Sentences with phrase «axis of rotation»

The eccentric axis of rotation creates a seemingly unpredictable path of motion.

The precession of the equinoxes refers to the precession of Earth's axis of rotation with respect to inertial space.

Because Earth's axis of rotation points very close to Polaris, all other stars in the Northern Hemisphere appear to revolve around it.

The climatic seasons that we experience on Earth are caused by a combination of Earth's annual orbit around the sun and its tilted axis of rotation.

Because Mercury's axis of rotation doesn't tilt at all (which means there's no summer or winter) some deep craters at the poles may be in perpetual shadow, and that could protect any ice patches from the heat of the sun.

The tilt of Mars» axis of rotation varies much more than Earth's, over rhythms of millions of years.

However, they spin on different axes of rotation.

A decade ago, geophysicists observed that seismic waves from earthquakes that travel through the core parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation pass through the Earth between 2 and 4 seconds faster than if they travel parallel to the plane of the equator.

PushX3 also uses the body's stabilizer muscles and free axis of rotation to enhance muscle performance and results.

Great steering wheel and axis of rotation Good for storage Feels smooth, no problem accelerating or braking Great interior design Comfortable seats

Obliquity is the angle of a planet's axis of rotation relative to its orbital plane.

The brushless motor powers a gimbal with three axes of rotation including pan, roll, and tilt, offering a controllable pan range of ± 160 degrees, as well as a controllable tilt range (in landscape mode) of ± 155 degrees.

Obliquity is the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation with respect to the plane of its orbit, which changes with a period of about 41,000 years.

It is also the summer solstice, or the point in the earth's orbit where the earth's axis of rotation points most toward the sun — in case you were wondering.

7 Movements of Earth in Space (Page 270) The climatic seasons that we experience on Earth are caused by a combination of Earth's annual orbit around the sun and its tilted axis of rotation.

The conservation of angular momentum applied to the flotsam that became earth caused the poles (the 2 points where the earth intersects the axis of rotation.

Voyager's observations revealed that the magnetic field is peculiar, both because it does not originate from the planet's geometric center, and because it is tilted at 59 ° from the axis of rotation.

«So the first time she tried it,» he says, «she went up in the air, brought her legs and arms along the axis of rotation — and did one and a half turns.

The time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation is affected by anything that changes the distribution of the planet's mass relative to its axis of rotation.

The team found that as the temperature of the oceans rises, the resulting changes in density and circulation would cause a net transfer of mass to the higher latitudes, closer to Earth's axis of rotation.

In the simplest models of reversals, the Earth's magnetic field behaves like a bar magnet that points roughly along the planet's axis of rotation.

This is due to the thaw following the last ice age: the melting of glaciers lets the crust rebound, redistributing Earth's mass and leading to subtle changes in its axis of rotation.

It predicts that the moon's precession — the rate at which its axis of rotation shifts — is slightly smaller than what Einstein's general relativity says it should be.

Generated by collecting hundreds of x-rays around one axis of rotation, the scans are compiled to give an in - depth snapshot of the body's insides, like this scan of a patient's upper chest, showing the shoulder blades, part of the spine, and both lungs.

The terrestrial North Pole is a fixed geographic point that's diametrically opposed to the terrestrial South Pole on our planet's axis of rotation; it's the top of the spinning top that's Earth.

But because it is farther from the axis of rotation, the middle of a jump rope travels faster than the ends, so it experiences greater drag.

14 Stock up on DVDs and fire up the sunlamp: Uranus's axis of rotation is nearly aligned with the plane of its orbit, meaning that each pole on Uranus experiences a 42 - year - long summer of steady sunshine — followed by a depressing 42 years of winter darkness.

«We were the first people to study cases where the axis of rotation of the disk is not aligned with the axis of rotation of the black hole,» Fragile said.

The jets and outflows, by contrast, seemed to throw matter up and down along the disk's axis of rotation.

The wobble in Earth's axis of rotation is a combination of two major components, each with its own cause.

By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.

The dominant model is based on the slow cooling of celestial bodies, which causes convection, which in turn creates large vortices of molten iron parallel to the axis of rotation of the celestial body.

To measure the two effects, Gravity Probe B tracked the motion of four gyroscopes, comparing the alignment of their axes of rotation with the direction to a reference star.

Even stranger, that orbit is tilted high above the star's equator and axis of rotation.

These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation.

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.

The data suggest that in the past, the moon's axis of rotation — and hence its poles — shifted.

Richard Packard and Samus Davis made a sort of gyroscope from supercold helium - 3: the friction - free superfluid produces a whistling sound that gets louder or quieter depending on the orientation of the earth's axis of rotation.

The disc's gravity pulled the protoplanets» axes of rotation in one direction, but Jupiter's gravity pulled them in the opposite direction.

Thanks to the proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points roughly in Earth's direction, giving us a face - on - view of the developing planetary system, TW Hydrae is one of the most favorable targets for investigating planet formation.

But orbital precession occurs only when two black holes have axes of rotation that point in random directions, and it disappears when the axes are both perpendicular to the orbital plane.

It found that Saturn's magnetic field is closely aligned with the planet's axis of rotation, which baffled scientists because of how they think magnetic fields are generated — through a difference of tilt between the magnetic field and a planet's rotation.

When the liquid approaches this «tangent cylinder,» which is aligned with Earth's axis of rotation, from both sides, it is squeezed sideways, resulting in a fast - moving jet.

To express this additional information, the normal line, serving as an axis of rotation, was polarized to give a vector (V) showing excitatory sensitivity direction according to the right - hand rule as described by Ezure and Graf [19] and utilized by Calabrese and Hullar [22].

By calculating such global sensitivities for a high number of rotational axes, an axis of rotation resulting in the maximum summed sensitivity of all six canals can be determined (Sensitivitymax).