Sentences with phrase «at shallower angles»

It is suggested that this works due to the ability of the exercise to increase the peak eccentric force of the hamstrings at shallower angles of knee flexion (the knee is more extended) vs. a leg curl which puts a premium on concentric force when the knee is in full flexion.

If North Korea shot a missile at the US, it would enter the atmosphere at a shallow angle and undergo longer exposure to intense heat and pressure, which could destroy the missile or knock it off course.

That means larger planes loaded up with fuel that are forced to take off at a shallower angle, and are therefore closer to the ground for a longer period of time.»

The velvet only traps half of such electrons, since if the electrons from the plasma strike the fibers at a shallow angle the secondary electrons can bounce away without obstruction.

Based on sophisticated silicon honeycombs that disperse the high - energy photons by deflecting them at shallow angles, Arcus's optics should turn as many as 40 % of the incoming photons into a usable spectrum — up from 5 % in NASA's current flagship Chandra X-ray Observatory.

It's a block of thick crust that doesn't subduct easily, rather it subducts at a shallow angle,» said Mann.

In fact, they found that the biggest megathrust events in these other zones were directly related to young, buoyant plates» being strongly coupled to the overlying landmass at shallow angles — which fit the description of Cascadia perfectly.

In the winter, when the sun is at a shallow angle, the haze subsides; as a result, the atmosphere clears up and the blue color appears.

As the model helps explain, a volcano can form inland if the slab subducts at a shallower angle, and a hole in the shallow slab allows for a special type of magma to form by melting of the crust.

He discovered many geologically recent faults at shallow angles — which all point to the mountain making adjustments in the past million years to the way its rocks pile up.

At the autumnal equinox, however, the ecliptic meets the eastern horizon at its shallowest angle of the year, and the moon rises only some 30 to 40 minutes later each night.

Initially, this exercise is done at a shallow angle and as the mobility and strength increase, it can be taken to a lower position.

The rear glass also flows into the trunk lid at a shallower angle than before, reducing aerodynamic turbulence.

That's surprising because the windshield pillars rake back toward the driver at a shallow angle, yet it was never hard for me to see out the Envision, either when parking or while driving on the highway.

Switch the tablet round, and the Lenovo sits at a shallower angle, which is more suited to typing.

Actually, the fact that the direct component of the incident sunlight arrives at a shallow angle to the surface and thus experiences a much larger albedo, as one would expect for any transparent material.

Not exact matches

«The speculation among pilots right now is that it must have come down at a relatively shallow angle,» Lamb said.

A shallow spoon head helps prevent feeding too much at once and a contoured handle is angled for easy feeding.

Using tomographic data, the authors inferred that the Caribbean plate crust to the north is subducting at a very shallow angle and producing relatively little deep seismicity.

The rate of flow can be controlled by adjusting the angle of the device, Chiang says, and the team found that at a very shallow angle, close to horizontal, «the device would operate most efficiently, at a very steady but low flow rate.»

It's cold there because the sun's rays strike the surface at a much shallower angle than they do at the equator.

Study of the images indicated that the crater was probably the result of a shallow impact with a comet or asteroid, at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.

Along the sides, there are larger wheel houses, large and more angular exterior mirrors that sit outboard on the doors rather than in the blanked - off quarter - panel at the base of the A-pillar, a slightly higher waistline, marginally shallower and more elongated glasshouse, a more defined crease line running underneath the doors, wider rear fenders and a more heavily angled rear window.

The Surface 2's kickstand, however, can be positioned to make the slate lean back at wide or shallow angles, making using the tablet in your lap easier.

Despite its excellent visual quality, the Transformer Book's display offered shallow viewing angles, with images washing out at roughly 40 degrees.

The left click has a nice concave that helps situate your finger dead - center while the right slops off at a steady, shallow angle.

The main display consisted of two partitioned installations: Untitled (1992/2012), featuring 22 red aluminum squares in shallow relief that extended across two adjacent walls, and Untitled (2012), eight rectangular titanium panels positioned vertically on the floor at alternating angles, which had the effect of disrupting their relationship with the long room in which they were installed.

> sun at zenith I know, David, that's the way to locate such possible sources; sun angle shallower than slope so the sun doesn't reach the site.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.

In most cases, the seat reclines to a position that is nearly straight, but pitched at an angle that looks more like a shallow «v» shape.

I found myself missing the LG V20's second camera for wide angle shots, or the Mate 9's dual setup for shallow depth - of - field (Google's attempt at imitating lens blur sucks).