Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object. Velocity is a fundamental concept in kinematics, the branch of classical...
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Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile (bullet, pellet, slug, ball/shots or shell) with respect to the muzzle at the moment it leaves the end of...
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In celestial mechanics, escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from contact with or orbit of a primary body...
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The radial velocity or line-of-sight velocity of a target with respect to an observer is the rate of change of the vector displacement between the two...
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In physics, angular velocity (symbol ω or ω → {\displaystyle {\vec {\omega }}} , the lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as angular frequency vector...
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The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall envelope shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the modulation or envelope of the...
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continuum mechanics the flow velocity in fluid dynamics, also macroscopic velocity in statistical mechanics, or drift velocity in electromagnetism, is a...
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Wave velocity may refer to: Phase velocity, the velocity at which a wave phase propagates Pulse wave velocity, the velocity at which a pulse travels through...
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The phase velocity of a wave is the rate at which the wave propagates in any medium. This is the velocity at which the phase of any one frequency component...
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Look up velocity or instantaneous velocity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Velocity is a quantity in physics that is related to speed. Velocity may also...
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