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11Anglo-Saxon warfare — The period of Anglo Saxon warfare spans the 5th Century C.E. to the 11th in England. Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European cultural areas of the Early Middle Ages.There are extant contemporary descriptions of some Anglo… …
12Drill string — A drill string on a drilling rig is a column, or string, of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit. The term is loosely applied as the assembled collection of… …
13Michael Minovitch — is an American mathematician who showed that spacecraft trajectories could be designed such that they could gain velocity by travelling close to a planet orbiting the sun. This gravity assist technique was developed in the early 1960s when he was …
14List of baseball jargon (R) — rabbit ears:Indicates a participant in the game who hears things perhaps too well for his own good. A player who becomes nervous or chokes when opposing players or fans yell at or razz him is said to have rabbit ears . Also, an umpire who picks… …
15Signal-flow graph — A signal flow graph (SFG) is a special type of block diagram[1] and directed graph consisting of nodes and branches. Its nodes are the variables of a set of linear algebraic relations. An SFG can only represent multiplications and additions.… …
16New Horizons — For other uses, see New Horizons (disambiguation). New Horizons Operator NASA Major contractors Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) …
17Minor loop feedback — is a classical method used to design stable robust linear Feedback control systems using feedback loops around sub systems within the over all feedback loop.[1] The method is sometimes called minor loop synthesis in college text books,[2][3] some …
18PID controller — A block diagram of a PID controller A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller) is a generic control loop feedback mechanism (controller) widely used in industrial control systems – a PID is the most commonly used feedback… …
19Kalman filter — Roles of the variables in the Kalman filter. (Larger image here) In statistics, the Kalman filter is a mathematical method named after Rudolf E. Kálmán. Its purpose is to use measurements observed over time, containing noise (random variations)… …
20Tsiolkovsky rocket equation — Tsiolkovsky s rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who independently derived it and published in his 1903 work [К. Э. Циолковский, Исследование мировых пространств реактивными приборами, 1903. It is… …
