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  2. Differential (mechanical device) - Wikipedia

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    Differential unit for a rear-wheel drive car, built by ZF c. 2004 Differential gears (in yellow) in a punched tape reader, built by Tally c. 1962 A differential is a gear train with three drive shafts that has the property that the rotational speed of one shaft is the average of the speeds of the others.

  3. State-space representation - Wikipedia

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    The internal state variables are the smallest possible subset of system variables that can represent the entire state of the system at any given time. [13] The minimum number of state variables required to represent a given system, , is usually equal to the order of the system's defining differential equation, but not necessarily.

  4. Proportional–integral–derivative controller - Wikipedia

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    A common example is a vehicle’s cruise control system. When a vehicle encounters a hill, its speed may decrease due to constant engine power. The PID controller adjusts the engine's power output to restore the vehicle to its desired speed, doing so efficiently with minimal delay and overshoot.

  5. Neumann boundary condition - Wikipedia

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    For example, a perfect insulator would have no flux while an electrical component may be dissipating at a known power. In magnetostatics , the magnetic field intensity can be prescribed as a boundary condition in order to find the magnetic flux density distribution in a magnet array in space, for example in a permanent magnet motor.

  6. Curl (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In 3 dimensions, a differential 0-form is a real-valued function (,,); a differential 1-form is the following expression, where the coefficients are functions: + +; a differential 2-form is the formal sum, again with function coefficients: + +; and a differential 3-form is defined by a single term with one function as coefficient: .

  7. Gauss map - Wikipedia

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    The Gauss map provides a mapping from every point on a curve or a surface to a corresponding point on a unit sphere. In this example, the curvature of a 2D-surface is mapped onto a 1D unit circle. In differential geometry , the Gauss map of a surface is a function that maps each point in the surface to a unit vector that is orthogonal to the ...

  8. Phase portrait - Wikipedia

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    Potential energy and phase portrait of a simple pendulum.Note that the x-axis, being angular, wraps onto itself after every 2π radians. Phase portrait of damped oscillator, with increasing damping strength.

  9. Linear time-invariant system - Wikipedia

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    Block diagram illustrating the superposition principle and time invariance for a deterministic continuous-time single-input single-output system. The system satisfies the superposition principle and is time-invariant if and only if y 3 (t) = a 1 y 1 (t – t 0) + a 2 y 2 (t – t 0) for all time t, for all real constants a 1, a 2, t 0 and for all inputs x 1 (t), x 2 (t). [1]