F.Y.I. Wesley - the articles don't seem that confusing or inaccurate - IMHO anyway. The entire site is excellent!
You do have an excellent valid point - machine translations can alter the meaning significantly - see my CAUTION
found at the end. But, try this if you seem to find it a problem: Re: translation of Gorchilin's pages...
http://gorchilin.com/ Articles:
http://gorchilin.com/articles/ [select language flag]
Install "ImTranslator" into Monzilla Firefox; may also work with Chrome;
uses Google, Microsoft and Translate translators [select-able or compare]:
http://about.imtranslator.net/add-ons/Has translation comparison, a dictionary, voice and back translation; all free.
Note: sometimes Microsoft's translator is better for technical stuff. Try this: Use the Gorchilin web page in Ukrainian (blue over yellow flag);
Select ImTranslation [R Click drop-down] "Translate this page to English;"
For example, translated words like "
sheer wave" in Russian are actually
translated to "
transversal wave" when going from
Ukrainian to Englishusing ImTranslate.
Also, the Yandex translator found on the web page [flags] does a pretty
good job as well plus the formulas are correctly presented, links are
direct [book marks] and it's no hassle. But be cautious; auto translations can
change entire meanings - see below.
As a side note; the date of the article is in the upper RH corner of the page.
And - Donate if you can - he is doing a great job! Providing a site cost money.
FIN
ATTENTION: Just noticed some of the animated graphs might not populate
their default values correctly, therefore the text descriptions might appear confusing.
To check this, here's a quick example:
- go to this page
http://gorchilin.com/articles/free/magnetic?lang=en then the animated graph link "example 1" ( in blue therefore = link ).
Note the "link address" [in link address bar of browser] shown below -
http://gorchilin.com/calculator/longline?L=0.5&Q=100&g=100&g=0&g=56&g=0&g=0&ph=90&ph=90&ph=90&ph=90&ph=90&lang=en Where L=0.5& Q=100& g=100& and so forth - these are the values that the sliders
should be set to; L is wavelength (0.5 or 1/2), Q is the system Q factor, g is the gain
for each slider [harmonic] and ph is the phase for each slider [harmonic]. Set the sliders accordingly (approx)
and the example animations will make a lot more sense!
However a summary of the overall objective is here:
http://gorchilin.com/articles/free/magnetic_P?lang=en CAUTION: Machine translations can alter the meaning of all papers and web sites significantly! For example:
translate this page
http://gorchilin.com/articles/free/magnetic_P? using both Yandex RU=>EN and UK=EN
plus the ImTranslator method above.
Note the sentence below figure 5. -
"By the way, this dissipates the myth that standing waves carry energy" versus
"By the way, this dispels the myth that standing waves do not transfer energy"
A very significant difference in meanings -
as Wesley points out; be very vigilant! BTW, ImTranslate Compare [Google, Microsoft and Translate] seems to have gotten this one correct. Check everything however!
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