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    Clock angle problems are a type of mathematical problem which involve finding the angle between the hands of an analog clock. Clock angle problems relate...
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    Central angle Clock angle problem Decimal degrees Dihedral angle Exterior angle theorem Golden angle Great circle distance Horn angle Inscribed angle Irrational...
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    observes the angle made by the intersection of the line of sight to the longitudinal axis, the dimension of length, of the vessel, using the clock analogy...
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    90384°W / 31.44841; -104.90384 The Clock of the Long Now, also called the 10,000-year clock, is a mechanical clock under construction that is designed...
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    A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...
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    Lynch, and Charlotte Flair face Riott Squad in Beat The Clock Challenge matches, Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe, the penultimate edition before WrestleMania...
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    Sundial (redirect from Solar clock)
    using the angle of the sun. The people of Kush created sun dials through geometry. The Roman writer Vitruvius lists dials and shadow clocks known at that...
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    Azimuth (redirect from Angle of azimuth)
    Clock position Course (navigation) Inclination Longitude Latitude Magnetic declination Panning (camera) Relative bearing Sextant Solar azimuth angle Sound...
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    8r} . The simplest solution to the tautochrone problem is to note a direct relation between the angle of an incline and the gravity felt by a particle...
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    an unsolved problem due to the difficulty in calculating longitude. Navigators could determine their latitude by measuring the sun's angle at noon (i.e...
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    earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular...
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  • relative to the resting frame of the clock (right part of diagram), the light pulse is seen as tracing out a longer, angled path 2D. Keeping the speed of light...
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    bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object. The angle value can be specified in various angular...
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    Escapement (redirect from Hipp clock)
    watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands. The...
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    _{1}} the angle of rotation for axle 1 γ 2 {\displaystyle \gamma _{2}} the angle of rotation for axle 2 β {\displaystyle \beta } the bend angle of the joint...
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    States, JEITA in Japan and the IEC in Europe). Spread-spectrum clocking avoids this problem by reducing the peak radiated energy and, therefore, its electromagnetic...
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    the reference place. Harrison set out to solve the problem directly, by producing a reliable clock that could keep the time of the reference place accurately...
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    solar time, for the same place, would be the time indicated by a steady clock set so that over the year its differences from apparent solar time would...
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    practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The standard...
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  • input frequency. These properties are used for clock synchronization, demodulation, frequency synthesis, clock multipliers, and signal recovery from a noisy...
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    Pendulum (redirect from Sympathy of Clocks)
    grandfather clock whose pendulum has a swing of 6° and thus an amplitude of 3° (0.05 radians), the difference between the true period and the small angle approximation...
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    is the same at both locations, so the longitude problem reduces to finding a way to coordinate clocks at distant places. Early approaches used astronomical...
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    {\displaystyle F} . In the clock analogy, this situation corresponds to the two hands turning at the same speed, so that the angle between them is constant...
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    exerts a torque in the opposite direction, proportional to the amount (angle) it is twisted. There are various types: A torsion bar is a straight bar...
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    degrees it will be 14:00 exactly. The problem is that in September the Sun takes less time (as measured by an accurate clock) to make an apparent revolution...
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    clocks as running slower than her own. But during the turnaround (i.e. between the bold blue lines in the figure), a shift takes place in the angle of...
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    all mechanical watches, as well as small mechanical non-pendulum clocks, alarm clocks, and kitchen timers. An escapement is a mechanical linkage that delivers...
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  • Pip-squeak (section Problems)
    primary parts, an oscillator to produce a whistle at 1 kHz, and a mechanical clock with electrical contacts to periodically switch the oscillator and DF broadcast...
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    calculation. The longitude problem took centuries to solve and was dependent on the construction of a non-pendulum clock (as pendulum clocks cannot function accurately...
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  • enabled by the development of atomic clocks; it requires that the vehicle (user) and stations having synchronized clocks. It has been successfully demonstrated...
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