relative
Physics
(adjective)
Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
Sociology
(adjective)
Connected to or depending on something else; not absolute; comparative.
Examples of relative in the following topics:
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Relative and Interrogative
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Relative Frequency Distributions
- A relative frequency is the fraction or proportion of times a value occurs.
- The third column should be labeled Relative Frequency.
- Cumulative relative frequency (also called an ogive) is the accumulation of the previous relative frequencies.
- To find the cumulative relative frequencies, add all the previous relative frequencies to the relative frequency for the current row.
- This graph shows a relative frequency histogram.
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Relative Deprivation Approach
- Social scientists have cited 'relative deprivation' as a potential cause of social movements and deviance.
- Social scientists, particularly political scientists and sociologists, have cited 'relative deprivation' (especially temporal relative deprivation) as a potential cause of social movements and deviance.
- A specific form of relative deprivation is relative poverty.
- A measure of relative poverty defines poverty as being below some relative poverty line, such as households who earn less than 20% of the median income.
- Discuss the concepts of relative and absolute deprivation as they relate to social movements
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Einstein's Postulates
- Special relativity is based on Einstein's two postulates: the Principle of Relativity and the Principle of Invariant Light Speed.
- The Principle of Invariant Light Speed: The speed of light c is a constant, independent of the relative motion of the source and observer.
- Einstein accepted the result of the experiment and incorporated it in his theory of relativity.
- Imagine that you can throw a baseball at a speed v (relative to you).
- His work on relativity, gavity, quantum mechanics, and statistical physics revolutionized physics.
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Relative Minor and Major Keys
- A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature.
- Even though they have the same key signature, a minor key and its relative major sound very different.
- It is easy to predict where the relative minor of a major key can be found.
- What are the relative majors of the minor keys in Figure 4.23?
- C minor is the relative minor of E flat major.
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Gallilean-Newtonian Relativity
- In this context it is sometimes called Newtonian relativity.
- Galilean relativity can be shown as follows.
- Suppose S' is in relative uniform motion to S with velocity v.
- It is this simple but crucial result that implies Galilean relativity.
- But it is assumed to hold in absolute space, therefore Galilean relativity holds.
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Sampling Distributions and Statistic of a Sampling Distribution
- You can think of a sampling distribution as a relative frequency distribution with a great many samples.
- (See Sampling and Data for a review of relative frequency).
- The results are in the relative frequency table shown below.
- If you let the number of samples get very large (say, 300 million or more), the relative frequency table becomes a relative frequency distribution.