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  2. Linear scale - Wikipedia

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    The length of the line on the linear scale is equal to the distance represented on the earth multiplied by the map or chart's scale. In most projections, scale varies with latitude, so on small scale maps, covering large areas and a wide range of latitudes, the linear scale must show the scale for the range of latitudes covered by the map. One ...

  3. Comoving and proper distances - Wikipedia

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    Comoving coordinates separate the exactly proportional expansion in a Friedmannian universe in spatial comoving coordinates from the scale factor () . This example is for the ΛCDM model. The comoving time coordinate is the elapsed time since the Big Bang according to a clock of a comoving observer and is a measure of cosmological time .

  4. Scaling (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A scale factor is usually a decimal which scales, or multiplies, some quantity. In the equation y = Cx, C is the scale factor for x. C is also the coefficient of x, and may be called the constant of proportionality of y to x. For example, doubling distances corresponds to a scale factor of two for distance, while cutting a cake in half results ...

  5. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    Here the radial position has been decomposed into a time-dependent scale factor, (), and a comoving coordinate, . Inserting this metric into Einstein's field equations relate the evolution of this scale factor to the pressure and energy of the matter in the universe.

  6. Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia

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    The scale factor is a function of time and is conventionally set to be = at the present time. Because the universe is expanding, a {\displaystyle a} is smaller in the past and larger in the future. Extrapolating back in time with certain cosmological models will yield a moment when the scale factor was zero; our current understanding of ...

  7. Graphing calculator - Wikipedia

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    An early graphing calculator was designed in 1921 by electrical engineer Edith Clarke. [1] [2] [3] The calculator was used to solve problems with electrical power line transmission. [4] Casio produced the first commercially available graphing calculator in 1985. Sharp produced its first graphing calculator in 1986, with Hewlett Packard ...

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  9. Scale factor (cosmology) - Wikipedia

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    The scale factor is dimensionless, with counted from the birth of the universe and set to the present age of the universe: [4] giving the current value of as () or . The evolution of the scale factor is a dynamical question, determined by the equations of general relativity , which are presented in the case of a locally isotropic, locally ...