
In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Sun was thought to be a solar deity or other entity. In the early first millennium BC, observed that the Sun's motion along the is not uniform, though they did not know why; it is today known that this is due to the movement of Earth in an , moving faster when it is nearer to the Su.

The nodal admittance matrix of a power system is a form of of the nodal admittance diagram of the power system, which is derived by the application of to the admittance diagram of the power system. Starting from the of a power system, the nodal admittance diagram is derived by: