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  2. Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field

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    On the other hand, in the Lagrangian specification, individual fluid parcels are followed through time. The fluid parcels are labelled by some (time-independent) vector field x 0. (Often, x 0 is chosen to be the position of the center of mass of the parcels at some initial time t 0. It is chosen in this particular manner to account for the ...

  3. Larrikin - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885) Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions". [1]

  4. Water clock - Wikipedia

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    A water clock uses the flow of water to measure time. If viscosity is neglected, the physical principle required to study such clocks is Torricelli's law. Two types of water clock exist: inflow and outflow. In an outflow water clock, a container is filled with water, and the water is drained slowly and evenly out of the container.

  5. Normalized difference water index - Wikipedia

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    Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) may refer to one of at least two remote sensing-derived indexes related to liquid water: One is used to monitor changes in water content of leaves, using near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths , proposed by Gao in 1996: [ 1 ]

  6. Marine sandglass - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] But it was not until the 14th century that the marine sandglass was seen commonly, the earliest firm evidence being a depiction in the 1338 fresco Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. [11] For more than 500 years (from 1300 to 1800) the instrument for measuring time at sea was "the Ampoule of hours". [12]

  7. Entropy as an arrow of time - Wikipedia

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    Here, as common experience demonstrates, when a hot body T 1, such as a furnace, is put into physical contact, such as being connected via a body of fluid (working body), with a cold body T 2, such as a stream of cold water, energy will invariably flow from hot to cold in the form of heat Q, and given time the system will reach equilibrium.

  8. Water vapor - Wikipedia

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    Water vapor can also be indirect evidence supporting the presence of extraterrestrial liquid water in the case of some planetary mass objects. Water vapor, which reacts to temperature changes, is referred to as a 'feedback', because it amplifies the effect of forces that initially cause the warming. Therefore, it is a greenhouse gas. [2]

  9. Chronon - Wikipedia

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    For example, ordered pairs of events (A, B) and (B, C) could each be separated by slightly more than 1 Planck time: this would produce a measurement limit of 1 Planck time between A and B or B and C, but a limit of 3 Planck times between A and C. [citation needed] The chronon is a quantization of the evolution in a system along its world line.