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  • Thumbnail for Longitudinal wave
    Longitudinal waves are waves in which the vibration of the medium is parallel to the direction the wave travels and displacement of the medium is in the...
    16 KB (1,872 words) - 07:00, 4 July 2024
  • the self-excitation cycle. The name is a metaphor comparing the longitudinal vibration to the bouncing of a pogo stick. Pogo oscillation places stress...
    8 KB (882 words) - 14:15, 3 April 2024
  • wave, a wave with oscillations or vibrations along or parallel to their direction of travel Longitudinal/longitudinally are also anatomical terms of location...
    1 KB (189 words) - 09:26, 12 January 2020
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    phonons are exactly those acoustical vibrations which are considered in the theory of sound. Both longitudinal and transverse waves can be propagated...
    20 KB (3,261 words) - 07:42, 4 May 2024
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    underwater acoustics, and vibration. Sound can propagate through a medium such as air, water and solids as longitudinal waves and also as a transverse...
    37 KB (4,343 words) - 10:06, 6 July 2024
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    of light if and only if light was entirely transverse, with no longitudinal vibration whatsoever.[citation needed] The weakness of the wave theory was...
    51 KB (6,331 words) - 03:11, 18 May 2024
  • Phonon (redirect from Lattice vibration)
    moving along the line, so the phonons corresponded to longitudinal waves. In three dimensions, vibration is not restricted to the direction of propagation...
    46 KB (6,752 words) - 17:19, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
    (64 km/h). This is a so-called torsional vibration mode (which is different from the transversal or longitudinal vibration mode), whereby when the left side...
    52 KB (6,529 words) - 12:57, 10 June 2024
  • Torsional vibration is the angular vibration of an object - commonly a shaft - along its axis of rotation. Torsional vibration is often a concern in power...
    17 KB (2,444 words) - 21:24, 26 June 2024
  • the initially excited vibrational mode moves to a vibrational state of a lower energy. The relaxation is called the longitudinal relaxation, and the time...
    2 KB (232 words) - 11:13, 17 July 2023
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    Triatomic molecule (category Molecular vibration)
    Antisymmetric longitudinal vibrations with frequency ω a = k 1 M m A m B {\displaystyle \omega _{a}={\sqrt {\frac {k_{1}M}{m_{A}m_{B}}}}} Symmetric longitudinal vibrations...
    3 KB (378 words) - 01:05, 3 February 2024
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    (vibrations in a material or light flows) can be described as the superposition of many simple sinusoidal waves, either transverse or longitudinal. The...
    18 KB (1,756 words) - 01:36, 24 May 2024
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    inertia. There are three types of mechanical waves: transverse waves, longitudinal waves, and surface waves. Some of the most common examples of mechanical...
    5 KB (567 words) - 04:22, 26 February 2024
  • Ground vibrations is a technical term that is being used to describe mostly man-made vibrations of the ground, in contrast to natural vibrations of the...
    5 KB (544 words) - 05:49, 13 November 2023
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    on 9 April 1941, it did not go on active duty because of acute longitudinal vibrations from its propeller shafts. A problem shared with its sister Washington...
    88 KB (11,894 words) - 23:17, 28 May 2024
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    thus also to the vibration frequency, provided that the metal rods are excited to longitudinal vibrations by blows along the longitudinal axis (sound examples...
    53 KB (6,691 words) - 18:27, 20 June 2024
  • longitudinal vibrations in solid, liquid or gaseous columns. The energy is transmitted by periodic changes of pressure and volume in the longitudinal...
    17 KB (1,710 words) - 23:56, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piezoelectric motor
    "vibratory apparatus wherein longitudinal vibrations in a resonant coupling element are converted to torsional vibrations in a toroid type resonant terminal...
    10 KB (1,246 words) - 12:56, 10 June 2024
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    surge chamber and fuel accumulator kit to reduce the amplitude of longitudinal vibration, a problem in earlier flights, to less than 0.25g, the maximum level...
    93 KB (12,479 words) - 11:33, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lyddane–Sachs–Teller relation
    relation) determines the ratio of the natural frequency of longitudinal optic lattice vibrations (phonons) ( ω LO {\displaystyle \omega _{\text{LO}}} ) of...
    12 KB (1,446 words) - 23:59, 6 June 2024
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