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nodal line

[′nōd·əl ‚līn]
(astronomy)
The line passing through the ascending and descending nodes of the orbit of a celestial body.
(physics)
A line or curve in a two-dimensional standing-wave system, such as a vibrating diaphragm, where some specified characteristic of the wave, such as velocity of pressure, does not oscillate.
A line which remains fixed during some deformation or rotation of a body or coordinate system.
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Why must the side of measure be divided into a nodal line? This is the inheritance from immediate measure (specific quantity) and rule.
Notice too that if an inferior conjunction falls very close to the nodal line, then neither the alignment 8 years earlier nor the one 8 years later will land in the transit zone, so there would be only a single transit in that century.
These clearly delineated, stationary regions are called nodes or nodal lines. The resulting patterns depend on the geometric shape of the vibrating object--and on such characteristics as its stiffness and density distribution.
Frons about as long as broad, forewings with two black elongate spots near bases of sutural margins, nodal line marked with several fuscous spots T.
Forewings with light red marking along hind margin, nodal line suffused with red markings and numerous small black spots nearby distad (Figs.
Forewings with continuous transverse veins and with membrane bent down at rest, with 12 closed apical cells, Sc+R with one branch before subapical transverse nodal line. Hind tibiae with 3 lateral teeth, metatarsomere I with 5 apical teeth, metatarsomere II with row of teeth, mar ginal teeth longer than other teeth.
The 0.03-0.15 Hz was selected for waveform inversions because P-wave polarities are in good agreement with nodal lines in the same direction.
They are usually identified by two indices (m,n), where m counts the number of nodal lines crossing the crown, and n the number of circumferential nodal lines.
The modal shapes of top plates knowing as Chladni pattern are given by the distribution of the significant nodal lines on the surface of structure.
Topics include Lp estimates for solutions to second order parabolic equations, decomposition of wavelets on non-uniform grids, Newton polyhedra and estimates for differential operators, nodal lines and uniqueness in solutions to linear water wave problems, integral models of algebraic tori and affine toric variables, a geometrical approach to computations of the optimal solution to the rectangle packing problem, a nonstationary Maxwell system with non-homogeneous boundary conditions in domains and conical points, exceptional sets for derivatives of Blaschke products, and asymptotics of solutions and artificial boundary conditions in the transmission problem with a layer-like inhomogeneity.
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