half thickness


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half thickness

Thickness of absorbing material necessary to reduce by one-half the intensity of radiation which passes through it.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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where [A.sub.a], [A.sub.s] are the boundary conditions for asymmetric and symmetric modes respectively, k is the wavenumber, d is the half thickness.
The resistance of the coupled lines can be calculated through microstrip lines with the same width and half thickness of the substrate.
Notice that the analytical solution is accurate only for small displacements, generally for maximum transversal displacement smaller than the half thickness of the plate.
integrating the continuity equation through the half thickness of the fluid i gives the following expression: