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Sigma KEE - Flywheel
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flywheel
Any Device designed to smooth the application of force or keep a Shaft spinning in the absence of other power inputs. It can either be massive or spin quickly (or both), in order to have significant intertia.
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Parents engineering component A fundamental concept that applies in many engineering domains. An EngineeringComponent is an element of a Device that is a physically whole object, such as one might see listed as standard parts in a catalog. The main difference betweeen EngineeringComponents and arbitrary globs of matter is that EngineeringComponents are object-like in a modeling sense. Thus, an EngineeringComponent is not an arbtrary subregion, but a part of a system with a stable identity.


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