The Three Phases of Statistical Mechanics

1989 ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
W. T. Grandy
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Three Phases

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Friedli ◽  
Yvan Velenik
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Lattice Systems

Statistical Mechanics

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Woods Halley
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics

Statistical mechanics of defects in polymer liquid crystals

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 1215-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan V. Selinger ◽  
Robijn F. Bruinsma
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Polymer Liquid ◽  
Polymer Liquid Crystals

Excavation at Newton, Islay

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
R McCullagh ◽  
M Andrews ◽  
Anne Clarke ◽  
G Collins ◽  
E Halpin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Soil Resource ◽  
Three Phases

Summary Excavations at Newton have revealed three phases of land use. Mesolithic activity was restricted to small flint working and domestic sites. A Neolithic phase appears to relate to a fragile soil resource which rapidly declined in quality. The final phase, possibly related to a Christian Irish presence on the island, occurs late in the sequence.

Listening for the “Still Small Voice” of Mendelssohn’s Domestic Elijah

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-77
Author(s):  
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
Three Phases

The notion that there might be autobiographical, or personally confessional, registers at work in Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah has long been established, with three interpretive approaches prevailing: the first, famously advanced by Prince Albert, compares Mendelssohn’s own artistic achievements with Elijah’s prophetic ones; the second, in Eric Werner’s dramatic formulation, discerns in the aria “It is enough” a confession of Mendelssohn’s own “weakening will to live”; the third portrays Elijah as a testimonial on Mendelssohn’s relationship to the Judaism of his birth and/or to the Christianity of his youth and adulthood. This article explores a fourth, essentially untested, interpretive approach: the possibility that Mendelssohn crafts from Elijah’s story a heartfelt affirmation of domesticity, an expression of his growing fascination with retiring to a quiet existence in the bosom of his family. The argument unfolds in three phases. In the first, the focus is on that climactic passage in Elijah’s Second Part in which God is revealed to the prophet in the “still small voice.” The turn from divine absence to divine presence is articulated through two clear and powerful recollections of music that Elijah had sung in the oratorio’s First Part, a move that has the potential to reconfigure our evaluation of his role in the public and private spheres in those earlier passages. The second phase turns to Elijah’s own brief sojourn into the domestic realm, the widow’s scene, paying particular attention to the motivations that may have underlain the substantial revisions to the scene that took place between the Birmingham premiere and the London premiere the following year. The final phase explores the possibility that the widow and her son, the “surrogate family” in the oratorio, do not disappear after the widow’s scene, but linger on as “para-characters” with crucial roles in the unfolding drama.

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