Concept
Coincidence circuit
Overview
In physics and electrical engineering, a coincidence circuit or coincidence gate is an electronic device with one output and two (or more) inputs. The output activates only when the circuit receives signals within a time window accepted as at the same time and in parallel at both inputs. Coincidence circuits are widely used in particle detectors and in other areas of science and technology.
Walther Bothe shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 "...for his discovery of the method of coincidence and the discoveries subsequently made by it." Bruno Rossi invented the electronic coincidence circuit for implementing the coincidence method.
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A point-track is a locus of event-particles. It is defined by reference to one particular time-system, {alpha} say. Corresponding to any other time-system these will be a different group of point-tracks. Every event-particle will lie on one and only one point-track of the group belonging to any one time-system. The group of point-tracks of the time-system {alpha} is the group of points of the timeless space of…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
Close in meaning to Coincidence circuit; the term itself is not named.
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William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
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Place in the tradition
Part of Logic gate.