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  2. Heron's formula - Wikipedia

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    Heron's formula is also a special case of the formula for the area of a trapezoid or trapezium based only on its sides. Heron's formula is obtained by setting the smaller parallel side to zero. Expressing Heron's formula with a Cayley–Menger determinant in terms of the squares of the distances between the three given vertices,

  3. Polarimeter - Wikipedia

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    The polarimeter is made up of two Nicol prisms (the polarizer and analyzer). The polarizer is fixed and the analyzer can be rotated. The prisms may be thought of as slits S1 and S2. The light waves may be considered to correspond to waves in the string. The polarizer S1 allows only those light waves which move in a single plane.

  4. Multiplicity (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, carbenes are molecules which have carbon atoms with only six electrons in their valence shells and therefore disobey the octet rule. [5] Carbenes generally split into singlet carbenes and triplet carbenes, named for their spin multiplicities.

  5. Basis set superposition error - Wikipedia

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    Each monomer "borrows" functions from other nearby components, effectively increasing its basis set and improving the calculation of derived properties such as energy. [3] If the total energy is minimised as a function of the system geometry, the short-range energies from the mixed basis sets must be compared with the long-range energies from ...

  6. Barometric formula - Wikipedia

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    Pressure as a function of the height above the sea level. There are two equations for computing pressure as a function of height. The first equation is applicable to the atmospheric layers in which the temperature is assumed to vary with altitude at a non null lapse rate of : = [,, ()] ′, The second equation is applicable to the atmospheric layers in which the temperature is assumed not to ...

  7. Šidák correction for t-test - Wikipedia

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    One of the application of Student's t-test is to test the location of one sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables.If we want to test the locations of multiple sequences of such variables, Šidák correction should be applied in order to calibrate the level of the Student's t-test.

  8. Prism spectrometer - Wikipedia

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    A prism spectrometer is an optical spectrometer which uses a dispersive prism as its dispersive element. The prism refracts light into its different colors ( wavelengths ). The dispersion occurs because the angle of refraction is dependent on the refractive index of the prism's material, which in turn is slightly dependent on the wavelength of ...

  9. Pressure prism - Wikipedia

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    A pressure prism is a way of visually describing the variation of hydrostatic pressure within a volume of fluid. When variables of fluid density , depth, gravity , and other forces such as atmospheric pressure are charted, the resulting figure somewhat resembles a prism .