Sentences with phrase «by inertial»

It may be that it is modulated by inertial oscillations within the plasma body of the Sun owing to perturbations caused by the planets, and chiefly by the gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn.

A Foucalt Pendulum, if it were accurate enough, would measure a sidereal day, not a solar day, since its movement is governed by an inertial frame of reference.

Optional Curve Control tilts the entire car into a turn, so that passengers are pressed into their seats rather than being pushed up against the side bolsters by inertial force.

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The inertial confinement experts, such as those at NIF, are attempting to ignite a fusion reaction by firing powerful lasers at plasma contained in a pellet the size of a pea.

Hence simultaneity for Whitehead is the spatial spread of events in a given inertial frame as defined by a given duration, and is Newtonian in the sense that each instantaneous space in a frame provides a single present class of all events in nature relative to that frame.

One is that the determination of spatial distance between events is possible, which Einstein provides by stipulating that the events occur within a fixed coordinate reference frame (the so - called Galilean space or inertial frame)(RSGT 11).

By analyzing the action of gravitational forces against the background of an inertial frame of reference Newton is able to measure and to describe that action in terms of coordinates assigned to an inertial frame.

Therefore, no system of material objects may serve as a frame of reference and be completely suitable for the purpose of analyzing in terms of laws the motions of material objects; for such laws of motion should be stated in such a manner that they are unaffected by the peculiar absence or presence of inertial forces in particular physical frames of reference.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

Inertial confinement fusion achieves this by crushing tiny capsules of fuel with intense laser or magnetic field pulses to achieve the required conditions.

The Precision Platform Autopilot guides the aircraft by using a kinematic differential Global Positioning System developed by JPL in concert with the aircraft's inertial navigation system to enable it to fly repeat paths to an accuracy of 15 feet or less.

These inertial measurement units, or IMUs, determine a target's location by measuring changes in acceleration since the last GPS reading.

The space shuttle is an ear - splitting, bone - rattling ride, beginning with eight minutes of inertial forces peaking at three g's (three times an individual astronaut's weight) followed by a near - instant, stomach - churning flip to zero gravity.

Theory and computational simulations had suggested the possibility that jets might be created by «shock focused inertial confinement.»

Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.

Farrell said these requirements can be achieved by combining GPS measurements with data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) through an internal navigation system (INS).

This connection can be established, Grøn argues, by using the phenomenon of inertial dragging.

Just like the insight that lead Einstein to the Special Theory of Relativity, viz. «all laws of Physics remain the same for all inertial observers,» one must expect all scientific results to be reproduced identically (to a certain level of precision) by independent experimenters, thereby removing instrumental, environmental and human bias.

Scientists at NIF are seeking to produce fusion by imploding hydrogen fuel capsules with the world's most powerful laser beams in a process called inertial confinement.

By making the fly change directions in its virtual landscape, the researchers created conditions where the inertial costs of flapping the wings increase, allowing them also to measure elastic storage.

In inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactions, the mixing induced by the RM instability (created by a converging shock wave on the fuel - shell interface) can contaminate fuel and impair fusion yield.

Berkeley Lab's inertial fusion energy research has emphasized ion beams — focused by magnetic fields, not materials like glass, and accelerated by induction accelerators.

The other major approach to controlled fusion is inertial confinement, in which a fuel capsule is hit by energetic «driver» beams from all directions, causing it to implode and then ignite in a miniature thermonuclar explosion.

Spearheaded by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Inertial Confinement Fusion team, this was the first shot in the development of beryllium capsules, which has been in the works for more than a decade.

The history of those early activities of Inertial Confinement Fusion Research was published with original articles and contributions from the pioneers in the book Inertial Confinement Fusion: A Historical Approach by its Pioneers that he edited in 2007.

Among his publications, it is worth to remark the last one, co-edited with Natividad Carpintero - Santamaría, Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion: A Historical Approach by its Pioneers (Foxwell and Davies UK Ltd - 2007) which describes for the first time the work carried out by the leading and pioneer scientists in this field during the last 50 years at the main international nuclear laboratories.

Special relativity indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick Moving Checklist You may not be able to move mountains, but you can plan an organized move with a little help from this step - by - step timeline.

The double wishbone suspension at the front reduces shock transmission to the handlebar by up to 30 percent and a 40 percent reduction in the inertial mass at the front end.

The three - cylinder engine is also free of first and second order inertial forces and roll torque, which is very small compared to the six - cylinder engine, is completely eliminated by the use of a single balance shaft.

The suspension ably handled the turns at a reasonable speed, aided by a responsive power steering system, holding the car level against inertial forces.

The atmospheric fraction of that instantaneously released CO2 would drop quickly as it invaded the oceans, while the thermal response of the Earth will be slowed by the thermal inertial of the oceans.

The fact that ignition in a large American experimental inertial confinement fusion facility did not occur as hoped by Sept. 30 has sadly raised questions about the scientific legitimacy of that pursuit.

True, sidereal LOD is converted to a mean solar day equal to 86,400 seconds, but it remains an inertial frame of reference, and when astronomically measured (by star transit, or whatever) is initially sidereal.

Note that the geostrophic balance is thus very different from the case of «inertial motions» (see below), which explains why mid-latitude cyclones are larger by an order of magnitude than inertial circle flow would be.

Then 14C is oxidized to form carbon dioxide and circulates within the carbon cycle between different reservoirs, some of which are very inertial, and it gets eventually absorbed by trees by means of photosynthesis.

Actually my guess would be that by 2075 new technologies like inertial confinement fusion will have decreased CO2 emissions to the point where nature is drawing down more than we emit, so that CO2 will decrease for a while, starting well before 2100.

A review of observations, theory and modeling is presented to support the claim that strong anticyclonic relative vorticity can also lead to CAT through the generation of gravity wave activity by geostrophic adjustment and inertial instability.

The MWP is better explained by the Arctic Amplification effect whereas northern hemisphere warming is amplified due to faster thermal response to climate forcing due to greater land mass and less ocean mass; compared to the southern hemisphere which is largely water (which has a slower thermal inertial response to climate forcings).

Those waves dominate the vertical velocity field in the mixed layer (vortex Rossby waves) and below the first hundred meters (near inertial waves) and they are responsible for the differences in the vertical transport properties under the various forcing fields as quantified by frequency spectra, vertical velocity profiles and vertical dispersion of Lagrangian tracers.

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