2006-12-14 04:08:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
FERMI IS THE ANSWER FOR THE RADIO TRIVIL:-)
2006-12-14 10:00:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi
2006-12-14 16:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by darkdragun05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi
2006-12-14 08:29:39 · answer #3 · answered by li li b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi
2006-12-14 04:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by cookie78monster 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fermi
2006-12-14 10:29:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Fermi," whose size is 10^(-13) cms or 10^(-15) metres.
Fermi was a very versatile, famous, much admired and loved Italian physicist. He named the neutrino ("The little neutral one"). He escaped fascism to come to the U.S. with his family in 1938 in a most dramatic and memorable way, stopping off in Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize!
Fermi was unusual, perhaps unique, in having talents as both an experimental and as a theoretical physicist. He was actually present in Chicago at the first experiments there (the first "atomic pile") that ultimately led to the development of the atomic bomb.
The fermi (written as it's usually seen) is defined as the above length because that's about the size of protons and neutrons. Atomic nuclei, made up of tightly packed nuclei, are also a few fermis in size. (That's about 10^(-5) the size of the electron cloud surrounding atomic nuclei, showing how empty the typical atom is.)
Tragically, Fermi died at the relatively young age of 53 in 1954. His wife Laura published a very readable memoir, "Atoms in the family" in that same year (U. of Chicago Press). (I have it on my shelves.) It's great reading for any aspiring young physicist.
Fermi's own published notes on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics (reproductions of his handwritten lecture notes) were published and prized by many physicists for decades in the second half of the 20th century. The older generation with whom I studied or worked, including another Nobel Prize winner, all had this in their offices. In addition to containing some unique insights and derivations, they gave insight into the workings of a great mind.
Fermi may be long gone, but he is certainly not forgotten.
Live long and prosper.
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And to HELL with "current units" ! The fermi is still used in daily work, conversations, and publications by both experimental and theoretical particle physicists. I associate closely with an extremely active group of experimental particle physicists. The "fermi" is a regular part of their lexicon. The minds of creative physicists aren't shackled by the fussy units system bureaucrats.
2006-12-14 04:27:11 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Spock 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
None in current unit systems.
The Fermi - now long obsolete - was 10^-15 m.
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It is long obsolete and rarely used, and consistency in units is neither beurocratic or stuffy. Physicists almost exclusively use exponential notation with units, with basis the m for length. Cosmologists commonly set c = 1 and use seconds to measure length.
Source: I am a physicist!!!
2006-12-14 04:24:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fermi
2006-12-14 07:54:03 · answer #8 · answered by surfin987 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi works for radio trivia
2006-12-14 04:44:19 · answer #9 · answered by flowwer_1371 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi is the answer to the radio trivia
2006-12-14 16:27:58 · answer #10 · answered by kameo_44 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Fermi works for the radio station trivia question.
2006-12-14 05:56:32 · answer #11 · answered by lilgut2 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋