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    differential geometry, a caustic is the envelope of rays either reflected or refracted by a manifold. It is related to the concept of caustics in geometric optics...
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  • called caustic soda Potassium hydroxide, sometimes called caustic potash Calcium oxide, sometimes called caustic lime Caustic may also refer to: Caustic (band)...
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    In optics, a caustic or caustic network is the envelope of light rays which have been reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object, or the projection...
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    could be replaced by any curve, surface or closed set in space. Caustic (mathematics) Envelope theorem Ruled surface Bruce, J. W.; Giblin, P. J. (1984)...
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  • y'+(y')^{2}.\,\!} Chandrasekhar equation Chrystal's equation Caustic (mathematics) Envelope (mathematics) Initial value problem Picard–Lindelöf theorem Rozov...
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  • In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general...
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    Nephroid (redirect from Nephroid caustic)
    considerations made in the previous section give a proof for the fact, that the caustic of one half of a circle is a nephroid. If in the plane parallel light rays...
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    communicated in 1823 to John Brinkley, who presented it under the title of Caustics in 1824 to the Royal Irish Academy. It was referred as usual to a committee...
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    Corrosion (redirect from Causticity)
    and permeability to liquids and gases. Corrosive is distinguished from caustic: the former implies mechanical degradation, the latter chemical. Many structural...
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    Pearcey integral (category Applied mathematics stubs)
    the Pearcey integral can be used to model diffraction effects at a cusp caustic, which corresponds to the boundary between two regions of geometric optics:...
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