General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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A contribution to the heat capacity of a solid arising from the thermal population of discrete energy levels as the temperature is raised. The effect is particularly prominent at low temperatures, ...

regulator

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A control device designed to maintain the value of some quantity substantially constant. Thus, a temperature regulator is a device designed to maintain the temperature of some environment at a ...

remote-control system

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A control system in which the issuing of the control command and its execution are separated by a relatively significant distance. The system normally includes a command device where the control ...

nonlinear control theory

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A control system involves a plant and a controller. Plants are objects as diverse as a satellite, a distillation column, a robot arm, and a colony of bacteria. After measuring actual outputs of the ...

humidistat

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A controller that measures and controls relative humidity. A humidistat may be used to control either humidifying or dehumidifying equipment by the regulation of electric or pneumatic switches, ...

thunderstorm

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A convective storm accompanied by lightning and thunder and a variety of weather such as locally heavy rainshowers, hail, high winds, sudden temperature changes, and occasionally tornadoes. The ...

block diagram

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A convenient graphical representation of input-output behavior of a system or subsystem, where the signal into the block represents the input and the signal out of the block represents the output. ...