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  2. Prism (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Prism (geometry) In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an n-sided polygon base, a second base which is a translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of the first, and n other faces, necessarily all parallelograms, joining corresponding sides of the two bases. All cross-sections parallel to the bases are translations of the bases.

  3. Heron's formula - Wikipedia

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    Heron's formula. A triangle with sides a, b, and c. In geometry, Heron's formula (or Hero's formula) gives the area of a triangle in terms of the three side lengths ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Letting ⁠ ⁠ be the semiperimeter of the triangle, the area ⁠ ⁠ is [1] It is named after first-century engineer Heron of Alexandria (or Hero) who ...

  4. Jacobian matrix and determinant - Wikipedia

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    Since dV = dx dy dz is the volume for a rectangular differential volume element (because the volume of a rectangular prism is the product of its sides), we can interpret dV = ρ 2 sin φ dρ dφ dθ as the volume of the spherical differential volume element. Unlike rectangular differential volume element's volume, this differential volume ...

  5. Parallelepiped - Wikipedia

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    a polyhedron with six faces (hexahedron), each of which is a parallelogram, and. a prism of which the base is a parallelogram. The rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all specific cases of parallelepiped. "Parallelepiped" is now usually pronounced ...

  6. List of moments of inertia - Wikipedia

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    List of moments of inertia. Moment of inertia, denoted by I, measures the extent to which an object resists rotational acceleration about a particular axis; it is the rotational analogue to mass (which determines an object's resistance to linear acceleration). The moments of inertia of a mass have units of dimension ML 2 ( [mass] × [length] 2).

  7. Stokes' law - Wikipedia

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    Stokes' law. In fluid dynamics, Stokes' law is an empirical law for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid. [1] It was derived by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 by solving the Stokes flow limit for small Reynolds numbers of the Navier–Stokes equations.

  8. Egyptian geometry - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian geometry. Egyptian geometry refers to geometry as it was developed and used in Ancient Egypt. Their geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve the layout and ownership of farmland, which was flooded annually by the Nile river.

  9. Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The azimuthal angle is denoted by. φ ∈ [ 0 , 2 π ] {\displaystyle \varphi \in [0,2\pi ]} : it is the angle between the x -axis and the projection of the radial vector onto the xy -plane. The function atan2 (y, x) can be used instead of the mathematical function arctan (y/x) owing to its domain and image. The classical arctan function has an ...