Sentences with phrase «around one's axis»

It is a vicious circle rotating around the axis of illusion which always gains momentum.

That means its orbital period is the same as its rotation around its axis.

The participating artists create works around the axis of food and art.

Any course, lecture or workshops on any subject revolves around that axis.

Also called moment of force, or simply moment, torque refers to the tendency of a force to rotate an object around an axis.

As the plane changed course, its body and wing scaled: To the human mind, this translated to a dynamic, three - dimensional airplane rotating around its axis.

This is a darker metallic color with copper trim, both around the axis of the body as well as around the face where metal meets glass.

We all know that it creates tides, but it also affects the speed at which the Earth spins around its axis, impacts the growth of seeds and plants, influences the behavior of animals, and some even theorize that life on earth would appear at a later time without the moon's gravity.

That explanation is no longer favored by the scientific community in favor of the heliocentric solar system model that explains it by the way the earth rotates around its axis once daily.

Rotation around the sun creates the seasons, but the rotation around the axes creates even bigger geophysical dynamic problems.

In some rare cases, a planet in a binary system may spiral around the axis that connects its two stars — although how such planets come to be is unclear

A large force close to the axis or a small force farther away from it can produce the same amount of torque; thus Avril had to apply a large force in order to twist her own body around its axis.

The fundamentals of the technique are simple: As Jupiter whirls around its axis, the resulting force should raise a slight, perfectly symmetric bulge around the planet's equator.

Even in an extraordinarily well - controlled system such as that at the Joint Quantum Institute, in which microwave bursts can rotate the atoms around an axis set by a magnetic field, entanglement is a finicky state that can be spoiled by any number of outside influences.

One of the simplest sets of symmetries is the group that comprises the symmetries of a sphere: Rotate a sphere as much as you like around any axis or flip it inside out, and it looks exactly the same.

The star spins around its axis at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at the equator, a rotational velocity so high that the star is nearly tearing apart due to centrifugal forces.

Hydra, the outermost moon, whips around its axis about 89 times during each orbit around Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

A head rotation around an axis with orientation X changes the sensitivity of the canal nerve responses in proportion to the cosine of the angle between X and V.

Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón, opening the film with a single, very long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.

While a much better action sequence than the earlier car chase, it offers little in the way of ingenuity with the exception of the train cars occasionally swiveling around the axis of the rail they are riding.

An actuator link rotates the eccentric shaft, moving the lower connecting rod up or down, which in turn rotates the plate around its axis on the crankshaft.

A vortex current spins around an axis line.

You can move the camera around (for a limited distance), zoom in and out, spin around an axis point, and then remove the user interface.

A column sculpture draped in a piece of canvas with nails hammered like their sharp ends were sprouted on the exterior of the column, were designed to move, rotating around its axis while the nails flew upward with speed.

As Leonard Hofstadter would say, we're «attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis».

Caption for Image 1: THE SPINNING EARTH IS AFFECTED BY WINDS Angular momentum describes the rotation of the Earth around its axis as depicted in this animation.

Earth rotates once every 24 hours around an axis that is tilted at an angle of 23 ° 30 ′ with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun.

«The high rotation of the planet — about 10 hours for a complete turn around its axis — and the heat coming from the lower levels of the atmosphere certainly have a great impact to the formation of the cyclonic pattern we have observed over the Jupiter's poles,» he told Digital Trends.

The above image shows how a foldable iPhone will have an all screen design (14, 14E, 14M) which can bend around an axis (16) having a central flexible display area (14M) separating two halves that are likely to be flat.The patent also lists possible display technologies — LCD, OLED and Micro LEDs.

HTC Camera 2.0 allows you to move the camera around the axis and snap photos creating large panoramas.

By moving in a large enough circle around an axis, at something approaching the speed of light, an observer might catch his own temporal tail, returning to his starting point at some time earlier than his departure.

Vesta revolves around its axis once very five hours and 20 minutes (NASA news release; and Jonathan Amos, BBC News, July 22, 2011).

Just the other day i was thinking about how the world has different time zones because of the earth revolving around its axis.

It's rotation around the sun creates the seasons, but the rotation around the axes creates even bigger problems.

Our own Sun rotates around its axis once every 25 days, and astronomers calculate that two billion years ago, our stellar companion rotated once every 18 days.

Unlike typical telescopes, Gaia does not just point and stare: it constantly spins around its axis, sweeping the entire sky in less than a month.

Raab says he urged Gove to put himself forward from the outset, but the former justice secretary instead informed him of the plan to build a «dream team» around an axis of Johnson as leader.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

As the sun takes 27 days to rotate around its axis, the team suggest a link (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009jd012359).

Since neither the Earth's rotation around its axis, nor the direction of its axis, nor the Moon's orbit are perfectly regular, their combined effect on motion in the core is unstable and can cause fluctuations in the geodynamo.

Of course many large - scale objects possess angular momentum, too: think of the planet Earth spinning around its axis to change night into day.

Meteorologists know that a rising mass of air on Earth will spin around an axis, says Rosner.

For example, Earth spins around its axis, the Sun spins around the centre of our galaxy, and cosmic gas spins when new stars are forming.

It's a far better machine on winding slow corners, too, rotating around its axis either under brakes, under a bit of throttle or even just leaning on the front tyres.

Like a doofus, I watched the building for a few minutes to see if its floors spun around an axis.