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  2. Parsec - Wikipedia

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    By the 2015 definition, 1 au of arc length subtends an angle of 1″ at the center of the circle of radius 1 pc. That is, 1 pc = 1 au/tan( 1″ ) ≈ 206,264.8 au by definition. [ 9 ] Converting from degree/minute/second units to radians ,

  3. Virial theorem - Wikipedia

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    If a total mass M is confined within a radius R, then the moment of inertia is roughly MR 2, and the left hand side of the virial theorem is ⁠ MR 2 / τ 2 ⁠. The terms on the right hand side add up to about pR 3 , where p is the larger of the plasma pressure or the magnetic pressure.

  4. Darcy friction factor formulae - Wikipedia

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    Churchill equation [24] (1977) is the only equation that can be evaluated for very slow flow (Reynolds number < 1), but the Cheng (2008), [25] and Bellos et al. (2018) [8] equations also return an approximately correct value for friction factor in the laminar flow region (Reynolds number < 2300). All of the others are for transitional and ...

  5. Surface brightness - Wikipedia

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    A truly dark sky has a surface brightness of 2 × 10 −4 cd m −2 or 21.8 mag arcsec −2. [9] [clarification needed] The peak surface brightness of the central region of the Orion Nebula is about 17 Mag/arcsec 2 (about 14 milli nits) and the outer bluish glow has a peak surface brightness of 21.3 Mag/arcsec 2 (about 0.27 millinits). [10]

  6. Differential geometry of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    These equations can be directly derived from the second definition of Christoffel symbols given above; for instance, the first Codazzi equation is obtained by differentiating the first equation with respect to v, the second equation with respect to u, subtracting the two, and taking the dot product with n. The Gauss equation asserts that [24]

  7. Apparent magnitude - Wikipedia

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    This implies that a star of magnitude m is about 2.512 times as bright as a star of magnitude m + 1. This figure, the fifth root of 100 , became known as Pogson's Ratio. [ 9 ] The 1884 Harvard Photometry and 1886 Potsdamer Duchmusterung star catalogs popularized Pogson's ratio, and eventually it became a de facto standard in modern astronomy to ...

  8. Mintaka - Wikipedia

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    17.8 [9] MRadius: 13.1 [9] ... There is a magnitude 7 star about 52 arcseconds away from the second-magnitude primary and a much fainter star in between.

  9. Metre per second - Wikipedia

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    The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second.