deflection-influence line
31geomagnetic field — Magnetic field associated with the Earth. It is essentially dipolar (i.e., it has two poles, the northern and southern magnetic poles) on the Earth s surface. Away from the surface, the field becomes distorted. Most geomagnetists explain the… …
32Astronomy — • Divided into two main branches, astrometry and astrophysics; the former concerned with determining the places of the investigation of the heavenly bodies, the latter, with the investigation of their chemical and physical nature Catholic… …
33J. J. Thomson — Infobox Scientist box width = 300px name = J. J. Thomson image size = 200px caption = Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856 1940). Portrait by Arthur Hacker. birth date = 18 December 1856 birth place = Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK death date = Death… …
34Association football tactics and skills — There are various individual skills and team tactics needed to play effective Association football. Football is in theory a very simple game, as illustrated by Kevin Keegan s famous assertion that his tactics for winning a match were to score… …
35Chevrolet Vega — 1972 Chevrolet Vega GT Hatchback Coupe Manufacturer Chevrolet Division of General Motors Also called Vega 2300 …
36Energetic space — In mathematics, more precisely in functional analysis, an energetic space is, intuitively, a subspace of a given real Hilbert space equipped with a new energetic inner product. The motivation for the name comes from physics, as in many physical… …
37mechanoreception — See mechanoreceptor. * * * Ability to detect and respond to mechanical stimuli in one s environment. A slight deformation of a mechanoreceptive neuron causes an electric charge at its surface, activating a response. Mechanoreceptors in pain spots …
38Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
39Detachment fold — A detachment fold occurs as layer parallel thrusting along a detachment fault develops without upward propagation of a fault; the accommodation of the strain produced by thrusting results in the folding of the overlying rock units. As a visual… …
40Naval mine — Polish wz. 08/39 contact mine. The protuberances around the top of the mine, called Hertz horns, are part of the detonation mechanism …
