FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040065
C. Baumgärtel, S. Maher
{"title":"Foundations of Electromagnetism: A Review of Wilhelm Weber’s Electrodynamic Force Law","authors":"C. Baumgärtel, S. Maher","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040065","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews the electrodynamic force law of Wilhelm Weber and its importance in electromagnetic theory. An introduction is given to Weber’s force and it is shown how it has been utilised in the literature to explain electromagnetism as well as phenomena in other disciplines of physics, where the force law has connections to the nuclear force, gravity, cosmology, inertia and quantum mechanics. Further, criticism of Weber’s force is reviewed and common misconceptions addressed and rectified. It is found that, while the theory is not without criticism and has much room for improvement, within the limitations of its validity, it is equally as successful as Maxwell’s theory in predicting certain phenomena. Moreover, it is discussed how Weber offers a valid alternative explanation of electromagnetic phenomena which can enrich and complement the field perspective of electromagnetism through a particle based approach.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84729066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040063
A. Samadi, S. Ntouyas, B. Ahmad, J. Tariboon
{"title":"Investigation of a Nonlinear Coupled (k, ψ)–Hilfer Fractional Differential System with Coupled (k, ψ)–Riemann–Liouville Fractional Integral Boundary Conditions","authors":"A. Samadi, S. Ntouyas, B. Ahmad, J. Tariboon","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040063","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions for a new boundary value problem of nonlinear coupled (k,ψ)–Hilfer fractional differential equations subject to coupled (k,ψ)–Riemann–Liouville fractional integral boundary conditions. We prove two existence results by applying the Leray–Schauder alternative, and Krasnosel’skiĭ’s fixed-point theorem under different criteria, while the third result, concerning the uniqueness of solutions for the given problem, relies on the Banach’s contraction mapping principle. Examples are included for illustrating the abstract results.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84002538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040064
C. Parigger
{"title":"Hydroxyl Spectroscopy of Laboratory Air Laser-Ignition","authors":"C. Parigger","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040064","url":null,"abstract":"This work investigates spatial and temporal distributions of hydroxyl, OH, in laser-plasma in laboratory air at standard ambient temperature and pressure. Of interest are determination of temperature and density of OH and establishment of a correlation of molecular OH emission spectra with shadow graphs for time delays of 50 to 100 μs, analogous to previous work on shadow graph and emission spectroscopy correlation for cyanide, CN, in gas mixtures and for time delays of the order of 1 μs. Wavelength- and sensitivity-corrected spatiotemporal data analysis focuses on temperature inferences using molecular OH emission spectroscopy. Near-IR radiation from a Q-switched laser device initiates optical breakdown in laboratory air. The laser device provides 6 ns, up to 850 milli Joule, pulses at a wavelength of 1064 nm, and focal irradiance in the range of 1 to 10 terawatt per centimeter-squared. Frequency doubled beams are utilized for capturing shadow graphs for visualization of the breakdown kernel at time delays in the range of 0.1 to 100 μs. OH emission spectra of the laser plasma, spatially resolved along the slit dimension, are recorded in the wavelength range of 298 nm to 321 nm, and with gate widths adjusted to 10 μs for the intensified charge-coupled device that is mounted at the exit plane of a 0.64 m Czerny-Turner configuration spectrometer. Diatomic OH signals occur due to recombination of the plasma and are clearly distinguishable for time delays larger than 50 μs, but are masked by spectra of N2 early in the plasma decay.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76155031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040062
E. Oks
{"title":"A Possible Explanation of the Proton Radius Puzzle Based on the Second Flavor of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms","authors":"E. Oks","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040062","url":null,"abstract":"The proton radius puzzle is one of the most fundamental challenges of modern physics. Before the year 2010, the proton charge radius rp was determined by the spectroscopic method, relying on the electron energy levels in hydrogen atoms, and by the elastic scattering of electrons on protons. In 2010, and then in 2013, two research teams determined rp from the experiment on muonic hydrogen atoms and they claimed rp to be by about 4% smaller than it was found from the experiments with electronic hydrogen atoms. Since then, several research groups performed corresponding experiments with electronic hydrogen atoms and obtained contradictory results: some of them claimed that they found the same value of rp as from the muonic hydrogen experiments, while others reconfirmed the larger value of rp. The conclusion of the latest papers (including reviews) is that the puzzle is not resolved yet. In the present paper, we bring to the attention of the research community, dealing with the proton radius puzzle, the contributing factor never taken into account in any previous calculations. This factor has to do with the hydrogen atoms of the second flavor, whose existence is confirmed in four different types of atomic experiments. We present a relatively simple model illustrating the role of this factor. We showed that disregarding the effect of even a relatively small admixture of the second flavor of muonic hydrogen atoms to the experimental gas of muonic hydrogen atoms could produce the erroneous result that the proton charge radius is by about 4% smaller than its actual value, so that the larger out of the two disputed values of the proton charge radius could be, in fact, correct.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82646890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040060
P. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer
{"title":"Green’s Functions for a Fractional Boundary Value Problem with Three Terms","authors":"P. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040060","url":null,"abstract":"We construct a Green’s function for the three-term fractional differential equation −D0+α−1u+aD0+μu+f(t)u=h(t), 0<t<b, where α∈(2,3], μ∈(1,2], and f is continuous, satisfying the boundary conditions u(0)=u′(0)=0, D0+βu(b)=0, where β∈[0,2]. To accomplish this, we first construct a Green’s function for the two-term problem −D0+α−1u+aD0+μu=h(t), 0<t<b, satisfying the same boundary conditions. A lemma from spectral theory is integral to our construction. Some limiting properties of the Green’s function for the two-term problem are also studied. Finally, existence results are given for a nonlinear problem.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74514661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040061
J. Pattnaik, J. T. Majekodunmi, M. Bhuyan, S. Patra
{"title":"Isotopic Shift in Hg-Isotopes within Brückner versus Relativistic Energy Density Functional","authors":"J. Pattnaik, J. T. Majekodunmi, M. Bhuyan, S. Patra","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040061","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is focused on revealing a characteristic kink of the neutron shell closure N = 126 across the Hg-isotopic chain within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) approach with the IOPB-I, DD-ME2, DD-PC1 and NL3 parameter sets. The RMF densities are converted to their spherical equivalence via the Wood–Saxon approximation and used as input within the parametrization procedure of the coherent density fluctuation model (CDFM). The nuclear matter symmetry energy is calculated using the Brückner energy density functional, and its surface, as well as volume components, are evaluated within Danielwicz’s liquid drop prescription. In addition, a comparison between Brückner and relativistic energy density functionals using the NL3 parameter set is shown as a representative case. The binding energy, charge distribution radius and symmetry energy are used as indicators of the isotopic shift in both ground and isomeric states. We have found the presence of a kink at the shell/sub-shell closure at N = 126 for neutron-rich 206Hg. The formation of the kink is traceable to the early filling of the 1i11/2 orbitals rather than 2g9/2, due to the large spin-orbit splitting. As such, the link between the occupational probability and the magicity of nuclei over the Hg-isotopic chain is established.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85869558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040059
Alejandro Mahillo, Pedro J. Miana
{"title":"Caputo Fractional Evolution Equations in Discrete Sequences Spaces","authors":"Alejandro Mahillo, Pedro J. Miana","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040059","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we treat some fractional differential equations on the sequence Lebesgue spaces ℓp(N0) with p≥1. The Caputo fractional calculus extends the usual derivation. The operator, associated to the Cauchy problem, is defined by a convolution with a sequence of compact support and belongs to the Banach algebra ℓ1(Z). We treat in detail some of these compact support sequences. We use techniques from Banach algebras and a Functional Analysis to explicity check the solution of the problem.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74392070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040058
L. Chiatti
{"title":"Telling the Wave Function: An Electrical Analogy","authors":"L. Chiatti","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040058","url":null,"abstract":"The double nature of material particles, i.e., their wave and corpuscular characteristics, is usually considered incomprehensible, as it cannot be represented visually. It is proposed to the student, in introductory courses, as a fact justified by quantum interference experiments for which, however, no further analysis is possible. On this note, we propose a description of the wave function in terms of a simple electrical analogy, which reproduces at least some of its essential properties. Our aim is to provide a cognitive representation of an analogical type: starting from a classical context (electrical circuits) and introducing in an appropriate way the notions of “wave” and “particle”, we show how typically quantum properties such as delocalization and entanglement emerge in a natural, understandable, and intuitive way.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78589663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040057
Charles Wing Ho Green, Yubin Yan
{"title":"Detailed Error Analysis for a Fractional Adams Method on Caputo–Hadamard Fractional Differential Equations","authors":"Charles Wing Ho Green, Yubin Yan","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040057","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a predictor–corrector numerical method for solving Caputo–Hadamard fractional differential equation over the uniform mesh logtj=loga+logtNajN,j=0,1,2,…,N with a≥1, where loga=logt0<logt1<…<logtN=logT is a partition of [loga,logT]. The error estimates under the different smoothness properties of the solution y and the nonlinear function f are studied. Numerical examples are given to verify that the numerical results are consistent with the theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78888842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FoundationsPub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.3390/foundations2040056
Christopher I. Argyros, I. Argyros, Samundra Regmi, Jinny Ann John, Jayakumar Jayaraman
{"title":"Semi-Local Convergence of a Seventh Order Method with One Parameter for Solving Non-Linear Equations","authors":"Christopher I. Argyros, I. Argyros, Samundra Regmi, Jinny Ann John, Jayakumar Jayaraman","doi":"10.3390/foundations2040056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040056","url":null,"abstract":"The semi-local convergence is presented for a one parameter seventh order method to obtain solutions of Banach space valued nonlinear models. Existing works utilized hypotheses up to the eighth derivative to prove the local convergence. But these high order derivatives are not on the method and they may not exist. Hence, the earlier results can only apply to solve equations containing operators that are at least eight times differentiable although this method may converge. That is why, we only apply the first derivative in our convergence result. Therefore, the results on calculable error estimates, convergence radius and uniqueness region for the solution are derived in contrast to the earlier proposals dealing with the less challenging local convergence case. Hence, we enlarge the applicability of these methods. The methodology used does not depend on the method and it is very general. Therefore, it can be used to extend other methods in an analogous way. Finally, some numerical tests are performed at the end of the text, where the convergence conditions are fulfilled.","PeriodicalId":81291,"journal":{"name":"Foundations","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72941963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}