Search results for "Circular motion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • plane of the ecliptic, and have nearly circular orbits. In contrast, Pluto ... of the system. They have nearly circular prograde orbits in the same ...
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  • sound when the membrane or head is put into motion." ... not consider an anvil, a brake drum (the circular hub on modern vehicles which ...
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  • Radars use horizontal, vertical, and circular polarization to detect different ... sea clutter, while rain is reduced with circular polarization (note that ...
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  • are small, "bottle-cap" shaped circular saws, while the tentacles ... hyponome, created by a fold in the mantle. Motion of squids is usually backward ...
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  • radius circular motion each year. Thus, the true equator moves slightly. This, however, is only important for detailed scientific studies. The ...
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  • on the grounds that planets confined their motion to the circle of the zodiac ... of the planets would also describe the motion of other bodies. He thought ...
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  • example, the trajectories of the Brownian motion in the plane have a Hausdorff ... for example, trajectories of the Brownian motion, Lévy flight, fractal landscapes ...
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  • the wings themselves are moved in a circular motion. The helicopter's ... more drag or resistance to the forward motion. In a fixed wing aircraft ...
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  • of impiety for "putting the Earth in motion." ... anomalies, such as the apparent retrograde motion of many planets, a system ...
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  • Aristotle first suggested a reciprocal or circular causality as a relation ... in air. The heavenly element has perpetual circular motion. ...
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  • and, finally, to the railway train in motion, which may be called the ... * Morgan, Lewis H. 1859. Circular, laws of consanguinity, and descent ...
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  • in order to explain the apparent retrograde motion of Mercury relative to Venus, posited the existence of epicycles within the orbit of Mercury ...
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  • using chopsticks, which are used with a raking motion. ==Types and ... the stationary lower stick. With this motion one can pick up food of surprising ...
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  • quot; such as size, position, shape, motion, and rest were not 'objective ... . Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion, (University of Wisconsin ...
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  • avoided linear classicism and eschewed a simple circular shape in favor of a corrugated oval. Siegfried Giedion pointed out in Space, Time and Architecture ...
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  • characterizable natural laws governed the motion of life-less particles without ... in geometry (specifically, extension and motion). He termed these 'primary ...
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  • in service of a goal or goals. This "circular causal" relationship ... that have goals, and that participate in circular, causal chains that move ...
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  • be taken as a crude estimate. Ambient air motion, causing forced convection ... Even though the earth only absorbs as a circular area \pi R^2, it ...
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  • acts. Notable among these was a circular letter he drafted as a response ... 1774, Adams locked the doors and made a motion for the formation of a colonial ...
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  • Compound eyes are very sensitive to motion. Some arthropods, and many ... of the pupil is actively adjusted by the circular and radial muscles to maintain ...
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