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    videogame physics engines). Additionally, in rocketry, the term "total impulse" is commonly used and is considered synonymous with the term "impulse". The...
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    historical discussions, classical physics refers to pre-1900 physics, while modern physics refers to post-1900 physics, which incorporates elements of quantum...
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    switching surges. Also, steep-front impulse voltages are sometimes used in nuclear physics experiments. High impulse currents are needed not only for tests...
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  • Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction mass engine, such as a rocket using propellant or a jet engine using...
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  • Look up impulse or impulsive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impulse or Impulsive may refer to: Impulse (physics), in mechanics, the change of momentum...
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    Impact wrench Impulse (physics) Izod impact strength test Jerk (physics) Road traffic accident Shock Shock data logger Tension (physics) Write-off Willert...
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  • soft-body physics. Constraint based methods, where constraint equations are solved that estimate physical laws. Impulse based methods, where impulses are applied...
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  • two digital modes in radio communication: FT8 and is derivative FT4. Impulse (physics), the product of force and time (Ft) Fair trade, a social movement...
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  • processes Momentum-transfer cross section – Concept in scattering theory Impulse (physics) – Integral of a comparatively larger force over a short time interval...
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    mechanics, atomic physics, and molecular physics; optics and acoustics; condensed matter physics; high-energy particle physics and nuclear physics; and chaos...
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  • International System of Units ISO 31 Elert, Glenn. "Special Symbols". The Physics Hypertextbook. Retrieved 4 August 2021. NIST (16 August 2023). "SI Units"...
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  • solution has a net change F ( s ) d s {\displaystyle F(s)\,ds} (see: Impulse (physics)). A solution to the inhomogeneous equation, at the present time t...
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    Damped wave Cushioning Shock (mechanics) Impact (mechanics) Jerk (physics) Impulse (physics) Collision Brake Terminal velocity "Construction eTool - Falls...
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  • High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS or HiPIMS, also known as high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering, HPPMS) is a method for physical vapor...
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    and has since been applied routinely in physics and engineering to model point masses and instantaneous impulses. It is called the delta function because...
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  • In physics and engineering, kinetics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the relationship between the motion and its causes, specifically...
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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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    "Hidden momentum, field momentum, and electromagnetic impulse". American Journal of Physics. 77 (9): 826–833. Bibcode:2009AmJPh..77..826B. doi:10.1119/1...
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  • Power (physics). Wikiquote has quotations related to Power (physics). David Halliday; Robert Resnick (1974). "6. Power". Fundamentals of Physics. Chapter...
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  • Linear response function (category Equations of physics)
    information theory, physics and engineering there exist alternative names for specific linear response functions such as susceptibility, impulse response or impedance;...
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  • Inertia (redirect from Rest (physics))
    velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics, and described by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion (also known as...
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    that he called "power" "to signify the exertion of strength, gravitation, impulse, or pressure, as to produce motion." Smeaton continues that this quantity...
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    absorbed by the deformation of the objects involved in the collision. Electrostatic deflection Coriolis effect Deflection yoke Impulse Reflection v t e...
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    (acoustics) Coherence (physics) Convolution Green's function Impulse response Interference Quantum superposition The Penguin Dictionary of Physics, ed. Valerie...
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    particular interaction is called angular impulse, sometimes twirl. Angular impulse is the angular analog of (linear) impulse. The trivial case of the angular...
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  • propulsion (where the helicon double-layer thruster and the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket both make use of helicons in their plasma heating...
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    Gravity (redirect from Fg (physics))
    In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction...
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  • produce a filter. In this article, an example of such a filter using finite impulse response is discussed and an application of the filter into real world...
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    mathematics and physics, these might be referred to as Green's functions or impulse response functions. PSFs are considered impulse response functions...
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    philosophy of physics. The qualifier classical distinguishes this type of mechanics from physics developed after the revolutions in physics of the early...
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