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  2. Hessian (soldier) - Wikipedia

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    A 1799 portrait of Hessian hussars during the American Revolutionary War Hessian grenadiers. The use of foreign soldiers was common in 18th-century Europe. In the two centuries leading up to the American Revolutionary War, the continent saw frequent, though often small-scale, warfare, and military manpower was in high demand. [9]

  3. Hessian matrix - Wikipedia

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    Suppose : is a function taking as input a vector and outputting a scalar (). If all second-order partial derivatives of exist, then the Hessian matrix of is a square matrix, usually defined and arranged as = [].

  4. Jim Henson - Wikipedia

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    James Maury Henson was born on September 24, 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi, the younger of two children of Betty Marcella (née Brown, 1904–1972) and Paul Ransom Henson (1904–1994), an agronomist for the United States Department of Agriculture. [3]

  5. Stress (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Namely, the particles considered in its definition and analysis should be just small enough to be treated as homogeneous in composition and state, but still large enough to ignore quantum effects and the detailed motions of molecules. Thus, the force between two particles is actually the average of a very large number of atomic forces between ...

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  7. Tension (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Nine men pull on a rope. The rope in the photo extends into a drawn illustration showing adjacent segments of the rope. One segment is duplicated in a free body diagram showing a pair of action-reaction forces of magnitude T pulling the segment in opposite directions, where T is transmitted axially and is called the tension force.

  8. Pension - Wikipedia

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    A pension (/ ˈ p ɛ n ʃ ən /; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.

  9. Strength of materials - Wikipedia

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    The field of strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns, and shafts.