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  2. Contact force - Wikipedia

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    A contact force is any force that occurs as a result of two objects making contact with each other. [1] Contact forces are very common and are responsible for most visible interactions between macroscopic collections of matter. Pushing a car or kicking a ball are some of the everyday examples where contact forces are at work.

  3. Google - Wikipedia

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    Then Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt (left) with co-founders Sergey Brin (center) and Larry Page (right) in 2008. Google LLC (/ ˈ ɡ uː ɡ ə l / ⓘ GOO-ghəl) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

  4. Africa - Wikipedia

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    The size of Africa compared to other continents. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7]

  5. Köhler illumination - Wikipedia

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    Köhler illumination is a method of specimen illumination used for transmitted and reflected light (trans- and epi-illuminated) optical microscopy.Köhler illumination acts to generate an even illumination of the sample and ensures that an image of the illumination source (for example a halogen lamp filament) is not visible in the resulting image.

  6. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines, [e] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [f] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

  7. Alexander Sample - Wikipedia

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    Alexander King Sample (born November 7, 1960) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Portland since 2013. He previously served as Bishop of Marquette from 2005 to 2013. Biography

  8. Sampling frame - Wikipedia

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    Statistical theory tells us about the uncertainties in extrapolating from a sample to the frame. It should be expected that sample frames, will always contain some mistakes. [5] In some cases, this may lead to sampling bias. [1] Such bias should be minimized, and identified, although avoiding it completely in a real world is nearly impossible. [1]

  9. Kurtosis - Wikipedia

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    D'Agostino's K-squared test is a goodness-of-fit normality test based on a combination of the sample skewness and sample kurtosis, as is the Jarque–Bera test for normality. For non-normal samples, the variance of the sample variance depends on the kurtosis; for details, please see variance.