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Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions...22 KB (2,274 words) - 20:23, 25 April 2024
Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines are field lines in a fluid flow. They differ only when the flow changes with time, that is, when the flow is not...14 KB (1,739 words) - 21:44, 4 May 2024
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It functions as nozzles apply a moving fluid to the edges of...24 KB (3,159 words) - 10:59, 27 May 2024
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), internal designation HT-7U (Hefei Tokamak 7 Upgrade), is an experimental superconducting tokamak...11 KB (902 words) - 05:33, 17 May 2024
Decay heat is the heat released as a result of radioactive decay. This heat is produced as an effect of radiation on materials: the energy of the alpha...13 KB (1,574 words) - 07:55, 3 June 2024- The virial expansion is a model of thermodynamic equations of state. It expresses the pressure P of a gas in local equilibrium as a power series of the...12 KB (2,101 words) - 19:13, 7 May 2024
- In Hamiltonian mechanics, the linear canonical transformation (LCT) is a family of integral transforms that generalizes many classical transforms. It has...21 KB (3,124 words) - 14:00, 28 May 2024
- Active cooling is a heat-reducing mechanism that is typically implemented in electronic devices and indoor buildings to ensure proper heat transfer and...15 KB (2,076 words) - 11:49, 2 June 2024
The Denys Wilkinson Building is a prominent 1960s building in Oxford, England, designed by Philip Dowson at Arup in 1967. The building houses the astrophysics...9 KB (1,047 words) - 04:38, 27 January 2024
Marcello Stefano Pirani (July 1, 1880 – January 11, 1968) was an Italian physicist known for his invention of the Pirani vacuum gauge, a vacuum gauge based...5 KB (676 words) - 15:21, 15 January 2024- Christopher Dainty is a professor who researches optical imaging, scattering and propagation. In these areas he has published books: Scattering in Volumes...5 KB (493 words) - 09:44, 4 February 2024