• continuum mechanics. Compression of solids has many implications in materials science, physics and structural engineering, for compression yields noticeable...
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  • Look up compression or compressor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Compression may refer to: Compression (physics), size reduction due to forces Compression...
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  • capacitors. Explosively pumped flux compression generators are used to create ultrahigh magnetic fields in physics and materials science research and extremely...
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    where F is force, w is the punch width, b is the specimen width. Compression (physics) Compressive strength Shear stress KOWALS, B (2000), "Development...
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  • containing Squeeze The Squeeze (disambiguation) Squeezed (disambiguation) Compression (physics), applying balanced inward forces Squeeze bottle, to hold viscous...
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    stretch or pull apart the object. In terms of force, it is the opposite of compression. Tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces...
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    Mechanical longitudinal waves are also called compressional or compression waves, because they produce compression and rarefaction when travelling through a...
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    example, the compression of a gas within a cylinder of an engine is assumed to occur so rapidly that on the time scale of the compression process, little...
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  • established as a way to develop Nuclear weapons, because ICF mimics the compression physics of a fission-fusion bomb. These facilities have been built around...
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  • middleware software suite developed by the Irish company Havok. Havok provides physics engine, navigation, and cloth simulation components that can be integrated...
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  • A video coding format (or sometimes video compression format) is a content representation format of digital video content, such as in a data file or bitstream...
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    Force (redirect from Force (physics))
    In physics, a force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity unless counterbalanced by other forces. In mechanics, force makes...
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    propagation of deformation is shown in the graphic "Compression wave patterns" as a compressional plane wave through an elastically deformable material...
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  • The Topical Group on Compression of Condensed Matter (GCCM) is a Unit of the American Physical Society (APS). The objective of the GCCM is the advancement...
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    limits, a concept used in physics. The force an ideal spring would exert is exactly proportional to its extension or compression. Mainspring A spiral ribbon-shaped...
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  • subset standardised as SMPTE VC-2) is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and software video codec developed by BBC Research...
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    of a substance is a measure of the resistance of a substance to bulk compression. It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to...
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    sound wave consists of alternating cycles of compression and expansion of the wave medium. During compression, the molecules of the medium are forced together...
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    Energy (redirect from Energy (physics))
    system, where pressure is P and volume V (the negative sign results since compression of the system requires work to be done on it and so the volume change...
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  • load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element. Compression (physics) The application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different...
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  • some generalization thereof. Waves in a rope (up and down) or slinky (compression and expansion) Surface waves in a liquid Electromagnetic signals (fields)...
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    Space (redirect from Space (physics))
    three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists...
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    brain damage. The asphyxia can be caused by facial compression, neck compression, or chest compression. This occurs mostly during restraint and handcuffing...
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    Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in...
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    Generation of high energy 10 fs pulses by a new pulse compression technique. Applied Physics Letters, 68(20), 2793-2795. Nisoli, M., De Silvestri, S...
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  • loss in information systems lossy compression Digital obsolescence Black hole information paradox in theoretical physics This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Biology, Physics. 10 (10): 1861–1867. doi:10.1016/0360-3016(84)90263-3. PMID 6386761. Lim CS, Davies AH (July 2014). "Graduated compression stockings"...
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  • In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when...
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    restitution Compression (physical) Cushioning Fall factor Impact driver Impact sensor Impact wrench Impulse (physics) Izod impact strength test Jerk (physics) Road...
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  • Information theory (category Data compression)
    causal side information, compression with causal side information, real-time control communication settings, and in statistical physics. Other important information...
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