When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Reactionless drive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive

    A reactionless drive is a hypothetical device producing motion without the exhaust of a propellant.A propellantless drive is not necessarily reactionless when it constitutes an open system interacting with external fields; but a reactionless drive is a particular case of a propellantless drive that is a closed system, presumably in contradiction with the law of conservation of momentum.

  3. Passive dynamics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_dynamics

    Passive dynamics refers to the dynamical behavior of actuators, robots, or organisms when not drawing energy from a supply (e.g., batteries, fuel, ATP).Depending on the application, considering or altering the passive dynamics of a powered system can have drastic effects on performance, particularly energy economy, stability, and task bandwidth.

  4. Perpetual motion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

    Robert Fludd's 1618 "water screw" perpetual motion machine from a 1660 wood engraving.It is widely credited as the first attempt to describe such a device. [note 1] [1] Something for Nothing (1940), a short film featuring Rube Goldberg illustrating the U.S. Patent Office's policy regarding perpetual motion machines (and the power efficiency of gasoline)

  5. Geneva drive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive

    The Geneva drive or Geneva mechanism is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel (driven wheel) that advances it by one step at a time. The drive wheel also has an elevated circular ...

  6. Slosh dynamics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slosh_dynamics

    In fluid dynamics, slosh refers to the movement of liquid inside another object (which is, typically, also undergoing motion). Strictly speaking, the liquid must have a free surface to constitute a slosh dynamics problem, where the dynamics of the liquid can interact with the container to alter the system dynamics significantly. [ 1 ]

  7. Kinematics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics

    The movement of each of the components of the Boulton & Watt Steam Engine (1784) is modeled by a continuous set of rigid displacements. The position of one component of a mechanical system relative to another is defined by introducing a reference frame, say M , on one that moves relative to a fixed frame, F, on the other.

  8. The 8 Best Dash Cams Keep Everyone Honest After an Accident - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/best-dash-cams-next-road...

    The rear camera supports high-dynamic range (HDR) processing to minimize blown-out lighting and grainy shadows. Both secondary cameras also have wider fields of view, allowing you to visualize the ...

  9. Dynamical system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system

    The concept of a dynamical system has its origins in Newtonian mechanics.There, as in other natural sciences and engineering disciplines, the evolution rule of dynamical systems is an implicit relation that gives the state of the system for only a short time into the future.