The water content is very important in vadose zone hydrology, where the hydraulic conductivity is a strongly nonlinear function of water content; this complicates the solution of the unsaturated groundwater flow equation.
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When a system's responsivity is a fixed monotonic nonlinear function, that nonlinearity can be estimated and corrected for, to determine the spectral sensitivity from spectral input output data via standard linear methods.
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Consider the following intuition : " With a fixed number of parameters it should be easier to approximate a given distribution than it is to approximate an arbitrary nonlinear function / transformation ".
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:This is not a "'linear "'programming problem because the volume of a cone is a nonlinear function of its radius, so the constraint that the cone have a volume of 250 cm 3 is nonlinear.
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Nonlinear functions and calculations can be constructed to a limited precision ( three or four digits ) by designing function generators special circuits of various combinations of resistors and diodes to provide the nonlinearity.
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However, when the crystal is in contact with a rough surface, stress can easily become a nonlinear function of strain ( and speed ) because the stress is transmitted across a finite number of rather small load-bearing asperities.
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Returning to the example above, when the covariance is zero it is trivial to determine the location of the object after it moves according to an arbitrary nonlinear function f ( x, y ) : just apply the function to the mean vector.
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Given a large enough variety of such nonlinear functions, it is theoretically possible to obtain linear combinations ( using the read out units ) to perform whatever mathematical operation is needed to perform a certain task, such as speech recognition or computer vision.
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Since " G " and " C " are generally nonlinear functions of temperature, a more advanced model may include the temperature of both the absorber and the bath and treat " G " or " C " as a power law across this temperature range.
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This field polarizes the dielectric, which polarization, in the case of a ferroelectric, is a nonlinear " S "-shaped function of the electric field, which, in the case of a large area parallel plate device, translates into a capacitance that is a nonlinear function of the voltage.
