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  2. Electromagnetic log - Wikipedia

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    Electromagnetic log. An Electromagnetic Log, sometimes called an "EM log", is an electronic sensor which measures the speed of a vessel through sea water. Like many other technologies, its name derives from the traditional chip log. It makes use of Faraday's law of induction by measuring the EMF induced in water moving through a magnetic field ...

  3. Chip log - Wikipedia

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    A chip log consists of a wooden board attached to a line (the log-line ). The log-line has a number of knots at uniform intervals. The log-line is wound on a reel so the user can easily pay it out . Over time, log construction standardized. The shape is a quarter circle, or quadrant with a radius of 5 inches (130 mm) or 6 inches (150 mm), [1 ...

  4. Speed - Wikipedia

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    L T−1. In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity. [1] The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object ...

  5. Log wind profile - Wikipedia

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    where () is the mean wind speed at height . Limits. The log wind profile is generally considered to be a more reliable estimator of mean wind speed than the wind profile power law in the lowest 10–20 m of the planetary boundary layer. Between 20 m and 100 m both methods can produce reasonable predictions of mean wind speed in neutral ...

  6. Log - Wikipedia

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    Log. Look up log, -log, or logs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Log most often refers to: Trunk (botany), the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, called logs when cut. Logging, cutting down trees for logs. Firewood, logs used for fuel. Lumber or timber, converted from wood logs. Logarithm, in mathematics. Log, LOG or LoG may also refer to:

  7. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).

  8. Big O notation - Wikipedia

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    Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. Big O is a member of a family of notations invented by German mathematicians Paul Bachmann, [1] Edmund Landau, [2] and others, collectively called Bachmann–Landau notation or asymptotic ...

  9. History of logarithms - Wikipedia

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    The history of logarithms is the story of a correspondence (in modern terms, a group isomorphism) between multiplication on the positive real numbers and addition on the real number line that was formalized in seventeenth century Europe and was widely used to simplify calculation until the advent of the digital computer.