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  2. Oscillation - Wikipedia

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    Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum and alternating current. Oscillations can be used in physics to approximate complex interactions, such ...

  3. Pearson–Anson effect - Wikipedia

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    Pearson-Anson oscillator circuit. The Pearson–Anson effect, discovered in 1922 by Stephen Oswald Pearson [1] and Horatio Saint George Anson, [2] [3] is the phenomenon of an oscillating electric voltage produced by a neon bulb connected across a capacitor, when a direct current is applied through a resistor. [4]

  4. Q factor - Wikipedia

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    The Q factor is a parameter that describes the resonance behavior of an underdamped harmonic oscillator (resonator). Sinusoidally driven resonators having higher Q factors resonate with greater amplitudes (at the resonant frequency) but have a smaller range of frequencies around that frequency for which they resonate; the range of frequencies for which the oscillator resonates is called the ...

  5. Kuramoto model - Wikipedia

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    The transformation that allows this model to be solved exactly (at least in the N → ∞ limit) is as follows: . Define the "order" parameters r and ψ as = =. Here r represents the phase-coherence of the population of oscillators and ψ indicates the average phase.

  6. Anharmonicity - Wikipedia

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    An oscillator is a physical system characterized by periodic motion, such as a pendulum, tuning fork, or vibrating diatomic molecule.Mathematically speaking, the essential feature of an oscillator is that for some coordinate x of the system, a force whose magnitude depends on x will push x away from extreme values and back toward some central value x 0, causing x to oscillate between extremes.

  7. Bounded mean oscillation - Wikipedia

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    According to Nirenberg (1985, p. 703 and p. 707), [1] the space of functions of bounded mean oscillation was introduced by John (1961, pp. 410–411) in connection with his studies of mappings from a bounded set belonging to into and the corresponding problems arising from elasticity theory, precisely from the concept of elastic strain: the basic notation was introduced in a closely following ...

  8. Hovmöller diagram - Wikipedia

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    This Hovmöller diagram records a running mean value of outgoing longwave radiation, OLR, which produces contour-values (here shown from +3 to –3) of the Madden–Julian oscillation, MJO. Here, time increases from top to bottom, i.e., vertically, along the ordinate, or y-axis; while the oscillation contours are oriented from left to right ...

  9. Wave - Wikipedia

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    In physics, mathematics, engineering, and related fields, a wave is a propagating dynamic disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more quantities. Periodic waves oscillate repeatedly about an equilibrium (resting) value at some frequency .