Moment

Of / the moment (Latin Momentum (also movimentum, Momen ) " movement, reason, influence" of Latin movere " move, arise " ) may refer to:

• A short time interval

Music, literature, theater:

• In music, especially that of Karlheinz Stockhausen, a special form element, refer to the torque form
• Retarding element, means building tension through delay in literature and theater

Mathematics:

• Torque ( stochastics ), a measure of a probability distribution
• Moment of area, an integral over the surface elements

Physics and Engineering:

• Torque, cause of bending, torsion and spin
• Torque ( integration ), special integrals
• The coefficients of a representation of a vector field, see multipole
• Magnetic moment, the strength of a magnetic dipole
• Electric dipole moment, the strength of an electric dipole

Torques in the art:

• The fixed end of a cantilever beam
• The heeling moment of the wind on a sailboat heeling see
• The bending moment transverse to the axis, which bends a beam
• The torsional momentum parallel to the axis, the twisted bar a
• The load torque, even counter-torque. The torque which opposes a working machine of the driving engine.

Technique, further:

• Torque ( Engineering Mechanics ), the cross product of a vector quantity with its position vector
• Angular momentum outdated for angular momentum
• Moment ( image processing ), a measure of the brightness distribution in pictures

See also:

• Disambiguation