Search results for "Speed of sound" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and music. The dance has earned a reputation of beauty and grace in performance ... Geom-mu originated during the later portion of the Three Kingdoms ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- may be periodic, such as the motion of a pendulum, or random, such ... Many types of vibrations are deemed undesirable, as they waste energy ...35 KB (5,669 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact ... All read-only DVD discs, regardless of type, are DVD-ROM discs. This ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- , producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave ... There are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose ... with another gear. In this case, rotation of one gear necessarily causes ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide of iron). Objects with such properties ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... Beyond the gestural aspect of the art form, other significant aspects ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using ... the 1960s, by the research departments of institutions such as the British ...13 KB (1,891 words) - 14:39, 29 January 2024
- device used for the remote operation of a machine. Remote controls ... One of the earliest examples of a remote control was developed in ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... Among the instrumental groups of definite pitch in the modern symphony ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Nails, and others often dwell on imagery of violence, death, unrestrained ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career, starting as a ... generating winds at almost twice the speed of sound. Czarnecki encouraged ...16 KB (2,224 words) - 08:41, 10 March 2023
- and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and filming images ... to motion pictures. Although the exposing of images on light-sensitive elements ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray ... an excellent conductor of heat. The speed of sound in beryllium is about ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- and map the location, direction, and/or speed of both moving and fixed ... Radio Detection and Ranging. This acronym of American origin replaced the ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical ... as classical mechanics. The foundations of quantum mechanics were established ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
