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4_0 | Bridgewater is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 532 at the 2020 |
4_1 | census. |
4_2 | Geography |
4_3 | According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and |
4_4 | is water. |
4_5 | Climate |
4_6 | This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and |
4_7 | often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate |
4_8 | Classification system, Bridgewater has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate |
4_9 | maps. |
4_10 | Demographics |
4_11 | 2010 census |
4_12 | As of the census of 2010, there were 610 people, 263 households, and 175 families living in the |
4_13 | town. The population density was . There were 326 housing units at an average density of . The |
4_14 | racial makeup of the town was 96.7% White, 0.7% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 1.0% from other races, |
4_15 | and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population. |
4_16 | There were 263 households, of which 25.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.5% |
4_17 | were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.7% |
4_18 | had a male householder with no wife present, and 33.5% were non-families. 29.7% of all households |
4_19 | were made up of individuals, and 14.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. |
4_20 | The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.90. |
4_21 | The median age in the town was 46.7 years. 22.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.4% were |
4_22 | between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.7% were from 25 to 44; 32.7% were from 45 to 64; and 19.8% were |
4_23 | 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. |
4_24 | 2000 census |
4_25 | As of the census of 2000, there were 612 people, 248 households, and 173 families living in the |
4_26 | town. The population density was 15.8 people per square mile (6.1/km2). There were 316 housing |
4_27 | units at an average density of 8.1 per square mile (3.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was |
4_28 | 98.04% White, 0.49% Native American, 0.65% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. |
4_29 | Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.65% of the population. |
4_30 | There were 248 households, out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, |
4_31 | 59.3% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, |
4_32 | and 30.2% were non-families. 25.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.9% had |
4_33 | someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the |
4_34 | average family size was 2.97. |
4_35 | In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.2% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, |
4_36 | 25.0% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median |
4_37 | age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and |
4_38 | over, there were 94.3 males. |
4_39 | The median income for a household in the town was $27,679, and the median income for a family was |
4_40 | $33,125. Males had a median income of $24,167 versus $21,190 for females. The per capita income for |
4_41 | the town was $15,534. About 12.7% of families and 17.6% of the population were below the poverty |
4_42 | line, including 23.7% of those under age 18 and 16.5% of those age 65 or over. |
4_43 | History and settlement |
4_44 | In 1820 the State of Maine was officially separated from Massachusetts, and at that time the name |
4_45 | Bridgewater was applied to the Township. The area north of Bangor had been previously divided into |
4_46 | 6 mile square townships, and in 1803 the future Bridgewater Township was subdivided into two 3 mile |
4_47 | x 6 mile areas, each designated a "grant" area to fund public academies in Portland and |
4_48 | Bridgewater, respectively. The town of Bridgewater was incorporated on 2 March 1858. |
4_49 | Notable people |
4_50 | Jim Gerritsen, organic potato farmer and anti-GMO activist |
4_51 | Colonel Frank M. Hume, commanding officer of the 103rd Infantry, 26th Division during World War I |
4_52 | Colonel Gerald Evan Williams, World War II Air Force officer |
4_53 | Sites of interest
Bridgewater Town Hall and Jail
References
External links |
4_54 | Towns in Aroostook County, Maine
Towns in Maine |
5_0 | In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the |
5_1 | apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost |
5_2 | exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam |
5_3 | recurrence) – instead of the expected ergodic behavior. This came as a surprise, as Fermi, |
5_4 | certainly, expected the system to thermalize in a fairly short time. That is, it was expected for |
5_5 | all vibrational modes to eventually appear with equal strength, as per the equipartition theorem, |
5_6 | or, more generally, the ergodic hypothesis. Yet here was a system that appeared to evade the |
5_7 | ergodic hypothesis. Although the recurrence is easily observed, it eventually became apparent that |
5_8 | over much, much longer time periods, the system does eventually thermalize. Multiple competing |
5_9 | theories have been proposed to explain the behavior of the system, and it remains a topic of active |
5_10 | research. |
5_11 | The original intent was to find a physics problem worthy of numerical simulation on the then-new |
5_12 | MANIAC computer. Fermi felt that thermalization would pose such a challenge. As such, it represents |
5_13 | one of the earliest uses of digital computers in mathematical research; simultaneously, the |
5_14 | unexpected results launched the study of nonlinear systems. |
5_15 | The FPUT experiment |
5_16 | In the summer of 1953 Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, Stanislaw Ulam, and Mary Tsingou conducted computer |
5_17 | simulations of a vibrating string that included a non-linear term (quadratic in one test, cubic in |
5_18 | another, and a piecewise linear approximation to a cubic in a third). They found that the behavior |
5_19 | of the system was quite different from what intuition would have led them to expect. Fermi thought |
5_20 | that after many iterations, the system would exhibit thermalization, an ergodic behavior in which |
5_21 | the influence of the initial modes of vibration fade and the system becomes more or less random |
5_22 | with all modes excited more or less equally. Instead, the system exhibited a very complicated |
5_23 | quasi-periodic behavior. They published their results in a Los Alamos technical report in 1955. |
5_24 | (Enrico Fermi died in 1954, and so this technical report was published after Fermi's death.) |
5_25 | In 2020, National Security Science magazine featured an article on Tsingou that included her |
5_26 | commentary and historical reflections on the FPUT problem. In the article,Tsingou states “I |
5_27 | remember sitting there one day with Pasta and Ulam,” as they brainstormed “some problems we could |
5_28 | do on the computer, some really mathematical problems.” They tried several things, but, eventually, |
5_29 | “they came up with this vibrating string.” |
5_30 | The FPUT experiment was important both in showing the complexity of nonlinear system behavior and |
5_31 | the value of computer simulation in analyzing systems. |
5_32 | Name change |
5_33 | The original paper names Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam as authors (although Fermi died before the report |
5_34 | was written) with an acknowledgement to Tsingou for her work in programming the MANIAC simulations. |
5_35 | Mary Tsingou's contributions to the FPUT problem were largely ignored by the community until |
5_36 | published additional information regarding the development and called for the problem to be renamed |
5_37 | to grant her attribution as well. |
5_38 | The FPUT lattice system |
5_39 | Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and Tsingou simulated the vibrating string by solving the following discrete |
5_40 | system of nearest-neighbor coupled oscillators. We follow the explanation as given in Richard |
5_41 | Palais's article. Let there be N oscillators representing a string of length with equilibrium |
5_42 | positions , where is the lattice spacing. Then the position of the j-th oscillator as a function |
5_43 | of time is , so that gives the displacement from equilibrium. FPUT used the following equations of |
5_44 | motion: |
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