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  2. Falling cat problem - Wikipedia

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    The falling cat problem has elicited interest from scientists including George Gabriel Stokes, James Clerk Maxwell, and Étienne-Jules Marey.In a letter to his wife, Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell wrote, "There is a tradition in Trinity that when I was here I discovered a method of throwing a cat so as not to light on its feet, and that I used to throw cats out of windows.

  3. Momentum mapping format - Wikipedia

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    Momentum mapping format is a key technique in the Material Point Method (MPM) for transferring physical quantities such as momentum, mass, and stress between a material point and a background grid. [1] The Material Point Method (MPM) is a numerical technique using a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian description. It discretises the computational domain ...

  4. Moment problem - Wikipedia

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    Example: Given the mean and variance (as well as all further cumulants equal 0) the normal distribution is the distribution solving the moment problem.. In mathematics, a moment problem arises as the result of trying to invert the mapping that takes a measure to the sequence of moments

  5. Classical central-force problem - Wikipedia

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    The problem is also important because some more complicated problems in classical physics (such as the two-body problem with forces along the line connecting the two bodies) can be reduced to a central-force problem. Finally, the solution to the central-force problem often makes a good initial approximation of the true motion, as in calculating ...

  6. Magnetic moment - Wikipedia

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    The angular momentum of a moving charged particle is defined as: = =, where μ is the mass of the particle and v is the particle's velocity. The angular momentum of the very large number of charged particles that make up a current therefore is: L = ∭ V r × ( ρ v ) d V , {\displaystyle \mathbf {L} =\iiint _{V}\,\mathbf {r} \times (\rho ...

  7. Scale analysis (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Scale analysis is an effective shortcut for obtaining approximate solutions to equations often too complicated to solve exactly. The object of scale analysis is to use the basic principles of convective heat transfer to produce order-of-magnitude estimates for the quantities of interest.

  8. Variable-mass system - Wikipedia

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    At time t, let a mass m travel at a velocity v, meaning the initial momentum of the system is p 1 = m v {\displaystyle \mathbf {p} _{\mathrm {1} }=m\mathbf {v} } Assuming u to be the velocity of the ablated mass d m with respect to the ground, at a time t + d t the momentum of the system becomes

  9. Spontaneous parametric down-conversion - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of SPDC process. Note that conservation laws are with respect to energy and momentum inside the crystal.. Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (also known as SPDC, parametric fluorescence or parametric scattering) is a nonlinear instant optical process that converts one photon of higher energy (namely, a pump photon) into a pair of photons (namely, a signal photon, and an idler ...