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  2. Flow separation - Wikipedia

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    Separation occurs in flow that is slowing down, with pressure increasing, after passing the thickest part of a streamline body or passing through a widening passage, for example. Flowing against an increasing pressure is known as flowing in an adverse pressure gradient .

  3. Sliding (motion) - Wikipedia

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    Sliding is a type of motion between two surfaces in contact. This can be contrasted to rolling motion. Both types of motion may occur in bearings. The relative motion or tendency toward such motion between two surfaces is resisted by friction. This means that the force of friction always acts on an object in the direction opposite to its ...

  4. Damping - Wikipedia

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    An object falling through water or oil would slow down at a greater rate, until eventually reaching a steady-state velocity as the drag force comes into equilibrium with the force from gravity. This is the concept of viscous drag , which for example is applied in automatic doors or anti-slam doors.

  5. Coulomb damping - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb damping is a type of constant mechanical damping in which the system's kinetic energy is absorbed via sliding friction (the friction generated by the relative motion of two surfaces that press against each other). Coulomb damping is a common damping mechanism that occurs in machinery.

  6. Reaction (physics) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The third law is also more generally stated as: "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts." [3] The attribution of which of the two forces is the action and which is the reaction is arbitrary. Either of the two can be ...

  7. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    Bernoulli's principle states that an increase in the speed of a parcel of fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in either the pressure or the height above a datum. [1]: Ch.3 [ 2 ] : 156–164, § 3.5 The principle is named after the Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli , who published it in his book Hydrodynamica in 1738. [ 3 ]

  8. Jerk (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Consider a third-order motion-control profile with quadratic ramping and deramping phases in velocity (see figure). This picture shows a schematic diagram of jerk, acceleration, and speed, assuming all three are limited in their magnitude, when linearly going from one point to another, which are sufficiently far apart to reach the respective ...

  9. Depletion force - Wikipedia

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    If the distance between two plates, , is smaller than the diameter of solute molecules, , then no solute can enter between the plates. This results in pure solvent existing between the plates. The difference in concentration of macromolecules in the solution between the plates and the bulk solution causes a force equal to the osmotic pressure ...