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  2. Minimum railway curve radius - Wikipedia

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    Too tight a 'crest' curve could result in the train leaving the track as it drops away beneath it; too tight a 'trough' and the train will plough downwards into the rails and damage them. More precisely, the support force R exerted by the track on a train as a function of the curve radius r , the train mass m , and the speed v , is given by

  3. Geometric design of roads - Wikipedia

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    Crest vertical curves are those that have a tangent slope at the end of the curve that is lower than that of the beginning of the curve. When driving on a crest curve, the road appears as a hill, with the vehicle first going uphill before reaching the top of the curve and continuing downhill. The profile also affects road drainage.

  4. Degree of curvature - Wikipedia

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    Where degree of curvature is based on 100 units of arc length, the conversion between degree of curvature and radius is Dr = 18000/π ≈ 5729.57795, where D is degree and r is radius. Since rail routes have very large radii, they are laid out in chords, as the difference to the arc is inconsequential; this made work easier before electronic ...

  5. Sagitta (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The sagitta also has uses in physics where it is used, along with chord length, to calculate the radius of curvature of an accelerated particle. This is used especially in bubble chamber experiments where it is used to determine the momenta of decay particles. Likewise historically the sagitta is also utilised as a parameter in the calculation ...

  6. Concession road - Wikipedia

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    Unopened road allowance - is a public highway that has not been opened and assumed for maintenance purposes by-law of the township. [ 13 ] Baseline —The first concession road in a township, was often called the baseline (from the surveying term), and roads so named remain in many municipalities, including Ottawa , Clarington and London .

  7. Schur's lemma (Riemannian geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Since isometries preserve sectional curvature, this implies that is constant for each . The Schur lemma implies that ( M , g ) {\displaystyle (M,g)} has constant curvature. A particularly notable application of this is that any spacetime which models the cosmological principle must be the warped product of an interval and a constant-curvature ...

  8. Mohr's circle - Wikipedia

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    Following the steps for drawing the Mohr circle for this particular state of stress, we first draw a Cartesian coordinate system (,) with the -axis upward. We then plot two points A(50,40) and B(-10,-40), representing the state of stress at plane A and B as show in both Figure 8 and Figure 9.

  9. Government of Ontario - Wikipedia

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    The Government of Ontario (French: Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario.The term Government of Ontario refers specifically to the executive—political ministers of the Crown (the Cabinet/Executive Council), appointed on the advice of the premier, and the non-partisan Ontario Public Service (whom the Executive Council ...