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'Si' clauses are sometimes known as conditionals. They're used to introduce a hypothetical action which is based on another action. For example, s'il fait beau, je sors - if it is sunny, I go out. Here, the ...

When you are analysing poetry or Shakespeare, iambic pentameter will probably be something you hear quite frequently. It is important that you don't just tell the examiner that a poem is in iambic pentameter...

In a Poisson Distribution, there exists only one parameter, μ, the average number of successes in a given time interval. The mean and variance of the distribution are also equal to μ.

Convection is a heat transfer process that occurs in fluids. During convection, hot, less dense fluids rise to the top of a system, while cooler, more dense fluids sink to the bottow of the system under grav...

The binding energy of a nucleus is the energy that would be required to split the nucleus into it's constituent nucleons.