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    Ship motions are defined by the six degrees of freedom that a ship, boat, or other watercraft, or indeed any conveyance, can experience. The vertical/Z...
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    ship model testing and a better overall understanding of fluid and ship motions has allowed much more analytical design. Transverse and longitudinal...
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  • CFD computer programs, often both. RAOs are usually calculated for all ship motions and for all wave headings. RAOs are effectively transfer functions used...
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    Angle of list (redirect from List (ship))
    (sailing) Capsizing Metacentric height Ship stability Ship motions Kemp, Peter (1976). The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Oxford University Press...
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    performance criteria: the established limits for the ship's responses. These are based on the ship motions and the accelerations experienced, and include comfort...
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    vessels are electrically powered using nuclear or solar energy. Ship motions involves motions of the vessel in seaway and its responses in waves and wind...
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    propeller was an improvement over paddlewheels as it wasn't affected by ship motions or draft changes. John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed...
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    Directions or positions relative to the shape and position of an object Ship motions – Terms connected to the six degrees of freedom of motion Aircraft principal...
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  • or nose-down angle measured from horizontal axis) Pitch (ship motion), one of the ship motions' principal axes of rotation (bow-up or bow-down angle measured...
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    M-(Var)= C Bearing (navigation) Heading indicator - Flight instrument Ship motions Gade, Kenneth (2016). "The Seven Ways to Find Heading" (PDF). Journal...
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