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  2. Oscillation - Wikipedia

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    In addition, an oscillating system may be subject to some external force, as when an AC circuit is connected to an outside power source. In this case the oscillation is said to be driven . The simplest example of this is a spring-mass system with a sinusoidal driving force.

  3. Stokes problem - Wikipedia

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    The case for an oscillating far-field flow, with the plate held at rest, can easily be constructed from the previous solution for an oscillating plate by using linear superposition of solutions. Consider a uniform velocity oscillation u ( ∞ , t ) = U ∞ cos ⁡ ω t {\displaystyle u(\infty ,t)=U_{\infty }\cos \omega t} far away from the ...

  4. Osculating orbit - Wikipedia

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    Osculating orbit (inner, black) and perturbed orbit (red) In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit (i.e. an elliptic or other conic one) that it would have around its central body if perturbations were absent. [1]

  5. Strouhal number - Wikipedia

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    In dimensional analysis, the Strouhal number (St, or sometimes Sr to avoid the conflict with the Stanton number) is a dimensionless number describing oscillating flow mechanisms. The parameter is named after Vincenc Strouhal , a Czech physicist who experimented in 1878 with wires experiencing vortex shedding and singing in the wind.

  6. Foucault pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The relativistic velocity space in Minkowski spacetime can be treated as a sphere S 3 in 4-dimensional Euclidean space with imaginary radius and imaginary timelike coordinate. Parallel transport of polarization vectors along such sphere gives rise to Thomas precession , which is analogous to the rotation of the swing plane of Foucault pendulum ...

  7. Physics of whistles - Wikipedia

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    Point monopole. Whistles that generate sound through fluctuations of mass flow across a boundary are called monopole-like sources. The figure on the right is an example of a small sphere whose volume is oscillating.

  8. Gravitational wave - Wikipedia

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    As a gravitational wave passes through the particles along a line perpendicular to the plane of the particles, i.e., following the observer's line of vision into the screen, the particles will follow the distortion in spacetime, oscillating in a "cruciform" manner, as shown in the animations. The area enclosed by the test particles does not ...

  9. RKKY interaction - Wikipedia

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    The RKKY interaction is a long-range interaction between magnetic moments in a metal. The energy oscillates with distance, decaying as .The oscillations are caused by the interaction of the magnetic moments with the conduction electrons in the metal.