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  2. Newton's cradle - Wikipedia

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    To explain the difference between theory and experiment, the two striking balls must have at least ≈ 10 μm separation (given steel, 100 g, and 1 m/s). This shows that in the common case of steel balls, unnoticed separations can be important and must be included in the Hertzian differential equations, or the simple solution gives a more ...

  3. Simple harmonic motion - Wikipedia

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    Other phenomena can be modeled by simple harmonic motion, including the motion of a simple pendulum, although for it to be an accurate model, the net force on the object at the end of the pendulum must be proportional to the displacement (and even so, it is only a good approximation when the angle of the swing is small; see small-angle ...

  4. Bucket argument - Wikipedia

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    These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a scholium at the end of Definitions sections in Book I of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) (not to be confused with General Scholium at the end of Book III), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced ...

  5. Java applet - Wikipedia

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    An applet may also try DoS attacks on the server where it is hosted, but usually people who manage the web site also manage the applet, making this unreasonable. Communities may solve this problem via source code review or running applets on a dedicated domain. The unsigned applet can also try to download malware hosted on originating server.

  6. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    This theory was rejected by Boris Derjaguin and co-workers [6] who proposed a different theory of adhesion [7] in the 1970s. The Derjaguin model came to be known as the Derjaguin–Muller–Toporov (DMT) model (after Derjaguin, M. V. Muller and Yu. P. Toporov), [ 7 ] and the Johnson et al. model came to be known as the Johnson–Kendall ...

  7. Horseshoe theory - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the ...

  8. Weasel program - Wikipedia

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    What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection, and the time which the same computer, working flat out at the same rate, would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection: about a million million million million million years. This is more than a million ...

  9. Parametric oscillator - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of a parametric oscillator is a child pumping a playground swing by periodically standing and squatting to increase the size of the swing's oscillations. [1] [2] [3] The child's motions vary the moment of inertia of the swing as a pendulum. The "pump" motions of the child must be at twice the frequency of the swing's oscillations.