09/19/23 Flashcards
What is the smallest length in the universe?
Planck length
In 1976, Bohemian Rhapsody was replaced by this euro pop song.
Mama mia
Nazi Germany annexed this nation and divided it into the alps and the Danube.
Austria
What is the Danube?
2nd longest river in Europe
A city that for political reasons has been the name of an Olympic team
Taipei
In March 1959, these animals were seen again in mainland N. America - the first time in 10000 years.
Horses
On October 26 1886, he said, “the dream of my life is accomplished… I see the symbol of unity and friendship between two nations.”
Bartholdi (statue of liberty guy)
Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty in Cambridge university and in the presidents garden at MIT.
(Newton’s) Apple tree
A German guidebook to a 1937 worlds fair dismissed this painting as a “hodgepodge of body parts that any four year old could have painted.”
Picasso’s Guernica
What is the Region of Convergence of the Laplace and Fourier domains?
Laplace: whole complex domain.
Fourier: only on the imaginary axis.
Pascal’s rule: (n choose k) + (n choose k-1) =
n+1 choose k+1
The occurrence of one state or event in which results in another state having 0 probability is called
Mutual exclusivity
When one event does not impact another event, the events are
Independent.
What is the theorem of total probability?
P[A] = sum(from i=0 to n) (P[A given B_i] × P[B_i]. (think of example of percentage of people speaking English as first language in Canada).
In 2022 the department of energy noted “a flawed Process” and vacated a 1954 commission’s decision “in the matter of” this man.
Oppenheimer
