Mercury switchA mercury switch is an electrical switch that opens and closes a circuit when a small amount of the liquid metal mercury connects metal electrodes to close the circuit. There are several different basic designs (tilt, displacement, radial, etc.) but they all share the common design strength of non-eroding switch contacts. The most common is the mercury tilt switch. It is in one state (open or closed) when tilted one direction with respect to horizontal, and the other state when tilted the other direction.
Suite définie par récurrenceEn mathématiques, une suite définie par récurrence est une suite définie par son (ou ses) premier(s) terme(s) et par une relation de récurrence, qui définit chaque terme à partir du précédent ou des précédents lorsqu'ils existent. Une relation de récurrence est une équation dans laquelle l'expression de plusieurs termes de la suite apparait, par exemple : ou ou ou si l'on se place dans les suites de mots sur l'alphabet : Si la relation de récurrence a une « bonne » présentation, cela permet de calculer l'expression du terme d'indice le plus élevé en fonction de l'expression des autres.
Principal ideal ringIn mathematics, a principal right (left) ideal ring is a ring R in which every right (left) ideal is of the form xR (Rx) for some element x of R. (The right and left ideals of this form, generated by one element, are called principal ideals.) When this is satisfied for both left and right ideals, such as the case when R is a commutative ring, R can be called a principal ideal ring, or simply principal ring. If only the finitely generated right ideals of R are principal, then R is called a right Bézout ring.
Panel switchThe Panel Machine Switching System is a type of automatic telephone exchange for urban service that was used in the Bell System in the United States for seven decades. The first semi-mechanical types of this design were installed in 1915 in Newark, New Jersey, and the last were retired in the same city in 1983. The Panel switch was named for its tall panels which consisted of layered strips of terminals. Between each strip was placed an insulating layer, which kept each metal strip electrically isolated from the ones above and below.
