Sentences with phrase «fast moving air»

The jet streams are high - level rivers of fast moving air threading between the climate zones, and are driven by temperature, humidity and density differentials between the different types of air mass:

The latest en vogue explanation linking human greenhouse gas emissions to strong winter - season East Coast storms involves changes in the characteristics of the jet stream — a river of fast moving air in the atmosphere that influences both the strength and the forward speed of extratropical storm systems.

This fast moving air helps creates downforce without the unwanted side effect of drag, something external wings and spoilers tend to create.

According to a fundamental concept in fluid dynamics called Bernoulli's principle, faster moving air has lower pressure than slower moving air.

Once the faster moving air reaches the bottom of the tower, it is channeled through wind turbines in the base of the tower, generating electricity.

Not exact matches

Capable of moving up to 620 miles per hour — 40 miles per hour faster than the average commercial jet — Air Force One has the ability to refuel midair, so the president can travel as far as necessary without the need to touch down on dry land.

In hot, thin air, pressure waves move faster.

Does the boat move faster if you blow the air close to the boat or far away?

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

Unlike light, sound moves faster in the silicon core than in the surrounding air and glass.

Gottschalck said this leads to more rainfall over Indonesia while weakening jet streams — fast - moving, high - altitude air currents — and pushing them further north.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

Instead, Papamoschou's idea is to create a cone of hot air that moves more slowly than the exhaust, but faster than the ambient air — and thus acts as a buffer between the two.

A jet stream is a fast - moving horizontal or tubular current of air that primarily flows west to east.

Geologists are keen to understand whether these «slow earthquakes» are merely leaks of tectonic pressure, like the hiss of air from a punctured tire, or warning signs of a more dangerous, fast - moving temblor.

The source of the spiral flow is simple: As the wing pivots, the tip travels farther than the base and so moves through the air faster.

Lockwood and his team suggest that the sun is affecting Northern Europe by causing an increase in «blocking» of the northern jet stream, a fast - flowing river of air moving through the atmosphere.

Dark lightning is a burst of gamma rays produced during thunderstorms by extremely fast moving electrons colliding with air molecules.

By moving the trapped particle fast enough, the researchers were able to trace out patterns in the air that, to an observer, appeared as a single image.

Roy Craig's riveting book UFOs: An Insider's View of the Official Quest for Evidence, about his investigations for the U.S. Air Force's Colorado Project, includes an account of veteran police officers in Georgia chasing a mysterious, fast - moving object «about 500 feet above the ground.»

To win the Ocean Discovery X Prize, researchers will need to develop an autonomous, relatively fast - moving vehicle that can be launched from the air or shoreline.

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy.

Air traffic controllers on both sides of the Atlantic are also concerned about TCAS 2 (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) because it raises the problem of who is in control in a complex and fast - moving environment.

The speed varies with the medium employed (for example, sound waves move faster through water than through air), as well as with the properties of the medium, especially temperature.

Typically, lift was explained by Bernoulli's principle, which says that because air moves faster over the top of the wing than the bottom (the bottom of the wing is straight while top of the wing is curved, so air going over the wing goes futher in the same amount of time), the pressure of the air over the wing is lower.

The study also shows that the thin air at higher altitudes helps birds fly faster, and that the faster a bird rises upward in the air, the slower they move forward.

«The ball moves at its fastest velocity when it comes right off the foot, and air resistance immediately slows it down until it reaches its maximum height,» says John Eric Goff, Lynchburg College physicist and author of Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports.

In other words, dolphins move air two to three times faster than humans could ever do, Fahlman said.

An air shower occurs when a fast - moving cosmic ray particle strikes an air molecule high in the atmosphere, creating a violent collision.

And those changes in the Hadley Circulation can affect the subtropical jet stream — an area of fast - moving air that guides storms — in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

These fast - moving bands of winds are found in the upper levels of the atmosphere and are created due to Earth's rotation, and its air being warmed up by solar radiation.

A good starting point to improve speed is 3 × 3 minute rounds of relaxed shadow boxing, 3 × 3 minute rounds of punching a floor to ceiling ball or you can try a paper target hanging head height from the ceiling (The idea is not to hit the paper but simply make it move with the air generated by fast punches), 3 fast one hundred metre sprints.

That is, you need to get moving fast enough that your breathing becomes labored and you can't quite suck in air as quickly as you want to, and you need to hold that speed for a period of time.

That's why JustAskMeOut is such a breath of fresh air for fast - moving daters like him.

Each of these have their own stats but the short version is your blade determines how much damage you do, the gas canister determines how fast you move around in the air, and the mobility unit determines how far away from a Titan you have to be to hook into it and how quickly you'll accelerate towards it once you do.

The faster - moving air creates a low - pressure zone, forcing the wing down.

According to Bernoulli's principle — invoked in Swiss physicist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli's 1738 book, «Hydrodynamica» — air traveling at a fast speed has a lower pressure than slower - moving air.

Having looked into this in the past, the problem with electric superchargers and why they aren't widely used is partially that doing the job of a turbo / supercharger (moving and compressing a lot of air, fast) requires both relatively high torque and relatively high speed, while not taking up much space (a consideration on motorcycles, less so on cars).

Infact, in most cases, the air moving through the radiator is actually pushing the fans faster than they'd normally spin.

At lower RPM, the air velocity is not moving fast enough to properly atomize the fuel.

I move my hand to the window crank - I'm not lucky enough to have power windows - and proceed to let out all my cool, air - conditioned atmosphere, while this guy is getting more and more irritated at me because I'm not moving fast enough to suit him.

The fresh air, felt first on the Insignia GSi is now ready to make also the Corsa move very fast.

Additionally, the air suspension allows for a dynamic shift in ride height depending on how fast or slow the vehicle is moving.

Examples of Vs are V - twin, V4, V6, V8, V10, V12 and V16 Vacuum Servo: The clever use of the engine partial vacuum to assist in pressurising the braking hydraulic system Valve: In engine parlance Valve is a device that opens and closes an air passage to let in or let out gasses Valve Bounce: A condition where the fast moving valve has exceeded its springs ability to keep from bouncing up off its valve seat at high rpm.

I babysit a little boy for this family and they have a labradoodle so I am with him a lot and recently I have been dog sitting him while the family I work for is on vacation and I have been noticing that when ever he lays down he starts breathing really hard and fast and you can hear the air going through his nose every time he breathes like his nasal passage is blocked and he's trying to clear it or something and his chest moves up and down like a kid who is about to have an asthma attack and he coughs and burps a lot.

The airfoil shape of the wing causes air to move faster over the top of the wing than below, resulting in an upward lift from the slower moving air beneath the wing.

In airport news, Portland International's (PDX) Concourse E is getting a big expansion; Air Canada opens a new lounge at Vancouver; faster security screening comes to New York LaGuardia; Miami's Centurion Lounge is getting bigger; Nashville takes the wraps off a billion - dollar growth plan; and some U.S. airports lose Germany service as Airberlin moves up its shutdown.

Players will be able to move freely in the air and experience fast - paced aerial battles that will be sure to blow enemies away.

Even when you stop moving, bullets continue to move through the air in slow motion, although if you move too fast, they then fly through the air at a normal, more dangerous speed.

This is all because your Mecha doesn't move that fast and when you jump in the air, there doesn't appear to be too much wobble or bobble so you feel fine in all situations.