Sentences with phrase «axis point»

Whether the Jupiter distance is controlled by planet perturbations or a moving Sun away from the planet axis point there is a modulation of 60 years in the Jupiter perihelion distance that looks to align with the PDO record.

Its axis point is the fantastical nation of Wakanda, an African Eden where verdant - green landscapes meet blue - sky science fiction.

Just notice how you feel in a place, look at the lessons and gifts the particular axis point can offer you.

These devices have two spinning axis points and a free - floating spindle assembly.

It is elongated, and its long axis points right at the Large Magellanic Cloud, suggesting that the galaxy's gravity is yanking it apart.

This theory stipulates that changes in Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun (eccentricity), changes in the direction in which our axis points (precession) and changes in the tilt of the earth itself (obliquity)-- known as Milankovitch Cycles — should contribute to changes in climate because of the different amounts of solar insolation received during these changes.

Precession: In a cycle of a little over 20,000 years, the point of the Earth's axis wobbles so that the north axis points now to Polaris (the North Star) but will eventually point to Vega before returning to Polaris.

The land is worth «x» — the type of construction is «y» $ / sq.ft and where the axis points meet — well, you know the rest of the story.

Not exact matches

In truth, you probably fall somewhere in the middle along a 10 - point spectrum on each of these axis.

Stretching a linear axis vertically to prove a point.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto: BC Loses Another LNG Project as Woodside Petroleum Axes Grassy Point

But the two points mark the antipodes of New York City's axis of religious dedication: to timelessness at one pole, to change at the other.On the 50th....

They argued as though every element could be arbitrarily moved, without changing the world, to any point along the axis of time.

hindu criminal sign of swastika is formed by joining of upright hindu criminal Pharaoh's pyramid and up side down on same axis, invisible pyramid of his hindu pagan Priest, crossing point of both pyramid's creates Swastika above burial chamber of hindu, pagan, self centered Pharaoh.

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.

He starts by pointing to the prerequisites for being able to use the formalism of coordinate geometry, namely the arbitrary choice of an origin and coordinate axes.

The difference from the interpoint is that the - point involves a - axial class, i.e., the nonpunctual analogon to the axes of a coordinate system (cf. definition 3.22, MC 494).

My point really is that I get really arsed off listening to the experts telling us that it is all done and dusted with the Cesc / Costa axis and they will see Chelsea coast the league.

Which goes to my point is that Meier, Schwarzenbeck, Roth, Beckenbauer and Muller were all first - eleven players throughout their stay at FC Bayern, forming a continous axis or core throughout 1967 - 1976.

Which also meant, as my husband pointed out, that this day was the spring equinox meaning the Earth's axis is «just so» and the sun's rays are hitting the equator in such a way that you can easily balance an egg on a table... or something like that.

Teachers can determine their overall rating by finding their Measures of Student Learning rating on the y - axis and their Observations (teaching) rating on the x-axis and plot where the two points meet.

But magnetic north doesn't line up perfectly with true north, the point where the Earth's axis hits the surface (and above which the North Star sits).

«If plotting points in two dimensions using X and Y axes, you might see clusters of points and that would tell you something or provide a clue that the materials might share some attributes,» he explains.

The observed transient behavior displays a notable «structural isosbestic» point and a threshold effect for the dependence of c - axis expansion (Δc) on fluence (F), with Δc / F = 0.02 angstrom / (millijoule per square centimeter).

Still, the seeds of language, teaching and learning were planted due to the demand for Oldowan tools, the study suggests, and at some point hominins got better at communicating, hence the advent of Acheulean hand - axes and cleavers some 1.7 million years ago.

«At some point they reached a threshold level of communication that allowed Acheulean hand axes to start being taught and spread around successfully and that almost certainly involved some sort of teaching and proto - type language,» Morgan said.

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.

Some argue the rotating wheels act like a gyroscope to help the bicycle correct itself; others believe the «trail» (the angle between a bike's steering axis and its point of contact with the ground) forces the bike into a stabilizing turn.

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.

In the SES SunCatcher, a circle of curved mirrors, resembling an upturned satellite dish, tracks the sun on two axes and reflects the sun's heat onto a single focus point, the power conversion unit (PCU).

This «lensing» effect would concentrate dark matter along an axis passing through Earth's core, reaching densities about a billion times more than average at the focal point (arxiv.org/abs/1507.07009).

Spread out on a gravel plain of about 20 acres, the temples were situated so that the axis of each pointed toward the mountain.

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

The researchers turned those variables into a 50 - dimensional «face space,» with each face being a point and each dimension being an axis along which a set of features varied.

Plotting a graph with suitable combinations of these variables on the two axes, the researchers traced a straight line that coincided almost perfectly with the experimental data points.

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.

Our axis of spin points, by chance, in its direction, causing Polaris to appear glued in place.

These phases were characterized respectively by flow patterns which were random, aligned along an axis, and those which swirled around individual focal points.

But that distant celebrity to which Earth's axis happens to point is remarkable in its own right.

«On top of that you have tides due to the gravitational pull of the Earth, and that creates sort of a lemon shape with the long axis of the lemon pointing at the Earth.»

However, up until this point, it was unknown if and how the GARP: TGF - beta axis contributes to peripheral B cell tolerance.

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.

The number and stability of lines perpendicular to the (vertical) y - axis indicates the system state at a particular point in time: one line: no oscillation (stasis) two lines: periodic oscillation four, six, eight etc. lines: period doubling, subharmonic vibrations no continuous lines, rugged appearance: irregular system behavior, indicator for chaos

Whether any point along the beam is a wave peak, a trough or something in between depends on where that point lies with respect to the helix's central axis.

Recall from high school algebra that the graphs of certain functions head off to infinity when they reach a particular point on the x axis.

«When you collide an unpolarized proton beam (where the proton spins can be pointing in any direction) with a proton polarized transverse to its direction of travel (say, with its polarization axis facing up), there is a net deflection — an imbalance in the probability for a particle to go to the left versus to go to the right — just like when a ball hits a spinning fan,» said Dunlop.

(F, G, H) The number of unique sequences within the subsets which share exact runs of CDR3 residues are plotted on the y - axis against runs of increasing CDR3 length on the x-axis for (F) B9, (G) A14 and (H) B21 at the time points indicated in the legend.

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.

At greatest eclipse, 90.5 percent of the sun's diameter will be covered as seen from the place nearest to the shadow axis, at a point in the Bellingshausen Sea along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The extreme tilt of the Martian axis at the time would have pointed the planet's poles at the Sun and driven polar ice to the equator, where water drainage and erosion features are still seen today.