The George Washington Bridge â known informally as the GW Bridge, the GWB, the GW, or the George â is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Definition of skin effect. : an effect characteristic of current distribution in a conductor at high frequencies by virtue of which the current is greater near the surface of the conductor than in its interior resulting in an increase of resistance with increasing frequency.
Ground effect is a term used to described the reduced drag and increased lift experience when an aircraft is flying close to the groundâas is the case, for example, during landings and takeoffs; the reduced drag associated with ground effect is the result of the ground interfering with the formation of the wing tip vortices.