Some are empirical fits from measured data and others attempt to incorporate elements of theory.
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Maxwell's equations are thus simply an empirical fit to special relativistic effects in a classical model of the Universe.
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It is an empirical fit to tabulated data provided in the same reference, and closely agrees with the tabulated data.
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While the former position still attracts controversy, the latter position has a better empirical fit with anthropological data about human kinship practices, and is accepted by cultural anthropologists.
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It uses empirical fits for the nonlaminar flow ( which may or may not be fine depending on how rough your pipe's interior surface and inter-pipe joints are ) .-- Fuzzyeric 23 : 42, 28 September 2006 ( UTC)