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The study of hydrodynamic stability aims to find out if a given flow is stable or unstable, and if so, how these instabilities will cause the development of turbulence. [1] The foundations of hydrodynamic stability, both theoretical and experimental, were laid most notably by Helmholtz, Kelvin, Rayleigh and Reynolds during the nineteenth ...
Each optical element (surface, interface, mirror, or beam travel) is described by a 2 × 2 ray transfer matrix which operates on a vector describing an incoming light ray to calculate the outgoing ray. Multiplication of the successive matrices thus yields a concise ray transfer matrix describing the entire optical system.
If the derivative at a is exactly 1 or −1, then more information is needed in order to decide stability. There is an analogous criterion for a continuously differentiable map f : R n → R n with a fixed point a , expressed in terms of its Jacobian matrix at a , J a ( f ) .
Simpson's rules are a set of rules used in ship stability and naval architecture, to calculate the areas and volumes of irregular figures. [1] This is an application of Simpson's rule for finding the values of an integral, here interpreted as the area under a curve. Simpson's First Rule
The Nyquist plot for () = + + with s = jω.. In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion or Strecker–Nyquist stability criterion, independently discovered by the German electrical engineer Felix Strecker [] at Siemens in 1930 [1] [2] [3] and the Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, [4] is a graphical technique ...
Computing the square root of 2 (which is roughly 1.41421) is a well-posed problem. Many algorithms solve this problem by starting with an initial approximation x 0 to , for instance x 0 = 1.4, and then computing improved guesses x 1, x 2, etc. One such method is the famous Babylonian method, which is given by x k+1 = (x k + 2/x k)/2.
The expected location of the island of stability around Z = 112 (copernicium) is circled. [1] [2] In nuclear physics, the island of stability is a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy elements that may have considerably longer half-lives than known isotopes of these elements.
Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion; Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion; Barkhausen stability criterion; Stability may also be determined by means of root locus analysis. Although the concept of stability is general, there are several narrower definitions through which it may be assessed: BIBO stability; Linear stability; Lyapunov stability