Sentences with phrase «along an axis perpendicular»

The force acts along an axis perpendicular to the direction in which light is traveling.

Along the axis perpendicular to this plane, the gas expands significantly more rapidly to form the lower surface brightness «wings» of the butterfly.

Not exact matches

Two perpendicular hinges connect the moving parts such that they can move only along the remaining, unrestricted axis.

2 Pyraminx has eight twists: two each along four different axes perpendicular to the four faces.

When an electric current was applied along the perpendicular axis, the cells did not contract so readily.

By surrounding the atom with three sets of counterpropagating beams along three mutually perpendicular axes, the atom can be cooled in all three dimensions.

The hip muscles act on three mutually perpendicular main axes, all of which pass through the center of the femoral head, resulting in three degrees of freedom and three pair of principal directions: Flexion and extension around a transverse axis (left - right); lateral rotation and medial rotation around a longitudinal axis (along the thigh); and abduction and adduction around a sagittal axis (forward - backward); [29] and a combination of these movements (i.e. circumduction, a compound movement in which the leg describes the surface of an irregular cone).

Reinhardt's classic paintings, like Mondrian's, are articulated along parallel and perpendicular (or horizontal and vertical) axes.

Their newest sculptures are mobiles made of blown and cold - worked, cut glass suspended from metal rods that turn effortlessly along the long axis and the perpendicular side axes.