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  2. Unit circle - Wikipedia

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    Because PQ has length y 1, OQ length x 1, and OP has length 1 as a radius on the unit circle, sin(t) = y 1 and cos(t) = x 1. Having established these equivalences, take another radius OR from the origin to a point R(−x 1,y 1) on the circle such that the same angle t is formed with the negative arm of the x-axis.

  3. History of the University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia

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    In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds under the Morrill Act.

  4. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. [68] In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm. [ 69 ] With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in Rumble , a Canadian online video platform popular with the political right.

  5. Plasma (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Plasma (from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma) 'moldable substance' [1]) is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.

  6. International Organization for Standardization - Wikipedia

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    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO / ˈ aɪ s oʊ / [3]) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. [4]

  7. Energy - Wikipedia

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    The CGS energy unit is the erg and the imperial and US customary unit is the foot pound. Other energy units such as the electronvolt , food calorie or thermodynamic kcal (based on the temperature change of water in a heating process), and BTU are used in specific areas of science and commerce.

  8. Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik 1 (/ ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k, ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc ...

  9. Physics Wallah - Wikipedia

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    Physics Wallah, or "PW", was founded in 2016 as a YouTube channel hosted by Alakh Pandey, an educator hailing from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.The channel was initially focused on teaching the physics curriculum for the Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE), a popular entrance examination in India. [1]