Sentences with phrase «as inclined planes»

Each Home Base's machine must include simple components such as inclined planes, wheels and axles, levers and pulleys.

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Instead of thinking in terms of high and low as Aristotle did, Galileo did it by following bodies down the inclined plane at each moment to see if he could find out something new about motion.

Science, for the most part, studies objects such as pendulums, steel balls on inclined planes, planets and stars.

Was the movement of Newton's mind, through which he discovered the laws of motion, explicable on the same terms as the movement of steel balls on inclined planes?

As David Griffin points out, the great successes of science have come from studying aggregates, such as balls on inclined planes and solar systems, where Newtonian mechanics or the Cartesian system applies (RS 24As David Griffin points out, the great successes of science have come from studying aggregates, such as balls on inclined planes and solar systems, where Newtonian mechanics or the Cartesian system applies (RS 24as balls on inclined planes and solar systems, where Newtonian mechanics or the Cartesian system applies (RS 24).

But simple machines — defined by Renaissance natural philosophers as the lever, the wheel and axle, the wedge, the screw, the inclined plane, and the pulley — are hidden beneath the skins and exoskeletons of many a creature.

To begin with, they orbited close to the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the planets, but their orbits were deformed by the galaxy's tidal force and by interactions with nearby stars, gradually becoming more inclined and forming a more or less spherical reservoir,» Morais said.

Kevin then used another technique to better constrain the plane of the disk itself: as you can't quite trust scattered light images to determine where the structures (mass) is hidden, he used longer wavelength observations from the ALMA radio interferometer array to figure out how inclined is the disk.

Recent numerical integrations, however, suggest that stable planetary orbits exist: within three AUs (four AUs for retrograde orbits) of either Alpha Centauri A or B in the plane of the binary's orbit; only as far as 0.23 AU for 90 - degree inclined orbits; and beyond 70 AUs for planets circling both stars (Weigert and Holman, 1997).

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