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  2. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    (This formula is used for example in describing the measuring principle of a dasymeter and of hydrostatic weighing.) Example: If you drop wood into water, buoyancy will keep it afloat. Example: A helium balloon in a moving car. When increasing speed or driving in a curve, the air moves in the opposite direction to the car's acceleration.

  3. Brownian motion - Wikipedia

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    X is a Brownian motion with respect to P, i.e., the law of X with respect to P is the same as the law of an n-dimensional Brownian motion, i.e., the push-forward measure X ∗ (P) is classical Wiener measure on C 0 ([0, ∞); R n). both X is a martingale with respect to P (and its own natural filtration); and

  4. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    The fan and sail example is a situation studied in discussions of Newton's third law. [48] In the situation, a fan is attached to a cart or a sailboat and blows on its sail. From the third law, one would reason that the force of the air pushing in one direction would cancel out the force done by the fan on the sail, leaving the entire apparatus ...

  5. Linear motion - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] If is the initial position of an object and is the final position, then mathematically the displacement is given by: = The equivalent of displacement in rotational motion is the angular displacement measured in radians. The displacement of an object cannot be greater than the distance because it is also a distance but the shortest one.

  6. Motion - Wikipedia

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    Mathematically Force is directly proportional to the negative of displacement. Negative sign signifies the restoring nature of the force. (e.g., that of a pendulum). Linear motion – motion that follows a straight linear path, and whose displacement is exactly the same as its trajectory. [Also known as rectilinear motion] Reciprocal motion

  7. Continuum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A displacement field is a vector field of all displacement vectors for all particles in the body, which relates the deformed configuration with the undeformed configuration. It is convenient to do the analysis of deformation or motion of a continuum body in terms of the displacement field, In general, the displacement field is expressed in ...

  8. Displacement (fluid) - Wikipedia

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    In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is largely immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place. The volume of the fluid displaced can then be measured, and from this, the volume of the immersed object can be deduced: the volume of the immersed object will be exactly equal to the volume of the displaced fluid.

  9. Displacement - Wikipedia

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    Displacement (linguistics), the ability of humans (and possibly some animals) to communicate ideas that are remote in time and/or space; Forced displacement, by persecution or violence; Displacement (psychology), a sub-conscious defense mechanism; Displacement (parapsychology), a statistical or qualitative correspondence between targets and ...