Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's body or a road...
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Orientation (geometry) (redirect from Relative orientation)
the orientation, attitude, bearing, direction, or angular position of an object – such as a line, plane or rigid body – is part of the description of how...
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and W respectively. Relative to north, the directions east, south, and west are at 90 degree intervals in the clockwise direction. The ordinal directions...
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Clock position (redirect from Clock direction)
position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation of the vehicle...
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Bearing (navigation) (redirect from Relative bearing)
degrees. Thus, it is the same as azimuth. Relative bearing refers to the angle between the craft's forward direction (heading) and the location of another...
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Kinematics (redirect from Relative movement)
continuous set of displacements, called the motion of M relative to F. The motion of a body consists of a continuous set of rotations and translations...
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Drag coefficient (redirect from Bluff body)
and a body, when there is relative motion, can only be transmitted by normal pressure and tangential friction stresses. So, for the whole body, the drag...
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Escape velocity (section From the surface of a body)
explained below. The escape velocity relative to the surface of a rotating body depends on direction in which the escaping body travels. For example, as the Earth's...
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aeronautics, the relative wind is the direction of movement of the atmosphere relative to an aircraft or an airfoil. It is opposite to the direction of movement...
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Upright may refer to: Body relative direction, the geometrical orientation of a person etc. Upright (TV series), Australian drama Upright Technologies...
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scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relative direction. The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" (sinister)...
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energy as any other body at the same temperature. It is a diffuse emitter: measured per unit area perpendicular to the direction, the energy is radiated...
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any direction. Spondylolisthesis is graded based upon the degree of slippage of one vertebral body relative to the subsequent adjacent vertebral body. Spondylolisthesis...
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change of its angular position relative to the origin. [citation needed] Spin angular velocity refers to how fast a rigid body rotates with respect to its...
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the property that the body is rigid, namely that all its particles maintain the same distance relative to each other. If the body is rigid, it is sufficient...
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Velocity (section Relative velocity)
mechanics that describes the motion of bodies. Velocity is a physical vector quantity: both magnitude and direction are needed to define it. The scalar absolute...
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a direction perpendicular to two quantities: the angular velocity of the rotating frame relative to the inertial frame and the velocity of the body relative...
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body has its own distinct center of rotation, then the relative center of rotation between the bodies has to lie somewhere on the line connecting the two...
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force exerted on a body by the air (or other gas) in which the body is immersed, and is due to the relative motion between the body and the gas. There...
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relates more to IBW than total body weight. The term was based on the use of insurance data that demonstrated the relative mortality for males and females...
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acceleration of a body relative to a free-fall condition, is measured by an instrument called an accelerometer. In classical mechanics, for a body with constant...
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Displacement (geometry) (section Rigid body)
may also be described as a relative position (resulting from the motion), that is, as the final position xf of a point relative to its initial position xi...
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nonliving objects, to have an orientation, described by the concept of body relative direction. Aristotle reasoned that concepts of "front" and "back" were only...
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down the house. He also reportedly hid a telegram informing Maria that a relative in Hungary had died, hoping to prevent her from leaving the United States...
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frequency, the intensity of radiation which is emitted and reflected from a body relative to other frequencies (that is, the net amount of radiation leaving its...
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Motion (section Internal body)
of reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing...
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when a body is constrained to move only along a straight line. Its position can then be given by a single number, indicating where it is relative to some...
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Horseshoe orbit (category Three-body orbits)
body relative to a larger orbiting body. The osculating (instantaneous) orbital period of the smaller body remains very near that of the larger body,...
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Poverty threshold (redirect from Relative poverty)
Relative poverty means low income relative to others in a country: for example, below 60% of the median income of people in that country. Relative poverty...
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and in such a direction, as to avoid colliding, and/or which are isolated enough from their surroundings. The dynamical system of a two-body system under...
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