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A constant is a number that remains the same regardless of the other numbers used in the formula and the resultant equation.
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that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
Sandburg is in constant demand as an entertainer.
Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.
The constant is, which is one-quarter of 3.1416, another constant known as `` pi ''.
When tire size is measured in this manner a constant of 168 is used in the formula.
If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.
In other words, if an ideal gas is compressed and kept at constant temperature, the work done in compressing it is completely converted into heat and transferred to the surrounding heat sink.
The theory predicts a linear dependence of Af on Af, where J is the experimentally determined Curie-Weiss constant.
It is assumed that the flux values increase by a factor of 2.512 per magnitude, in accordance with the opinion that the total mass flux in each unit range in magnitude is constant.
Experiment where p is not constant.
To practice new procedures under guided supervision and with constant feedback is the fourth step.
We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).
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Factors involved in the displacement formula are the bore diameter of the engine's cylinders, the length of the piston stroke, the number of cylinders in the engine, and a constant.
In order to reduce the number of variable parameters, all experiments were made with a constant arc length of 0.5'' '' and a current of 100 Aj.
More generally, suppose that an experiment consists of a number of independent trials, that each trial results in either a `` success '' or a `` non-success '' ( `` failure '' ), and that the probability of success remains constant from trial to trial.
If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.
If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.
where is generally taken to be the duration of the time-history, or the number of points if is constant.
being the specific heat for constant volume, is the adiabatic index, and is the number of degrees of freedom ( 3 for monatomic gas, 5 for diatomic gas ).
where < big ></ big > is the number of degrees of freedom divided by two, R is the universal gas constant and n is the number of moles in the system ( a constant ).
As the derivative of a constant is zero, x < sup > 2 </ sup > will have an infinite number of antiderivatives ; such as ( x < sup > 3 </ sup >/ 3 ) + 0, ( x < sup > 3 </ sup >/ 3 ) + 7, ( x < sup > 3 </ sup >/ 3 ) − 42, ( x < sup > 3 </ sup >/ 3 ) + 293 etc.
If F is an antiderivative of f, and the function f is defined on some interval, then every other antiderivative G of f differs from F by a constant: there exists a number C such that G ( x ) = F ( x ) + C for all x.
We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.
where is the Boltzmann constant, T is temperature ( assumed to be a well-defined quantity ), is the degeneracy ( meaning, the number of levels having energy ; sometimes, the more general ' states ' are used instead of levels, to avoid using degeneracy in the equation ), N is the total number of particles and Z ( T ) is the partition function.
where is the difference in density of particles separated by a height difference of, is Boltzmann's constant ( namely, the ratio of the universal gas constant,, to Avogadro's number, ), and is the absolute temperature.
By measuring the mean squared displacement over a time interval along with the universal gas constant, the temperature, the viscosity, and the particle radius, Avogadro's number can be determined.
Experiments are consistent with the number of quarks in the universe being a constant and, to be more specific, the number of baryons being a constant ; in technical language, the total baryon number appears to be conserved.
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There remains a residue of total costs, or total `` revenue requirements '' which, since it is found to behave as if it were constant over substantial variations in traffic density, is strictly unallocable on a cost-finding basis.
At the opposite extreme, a transformation of a thermodynamic system can be considered isothermal if it is slow enough so that the system's temperature remains constant by heat exchange with the outside.
For an ideal gas, the temperature remains constant because the internal energy only depends on temperature in that case.
For incompressible flows, density remains constant.
* Conservation of Energy: Although energy can be converted from one form to another, the total energy in a given closed system remains constant.
If the pressure in a system remains constant ( isobaric ), a vapor at saturation temperature will begin to condense into its liquid phase as thermal energy ( heat ) is removed.
While their coordinate distance ( comoving distance ) remains constant, the physical distance between two such comoving points expands proportionally with the scale factor of the Universe.
In some dances the separation distance between the partners remains pretty constant.
( To be precise: for the definition of the dipole moment one should always consider the " dipole limit ", where e. g. the distance of the generating charges should converge to 0, while simultaneously the charge strength should diverge to infinity in such a way that the product remains a positive constant.
The magnitude of angular momentum remains constant throughout the dive, but since
* A " stable " filter produces an output that converges to a constant value with time, or remains bounded within a finite interval.
All the above assumes that the interest rate remains constant throughout the whole period.
For example, a thermocouple might be used to help ensure a furnace's temperature remains constant.
A primary law of population ecology is the Malthusian growth model which states, " a population will grow ( or decline ) exponentially as long as the environment experienced by all individuals in the population remains constant.
The total electric charge of an isolated system remains constant regardless of changes within the system itself.
In classical thermodynamics, the concept of entropy is defined phenomenologically by the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases or remains constant.
This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant.
With a tone-modulated FM wave, if the modulation frequency is held constant and the modulation index is increased, the ( non-negligible ) bandwidth of the FM signal increases but the spacing between spectra remains the same ; some spectral components decrease in strength as others increase.
During the melting process, the temperature remains constant at 0 ° C.
When a beam of light crosses the boundary between a vacuum and another medium, or between two different media, the wavelength of the light changes, but the frequency remains constant.
The Bernoulli principle states that the sum total of energy within a parcel of fluid remains constant as long as no energy is added or removed.
In the case of LORAN, one station remains constant in each application of the principle, the primary, being paired up separately with two other secondary stations.
He found that the percentage of participants who are prepared to inflict fatal voltages remains remarkably constant, 61 – 66 percent, regardless of time or place.
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