The Daredevil Design Project
Definitions
Please click on a word for the definition:
| Computational approach |
Dependent Variable |
Displacement |
Hypotenuse |
Independent Variable |
Interpolate |
Nadir |
Parameters |
Parametric Equations |
Parallax |
Theoretical Physical Relationship |
Variable |
- Computational Approach
- The use of a computer to aid the design, simulation, and testing of a
physical system, as apposed to 'trial and error'.
- Dependent Variable
- Any variable with may depend on any other variable(s) for its value.
- Displacement
- A change in time or location from the starting point.
- Hypotenuse
- The long side of a right triangle, whose size can be determined using
the Pythagorean Theorem:
C2 = A2 + B2
, where A and B are the short sides,
connected at the 90° angle and C is the hypotenuse.
- Independent Variable
- Any variable which does not depend on any other for its value.
- Interpolate
- To determine a new point between other, measured points.
- Nadir
- The bottom-most point in a curve.
- Parallax
- The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as
seen from two different stations, or points of view; the apparent
displacement in position undergone by an object when viewed by either eye
singly, without moving the head.
- Parameters
- The values sent to a mathematical function, such as the Pythagorean
Theorem (
A, B, & C
- Parametric Equations
- Definition goes here
- Theoretical Physical Relationship
- Definition goes here
- Variable
- Quality, or value, in an experiment is either given or found through
discovery. That quality can change, and will either be set as a(n) independent or dependent