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  2. Phillips curve - Wikipedia

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    Firms hire them because they see the inflation as allowing higher profits for given nominal wages. This is a movement along the Phillips curve as with change A. Eventually, workers discover that real wages have fallen, so they push for higher money wages. This causes the Phillips curve to shift upward and to the right, as with B. Some research ...

  3. Action potential - Wikipedia

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    The currents flowing inwards at a point on the axon during an action potential spread out along the axon, and depolarize the adjacent sections of its membrane. If sufficiently strong, this depolarization provokes a similar action potential at the neighboring membrane patches. This basic mechanism was demonstrated by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin in 1937 ...

  4. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Movements along the curve occur only if there is a change in quantity supplied caused by a change in the good's own price. [10] A shift in the supply curve, referred to as a change in supply, occurs only if a non-price determinant of supply changes. [10]

  5. Cam (mechanism) - Wikipedia

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    The cam can be seen as a device that converts rotational motion to reciprocating (or sometimes oscillating) motion. [clarification needed] [3] A common example is the camshaft of an automobile, which takes the rotary motion of the engine and converts it into the reciprocating motion necessary to operate the intake and exhaust valves of the cylinders.

  6. Mechanism (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, a mechanism is a device that transforms input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement. Mechanisms generally consist of moving components which may include Gears and gear trains; Belts and chain drives; cams and followers; Linkages; Friction devices, such as brakes or clutches; Structural components ...

  7. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    Generally speaking, a higher pair is a constraint that requires a curve or surface in the moving body to maintain contact with a curve or surface in the fixed body. For example, the contact between a cam and its follower is a higher pair called a cam joint. Similarly, the contact between the involute curves that form the meshing teeth of two ...

  8. Motion - Wikipedia

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    Brownian motion – the random movement of very small particles; Circular motion; Rotatory motion – a motion about a fixed point. (e.g. Ferris wheel). Curvilinear motion – It is defined as the motion along a curved path that may be planar or in three dimensions. Rolling motion – (as of the wheel of a bicycle) Oscillatory – (swinging ...

  9. Linear motion - Wikipedia

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    In linear motion, the directions of all the vectors describing the system are equal and constant which means the objects move along the same axis and do not change direction. The analysis of such systems may therefore be simplified by neglecting the direction components of the vectors involved and dealing only with the magnitude. [2]