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  2. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    A simple harmonic oscillator is an oscillator that is neither driven nor damped.It consists of a mass m, which experiences a single force F, which pulls the mass in the direction of the point x = 0 and depends only on the position x of the mass and a constant k.

  3. Wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    In commerce, the sizes of wire are estimated by devices, also called gauges, which consist of plates of circular or oblong form having notches of different widths around their edges to receive wire and sheet metals of different thicknesses. Each notch is stamped with a number, and the wire or sheet, which just fits a given notch, is stated to ...

  4. American wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    Wire sized 1 AWG is referred to as "one gauge" or "No. 1" wire; similarly, thinner sizes are pronounced "x gauge" or "No. x" wire, where x is the positive-integer AWG number. Consecutive AWG wire sizes thicker than No. 1 wire are designated by the number of zeros: No. 0, often written 1/0 and referred to as "one aught" wire

  5. Dimensional analysis - Wikipedia

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    Consider the case of a vibrating wire of length ℓ (L) vibrating with an amplitude A (L). The wire has a linear density ρ (M/L) and is under tension s (LM/T 2), and we want to know the energy E (L 2 M/T 2) in the wire. Let π 1 and π 2 be two dimensionless products of powers of the variables chosen, given by

  6. Generalized coordinates - Wikipedia

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    A degree of freedom corresponds to one quantity that changes the configuration of the system, for example the angle of a pendulum, or the arc length traversed by a bead along a wire. If it is possible to find from the constraints as many independent variables as there are degrees of freedom, these can be used as generalized coordinates. [ 5 ]

  7. Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering - Wikipedia

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    Cable television, distribution of television programming over a wire instead of by radio broadcast. cavity magnetron A vacuum tube that is a high power microwave oscillator, using a resonant cavity and electrons traveling through a magnetic field. CD A "Compact Disc" used to store digital data or digitally recorded sound using an infrared laser.

  8. Stokes problem - Wikipedia

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    Velocity (blue line) and particle excursion (red dots) as a function of the distance to the wall. In fluid dynamics, Stokes problem also known as Stokes second problem or sometimes referred to as Stokes boundary layer or Oscillating boundary layer is a problem of determining the flow created by an oscillating solid surface, named after Sir ...

  9. Quantum harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    The quantum harmonic oscillator is the quantum-mechanical analog of the classical harmonic oscillator. Because an arbitrary smooth potential can usually be approximated as a harmonic potential at the vicinity of a stable equilibrium point , it is one of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics.