this is known as the input motion. The output also supplies a motion, this is known as a force. A good example of a mechanical system is a bicycle. The input motion is the force of the cyclist’s ...

For example, suppose that there is a manufacturer that is able to double its total input, but gets only a 60% increase in total output; this is an example of decreasing returns to scale.

The following example uses ODS to display the output in HTML with a table of contents. The data is the population of the United States in millions recorded at ten year intervals starting in 1790 and ...