Sentences with phrase «as earths rotation»

Gravitational pull by the continents cause the water to be pulled towards them, as well as earths rotation moving water towards the middle and piling it up against the eastern coastlines of the continents.

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Note also that the work translated as «day» can also be translated as «age», and does not always refer to a 24 hour period (one rotation of the earth on it's axis).

■ Bishop Nicholas of Oresme (1323 - 1382), Bishop of Lisieux who as a mathematician discovered how to combine exponents and developed graphs of mathematical functions and as a physicist explained the motion of the Sun by the rotation of the Earth and developed a more rigorous understanding of acceleration and inertia.

As a consequence, each year the moon's orbit expands by about 4 cm and Earth's rotation slows by 0.000017 second.

Under these conditions, the liquid sodium is subjected to a strong magnetic field and to fast rotation, as would be expected in Earth's core, and undergoes both large - scale motion and random fluctuations.

As proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern AfricAs proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africas well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africas deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africa.

Scientists have linked the periodic changes in our planet's rotation rate (which determines day length) to various factors, such as tides and interactions between Earth's inner layers, but a good deal of the variation remains unexplained.

Those cool conditions, however, depend on whether Venus looked the same in its youth as it does today — although the researchers added an ocean, they kept Venus's present - day topography intact — and whether it has always spun as slowly as it does now, taking 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation.

GeoCarb will be placed in a geostationary orbit that will allow it to travel at the same speed as the Earth's rotation, giving it what NASA calls «wall to wall» focus on North and South America.

The strength of gravity at Earth's surface varies subtly from place to place owing to factors such as the planet's rotation and the position of mountains and ocean trenches.

It was a race against the clock: Kilpatrick and his team needed to collect as much data as they could in just minutes before the Earth's rotation made that portion of the sky inaccessible.

(The moon also revolves around Earth in the same direction as Earth's rotation but at a much slower rate.)

From Earth, big - dish radar can precisely measure the changing tilt of Mercury's rotation axis as well as what one of the co-authors calls «the planet doing the twist»: tiny changes in its rotation speed due to solar tides.

And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.

It is generated by the rotation of liquid iron in the core, just as happens inside Earth.

Astronomers already knew that Mercury has a magnetic field about 1 per cent the strength of Earth's, and that the rotation of liquid iron in the core generates the field, just as happens inside Earth.

These clocks arose as an adaptation to dramatic swings in daylight hours and temperature caused by the Earth's rotation.

Our point was that Earth's rotation has slowed by a total of three hours over the course of 2,000 years, for an average of 0.015 second per day: If you think of Earth's period of rotation as a kind of clock, it would be three hours slow by now.

The planets» rotation is locked, so the worlds keep the same face towards the stars they orbit, much like the Moon does as it moves around the Earth.

The expensive, dangerous business of rocketing people and cargo into space would become obsolete as elevators climb the ribbon and hoist occupants to any height they fancy: low, for space tourism; geosynchronous, for communications satellites; or high, where Earth's rotation would help fling spacecraft to the moon, Mars, or beyond.

That motion, over a period of months, would allow researchers to very accurately characterize the wobble in Mars's axis of rotation, and might therefore provide a long - sought answer to whether Mars has a molten core, as Earth does.

Pendulums typically swing back and forth as a result of gravity and the rotation of the Earth.

The spectral landscape is revealed by the Meteosat Seviri satellite, which snaps images every 15 minutes as it orbits in lockstep with Earth's rotation.

«In essence, we demonstrated that two weak links behave as one weak link whose properties are influenced by earth's rotation,» Packard explains.

Friction caused by fierce weather systems may be slowing the planet's rotation, just as weather and tides cause Earth's day to vary.

It turns out that Earth's rotation and the presence of oceans and atmosphere on its surface mean it can be described as a «topological insulator» — a term usually reserved for quantum phenomena.

With very strong magnetic fields and very fast rotations, some neutron stars blast beams of electromagnetic radiation from their poles, and if Earth is in the path of those beams we can detect the signals as regular «pulses» — hence the name pulsars.

From 1978 to 1996 the GBI was operated by the US Naval Observatory for its studies of Earth rotation (for accurate timekeeping) and monitoring of variable sources, such as pulsars.

Synchronous rotation can occur as a result of tidal forces from gravitational interactions between two orbiting bodies (Earth's moon is an example of an object in synchronous rotation, so that we only ever see one side from the ground).

In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving.

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

The hormone melatonin, the production of which both reflects the sleep and wake cycle as well as helping to control it, in a healthy woman, is timed according to the rotation of the earth.

I'm not going to tell you that this film is anything but ridiculous, but this trip to the center of the earth — and it's an express trip, my friend — in an attempt to fix the planet's rotation (no, seriously) is one worth taking, because the filmmakers are clearly winking at the screen as often as not.

«If a young child is puzzled about why it gets dark at night,» he says, «it's not as if they are going to start figuring out the rotation of the earth.»

This module includes the following: * A check list for students, parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.

As your student creates these 4 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Sun Basic Facts (Eclipse, Composition, Nuclear Fusion, Photosynthesis, Energy) • Sun Numbers (size, distance from Earth, temperature, etc) • Rotation and Revolution • Interesting Facts About the Sun This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

Shadow walls — where suspended panels with cutout images cast shadows as the sun shines through the cutouts — teach students about the earth's rotation and seasonal cycles as shadows cast by the sun shift positions and lengths.

This 30 - slide presentation revises the following learning objectives: 1) To explain how the Earth spinning explains day and night 2) To know what a leap year is and explain why we need them 3) To explain why the average temperature changes as we go through the year 4) To explain why the length of the day changes as we go through the year 5) To describe difference between stars and planets 6) To describe the phases of the Moon 7) To explain that the apparent movement of the stars is caused by the rotation of the Earth 8) To explain total and partial solar and lunar eclipses 9) To explain the effect the sun and the moon have on tides on earth 10) To describe spring tides and neap Earth spinning explains day and night 2) To know what a leap year is and explain why we need them 3) To explain why the average temperature changes as we go through the year 4) To explain why the length of the day changes as we go through the year 5) To describe difference between stars and planets 6) To describe the phases of the Moon 7) To explain that the apparent movement of the stars is caused by the rotation of the Earth 8) To explain total and partial solar and lunar eclipses 9) To explain the effect the sun and the moon have on tides on earth 10) To describe spring tides and neap Earth 8) To explain total and partial solar and lunar eclipses 9) To explain the effect the sun and the moon have on tides on earth 10) To describe spring tides and neap earth 10) To describe spring tides and neap tides

A coming - of - age story and a tale of a frightening possible future, this gem of a novel features 12 - year - old Julia, who is living in a world that is coming to an end as the earth's rotation gradually slows.

According to a very apt reviewer on Doodling's Kindle store page, at first glance the book seems like a pleasantly silly story about a man flinging off the Earth's surface quite by mistake as the planet's rotation begins to spin out of control, forcing him to set up hearth on an asteroid.

Verge was written in 24 - hours - a single rotation of the Earth upon its axis - as part of a challenge set down at the 1000 Monkeys, 1000 Typewriters forum (www.1km1kt.com).

The Pantheon is also well - known as the place where the astronomer Jean Bernard Léon Foucault conducted one of his very first experiments in 1851 to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

With the earliest purpose thought to be as simple as a light source at night to modern day understandings of its effect on the Earth's rotation and tides, the moon has found itself playing a fundamental role in the lifespans of all forms of life on this planet.

As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth.

As for melting continental ice sheets, yes, that would increase the Earth's moment of inertia about its axis of rotation, leading to a slight increase in length of day.

One idea is that this is related to PDO and how slight changes in the earth's rotation rate can set in motion large - scale upwellings in the ocean that reverse as the rotation accelerates and decelerates.

As to your last point, the idea that Pacific climate is affected by tiny changes in the Earth's rotation is ridiculous (and not controversial at all).

Rather, as the air moves north, the west - to - east rotation of the earth underneath it becomes increasingly fast, making the air blow to the west relative to the earth even though the air itself has little motion.

As it grows, the rotation of the Earth sets the huge air mass spinning, and you get a hurricane (or, as they are called when they're in the Pacific Ocean, a typhoon — the generic term is a tropical cycloneAs it grows, the rotation of the Earth sets the huge air mass spinning, and you get a hurricane (or, as they are called when they're in the Pacific Ocean, a typhoon — the generic term is a tropical cycloneas they are called when they're in the Pacific Ocean, a typhoon — the generic term is a tropical cyclone).

I am quite aware that tectonic plate movements, changes in ocean currents, as well as astronomical influences can and do affect the Earth's rate of rotation but these are reasonably well understood and can be calculated.