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  2. Tribrach (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The tribrach is attached to the tripod and placed over the marker. Looking through the optical plummet pick up two of the tripod legs and position the cross-hairs over the marker. Tread all three legs into the grass, bitumen, concrete. Look through the optical plummet and using the thumbscrews put the cross-hairs back over the marker.

  3. Temporary adjustments of theodolites - Wikipedia

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    The initial setting operation includes fixing the theodolite on a tripod, along with approximate levelling and centering over the station mark.For setting up the instrument, the tripod is placed over the station with its legs widely spread so that the centre of the tripod head lies above the station point and its head approximately level (by eye estimation).

  4. Bertrand paradox (probability) - Wikipedia

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    Random chords, selection method 2 The "random radial point" method: Choose a radius of the circle, choose a point on the radius and construct the chord through this point and perpendicular to the radius. To calculate the probability in question imagine the triangle rotated so a side is perpendicular to the radius. The chord is longer than a ...

  5. Sagitta (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In the following equations, denotes the sagitta (the depth or height of the arc), equals the radius of the circle, and the length of the chord spanning the base of the arc. As 1 2 l {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}l} and r − s {\displaystyle r-s} are two sides of a right triangle with r {\displaystyle r} as the hypotenuse , the Pythagorean ...

  6. Tripod packing - Wikipedia

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    In combinatorics, tripod packing is a problem of finding many disjoint tripods in a three-dimensional grid, where a tripod is an infinite polycube, the union of the grid cubes along three positive axis-aligned rays with a shared apex. [1] Several problems of tiling and packing tripods and related shapes were formulated in 1967 by Sherman K ...

  7. Plumb bob - Wikipedia

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    A plumb bob, plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical direction as a reference line, or plumb-line. It is a precursor to the spirit level and used to establish a vertical datum. It is typically made of stone, wood, or lead, but can also be made of other ...

  8. Radius of curvature - Wikipedia

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    Radius of curvature and center of curvature. In differential geometry, the radius of curvature, R, is the reciprocal of the curvature. For a curve, it equals the radius of the circular arc which best approximates the curve at that point. For surfaces, the radius of curvature is the radius of a circle that best fits a normal section or ...

  9. Plummer model - Wikipedia

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    The Plummer 3-dimensional density profile is given by = (+) /, where is the total mass of the cluster, and a is the Plummer radius, a scale parameter that sets the size of the cluster core. The corresponding potential is Φ P ( r ) = − G M 0 r 2 + a 2 , {\displaystyle \Phi _{P}(r)=-{\frac {GM_{0}}{\sqrt {r^{2}+a^{2}}}},} where G is Newton 's ...