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    Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object. Velocity is a fundamental concept in kinematics, the branch of classical...
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  • Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile (bullet, pellet, slug, ball/shots or shell) with respect to the muzzle at the moment it leaves the end of...
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    In celestial mechanics, escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from contact with or orbit of a primary body...
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    In physics, angular velocity (symbol ω or ω → {\displaystyle {\vec {\omega }}} , the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as angular frequency vector...
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    The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall envelope shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the modulation or envelope of the...
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    Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It is reached when the sum...
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  • In turbomachinery, a velocity triangle or a velocity diagram is a triangle representing the various components of velocities of the working fluid in a...
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  • Look up velocity or instantaneous velocity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Velocity is a quantity in physics that is related to speed. Velocity may also...
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  • Wave velocity may refer to: Phase velocity, the velocity at which a wave phase propagates Pulse wave velocity, the velocity at which a pulse travels through...
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  • continuum mechanics the flow velocity in fluid dynamics, also macroscopic velocity in statistical mechanics, or drift velocity in electromagnetism, is a...
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    The phase velocity of a wave is the rate at which the wave propagates in any medium. This is the velocity at which the phase of any one frequency component...
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  • Recessional velocity is the rate at which an extragalactic astronomical object recedes (becomes more distant) from an observer as a result of the expansion...
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  • relativity, a four-velocity is a four-vector in four-dimensional spacetime that represents the relativistic counterpart of velocity, which is a three-dimensional...
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    The radial velocity or line-of-sight velocity of a target with respect to an observer is the rate of change of the vector displacement between the two...
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  • Apache Velocity first released in April 2001, is a Java-based template engine that provides a template language to reference objects defined in Java code...
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  • Thermal velocity or thermal speed is a typical velocity of the thermal motion of particles that make up a gas, liquid, etc. Thus, indirectly, thermal...
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  • A velocity potential is a scalar potential used in potential flow theory. It was introduced by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1788. It is used in continuum mechanics...
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  • Particle velocity (denoted v or SVL) is the velocity of a particle (real or imagined) in a medium as it transmits a wave. The SI unit of particle velocity is...
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  • Look up escape velocity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Escape speed, often called "escape velocity", is the minimum speed an object without propulsion...
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    The velocity of money measures the number of times that one unit of currency is used to purchase goods and services within a given time period. In other...
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  • velocity (or superficial flow velocity), in engineering of multiphase flows and flows in porous media, is a hypothetical (artificial) flow velocity calculated...
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  • Shear velocity, also called friction velocity, is a form by which a shear stress may be re-written in units of velocity. It is useful as a method in fluid...
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    In physics, drift velocity is the average velocity attained by charged particles, such as electrons, in a material due to an electric field. In general...
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  • The velocity factor (VF), also called wave propagation speed or velocity of propagation (VoP or v P {\displaystyle v_{\mathrm {P} }} ), of a transmission...
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  • WWE Velocity is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ran from May 25, 2002...
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  • Explosive velocity, also known as detonation velocity or velocity of detonation (VoD), is the velocity at which the shock wave front travels through a...
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  • motion or peculiar velocity refers to the velocity of an object relative to a rest frame — usually a frame in which the average velocity of some objects...
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    In relativity, proper velocity (also known as celerity) w of an object relative to an observer is the ratio between observer-measured displacement vector...
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    The Velocity XL (XL: Extra Large) is an American amateur-built aircraft, produced by Velocity, Inc. It is an enlarged version of their Velocity SE canard...
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    The Velocity Model 173 SE (Standard Elite) is an entry-level canard pusher aircraft from Velocity Aircraft. The four seat, rear engine aircraft may be...
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