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  2. Characteristic length - Wikipedia

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    In those cases, the characteristic length is the diameter of the pipe or, in case of non-circular tubes, its hydraulic diameter : Where is the cross-sectional area of the pipe and is its wetted perimeter. It is defined such that it reduces to a circular diameter of D for circular pipes. For flow through a square duct with a side length of a ...

  3. Prism (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A star prism is a nonconvex polyhedron constructed by two identical star polygon faces on the top and bottom, being parallel and offset by a distance and connected by rectangular faces. A uniform star prism will have Schläfli symbol {p/q} × { }, with p rectangles and 2 {p/q} faces. It is topologically identical to a p-gonal prism.

  4. Area - Wikipedia

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    Area is the measure of a region 's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or plane area refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while surface area refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to ...

  5. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  6. List of second moments of area - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of second moments of area of some shapes. The second moment of area, also known as area moment of inertia, is a geometrical property of an area which reflects how its points are distributed with respect to an arbitrary axis. The unit of dimension of the second moment of area is length to fourth power, L 4, and should not ...

  7. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    1 {\displaystyle 1} In geometry, a solid angle (symbol: Ω) is a measure of the amount of the field of view from some particular point that a given object covers. That is, it is a measure of how large the object appears to an observer looking from that point. The point from which the object is viewed is called the apex of the solid angle, and ...

  8. Parallelepiped - Wikipedia

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    a polyhedron with six faces ( hexahedron ), each of which is a parallelogram, and. a prism of which the base is a parallelogram. The rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all specific cases of parallelepiped. "Parallelepiped" is now usually pronounced ...

  9. Capillary length - Wikipedia

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    If the temperature is 20 o then = 2.71mm. The capillary length or capillary constant is a length scaling factor that relates gravity and surface tension. It is a fundamental physical property that governs the behavior of menisci, and is found when body forces (gravity) and surface forces ( Laplace pressure) are in equilibrium.