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  2. Cost estimate - Wikipedia

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    [2] A cost estimate is often needed to support evaluations of project feasibility or funding requirements in support of planning. A cost estimate is often used to establish a budget as the cost constraint for a project or operation. In project management, project cost management is a major functional division. Cost estimating is one of three ...

  3. Cable railway - Wikipedia

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    A variation of the gravity balance incline was the trwnc incline [12] found at slate quarries in north Wales, notably the Dinorwic Quarry and several in Blaenau Ffestiniog. These were worked by gravity, but instead of the wagons running on their own wheels, permanently attached angled wagons were used that had a horizontal platform on which the ...

  4. AACE International - Wikipedia

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    AACE International (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) was founded in 1956 by 59 cost estimators and cost engineers during the organizational meeting of the American Association of Cost Engineering at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire.

  5. Grade (climbing) - Wikipedia

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    The American YDS (or 'Yosemite Decimal System') was developed independently by climbers at Tahquitz Peak who adapted the class 5 rating of Sierra Club Class 1–5 system in the 1950s. [4] The class 5 portion of the class scale is primarily a rock climbing classification system, while classes 1–4 are used for hiking and scrambling . [ 4 ]

  6. Gravity railroad - Wikipedia

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    Demonstration gravity trains are still occasionally run using original wagons – up to 50 at a time. At the Manx Electric Railway's Ramsey railway station, which is a terminus on a slight downward incline, the run-around of the driving motor car around the trailer car is regularly done with the assistance of gravity. However, no passengers are ...

  7. Metacentric height - Wikipedia

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    Work must be done to roll a stable hull. This is converted to potential energy by raising the centre of mass of the hull with respect to the water level or by lowering the centre of buoyancy or both. This potential energy will be released in order to right the hull and the stable attitude will be where it has the least magnitude.

  8. Rolling resistance - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1 Hard wheel rolling on and deforming a soft surface, resulting in the reaction force R from the surface having a component that opposes the motion. (W is some vertical load on the axle, F is some towing force applied to the axle, r is the wheel radius, and both friction with the ground and friction at the axle are assumed to be negligible and so are not shown.

  9. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The work done is given by the dot product of the two vectors, where the result is a scalar. When the force F is constant and the angle θ between the force and the displacement s is also constant, then the work done is given by: = ⁡ If the force is variable, then work is given by the line integral: