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  2. Delta-v budget - Wikipedia

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    Delta-v in feet per second, and fuel requirements for a typical Apollo Lunar Landing mission. In astrodynamics and aerospace, a delta-v budget is an estimate of the total change in velocity (delta-v) required for a space mission. It is calculated as the sum of the delta-v required to perform each propulsive maneuver needed during

  3. Delta-v - Wikipedia

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    Delta-v is typically provided by the thrust of a rocket engine, but can be created by other engines. The time-rate of change of delta-v is the magnitude of the acceleration caused by the engines, i.e., the thrust per total vehicle mass. The actual acceleration vector would be found by adding thrust per mass on to the gravity vector and the ...

  4. Orbital inclination change - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, it can require less total delta-v to raise the satellite into a higher orbit, change the orbit plane at the higher apogee, and then lower the satellite to its original altitude. [1] For the most efficient example mentioned above, targeting an inclination at apoapsis also changes the argument of periapsis.

  5. Dimensionless numbers in fluid mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.

  6. Degree of curvature - Wikipedia

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    Since rail routes have very large radii, they are laid out in chords, as the difference to the arc is inconsequential; this made work easier before electronic calculators became available. The 100 feet (30.48 m) is called a station, used to define length along a road or other alignment, annotated as stations plus feet 1+00, 2+00, etc. Metric ...

  7. Ballistic coefficient - Wikipedia

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    This method is by shape comparison an logarithmic scale as drawn on 10 charts. The method estimates the ballistic coefficient related to the drag model of the Ingalls tables. When matching an actual projectile against the drawn caliber radii of Chart No. 1, it will provide i and by using Chart No. 2, C can be quickly calculated.

  8. John W. Rowe - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

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    From February 2012 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John W. Rowe joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 30.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a 5.9 percent return from the S&P 500.

  9. Christoffel symbols - Wikipedia

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    The metric connection is a specialization of the affine connection to surfaces or other manifolds endowed with a metric, allowing distances to be measured on that surface. In differential geometry , an affine connection can be defined without reference to a metric, and many additional concepts follow: parallel transport , covariant derivatives ...