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  • scalar value which describes the ratio of the force of friction between two bodies and the force pressing them together. The coefficient of friction ...
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  • Metalworking lathes are commonly provided with a variable ratio gear ... and appropriate settings, any reduction ratio is possible). ...
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  • first (more massive) body, and r1/R1, the ratio of the distance to the barycenter ... true for the Sun and any planet—then the ratio r1/R1 approximates to: ...
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  • Julius Kraft, founder in 1957 of the journal Ratio. ==References== * Fries, Jakob. Reinhold, Fichte und Schelling. 1803. * Fries, Jakob. System ...
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  • and Aristarchos of Samos had already found the ratio of the moon's distance to the size of the earth. But if what Eusebius wrote was pure fiction ...
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  • dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark ... indicated that the mass to light ratio was anything other than unity ...
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  • * For the eccentric model, Hipparchus found for the ratio between ... * and for the epicycle model, the ratio between the radius of the ...
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  • Simply put, this quantity is the ratio between the pressure exerted ... In many situations, we are concerned with the ratio of the viscous ...
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  • on the page. The folio size, 307 x 445 mm, has the ratio of 1.45. The printed area had the same ratio, and was shifted out of the middle to leave a ...
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  • * Uranium-lead dating: This technique measures the ratio of two lead isotopes (lead-206 and lead-207) to the amount of uranium in a mineral or ...
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  • leaf and needle litter has a higher carbon-nitrogen ratio than deciduous leaf litter, contributing to a higher soil acidity and lower soil nitrogen content ...
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  • to achieve a stable fabric by hand at this ratio. All other wholly artificial felts are actually needle-felts. Loden is a type of felt originally ...
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  • Index method of ranking, which ranks based on the ratio of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations taken by students to the ...
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  • Training, uses a one-to-one therapist-child ratio and the "antecedent ... approval, encouragement, and affirmation; a ratio of five compliments for every ...
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  • obesity, and the female sex. The female to male ratio of afflicted patients is 3:1, and the average age of patients is 70 years at the time of diagnosis ...
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  • at room temperature, using an exact one-to-one ratio of the acid and base to neutralize each other. In practice, especially for Nylon 6,6, the monomers ...
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  • conceived the number or numerical ratio as the universal principle of harmony and understood that human aesthetic experience in music and art ...
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  • At any given instant, the retina can resolve a contrast ratio (ratio of lightest to darkest areas) of around 100:1 (about 6 1/2 stops). As soon ...
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  • relative atomic mass (Ar) of an element is the ratio of the mass of an atom of the element to one-twelfth the mass of an atom of carbon-12. Because an ...
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  • There is no fixed numeric formula for the ratio between the population and the number of Representatives. The Constitution proposed to begin ...
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