In astrophysics, dynamical friction or Chandrasekhar friction, sometimes called gravitational drag, is loss of momentum and kinetic energy of moving bodies...
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Types of friction include dry, fluid, lubricated, skin, and internal. Friction can have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the use of friction created...
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Stellar dynamics (redirect from Stellar-dynamical)
processes such as relaxation, mass segregation, tidal forces, and dynamical friction that influence the trajectories of the system's members. There are...
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Type-cD galaxy (section Dynamical friction)
cluster mass, of the total baryon mass within 12.5 virial radii. Dynamical friction is believed to play an important role in the formation of cD galaxies...
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Tribology (category Friction)
Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion. It is highly...
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Celestial mechanics (redirect from Dynamical astronomy)
pre-Newtonian explanations of the causes of the motions of the stars and planets. Dynamical time scale Ephemeris is a compilation of positions of naturally occurring...
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mathematical modeling of the dynamic behavior of systems and designing them, usually using feedback signals, so that their dynamic behavior is desirable (stable...
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Parabolic orbit Hyperbolic orbit Radial orbit Decaying orbit Equations Dynamical friction Escape velocity Kepler's equation Kepler's laws of planetary motion...
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Collision response (section Friction)
resistance to motion. These two categories of friction are respectively termed static friction and dynamic friction. It is a force which is applied to an object...
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period that may take millions of years, due to a process known as dynamical friction: as the SMBHs move relative to the surrounding cloud of much less...
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