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  2. Proportionality (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The variable y is directly proportional to the variable x with proportionality constant ~0.6. The variable y is inversely proportional to the variable x with proportionality constant 1. In mathematics, two sequences of numbers, often experimental data, are proportional or directly proportional if their corresponding elements have a constant ratio.

  3. Proportional reasoning - Wikipedia

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    The incorrect additive strategy can be expressed as L + R = 10; this is a constant sum relation. Here is the graph for these two equations. For the numeric values involved in the problem statement, these graphs are "similar" and it is easy to see why individuals consider their incorrect answers perfectly reasonable.

  4. Theory of intervening opportunities - Wikipedia

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    Stouffer theorises that the amount of migration over a given distance is directly proportional to the number of opportunities at the place of destination, and inversely proportional to the number of opportunities between the place of departure and the place of destination. These intervening opportunities may persuade a migrant to settle in a ...

  5. Avogadro's law - Wikipedia

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    For a given mass of an ideal gas, the volume and amount (moles) of the gas are directly proportional if the temperature and pressure are constant. The law is named after Amedeo Avogadro who, in 1812, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] hypothesized that two given samples of an ideal gas, of the same volume and at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Fick's laws of diffusion - Wikipedia

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    Fick's first law relates the diffusive flux to the gradient of the concentration. It postulates that the flux goes from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration, with a magnitude that is proportional to the concentration gradient (spatial derivative), or in simplistic terms the concept that a solute will move from a region of high concentration to a region of low ...

  8. Rotational frequency - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the tangential speed will be directly proportional to when all parts of a system simultaneously have the same , as for a wheel, disk, or rigid wand. The direct proportionality of v {\displaystyle v} to r {\displaystyle r} is not valid for the planets , because the planets have different rotational frequencies.

  9. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    In mathematical statistics, the concept has been formalized as the Zipfian distribution: A family of related discrete probability distributions whose rank-frequency distribution is an inverse power law relation. They are related to Benford's law and the Pareto distribution. Some sets of time-dependent empirical data deviate somewhat from Zipf's ...