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Definition of Impulses

Impulse
Impulse Im"pulse, n. [L. impulsus, fr. impellere. See Impel.] 1. The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately. All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse. --S. Clarke. 2. The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force. 3. (Mech.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body. 4. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will. These were my natural impulses for the undertaking. --Dryden. Syn: Force; incentive; influence; motive; feeling; incitement; instigation.
Impulse
Impulse Im*pulse", v. t. [See Impel.] To impel; to incite. [Obs.] --Pope.

Meaning of Impulses from wikipedia

- Look up impulse or impulsive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impulse or Impulsive may refer to: Impulse (physics), in mechanics, the change of momentum...
- macroeconomic modeling, impulse response functions are used to describe how the economy reacts over time to exogenous impulses, which economists usually...
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- 1016/S0006-3495(81)84782-0. PMC 1327511. PMID 7260316. Fitzhugh R (July 1961). "Impulses and Physiological States in Theoretical Models of Nerve Membrane". Biophysical...
- through an operating nuclear reactor. Testing in the 1960s yielded specific impulses of about 850 seconds (8,340 m/s), about twice that of the Space Shuttle...
- In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by J or Imp) is the change in momentum of an object. If the initial momentum of an object is p1, and a subsequent...
- In criminal law, irresistible impulse is a defense by excuse, in this case some sort of insanity, in which the defendant argues that they should not be...
- In signal processing, a finite impulse response (FIR) filter is a filter whose impulse response (or response to any finite length input) is of finite...
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- routinely in physics and engineering to model point m****es and instantaneous impulses. It is called the delta function because it is a continuous analogue of...