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  2. Art gallery problem - Wikipedia

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    As Valtr (1998) showed, the set system derived from an art gallery problem has bounded VC dimension, allowing the application of set cover algorithms based on ε-nets whose approximation ratio is the logarithm of the optimal number of guards rather than of the number of polygon vertices. [12]

  3. Tractrix - Wikipedia

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    The arc length of one branch between x = x 1 and x = x 2 is a ln ⁠ y 1 / y 2 ⁠. The area between the tractrix and its asymptote is ⁠ π a 2 / 2 ⁠, which can be found using integration or Mamikon's theorem. The envelope of the normals of the tractrix (that is, the evolute of the tractrix) is the catenary (or chain curve) given by y = a ...

  4. Buffon's needle problem - Wikipedia

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    An experiment to find π. Matches with the length of 9 squares have been thrown 17 times between rows with the width of 9 squares. 11 of the matches have landed at random across the drawn lines marked by the green points. ⁠ 2l · n / th ⁠ = ⁠ 2 × 9 × 17 / 9 × 11 ⁠ ≈ 3.1 ≈ π.

  5. Mathematics of paper folding - Wikipedia

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    Paper fold strips can be constructed to solve equations up to degree 4. The Huzita–Justin axioms or Huzita–Hatori axioms are an important contribution to this field of study. These describe what can be constructed using a sequence of creases with at most two point or line alignments at once.

  6. Cell Transmission Model - Wikipedia

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    The corridor has two signals located at milepost 1 and 2 starting upstream. The signals have a split of 30 seconds and a cycle length of 60 second. With this information, it is a simple matter of iteration of equations (1) for all the cells and time steps. Figure 3 and Table 1 shows the spatial and temporal distribution of density for the case ...

  7. WKB approximation - Wikipedia

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    The asymptotic scaling of δ in terms of ε will be determined by the equation – see the example below. Substituting the above ansatz into the differential equation and cancelling out the exponential terms allows one to solve for an arbitrary number of terms S n (x) in the expansion. WKB theory is a special case of multiple scale analysis. [5 ...

  8. Hydraulic jumps in rectangular channels - Wikipedia

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    To help visualize the relationship of the upstream Froude number and the flow depth downstream of the hydraulic jump, it is helpful to plot y 2 /y 1 versus the upstream Froude Number, Fr 1. (Figure 8) The value of y 2 /y 1 is a ratio of depths that represent a dimensionless jump height; for example, if y 2 /y 1 = 2, then the jump doubles the ...

  9. Hele-Shaw flow - Wikipedia

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    where is the gap width between the plates, is the characteristic velocity scale, is the characteristic length scale in directions parallel to the plate and is the kinematic viscosity. Specifically, the Reynolds number R e = U h / ν {\displaystyle Re=Uh/\nu } need not always be small, but can be order unity or greater as long as it satisfies ...