Fluxion
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Fluxion may refer to:
  • An alternate spelling of fluxon
    Fluxon
    In physics, a fluxon is a quantum of electromagnetic flux. The term may have any of several related meanings.- Superconductivity :In the context of superconductivity, a fluxon is a small whisker of normal phase surrounded by superconducting phase. Supercurrents circulate around its center...

    , a quantum of magnetic flux, such as in a superconductor
  • Fluxion was Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton
    Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...

    's term for the derivative
    Derivative
    In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity; for example, the derivative of the position of a...

     of a "fluent", or continuous
    Continuous function
    In mathematics, a continuous function is a function for which, intuitively, "small" changes in the input result in "small" changes in the output. Otherwise, a function is said to be "discontinuous". A continuous function with a continuous inverse function is called "bicontinuous".Continuity of...

     function
    Function (mathematics)
    In mathematics, a function associates one quantity, the argument of the function, also known as the input, with another quantity, the value of the function, also known as the output. A function assigns exactly one output to each input. The argument and the value may be real numbers, but they can...

    .
  • Method of Fluxions
    Method of Fluxions
    Method of Fluxions is a book by Isaac Newton. The book was completed in 1671, and published in 1736. Fluxions is Newton's term for differential calculus...

    , Isaac Newton's terminology for differential calculus
    Differential calculus
    In mathematics, differential calculus is a subfield of calculus concerned with the study of the rates at which quantities change. It is one of the two traditional divisions of calculus, the other being integral calculus....

  • Newton's notation for differentiation
  • Newton's method
    Newton's method
    In numerical analysis, Newton's method , named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots of a real-valued function. The algorithm is first in the class of Householder's methods, succeeded by Halley's method...

     for solving an equation
  • Derivative
    Derivative
    In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity; for example, the derivative of the position of a...

  • Fluxion (artist)
    Fluxion (artist)
    Fluxion is a pseudonym of Konstantinos Soublis , a Greek electronic musician.- Background :K. Soublis music includes different genders of electronic music, ambient, dub, experimental, techno, with sound design....

    , Konstantinos Soublis
  • Fluxion (album)
    Fluxion (Album)
    Fluxion is an album by the German band The Ocean Collective released in November, 2004. Fluxion is the first part of a two-CD project that ended with Aeolian...

    , The Ocean Collective's first LP.
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