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  2. Basketball - Wikipedia

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    Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...

  3. Rectifier - Wikipedia

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    If the three-phase bridge rectifier is operated symmetrically (as positive and negative supply voltage), the center point of the rectifier on the output side (or the so-called isolated reference potential) opposite the center point of the transformer (or the neutral conductor) has a potential difference in the form of a triangular common-mode ...

  4. Sustainable Development Goals - Wikipedia

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    The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" [1] [2] – while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.

  5. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]

  6. Finite element method - Wikipedia

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    The finite difference method (FDM) is an alternative way of approximating solutions of PDEs. The differences between FEM and FDM are: The differences between FEM and FDM are: The most attractive feature of the FEM is its ability to handle complicated geometries (and boundaries) with relative ease.

  7. West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The 80-year-old Fort Steuben Bridge (Weirton-Steubenville Bridge) was permanently closed on January 8, 2009. The Wheeling Suspension Bridge was the first bridge built across the Ohio River in 1849 and for a time was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It is still the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in the United States still in use.

  8. Northrop F-5 - Wikipedia

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    The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation.There are two main models: the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants, and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants.

  9. IEEE 802.1 - Wikipedia

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    MAC Bridges: Superseded by 802.1D-1998 802.1i-1995 FDDI bridging (see ANSI X3T9.5) Superseded 802.1j-1996 Managed objects for MAC Bridges Superseded by 802.1D-1998 P802.1p: Traffic Class Expediting and Dynamic Multicast Filtering Merged into 802.1D-1998 802.1D-1998: MAC Bridges (rollup of 802.1D-1990, 802.1j, 802.6k, P802.12e and P802.1p)