Like most of Relient K's early work the songs make several references to pop-culture, including ; * " K Car " refers to the Plymouth Reliant K, based on the K Car platform, for which the band is named, " I'm Lion-O " refers to the main character of the, Lion-O, 1980s cartoon Thundercats, " My Good Friend Charles " references the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge, and in the song " K Car " uses the line " And Brandon Ebel just gave us a call " referring to the founder of the Christian record label, Tooth & Nail Records.

His real name was George Bowerchuck ( although Lou Grant refers to him as " Chuck " in the episode " Who's In Charge Here ?").

* In the 1970s British comedy Doctor in Charge episode entitled " The Loftus Papers ", doctor Paul Collier refers to himself as Lobby Lud.

In 1990, Thatcher's government introduced the Community Charge, popularly known as the Poll Tax, a new way of funding local councils based on a fixed per-head fee.

Whilst still levied in Northern Ireland, they were generally abolished in Scotland in 1989 and England and Wales in 1990 and replaced with the Community Charge ( so called " poll tax "), a fixed tax per head that was the same for everyone.

Charge is the fundamental property of forms of matter that exhibit electrostatic attraction or repulsion in the presence of other matter.

Charge carriers are separated and physically transported to a position of increased electric potential.

Charge separation and accumulation continue until the electrical potential becomes sufficient to initiate a lightning discharge, which occurs when the distribution of positive and negative charges forms a sufficiently strong electric field.

This, however, increases the influence of the carbon nucleus on the valence electrons by increasing the effective core potential ( the amount of charge the nucleus exerts on a given electron = Charge of Core − Charge of all electrons closer to the nucleus ).

Charge is possessed not just by matter, but also by antimatter, each antiparticle bearing an equal and opposite charge to its corresponding particle.

* Charge carrier, an unbound particle carrying an electric charge

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay ( the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax ), led to widespread refusal to pay and to incidents of civil unrest, known colloquially as the ' Poll Tax Riots '.

; Charge flow speed ( drift velocity ): Particle speed of water.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

* Battery balancing, matching the State Of Charge in the cells in a battery.

In the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava showed the vulnerability of cavalry, when deployed without effective support.

* M60 AVLM-Armored Vehicle Launched MICLIC ( Mine-Clearing Line Charge ), modified M60 AVLB with up to 2 MICLIC mounted over the rear of the vehicle.

The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca.

The Charge is the promise of the Goddess ( embodied by the High Priestess ) to all witches that she will teach and guide them.

included a copy of Crowley's The Blue Equinox which includes all of the Crowley quotations in the Charge of the Goddess.

Several different versions of a Wiccan Charge of the God have since been created to mirror and accompany the Charge of the Goddess.

The Charge of the Goddess is recited during most rituals where the priestess is expected to represent, and / or embody, the Goddess within the sacred circle.

The Charge of the Goddess is also known under the title Leviter Veslis.

Valiente felt that the influence of Crowley on the Charge was too obvious, and she did not want the Craft associated with Crowley.

Gardner invited her to rewrite the Charge.

Like the Charge found in Freemasonry, where the charge is a set of instructions read to a candidate standing in a temple, the Charge of the Goddess was intended to be read immediately before an initiation.

He trained tank crews at " Camp Colt "— his first command — at the site of " Pickett's Charge " on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Civil War battleground.

Charge originates in the atom, in which its most familiar carriers are the electron and proton.

Charge can be measured by a number of means, an early instrument being the gold-leaf electroscope, which although still in use for classroom demonstrations, has been superseded by the electronic electrometer.

Charge taken from one material is moved to the other material, leaving an opposite charge of the same magnitude behind.

Charge flows back and forth between the capacitor's plates through the inductor, so the tuned circuit can store electrical energy oscillating at its resonant frequency.

In addition, in his A Light Bundle of Lively Discourses Called Churchyard's Charge, and A Pleasant Labyrinth Called Churchyard's Chance, Thomas Churchyard promised to dedicate future works to the Earl.

Specifically, the term Galilean invariance today usually refers to this principle as applied to Newtonian mechanics, that is, Newton's laws hold in all inertial frames.

* In mathematics, scale invariance usually refers to an invariance of individual functions or curves.

In computer vision, scale invariance refers to a local image description that remains invariant when the scale of the image is changed.

For example, the notion of gauge invariance forms the basis of the well-known Mattis spin glasses, which are systems with the usual spin degrees of freedom for i = 1 ,..., N, with the special fixed " random " couplings Here the ε < sub > i </ sub > and ε < sub > k </ sub > quantities can independently and " randomly " take the values ± 1, which corresponds to a most-simple gauge transformation This means that thermodynamic expectation values of measurable quantities, e. g. of the energy are invariant.

Scale invariance will typically hold provided that no fixed length scale appears in the theory.

As a result, as long as this ratio is fixed, recency will be observed regardless of the absolute values of intervals, so that recency can be observed at all time scales, a phenomenon known as time scale invariance.

The existence of such a fixed point is relevant, as it grants, at this order of perturbation theory, that conformal invariance is not lost due to quantum corrections and one has a sensible quantum field theory.

If one takes the point of view that coordinate invariance is trivially true, the principle of coordinate invariance simply states that the metric itself is dynamical and its equation of motion does not involve a fixed background geometry.