What's the difference between dashpot and washpot?
Dashpot
Definition:
(n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Example Sentences:
(1) The above findings could be explained in terms of a model incorporating a standard resistance in parallel with a standard elastance and a series spring-and-dashpot body that represents the stress adaptation units within the tissues of the respiratory system.
(2) Several aspects of the modelling technique are worthy of particular note: the simulation of material anisotropy by means of multiple reinforcement layers with varying orientation, the use of dashpot elements for energy attenuation and the incorporation of multipoint constraint between the skull and the helmet lining to ensure integrity of the model with correct stiffness matrix values and allowing independent monitoring of all stress levels at the mating interface region.
(3) This behavior could be explained in terms of a spring-and-dashpot model incorporating 1) the standard resistance and elastance and 2) a spring-and-dashpot in parallel with standard elastance, reflecting the stress adaptation units within the thoracic tissues.
(4) The mechanical equivalent incorporating these elements is a system of dashpots (the lamellar surfaces and the interlamellar fluid) and springs (the lamellae and their interconnexions); it is a mechanical filter which suppresses low frequencies.
(5) As a result of this a system employing a dashpot and a potentiometer connected to a BBC microcomputer was designed.
(6) The tube is assumed to be orthotropic and its longitudinal motion is constrained by a uniformly distributed additional mass, a dashpot and a spring.
(7) This passive behavior can be modeled with three mechanical elements; a relatively stiff, undamped spring in series with a Voight element composed of a less stiff spring in parallel with a dashpot.
(8) The effects of varying inspiratory flow and inflation volume were interpreted in terms of frequency dependence of resistance, by using a spring-and-dashpot model previously proposed and substantiated by Bates et al.
(9) The hair bundle may be modeled as the parallel combination of a spring, which represents the rotational stiffness of the stereocilia, and a series spring and dashpot, which respectively, represent the elastic element responsible for channel gating and the apparatus for adaptation.
(10) To illustrate the utility of the model, it is analyzed to show how this one parameter specifies whether excitation-contraction or musculotendon contraction is the rate-limiting process of force generation, whether elastic energy is stored in tendon or muscle, and whether hip- and knee-extensor actuators function as springs or dashpots during walking.
(11) Dashpot resistance could be varied and graded and the range of software was of varied motivational content.
(12) The apparatus also included a critically damped dashpot which prevented any transient loads being applied to the cartilage.
(13) The influence of the dashpot on the measurements is mathematically analyzed in terms of an increase in rest length during stretch.
(14) Consideration of the results led to the addition of two elements (a dashpot and an active element) to our model of the process involved.
Washpot
Definition:
(n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
(n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a period when Fry had only a passing acquaintance with the truth and which is reflected in his novel The Liar and chronicled in his autobiography, Moab Is my Washpot .