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  2. Richard T. James - Wikipedia

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    The Slinky spring toy, invented by Richard James. Richard Thompson James [2] (March 27, 1918 – July 13, 1974) [3] was an American naval engineer, best known for inventing the Slinky spring toy with his wife Betty James in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania in 1943.

  3. Slinky - Wikipedia

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    The company liked her ideas, and Slinky Dog and Slinky Train were added to the company's product line. Slinky Dog, a small plastic dog whose front and rear ends were joined by a metal Slinky, debuted in 1952. Malsed received royalties of $60,000 to $70,000 annually for 17 years on her patent for the Slinky pull-toy idea, but never visited the ...

  4. 3-2-1 Contact - Wikipedia

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    3-2-1 Contact was the brainchild of Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr., who had been the executive producer of the original The Electric Company for the CTW from 1971 to 1977. (Gibbon had left the CTW before Contact's production officially began, though he was still credited as "Senior Consultant".)

  5. Accordion effect - Wikipedia

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    A moving line of cars, a situation susceptible to the accordion effect.. In physics, the accordion effect (also known as the slinky effect, concertina effect, elastic band effect, and string instability) occurs when fluctuations in the motion of a traveling body cause disruptions in the flow of elements following it.

  6. Surface energy transfer - Wikipedia

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    The SET rate follows the inverse of the fourth power of the distance [2] = where ⁠ ⁠ is the donor emission lifetime; ⁠ ⁠ is the distance between donor-acceptor; ⁠ ⁠ is the distance at which SET efficiency decreases to 50% (i.e., equal probability of energy transfer and spontaneous emission).

  7. Ecological efficiency - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of energy transfer between trophic levels. Primary production occurs in autotrophic organisms of an ecosystem. Photoautotrophs such as vascular plants and algae convert energy from the sun into energy stored as carbon compounds. Photosynthesis is carried out in the chlorophyll of green plants. The energy converted through ...

  8. Energy cascade - Wikipedia

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    The transfer of energy from the low wavenumbers to the high wavenumbers is the energy cascade. This transfer brings turbulence kinetic energy from the large scales to the small scales, at which viscous friction dissipates it. In the intermediate range of scales, the so-called inertial subrange, Kolmogorov's hypotheses lead to the following ...

  9. Dexter electron transfer - Wikipedia

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    The Dexter energy transfer rate, , is indicated by the formula: = ′ [] where is the separation of the donor from the acceptor, is the sum of the Van der Waals radii of the donor and the acceptor, and ′ is the normalized spectral overlap integral, where normalized means that both emission intensity and extinction coefficient have been adjusted to unit area.