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  2. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    The speed at which light propagates through transparent materials, such as glass or air, is less than c; similarly, the speed of electromagnetic waves in wire cables is slower than c. The ratio between c and the speed v at which light travels in a material is called the refractive index n of the material ( n = ⁠ c / v ⁠ ).

  3. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    In general, a tracker can (a) improve receiver position and time accuracy, (b) reject bad measurements, and (c) estimate receiver speed and direction. The disadvantage of a tracker is that changes in speed or direction can be computed only with a delay, and that derived direction becomes inaccurate when the distance traveled between two ...

  4. Wind wave - Wikipedia

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    Wind speed or strength relative to wave speed – the wind must be moving faster than the wave crest for energy transfer to the wave. The uninterrupted distance of open water over which the wind blows without significant change in direction (called the fetch) Width of the area affected by fetch (at a right angle to the distance)

  5. Special relativity - Wikipedia

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    If an object (e.g., a photon) were moving at the speed of light in one frame (i.e., u = ±c or u ′ = ±c), then it would also be moving at the speed of light in any other frame, moving at | v | < c. The resultant speed of two velocities with magnitude less than c is always a velocity with magnitude less than c.

  6. Speeds and feeds - Wikipedia

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    Cutting speed may be defined as the rate at the workpiece surface, irrespective of the machining operation used. A cutting speed for mild steel of 100 ft/min is the same whether it is the speed of the cutter passing over the workpiece, such as in a turning operation, or the speed of the cutter moving past a workpiece, such as in a milling operation.

  7. Pi - Wikipedia

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    The number π (/ p aɪ / ⓘ; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.

  8. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    This means that a bicycle will use between 10 and 25 times less energy per distance travelled than a personal car, depending on fuel source and size of the car. This figure does depend on the speed and mass of the rider: greater speeds give higher air drag and heavier riders consume more energy per unit distance. In addition, because bicycles ...

  9. Dual carriageway - Wikipedia

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    Speed limit changes, but normally 110 km/h is the limit of state road (e.g. D 100). Turkey has 3,633 km [19] of motorways. The minimum speed limit on the Turkish motorways is 40 km/h and the maximum is 140 km/h. Almost all of the network is 6 lanes (3 in each direction) wide and illuminated.