• Operation Momentum was a guerrilla training program during the Laotian Civil War run by the Central Intelligence Agency to raise a guerrilla force of Hmong...
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    Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum. It is an important physical...
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  • up momentum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Momentum, or linear momentum, is a vector quantity in physics. Momentum may also refer to: Momentum (finance)...
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    Momentum Movement (Hungarian: Momentum Mozgalom, Momentum) is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national prominence...
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  • pre-packed airdropped materiel. Using a three-day training schedule in Operation Momentum, Shackley, Lair and others, worked with Vang Pao to raise a guerrilla...
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  • Battle of Vientiane, in MR 5 17 January 1961 – 30 September 1974: Operation Momentum, in Military Region 2 (MR 2) 31 January – 6 June 1961: Battle of Ban...
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    stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity that describes the density and flux of energy and momentum in spacetime...
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  • Government's hold on the Bolovens Plateau. Although copied from the CIA's Operation Momentum, the Green Berets' training program ran with limited success, due...
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  • The result is required by the conservation of momentum such that the ejecta momentum and recoiling momentum are equal. These momenta are calculated by:...
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    discharged. In technical terms, the recoil is a result of conservation of momentum, as according to Newton's third law the force required to accelerate something...
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  • Battle of Ban Pa Dong (category Battles and operations of the Laotian Civil War)
    Hmong recruits being trained as Auto Defense Choc guerrillas via Operation Momentum. Although the Hmong made the tactical error of defending a fixed position...
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  • Momentum is a British left-wing political organisation which has been described as a grassroots movement supportive of the Labour Party; since January...
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    with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In other words, the more accurately one property...
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    Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September...
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  • revolutionists' withdrawal along Route 13 distracted attention from the nascent Operation Momentum starting up at nearby Ban Padong. In early 1961, French intelligence...
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    Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas (Persian: عملیات بیت‌المقدس; Operation Jerusalem), also known as the Operation Toward Beit-ol-Moqaddas (عملیات الی بیت‌المقدس)...
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  • Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum Group, two insurance and financial services companies in South Africa, merged their operations. Metropolitan was founded...
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    Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World...
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    causes a counter-rotation proportionately through conservation of angular momentum. A reaction wheel can rotate only around its center of mass; it is not...
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    Royal Lao Government's side. Phoumi also tried to co-opt the Operation Momentum guerrillas, despite his dislike and distrust of the Hmong hill tribe. Phoumi...
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    out in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began...
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  • enemy during wartime, CIA case officer James William Lair founded Operation Momentum. This was a three-day course in basic military training, using small...
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  • differential equations for momentum, heat, and mass transfer. The molecular transfer equations of Newton's law for fluid momentum at low Reynolds number (Stokes...
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  • the German momentum during the Battle of the Bulge had begun to dissipate. The plan for Operation Zahnarzt was to immediately follow Operation Nordwind...
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  • additional 1,000 Hmong guerrillas would be trained by the CIA via Operation Momentum by 1 April. On 24 April, a RT-33 photo reconnaissance craft repurposed...
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  • Photon (redirect from Momentum of photon)
    (the speed of light) and its energy and momentum are related by E = pc, where p is the magnitude of the momentum vector p. This derives from the following...
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    Operation Freedom's Sentinel (OFS) was the official name used by the U.S. government for the mission succeeding Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in continuation...
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    "Interview: Operation 1027 and the growing armed alliance against Myanmar's junta". 6 December 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2024. "One Year on: The Momentum of...
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    influence him to undertake reforms. 17 January - 30 September 1974 Operation Momentum was a secretive Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to raise...
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  • obtained from the averaging operation over the Navier–Stokes equations to account for turbulent fluctuations in fluid momentum. The velocity field of a flow...
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