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  2. Speed of sound - Wikipedia

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    For example, while sound travels at 343 m/s in air, it travels at 1481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast). In an exceptionally stiff material such as diamond, sound travels at 12,000 m/s (39,370 ft/s), [ 2 ] – about 35 times its speed in air and about the fastest it can travel under ...

  3. Escape velocity - Wikipedia

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    Escape speed at a distance d from the center of a spherically symmetric primary body (such as a star or a planet) with mass M is given by the formula [2] [3] = = where: G is the universal gravitational constant (G ≈ 6.67×10 −11 m 3 ·kg −1 ·s −2)

  4. Fast fashion - Wikipedia

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    Fast fashion is the business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail quickly while demand is at its highest. The term fast fashion is also used generically to describe the products of this business model, particularly clothing and footwear.

  5. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    [Note 3] According to the special theory of relativity, c is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy (and thus any signal carrying information) can travel through space. [4] [5] [6] All forms of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, travel at the speed of light. For many practical purposes, light and ...

  6. Fashion tourism - Wikipedia

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    Seoul now has two fashion weeks, and riding on the reputation of these, the city now has a vast complex of shopping malls and wholesale retailers which attract more than two million visitors per year, including just about half of all the tourists who come to Seoul. [5] Singapore also has a fashion week and the Singapore Tourism Board includes ...

  7. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    In the present market situation, main engines will not be as much of a limiting factor for vessel growth either. The steadily rising expense of fuel oil in the early 2010s had prompted most container lines to adapt a slower, more economical voyage speed of about 21 knots, compared to earlier top speeds of 25 or more knots. Subsequently, newly ...

  8. Horizon-class frigate - Wikipedia

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    The Horizon class (French: Classe Horizon; Italian: Classe Orizzonte) is a class of air-defence destroyers in service with the French and Italian navies. They are designated as destroyers by the Italians [7] and are referred to as "frigates" by the French but nonetheless also use the NATO classification "D" intended for destroyers.

  9. Chebyshev nodes - Wikipedia

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    Chebyshev nodes of both kinds from = to =.. For a given positive integer the Chebyshev nodes of the first kind in the open interval (,) are = ⁡ (+), =, …,. These are the roots of the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind with degree .