Sentences with phrase «apparent motion of»

It seems bees use the apparent motion of the ground and nearby objects to perform feats like navigating through tight spots, landing smoothly and estimating distance travelled.

© Steve Quirk, Views from Frog Rock (used with permission) Apparent motion of Proxima Centauri over 25 years.

The ancient cosmology could explain the apparent motion of the planets using just their movements around circles

For an observer stationed on the surface and revolving with it, the bulges would appear as a giant wave, which follows the apparent motion of the moon to the west and has two crests per lunar day.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, since, as is self - evidently apparent, the classes of beings are, at a command, in motion in a fashion a thousand times more well - ordered than that of an army, each group, from the stars, sun and moon and their motions to the flowers of the almond, displaying the decorations and uniforms the Pre-Eternal All - Powerful One has conferred on it, and the motion He has determined, in a way a thousand times more regular and perfect than that of an army — since this is so, the universe has an Absolute Ruler behind the veil of the Unseen, and its beings look to and conform to His command.

He also argues that the fetus lacks sensation, as is apparent in its lack of self - motion and silence.

Although a gradualist in his determinations on fetal development, he criticizes the Hippocratic opinion, which denied that the fetus moves on its own and attributed the apparent motion to a swaying of the uterus.

For an ellipse, an apparent distortion of the putatively more natural and ideal circle, implies that inertial mass, as it lies in opposition to force, must be attributed to the planets, and that more generally the motions of the planets require dynamic, as opposed to merely geometric or kinematic, analysis3 Here indeed may lie the kernel of a Kuhnian paradigm shift.

More to the point, Newton's «Scholium» which introduces the notions of «absolute, true, mathematical» space and time, and «relative, apparent, common» space and time (PNP 6 - 12), makes clear that absolute space and absolute time continua are thought to be necessary for a satisfactory theory of dynamics, that is, a theory of the forces which determine • the motion of material objects.7 The main idea in Newton's position is that not all physical frames of reference are suitable for satisfactory analysis of the motion of material objects; in fact, no physical frame of reference is completely suitable for this purpose.

I. Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.

Motion is only apparent, and is derivative from shifts in character of actual occasions in the historic route, no one of which really moves.

The study finds, however, that the direction of the crystals doesn't correlate with the apparent plate motion at any depth in the asthenosphere.

Their contrasting notions of the nature of time — in one case as a real flowing entity and in the other as an apparent illusion — is one of the major hurdles in uniting the two frameworks into a single theory of quantum gravity that explains the motions of all objects, from atoms to planets.

Still, the relative motions of the sun and the cloud (see diagram) create an apparent wind of particles.

Portegies Zwart proposes identifying stellar relatives via their proper motion, or apparent movement across our line of sight, their position in the sky, and their chemical signatures, which he likens to their stellar DNA.

• Extra: In this activity you tested whether the distance between objects has an effect on apparent motion, but there are other variables you can test, such as the speed at which the flip - books are flipped and the size of the circles.

In this activity you will investigate the phenomenon of apparent motion by making your own flip - book animations.

Apparent Motion In the 1980s one of us (Ramachandran) and our colleague Stuart M. Anstis developed an apparent - motion display called the Bistable QuarApparent Motion In the 1980s one of us (Ramachandran) and our colleague Stuart M. Anstis developed an apparent - motion display called the Bistable QuarteMotion In the 1980s one of us (Ramachandran) and our colleague Stuart M. Anstis developed an apparent - motion display called the Bistable Quarapparent - motion display called the Bistable Quartemotion display called the Bistable Quartet (d).

More to explore Experimenting with Simple Animation Devices, from Brian Wesley Rich's Science Web Site Development of Stop - Motion Animation, from Stop Motion Animation Perception in Animation (pdf), from the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Apparent Motion and Animation, from Science Buddies This activity brought to you in partnership with Science Buddies

One optical illusion that has had a huge impact on our culture is the illusion of apparent motion.

In the swimming motions of aerobic bacteria against asymmetric gears, apparent randomness can yield directed motion

[79][80] He soon realized this system was likely to have a high proper motion, [81][82][67] In this case, the apparent stellar motion was found using Nicolas Louis de Lacaille's astrometric observations of 1751 — 1752, [83] by the observed differences between the two measured positions in different epochs.

This definition allows the term to be applied to a range of objects from the nearest gravitationally bound clusters to groups of widely spread stars with no apparent gravitational identity, which are discovered only by searching the catalogs for stars of common motion.

It was apparent that in the bottom part of the range of motion, there was minimal resistance and, therefore, this set - up was not likely to be very effective.

The best scene revolves around a conflict with a kinetic structure on an office desk which, like the film, is a lot of seemingly random motion with no apparent purpose other than distraction.

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, a relentless runner whose technique is examined in slow motion, won the gold, pulling away from the competition with apparent ease.

But he was no journeyman, and his artistry immediately became apparent as he gave life to some of the most influential and beloved films of all time, including The Set - Up (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965), and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Symptoms are common to the three conditions and include generalized forelimb muscle atrophy, swelling of the elbow joint with increased fluid and sometimes bone production, decreased range of motion with pain of the elbow joint and varying degrees of lameness that may be intermittent, exacerbated by heavy activity or most apparent after rest.

Texture filtering also looks much improved (better than the alpha footage we saw in the first developer diary, in fact, though maybe this is down to the clip selection), and one of the most dramatic improvements is in the motion blur: far more apparent and more realistic.

This was even more apparent with the later release of Skyward Sword, utilizing the then - new Wii Motion Plus, offering a 1:1 ratio of motion accMotion Plus, offering a 1:1 ratio of motion accmotion accuracy.

The one thing that is immediately apparent is the omission of motion blur as you pan around - not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion (I disliked it in Perfect Dark Zero) but Starbreeze's implementation of it on The Darkness was pretty good; it certainly makes a difference in the game's opening car chase sequence and makes a good fist of papering over frame - rate inconsistencies.

According to Microsoft, IllumiRoom can «change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable -LSB-...]

After only a couple of minutes watching a Harmonix team member run through the basics, it became apparent that the game was far better suited to motion controls than most I've seen.

When you're throwing pitches in good locations and you feel like you nailed the motion of the pitch, and it ends up going dead center and knocked out of the park for no apparent reason, that can be frustrating.

The artist himself sheepishly peers out from one of the few oil paintings in the show, Bob's Sebring (2011), next to a silver convertible a bit too snazzy for his outfit, in front of a square garage... The paintings are furnished from a Kodachrome, sun - bleached palette, and a seemingly interminable supply of time... The supposed subject matter lingers at the edge of the well - measured composition, perfectly skewed to avoid approaching the edge of motion... The photographic qualities of this work are apparent, but the shutter's ability to capturing fleeting moments is irrelevant as time itself seems to be immobile anyway.»

It is apparent that dynamic energy, frenzied motion and spatial disorientation are also among Martin's subjects, but he achieves a balance between aesthetic and narrative functions of his images.

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In spite of its apparent simplicity and minimalist aesthetic, this is an elaborate and immersive piece, uncanny in its automatism, comical in its motion, and hypnotic in its rhythm.

However, such apparent «irregularities» and «motions» require the redistribution of water masses that are 28 times lower than in the case of rotation of the whole Earth.»

This apparent force on the motion of a fluid (in this case, air) is called the Coriolis effect.

After Tuvalu proposed the creation of a contact group for a «Copenhagen Protocol» (full text of draft here), China's apparent negative reactions sent the Tuvaluans to motion for a suspension of the talks.

I am reminded very strongly of the first scientific paper I ever wrote while a UROP student at MIT on «apparent super-luminal motion», which is to say astronomical observations that seemed to indicate that two celestial objects were moving apart faster than the speed of light.

Concluding the two trustees were «unable to work together in any reasonable and effective way,» Justice D.M. Brown said the competing sides «can not reasonably expect that unlimited judicial resources are available to devote to their internecine quarrels,» adding (with apparent frustration)(i) that the Commercial List in Toronto is «chronically short of judges,» (ii) that the «scheduling of criminal trials -LSB-...] has become particularly problematic» because it is «manifestly under resourced» and (iii) that «dates for one day civil motions are now being given out 8 to 9 months down the road.»

It also took notice of the plaintiff's apparent failure to respond to the motion to dismiss, which could potentially have addressed the subsequent defendant's timeliness defense.

The Ninth Circuit reversed the published decision of the district court, which had denied insurer's motion for summary judgment, holding that a defect that is not apparent upon reasonable inspection, but only comes to light after an intensive post-failure expert examination, is a latent defect within insurance policy's latent defect exclusion.

In apparent recognition that there might be an issue over jurisdiction, appeals were taken both to the Court of Appeal and by way of a motion for leave to appeal to the Divisional Court.

The affidavit evidence tendered by the defendants made it apparent to the motions judge that the process server was untruthful in swearing his affidavits of service.

Aside from the apparent procedural novelties involved in compelling an affidavit (or oral testimony) for its summary judgment motion (where recent SCC jurisprudence favouring summary judgment may assist), there is the added complexity of compelling the patent examiner (or another CIPO representative) to provide specific evidence regarding a particular patent.

Justice Brown lamented an apparent increase in motions seeking panel reviews of decisions made by single judges of the Court of Appeal as follows:

Finally, in 2363523 Ontario Inc. v. Nowack, Justice Brown lamented an apparent increase in motions seeking panel reviews of decisions made by single judges of the Court of Appeal.