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      ]
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      "ACT.EVT"
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    "name": "contact",
    "purpose": "Let an agent explain contact events in physics and engineering, give safety guidance for collisions, and separate social and electrical senses of contact.",
    "definition": "The physical coming together of two or more things, such as a collision, an impact, meshing of gears, interlocking parts or a touch; contact events are studied in mechanics for forces and energy transfer and matter in safety, engineering and sport.",
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      "analyse collisions with momentum and energy",
      "explain contact mechanics such as friction and wear",
      "give collision safety guidance",
      "separate other senses of contact"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Physical touching",
      "Transfers force and energy",
      "Elastic or inelastic",
      "Central to mechanics"
    ],
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      "Impacts and meshing parts",
      "Deformation at contact points",
      "Electrical contacts are conductive connections"
    ],
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    "families_and_kinds": [
      "collisions and impacts",
      "meshing and interlocking",
      "sliding and rolling contact",
      "sports contact",
      "vehicle collisions"
    ],
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      },
      {
        "relation": "is analysed by",
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      {
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      "Vehicle crash test standards",
      "Sports contact rules",
      "Machinery guarding standards"
    ],
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      "Injuries from collisions",
      "Wear and failure at contact surfaces",
      "Confusing senses of contact"
    ],
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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      "may": [
        "Detect and log contact events between machines, parts or objects it monitors.",
        "Stop or slow its own motion when unexpected contact occurs."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Continue moving after unexpected contact with a person.",
        "Disable contact or collision sensors on machines that work near people.",
        "Treat contact with a person as harmless without checking.",
        "Hide records of collisions from the operator or investigators."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Resuming operation after a collision that may have caused injury or damage."
      ]
    },
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        "Contact between machines and people causes injury; detection protects bodies.",
        "Collision records decide liability and must stay honest."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "People near moving machines",
        "Operators",
        "Owners of damaged property"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the event; the operator of the machine answers for contacts it causes.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
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    },
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      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: contact",
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    }
  ],
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      {
        "id": "physics",
        "name": "Physics",
        "description": "Collisions.",
        "rationale": "Conservation laws apply.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "momentum",
            "name": "Momentum",
            "description": "Momentum and energy.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "momentum-finding",
                "name": "Momentum",
                "description": "Momentum and energy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What are the velocities after this collision, using momentum conservation?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the collision elastic or inelastic?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "forces",
            "name": "Forces",
            "description": "Contact forces.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "forces-finding",
                "name": "Forces",
                "description": "Contact forces.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What forces act at the contact, such as normal force and friction?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How large is the impact force?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "engineering",
        "name": "Engineering",
        "description": "Contact mechanics.",
        "rationale": "Surfaces matter.",
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          {
            "id": "gears",
            "name": "Gears",
            "description": "Meshing.",
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              {
                "id": "gears-finding",
                "name": "Gears",
                "description": "Meshing.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do gears mesh, and what determines wear?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which lubrication applies?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "wear",
            "name": "Wear",
            "description": "Wear and fatigue.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "wear-finding",
                "name": "Wear",
                "description": "Wear.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How does repeated contact cause wear or fatigue?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How is it measured?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "safety",
        "name": "Safety",
        "description": "Collisions.",
        "rationale": "Safety comes first.",
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          {
            "id": "crash",
            "name": "Crash",
            "description": "Vehicle collisions.",
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              {
                "id": "crash-finding",
                "name": "Crash",
                "description": "Vehicle collisions.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Has a collision caused injuries?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Should emergency services be called and the scene made safe?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "sport",
            "name": "Sport",
            "description": "Contact sports.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "sport-finding",
                "name": "Sport",
                "description": "Contact sports.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which rules and protective equipment reduce injury in this contact sport?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What are the concussion protocols?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "senses",
        "name": "Senses",
        "description": "Disambiguation.",
        "rationale": "Contact has many senses.",
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            "name": "Social",
            "description": "Communication.",
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              {
                "id": "social-finding",
                "name": "Social",
                "description": "Social sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is contact meant as communication or a person in an address book?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "electrical",
            "name": "Electrical",
            "description": "Electrical contacts.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "electrical-finding",
                "name": "Electrical",
                "description": "Electrical sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is an electrical contact or contact lens meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should collisions be a separate entry?",
    "How should contact mechanics resources be linked?",
    "How should other senses be split off?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}