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  • Thumbnail for Angle of repose
    The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane on which...
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  • advantage of wind direction of a different altitude, particularly with balloons. Normal descents take place at a constant airspeed and constant angle of descent...
    9 KB (1,012 words) - 13:44, 29 January 2024
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    of runway. In a forward slip much more drag is created, allowing the pilot to dissipate altitude without increasing airspeed, increasing the angle of...
    11 KB (1,531 words) - 23:08, 22 January 2024
  • angle of repose, in engineering; the steepest angle of descent of a slope when the material is on the verge of sliding This disambiguation page lists articles...
    428 bytes (98 words) - 16:04, 23 October 2022
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    of German, English, Irish, Italian, and Lithuanian descent. Angle has four older brothers (one of whom, Eric, is also a wrestler) and a sister, Le'Anne...
    211 KB (21,824 words) - 06:32, 5 August 2024
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    United Airlines Flight 232 (category Aviation accidents and incidents caused by loss of control)
    and the NTSB report. Angle of descent and rate of descent are two different things. The aircraft approached at a high rate of descent but, because its forward...
    79 KB (8,842 words) - 04:17, 3 August 2024
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    onset of trench warfare after the first few months of World War I greatly increased the demand for howitzers that gave a steep angle of descent, which...
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    Strike and dip (redirect from Angle of dip)
    The angle the slope descends, or dip, and the direction of descent, which can be represented by strike or dip direction. Dip is the inclination of a given...
    14 KB (1,553 words) - 01:23, 7 November 2023
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    Teahupoʻo (category Beaches of Tahiti)
    a 'below water' effect; the extreme angles in descent create an instant instability to the wave. A steep wall of reef causes the entire mass to fold onto...
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  • Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order iterative algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable...
    37 KB (5,292 words) - 04:22, 23 June 2024
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    equivalent guns. All this means they can deliver fire with a steep angle of descent. Because of their multi-charge capability, their ammunition is mostly separate...
    124 KB (16,123 words) - 14:27, 5 August 2024
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    a relatively shallow angle. Older oceanic lithosphere is subducted in the western Pacific, with steeper angles of slab descent. This variation affects...
    94 KB (9,604 words) - 21:27, 30 July 2024
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    Airport (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024)
    the latter part of the 1920s; in the 1930s approach lighting came into use. These indicated the proper direction and angle of descent. The colours and...
    84 KB (9,613 words) - 09:47, 30 July 2024
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    2008 Mexico City Learjet crash (category History of Mexico City)
    were able to reduce the angle of descent, but due to excessive speed and insufficient altitude, were unable to regain control of the aircraft. The plane...
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    The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy...
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  • height, featuring a track length of 6,442 feet (1,964 m) and a maximum height of 173 feet (53 m). Also, its 24.3 seconds of air-time is the most produced...
    24 KB (2,763 words) - 16:22, 6 February 2024
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    lower surface of each wing, for gliders. Most early gliders were equipped with spoilers on the wings in order to adjust their angle of descent during approach...
    8 KB (854 words) - 01:09, 3 July 2024
  • flight, and land shorter than expected. The majority of the time, this increased angle of descent will lead to an increased bounce, making it a particularly...
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    addition it proved difficult to properly guide the bomb to impact as the angle of descent changed, and if the bomb was not aimed accurately so as to end up roughly...
    21 KB (2,786 words) - 14:19, 4 August 2024
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    βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos) 'shortest time'), or curve of fastest descent, is the one lying on the plane between a point A and a lower point...
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