diagram
(noun)
A graph or chart.
Examples of diagram in the following topics:
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Motion Diagrams
- A motion diagram is a pictorial description of the motion of an object.
- It displays the object's location at various equally spaced times on the same diagram; shows an object's initial position and velocity; and presents several spots in the center of the diagram.
- For this reason, a motion diagram is more information than a path diagram.
- is a motion diagram of a simple trajectory.
- Motion diagram of a puck sliding on ice.
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Trigonometry
- In physics, most problems are solved much more easily when a free body diagram is used.
- Free body diagrams use geometry and vectors to visually represent the problem.
- When people draw free body diagrams, often not everything is perfectly parallel and perpendicular.
- This exercise involves drawing the free body diagram.
- Removing all other elements from the image helps produce the finished free body diagram .
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General Problem-Solving Tricks
- Free body diagrams use geometry and vectors to visually represent the problem.
- A simple free body diagram, shown above, of a block on a ramp illustrates this.
- Some care is needed in interpreting the diagram.
- (See the other force arrows in the diagram).
- So you will want to include the following things in the diagram:
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Image Reflection by a Plane Mirror
- The way that we can predict how a reflection will look is by drawing a ray diagram.
- These diagrams can be used to find the position and size of the image and whether that image is real or virtual.
- These are the steps you follow to draw a ray diagram:
- A completed ray diagram is shown in
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Image Formation by Spherical Mirrors: Reflection and Sign Conventions
- The easiest way to visualize what a image will look like in this type of mirror is a ray diagram.
- We can see from the figure that this focal length is also equal to half of the radius of the curvature. shows the ray diagram of a concave mirror.
- This is a ray diagram of a concave mirror.
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Bohr Orbits
- Below is an energy-level diagram, which is a convenient way to display energy states—the allowed energy levels of the electron (as relative to our discussion).
- Energy-level diagrams are used for many systems, including molecules and nuclei.
- An energy-level diagram plots energy vertically and is useful in visualizing the energy states of a system and the transitions between them.
- This diagram is for the hydrogen-atom electrons, showing a transition between two orbits having energies $E_4$ and $E_2$.
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Forces in Two Dimensions
- Free-body diagrams can be used as a convenient way to keep track of forces acting on a system .
- Ideally, these diagrams are drawn with the angles and relative magnitudes of the force vectors preserved so that graphical vector addition can be done to determine the net force.
- Free-body diagrams of an object on a flat surface and an inclined plane.
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The Spectrometer
- shows a diagram of how a spectrometer works.
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The Compound Microscope
- shows a diagram of a compound microscope made from two convex lenses.
- This diagram shows the setup of mirrors that allow for the magnification of images.
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Inductors in AC Circuits: Inductive Reactive and Phasor Diagrams