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  2. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek understanding of physics was limited to the statics of simple machines (the balance of forces), and did not include dynamics or the concept of work. During the Renaissance the dynamics of the Mechanical Powers, as the simple machines were called, began to be studied from the standpoint of how far they could lift a load, in addition to the force they could apply, leading ...

  3. Diminishing returns - Wikipedia

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    These factors have the ability to influence economic growth and can eventually limit or inhibit continuous exponential growth. [9] Therefore, as a result of these constraints the production process will eventually reach a point of maximum yield on the production curve and this is where marginal output will stagnate and move towards zero. [10]

  4. Work (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Thermodynamic work is one of the principal kinds of process by which a thermodynamic system can interact with and transfer energy to its surroundings. This results in externally measurable macroscopic forces on the system's surroundings, which can cause mechanical work, to lift a weight, for example, [1] or cause changes in electromagnetic, [2] [3] [4] or gravitational [5] variables.

  5. Gradient descent - Wikipedia

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    Gradient descent is based on the observation that if the multi-variable function is defined and differentiable in a neighborhood of a point , then () decreases fastest if one goes from in the direction of the negative gradient of at , (). It follows that, if

  6. Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The (non-negative) damping factor ⁠ ⁠ is adjusted at each iteration. If reduction of ⁠ S {\displaystyle S} ⁠ is rapid, a smaller value can be used, bringing the algorithm closer to the Gauss–Newton algorithm , whereas if an iteration gives insufficient reduction in the residual, ⁠ λ {\displaystyle \lambda } ⁠ can be increased ...

  7. Ascending and descending (diving) - Wikipedia

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    It is now known that Haldane's ascent rate produced asymptomatic bubbles, which can slow the process of gas elimination, and in some circumstances grow and cause symptoms. [24] Royal Navy practice before 1962 is described by Robert Davis in his book "Deep Diving and Submarine Operations", and the Royal Navy's The Diving Manual of 1943. Rate of ...

  8. Work hardening - Wikipedia

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    The effects of cold working may be reversed by annealing the material at high temperatures where recovery and recrystallization reduce the dislocation density. A material's work hardenability can be predicted by analyzing a stress–strain curve, or studied in context by performing hardness tests before and after a process. [8] [9]

  9. Descent direction - Wikipedia

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    In optimization, a descent direction is a vector that points towards a local minimum of an objective function :.. Computing by an iterative method, such as line search defines a descent direction at the th iterate to be any such that , <, where , denotes the inner product.