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  2. Shmoo plot - Wikipedia

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    One example of such “shmooing” is the procedure for optimising the two operating variables of the Read Only Storage (ROS) in the IBM S/360 Model 65 Central Processing Unit (CPU). While the CPU is running a diagnostic test program the ROS bias voltage and time delay are varied and the points where the ROS generates errors are manually ...

  3. Gravitational wave - Wikipedia

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    The speed, wavelength, and frequency of a gravitational wave are related by the equation c = λf, just like the equation for a light wave. For example, the animations shown here oscillate roughly once every two seconds. This would correspond to a frequency of 0.5 Hz, and a wavelength of about 600 000 km, or 47 times the diameter of the Earth.

  4. LIGO - Wikipedia

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    As of January 2022, LIGO has made three runs (with one of the runs divided into two "subruns"), and made 90 detections of gravitational waves. [14] [15] Maintenance and upgrades of the detectors are made between runs. The first run, O1, which ran from 12 September 2015 to 19 January 2016, made the first three detections, all black hole mergers.

  5. Chirp mass - Wikipedia

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    If one is able to measure both the frequency and frequency derivative ˙ of a gravitational wave signal, the chirp mass can be determined. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ note 1 ] M = c 3 G ( 5 96 π − 8 / 3 f − 11 / 3 f ˙ ) 3 / 5 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}={\frac {c^{3}}{G}}\left({\frac {5}{96}}\pi ^{-8/3}f^{-11/3}{\dot {f}}\right)^{3/5}}

  6. Electromagnetic spectrum - Wikipedia

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    In frequency (and thus energy), UV rays sit between the violet end of the visible spectrum and the X-ray range. The UV wavelength spectrum ranges from 399 nm to 10 nm and is divided into 3 sections: UVA, UVB, and UVC. UV is the lowest energy range energetic enough to ionize atoms, separating electrons from them, and thus causing chemical reactions.

  7. Quasi-periodic oscillation (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In X-ray astronomy, quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) is the manner in which the X-ray light from an astronomical object flickers about certain frequencies. [1] In these situations, the X-rays are emitted near the inner edge of an accretion disk in which gas swirls onto a compact object such as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole.

  8. Helmholtz resonance - Wikipedia

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    The Helmholtz resonator, as it is now called, consists of a rigid container of a known volume, nearly spherical in shape, with a small neck and hole in one end and a larger hole in the other end to emit the sound. When the resonator's 'nipple' is placed inside one's ear, a specific frequency of the complex sound can be picked out and heard clearly.

  9. Direct and indirect band gaps - Wikipedia

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    A photon with an energy near a semiconductor band gap has almost zero momentum. One important process is called radiative recombination, where an electron in the conduction band annihilates a hole in the valence band, releasing the excess energy as a photon. This is possible in a direct band gap semiconductor if the electron has a k-vector near ...