a closed surface and the charge enclosed in the surface In Internet culture: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving nazis or Hitler approaches one" In physics, a gas law which states that the average kinetic energy of the molecules of two samples of different gases at the same temperature is identical Bad money drives good money out of circulation Is a law in computer engineering which states that any sufficiently large problem can be efficiently parallelized Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman The mass of a gas that dissolves in a definite volume of liquid is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas provided the gas does not react with the solvent Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn Under some conditions, it is rational for competitors to make their products as nearly identical as possible Galaxies recede from an observer at a rate proportional to their distance to that observer The assertion that normative statements cannot be deduced exclusively from descriptive statements Improvement means deterioration. Coined by financial journalist Patrick Hutber Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel Cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge At any point in an electrical circuit that does not represent a capacitor plate, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point. Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz In communications and network theory, states that the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system An empirical observation stating that the complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 24 months John Forbes Nash Nernst equation -- Electrochemistry -- Walther Nernst The rate of cooling (or heating) of a body due to convection is proportional to the difference between the body temperature and the ambient temperature The ratio of the potential difference (or voltage drop) between the ends of a conductor (and resistor) to the current flowing through it is a constant, provided the temperature doesn't change Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille For independent random variables with a common distribution, the average value for a sample tends to the mean as sample size increases States that the vapor pressure of mixed liquids is dependent on the vapor pressures of the individual liquids and the molar vulgar fraction of each present in solution The utility of large networks, particulary social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network People generally patronize the largest mall in the area If businesses produce more output in a free market economy, the wages and other payment for productive inputs will provide sufficient demand so that there is no general glut. Willebrord van Roijen Snell Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann Stokes' law -- Fluid mechanics -- George Gabriel Stokes In physics this law relates the intensity of a stimulus to its perceived strength An expression for the frictional force exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode Johannes Diderik van der Waals Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can
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