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  2. Melde's experiment - Wikipedia

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    A model of Melde's experiment: an electric vibrator connected to a cable drives a pulley that suspends a mass that causes tension in the cable. Melde's experiment is a scientific experiment carried out in 1859 by the German physicist Franz Melde on the standing waves produced in a tense cable originally set oscillating by a tuning fork , later ...

  3. Hamming distance - Wikipedia

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    In information theory, the Hamming distance between two strings or vectors of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different. In other words, it measures the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other, or equivalently, the minimum number of errors that could have transformed one string into the other.

  4. Atwood machine - Wikipedia

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    An equation for the acceleration can be derived by analyzing forces. Assuming a massless, inextensible string and an ideal massless pulley, the only forces to consider are: tension force (T), and the weight of the two masses (W 1 and W 2). To find an acceleration, consider the forces affecting each individual mass.

  5. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    When two bodies with rough surfaces are pressed against each other, the true contact area formed between the two bodies, , is much smaller than the apparent or nominal contact area . The mechanics of contacting rough surfaces are discussed in terms of normal contact mechanics and static frictional interactions. [ 29 ]

  6. Graph edit distance - Wikipedia

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    The graph edit distance between two graphs is related to the string edit distance between strings. With the interpretation of strings as connected , directed acyclic graphs of maximum degree one, classical definitions of edit distance such as Levenshtein distance , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Hamming distance [ 5 ] and Jaro–Winkler distance may be ...

  7. Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia

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    In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.

  8. Tension (physics) - Wikipedia

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    String-like objects in relativistic theories, such as the strings used in some models of interactions between quarks, or those used in the modern string theory, also possess tension. These strings are analyzed in terms of their world sheet, and the energy is then typically proportional to the length of the string. As a result, the tension in ...

  9. Zisman Plot - Wikipedia

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    This is determined by the respective surface tensions of the solid and liquid. William Zisman's contribution to adhesives in the way of his Zisman Plot, which has a variation today that graphs 1-cos(θ SL) vs γ L. In this variation the X-intercept gives the critical surface tension of the liquid needed to effectively wet the solid surface.