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The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a ... more
The variance measures how far a set of numbers of n equally likely values is spread out. A small variance indicates that the data tend to be very close to ... more
The Sagnac effect (also called Sagnac interference), named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is ... more
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In engineering, the damping ratio is a dimensionless measure describing how ... more
Many government agencies and industries (such as aerospace) require the use of a margin of safety (MoS or M.S.) to describe the ratio of the strength of ... more
In order to model the progress of an epidemic in a large population, the population diversity must be reduced to a few key characteristics which are ... more
In probability and statistics, mean and expected value are used synonymously to refer to one measure of the central tendency either of a probability ... more
In computer architecture, Gustafson’s law (or GustafsonāBarsis’s law) gives the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at ... more
Wheel flop refers to steering behavior in which a bicycle or motorcycle tends to turn more than expected due to the front wheel “flopping” over ... more
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