Sentences with phrase «bodies under gravity»
Periodic points of area - preserving mappings have been bread - and - butter to dynamical systems theory since the end of the 19th century, when Henri Poincare first applied them to a problem about the motion of three bodies under gravity.
https://www.newscientist.com/ Not exact matches
Batygin deduces the conditions under which a disk will warp in response or, conversely, will behave like a rigid body held fast by its own mutual gravity.
The more numerous faint stars are still in the process of collapsing under their own gravity, but have become hot enough in their centers to be self luminous bodies.
At the IAU's next general assembly in August 2006, it proposed a new definition of a planet: any body circling the Sun that forms itself into a sphere under its own gravity.
The battery pack's mass was offset by its placement under the floor, and the low center of gravity gave a planted feel through corners with scant body lean.
Developed under the concept of «Freedom to create the perfect lifestyle,» the Freed features Honda's original low - floor and low - center - of - gravity technology, to achieve a compact body size that makes it easy to maneuver through city streets as well as a spacious cabin that enables adults to sit comfortably in all three rows.
While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.
I'm interested in painting the figure in the drama of light and shadow — that and the specifics of the body in space, under duress, resisting gravity, and so on.