Sentences with phrase «by moving masses»

Similarly, work done by moving masses of air and water hither and yon does not spontaneously (or in any other evident way) degrade to heat.

He was strongly fascinated by moving masses; he had a lot of sympathy for the anarchist movement.

[1] The ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves are created by moving masses, but only the most intense waves, created by rapid speed changes of very massive objects, can be detected by the current generation of detectors.

Not exact matches

That has been a sharp contrast to other recent mass shootings where public debate quickly moved on after the perfunctory «thoughts and prayers» offered by many Republican politicians and outrage expressed by Democrats.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

St Augustine wrote in his «Confessions» «I was deeply moved by the sweet chants of your church»; they were still being sung in the churches 700 years later during the Norman invasion; they were still being sung in the priest holes of England in the seventeenth century; these same chants were sung at Masses celebrated during two world wars.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Newtonian physics placed this metaphysical view into question when it regarded nature as inert mass, i.e., dead matter, moved from without by efficient causality.

But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward.

He was moved to fierce expostulations against an Alsatian priest, Jakob Wimpfeling, who had written a Little Book on Purity attacking the worldliness and self - indulgence of clergy, both those in the monasteries and the ordinary massing priests, and had specially attacked the Augustinians for accepting the well - known Sermon to the Eremites as written by St Augustine himself.

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

According to a statement by the NOA Deputy Director of Press, Fidel Agu, in Abuja, the move was announced when the NOA Director General, Garba Abari, paid a visit to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to deliberate on the proposed mass literacy at the local government level to communicate both monetary and economic policies to the people.

The divestment represents the latest move by the city's pension funds to dissociate the city's $ 160 billion worth of assets, one of the largest public pension systems in the country, from gun retailers, and firearm and ammunitions manufacturers in response to a wave of mass shootings.

The Move NY plan, proposed by former city traffic commissioner (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz, would place tolls on the East River bridges and 60th Street in Manhattan in order to raise money for mass transit repairs and infrastructure.

In 2015, a coalition called Move New York offered a failed proposal that built on Bloomberg's plan, by also reducing the tolls already in place on such outer - borough bridges as the Verrazano - Narrows and Bronx - Whitestone, which serve areas with few mass transit options.

After meeting the party elders when he arrived for the walk, the former President attempted to move to another place but again his movements were slowed by a mass of supporters and sympathisers with some holding placards and lantern.

20:12 - Protesters are now moving away - en mass - from where they were gathered by the front of Television Centre, towards the Westfield shopping centre.

As I noted on the 14th of February, intelligence authorities have claimed that weapons of mass destruction are moved around Iraq by trucks, in particular that there are mobile production units for biological weapons.

Pro-Trident shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle was moved to the culture brief last night and replaced by Emily Thornberry, who has called Trident the «ultimate weapons of mass destruction».

At issue in their latest fight is Move NY, a plan engineered by former city traffic commissioner (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz that entails placing tolls on the East River bridges and 60th Street in Manhattan to raise money for mass transit.

On the decision by a future Akufo - Addo government to move Ghana's economy away from one based on taxation to production, Nana Kwaku Aterkyi lauded the move, explaining that the reduction of the tax burden on companies will stimulate the growth of the economy, as well as create jobs for the teeming masses of unemployed Ghanaians.

The sun keeps Earth in orbit not by exerting a physical force on it, but because its mass distorts the surrounding space and forces Earth to move that way.

«This adds to the theory that these two land masses were separated by a stretch of water, stopping animals from moving between them, causing the animals in Appalachia to evolve in a completely different direction, resulting in some pretty weird looking dinosaurs.

The calculation involves working out the difference in gravitational potential — a measure of the work done by gravity in moving a mass from one location to another — between the centre and surface.

By moving more mass to the middle, Brennan says, you make it easier for the boat to swing around its center of gravity.

Astronomers can measure a galaxy's mass by how stars move within it: The faster they move, the more massive it is.

«As body mass increased, and side toes shrunk, the middle digit compensated by changing its internal geometry, allowing ever - bigger horse species to eventually stand and move on one toe,» Pierce said.

Any enthusiast of winter sports dreads being overtaken by an avalanche, knowing that there is little chance of freeing oneself once buried beneath the mass of snow — snow that becomes hard as concrete until the buried person can no longer move as much as a finger.

This observation suggests that as larvae increase in size and add pairs of arms, they are more likely to be passively re-oriented by moving water, rather than being stabilized (by mechanisms associated with increased mass), potentially leading to differential transport.

By analyzing this time difference and by measuring how fast the material is moving around the center of the galaxy, they were able to determine the mass of this central black holBy analyzing this time difference and by measuring how fast the material is moving around the center of the galaxy, they were able to determine the mass of this central black holby measuring how fast the material is moving around the center of the galaxy, they were able to determine the mass of this central black hole.

A MOVE by rebellious politicians to introduce mass testing for HIV has embarrassed the French government, which is this week trying to secure an international declaration to end discrimination on AIDS.

By measuring the proton's velocity as it moved in circles in the magnetic field, the team could calculate its mass.

Gravity, said Einstein, actually moved matter along the curving pathways embodied in spacetime — paths imprinted by mass and energy themselves.

As expressed decades later by the physicist John Archibald Wheeler, mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move.

«In 1933 the late Fritz Zwicky pointed out that the galaxies of the Coma cluster are moving too fast: there is not enough visible mass in the galaxies to bind the cluster together by gravity.

Scientists can figure out how much mass there is in a galaxy by tracking how fast things inside move, Pieter van Dokkum, one the authors of a new research paper published in Nature, told Newsweek.

This spatial gradient in pH reflects the age and isolation of the water masses, which accumulate CO2 released by biological respiration as they move through the ocean basins.

However, other measurements taken by a team of researchers from the University of Strasbourg in France appear to show that stars just outside of Triangulum II are moving faster than the ones close to the galactic center — which were used by Kirby to determine the galaxy's mass.

By combining our atmospheric characterisation with the age and metallicity constraints arising from the probable membership to the AB Doradus moving group, we find that CFBDSIRJ214947.2 - 040308.9 is probably a 4 - 7 Jupiter masses free - floating planet with an effective temperature of ~ 700K and a log g of ~ 4.0, typical of the late T - type exoplanets that are targeted by direct imaginBy combining our atmospheric characterisation with the age and metallicity constraints arising from the probable membership to the AB Doradus moving group, we find that CFBDSIRJ214947.2 - 040308.9 is probably a 4 - 7 Jupiter masses free - floating planet with an effective temperature of ~ 700K and a log g of ~ 4.0, typical of the late T - type exoplanets that are targeted by direct imaginby direct imaging.

Inspired by the way people move at heavy metal concerts, an international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Harvard University have learned how to spot danger zones in mass gatherings before disaster strikes.

A few months later, I started a blog (this blog) and took a brazen leap in the world of science communication by moving across the country and enrolling in a mass communication PhD program.

The size of the Einstein ring — measured by how the split images move as the lens crosses the source — tells us the mass of the lens.

Apart from helping you add mass to your entire back, this move can eliminate back pain by making your genuinely strong and reducing the risk of injury.

After you complete your mass - building phase, move on to a cutting phase by simply adjusting the aforementioned ratio to 3 -2-1.

So, you as an endurance runner, I mean, now you talk about how you move, cardiovascular fitness is like a measured say by a VO2 max is a really good predictor of cardiovascular mortality, but equally things like muscle mass, muscle strength is also really important.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

Several paintings of Carra were inspired by this motif of moving masses, like his famous painting «The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli» in 1911 illustrates very well.

Some started by catering to better - off families and are now moving into the mass market.

What it suggests is that a critical mass of highly accomplished teachers, which by our definition means teachers who possess more of the attributes of the canonical profile of culturally sensitive and pedagogically effective teachers, may be sufficient to move a school from the aspiring into the effective camp.

Fuel economy is rated by the EPA at 17mpg in the city and 25mpg on the highway, respectable numbers given how much mass is made to move so quickly.