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  2. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    This velocity is the asymptotic limiting value of the acceleration process, because the effective forces on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal velocity is approached. In this example, a speed of 50 % of terminal velocity is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90 %, 15 seconds to ...

  3. Norm (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of unit circle (the set of all vectors of norm 1) is different in different norms: for the 1-norm, the unit circle is a square oriented as a diamond; for the 2-norm (Euclidean norm), it is the well-known unit circle; while for the infinity norm, it is an axis-aligned square.

  4. Divergence - Wikipedia

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    The divergence of a vector field is often illustrated using the simple example of the velocity field of a fluid, a liquid or gas. A moving gas has a velocity, a speed and direction at each point, which can be represented by a vector, so the velocity of the gas forms a vector field. If a gas is heated, it will expand.

  5. Euclidean vector - Wikipedia

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    The velocity v of a point or particle is a vector, its length gives the speed. For constant velocity the position at time t will be = +, where x 0 is the position at time t = 0. Velocity is the time derivative of position. Its dimensions are length/time.

  6. Curl (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The curl of a vector field F, denoted by curl F, or , or rot F, is an operator that maps C k functions in R 3 to C k−1 functions in R 3, and in particular, it maps continuously differentiable functions R 3 → R 3 to continuous functions R 3 → R 3.

  7. Moving sofa problem - Wikipedia

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    A lower bound on the sofa constant can be proven by finding a specific shape of a high area and a path for moving it through the corner. A ≥ π / 2 ≈ 1.57 {\displaystyle A\geq \pi /2\approx 1.57} is an obvious lower bound.

  8. Drag equation - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, the drag equation is a formula used to calculate the force of drag experienced by an object due to movement through a fully enclosing fluid. The equation is: F d = 1 2 ρ u 2 c d A {\displaystyle F_{\rm {d}}\,=\,{\tfrac {1}{2}}\,\rho \,u^{2}\,c_{\rm {d}}\,A} where

  9. Squeeze mapping - Wikipedia

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    A squeeze mapping moves one purple hyperbolic sector to another with the same area. It also squeezes blue and green rectangles.. In 1688, long before abstract group theory, the squeeze mapping was described by Euclid Speidell in the terms of the day: "From a Square and an infinite company of Oblongs on a Superficies, each Equal to that square, how a curve is begotten which shall have the same ...