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- Advanced FES systems have rotors made of high strength carbon-composite ... A typical system consists of a rotor suspended by bearings inside ...17 KB (2,549 words) - 06:12, 1 April 2024
- Lavender is the common name for any of the various plants of the flowering ... While the flowers of the lavender serve the plant's need of reproduction ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- In physics, there are two kinds of dipoles (from the Greek terms di ... dipole is produced by a closed circuit of electric current. ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics. It is used by ... In common usage, arithmetic refers to a branch of mathematics that ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- to generate and receive the sound. The study of underwater sound is known as ... There are two kinds of sonar — active and passive. The frequencies ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- that sounds after each set interval of time. The sound could be the ... The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, requiring a physical ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- to magnify the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum experiments to the ... and Georgine Emilia Brenda (daughter of Alexander Bauer, Professor ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due ... has kinetic energy in the reference frame of this observer, but the same ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals ... in response to applied mechanical stress. This may take the form of ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure ... to its history, and may provide comparisons of economies in different countries ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- In business, administration consists of the performance or management ... schools” began offering a Master of Business Administration (MBA ...13 KB (1,727 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- with chemical explosives. Other methods of causing explosions include ... unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the ... hemispheres and providing an important point of calculation, for the sea-going ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 07:25, 6 September 2023
- 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- function, microphones may be based on any of several principles, including ... microphone, the diaphragm acts as one plate of a capacitor, and the vibrations ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- Magnetic fields, which are measured in the units of Teslas (T), vary widely ... and mass spectrometers use the effects of magnetic fields for studying ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... When construed in a narrower sense, fuzzy logic is an extension of ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- A thermostat is a device for regulating the temperature of a system ... Thermostats can be constructed in many ways and may use a variety ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- as referring to the happiness or well being of individuals. Utilitarianism ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer ... ==The cause of surface tension== [[Image:WassermoleküleInTröpfchen ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- pedagogy emphasized the importance of an environment that supports ... All of the material was based on SI units of measurement (the International ...21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth century widely ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Naphtha is a name given to several mixtures of liquid hydrocarbons ... The origin of the word naphtha is unclear. It was an ancient Greek ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- the symbol. In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over ... are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations is called ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- direction. Thus, the diode can be thought of as an electronic version of ... Diodes are extremely useful devices for a variety of applications ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles in war. The ... century an artillier referred to a builder of any war equipment, and for ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound ... sounds provides us with an important mode of perception of our environment ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together ... ==Units of measurement== Most stellar parameters are expressed in SI ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- There are two main classes of objects: non-living objects that are ... This class of matter includes individuals with the capability of reproducing ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The "signal ... A related device that emphasizes conversion of signals of one type ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- civilization is the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this ... because in humans the upper limit pitch of hearing tends to become lower ...27 KB (3,908 words) - 11:29, 18 April 2023
- the proper fuel/air mixture for a wide range of engine-operating conditions ... Bánki in 1893. Frederick William Lanchester of Birmingham, England experimented ...26 KB (4,190 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- Frank Albert Fetter (March 8, 1863 – 1949) was an American economist ... on March 8, 1863, in the farming community of Peru in north-central Indiana ...21 KB (3,304 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more ... Their range is subject only to availability of a refueling site and limitations ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- refer to a road tractor. Other common uses of the term include the lawn tractor ... to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Around 1850 ...28 KB (4,353 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- a waveguide. Fiber optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering ... The term optical fiber covers a range of different designs including ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept of a proportional relation between ... 2800 B.C.E. as Ancient Indus Valley units of measurement. The Egyptians used ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- A ballistic vest is an item of protective clothing that absorbs impacts ... Ballistic vests use layers of very strong fiber to catch and deform ...58 KB (9,062 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- white luster that can take a high degree of polish. Along with copper and ... electronic products. The nitrate and halides of silver are valuable in photography ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... to be the basis of certain units of measurement in the United States ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; (b) dark ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is ... In general terms, if x = b'n, then the logarithm of x in base ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
