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Regulated cell states, division and spatial organization produce multicellular form.
ModelEarth & cosmosMinerals, structure and diagnostic propertiesMineral identification combines structural and physical evidence.
MethodEarth & cosmosRadiometric ages and sample historyIsotopic measurements estimate an age only with a suitable geological model.
MethodEarth & cosmosSeismic constraints on Earth's interiorWave travel, refraction and transmission constrain an interior model.
MethodEarth & cosmosThe geodynamo modelFluid motion in the outer core maintains much of Earth's magnetic field.
ModelEarth & cosmosWater budgets and storage changeA defined area's water storage changes with total inflow and outflow.
ModelEarth & cosmosDarcy flux and hydraulic conductivityGroundwater flow is often approximately linear in hydraulic-head gradient.
ApproximationEarth & cosmosOcean circulation and overturningWind, buoyancy changes and mixing contribute to ocean transport.
ModelEarth & cosmosGlobal atmospheric circulationUnequal heating and rotation organize broad circulation patterns.
ModelEarth & cosmosClimate forcing and energy-budget perturbationsExternal changes can disturb climate's radiation budget.
DefinitionEarth & cosmosClimate feedback mechanismsClimate responses can amplify or damp a change.
ModelEarth & cosmosClimate detection and attribution methodsAttribution compares observed changes with plausible drivers and variability.
MethodEarth & cosmosStellar evolution and fuel stagesStellar structure changes as core fuel and conditions change.
ModelEarth & cosmosWhite dwarfs, neutron stars and stellar black holesDifferent evolutionary outcomes leave different compact remnants.
ModelEarth & cosmosAnnual stellar parallax and distanceChanging observing position permits geometric distance inference.
MethodEarth & cosmosCosmological redshift and distance inferenceSpectral stretching carries expansion information but is not one universal distance ruler.
MethodEarth & cosmosGalactic rotation and inferred massMeasured motions constrain the gravitational mass distribution.
MethodEarth & cosmosPlanetary formation in young-star disksDisk observations and competing growth mechanisms inform planet-formation models.
ModelEarth & cosmosCosmological parameters inferred from the CMBCMB statistics constrain parameters within a chosen cosmological model.
MethodEarth & cosmosGravitational evidence for dark matterMotions and lensing constrain mass beyond that accounted for by luminous material.
Empirical findingEarth & cosmosWhat constitutes dark matter?Gravitational evidence does not yet settle the unseen component's physical identity.
Open questionEarth & cosmosWhat explains accelerated cosmic expansion?Expansion evidence motivates competing physical descriptions with unresolved origin.
Open questionMathematics & logicIntermediate values and compact-domain extremaA continuous real function on a closed bounded interval attains a maximum and minimum and takes every value between its endpoint values.
Mathematical statementMathematics & logicProduct, quotient and chain rulesDifferentiable real functions satisfy (fg)′=f′g+fg′ and (g∘f)′=(g′∘f)f′.
Mathematical statementMathematics & logicMean value theoremIf f is continuous on [a,b] and differentiable on (a,b), a<b, some c∈(a,b) satisfies f′(c)=(f(b)−f(a))/(b−a).
Mathematical statementMathematics & logicDarboux intermediate-value property of derivativesFor f differentiable throughout an open real interval, its derivative takes every value strictly between f′(a) and f′(b) at some c∈(a,b), whenever a<b are points of that interval.
Mathematical statementMathematics & logicSubstitution in a definite integralFor g of class C¹ on [a,b] and f continuous on an interval containing g([a,b]), ∫ₐᵇ f(g(x))g′(x)dx=∫g(a)ᵍ(b)f(u)du.
MethodMathematics & logicIntegration by partsFor u,v of class C¹ on [a,b], ∫ₐᵇuv′dx=[uv]ₐᵇ−∫ₐᵇu′v dx.
MethodMathematics & logicDarboux sums and Riemann integrabilityFor bounded real f on [a,b], lower and upper Darboux sums use each subinterval's infimum and supremum.
Mathematical statementMathematics & logicContinuity and the Riemann integrability criterionA bounded real function on [a,b] is Riemann integrable exactly when its discontinuity set has Lebesgue measure zero.
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