Search results for "Circular motion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • In 1929, psychologist J. P. Gilford noticed the paradoxical motion ... rather than spin. Perception of motion is biased in the direction ...
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  • The centripetal force in uniform circular motion, for example, does zero ... always zero (as is the case in circular motion). The possibility of ...
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  • in which a disembodied perception of motion is produced by a succession ... Experimental Studies on the Perception of Motion. This discovery so intrigued ...
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  • A vortex (plural vortices) is a rapidly spinning, circular or spiral flow of fluid around a central axis. The swirling motion tends to suck everything ...
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  • and epicycles, to explain the apparent motion of the planets and the varying ... -that are obtained by cutting an oblique circular cone. (An oblique circular ...
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  • An object traveling in a uniform circular motion at a constant speed ... direction with the velocity, we get a circular motion. For this centripetal ...
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  • ===Circular motion=== During his stay at the court of Louis XIV, Huygens ... mathematical presentation of uniform circular motion, his solution to the ...
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  • of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of ... clearly attempting to depict a sense of motion. One of the earliest ...
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  • (compare this with equation (14) in circular motion). This corresponds to ... These derivations use calculus, Newton's laws of motion and Newton ...
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  • his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho Brahe's ... analysis, because the object's motion can be described as the sum ...
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  • (c. 515-c.450 B.C.E.) had held that motion is an illusion and that existence ... tortoise so long as the tortoise remains in motion. *The relativity ...
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  • gear to rotate. In this manner, rotational motion can be transferred from one ... driven by a small steam engine, into circular motion using a 'planet ...
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  • can also be described in terms of wave motion. Sound involves mechanical ... Waves can be represented by simple harmonic motion.]] == Examples == ...
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  • oscillations may be periodic, such as the motion of a pendulum, or random ... Forced vibration is when an alternating force or motion is applied ...
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  • investigates the first cause of the first motion of the universe (Taub 1993). ... that the most perfect motion was circular motion. It would not occur ...
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  • the planets move in elliptical—not circular—orbits. Kepler incorporated ... At first, Tycho assigned Kepler to study the motion of Mars—a seemingly ...
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  • to be perfect spheres moving in perfectly circular orbits. By contrast, the ... such as Kepler's laws of planetary motion, discovered at the start ...
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  • and bulgyo (Buddhism), means literally Circular Buddhism, or Consummate ... the full oneness of spirit and body in motion and rest. ...
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  • of negligible mass, in an unperturbed circular orbit, would have an orbital ... and Kepler's laws of planetary motion. The value of the AU was ...
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  • I should seem to myself to be initiating a grasping motion, then in all probability the sensation of contacting a doorknob should follow." Of course ...
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