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31Batsuit — Infobox comics elements imagesize = caption = Batman s current costume, as shown in the story arc. Art by Jim Lee. publisher =DC Comics debut = Detective Comics #27 creators = Bob Kane type = Costume supports = Batman subcat=BatmanThe Batsuit… …
32comet — cometary /kom i ter ee/, cometic /keuh met ik/, cometical, adj. cometlike, adj. /kom it/, n. Astron. a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and… …
33physical science, principles of — Introduction the procedures and concepts employed by those who study the inorganic world. physical science, like all the natural sciences, is concerned with describing and relating to one another those experiences of the surrounding… …
34Sundial — A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating… …
35geometry — /jee om i tree/, n. 1. the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties… …
36Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters …
37Orbital mechanics — A satellite orbiting the earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration. Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other… …
38Conic section — Types of conic sections: 1. Parabola 2. Circle and ellipse 3. Hyperbola …
39Superellipse — The superellipse (or Lamé curve) is the geometric figure defined in the Cartesian coordinate system as the set of all points ( x , y ) with:left|frac{x}{a} ight|^n! + left|frac{y}{b} ight|^n! = 1 where n gt; 0 and a and b are the semi major and… …
40DOM events — DOM (Document Object Model) events allow event driven programming languages like JavaScript, JScript, ECMAScript, VBScript and Java to register various event handlers/listeners on the element nodes inside a DOM tree, e.g. HTML, XHTML, XUL and SVG …
