Sentences with phrase «effects of the drag»

But she does not deal with the fact that the drag queens make manifest a major purpose of mainstream gay activism, although she quotes approvingly anthropologist Esther Newton: «The effect of the drag system is to wrench the sex roles loose from that which supposedly determines them, genital sex.»

Learning Outcomes: Identify when drag forces and friction occur Describe the effects of drag forces and friction Evaluate the forces of friction and drag on object and give reasons to change the forces acting.

This fast moving air helps creates downforce without the unwanted side effect of drag, something external wings and spoilers tend to create.

The IONIQ Electric's diffuser and rear spoiler generates downforce for more optimised handling at higher speeds, whilst simultaneously minimising the effect of drag.

To combat the effects of drag, Honda engineers designed the Insight's body to be highly aerodynamic.

Not only do we have the high risk effects of the drag boat racing to contend with.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks it has hit back with its own threats, raising concerns among farmers and businesses in the United States that the escalating dispute could be a drag on the economy and blunt the effect of the tax cuts Mr. Trump signed into law in December.

You need to scale your level of concentration to your sophistication, while also considering the performance dragging effect of spreading your money too thinly.

This system — an outgrowth of postwar reconstruction — was designed to strengthen business relationships and keep investors around for the long haul, but also had the effect of dissuading activist shareholders and creating a drag on asset efficiency.

Given the pick - up in upstream prices over the past year and the waning of the drag from exchange rate effects, underlying inflation remains likely to increase gradually in the period ahead.

Some other indicators point to a potential drag from a prolonged period of low headline inflation on the dynamics of wages and core prices, possibly reflecting hysteresis effects.

In order that the end of Mankind may be deferred sine die we are asked to believe in a species that will drag on and spread itself indefinitely; which means, in effect, that it would run down more and more.

Drag a toothpick from the centre to the edge of the cake at regular intervals through each circle to create the spider web effect.

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.

Decades in the making, GP - B was launched in April 2004 to sensitively measure two properties of spacetime: the geodetic effect, a 2.8 - centimeter (1.1 - inch) contraction in the circumference of Earth under its own gravity; and frame dragging — the weaker of the two and GP - B's main quarry — in which Earth twists spacetime like a ball rotating in honey.

In one of the great ironies of the space age, Skylab — the first manned U.S. spacecraft to observe the sun — was dragged to Earth prematurely by this effect.

Svana Rogalla at the University of Ghent, Belgium, says thermography has proved that the dark upper wing gets hotter in sunlight, but it is too early to pin down its effect on drag.

The speed and pace of those measurements promise to add an increment of precision to GPS navigation, and ROMY may even be able to detect a subtle effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity: the drag of the rotating planet on nearby spacetime, like a spoon turned in a pot of honey.

Everitt says his team plans to announce verification of this «frame dragging» effect later this year.

Another, much smaller effect is gravitomagnetism, or frame - dragging, in which the spin of a massive object tugs space - time in the direction of its rotation, like a spoon twisted in honey (see «A twist in space - time»).

Le Maho and his colleagues believe that these ill effects are the result of the bands causing drag when the penguins swim.

«Together, the effects of added buoyancy, added drag, and reduced swimming speed due to towing accessory gear pose many threats to entangled whales,» the scientists wrote.

«Maybe one of the reasons [the effect] hasn't been seen before is that it's a little bit in between two fields of application» — drag and lift — he says.

The team found considerable variation in drag created by the different sets of gear, with the presence of floats and buoys having a significant effect on the overall drag created for the entangled animal.

Einstein's theory predicted that the orientation of the gyroscopes should slowly drift due to two phenomena: the geodetic effect, or Earth's warping of space - time due to its mass, and frame - dragging, the tug on space - time that occurs as Earth rotates on its axis.

The multiple - image effect was observed only on the side of the black hole where spacetime is being dragged toward the observer, which the team concluded was because some light was being «flung» outward.

Objects in geostationary orbit — above the dragging effects of Earth's atmosphere — could take more than 1 million years to fall.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

(Less massive bodies also cause frame dragging on a smaller scale; NASA's Gravity Probe B launched in 2004 to measure the frame - dragging effects of Earth's rotation with sensitive gyroscopes.)

«The Leidenfrost Effect has been extensively studied for drag reduction, while the presence of the undesired vapor layer also prevents efficient heat transfer,» says Wang.

«It is surprising, but Earth's atmosphere is about 50 trillion metric tons in mass, and so over long enough timescales — hundreds, thousands, even millions of years — all of that mass, and its drag across the surface of the planet, can have an effect,» said study author Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology at Columbia University in New York.

After another two and a half years of data analysis, they announced in September 2009 that they were able to extract out the much smaller effect caused by the twisting of spacetime (the «frame - dragging effect»).

If eaten with their seeds then the effects will be further enhanced, as the seeds will act as roughage, dragging impurities out of the digestive tract.

However, they did not find any effect of loading on gluteus maximus EMG amplitude for any of the conditions except for lateral sled dragging with straight legs.

While the effects by Furious FX are quite good, the bubblegum plot and dialogue drag all of it down.

The special effects often seem to consist of dragging the dirt bike around on a string or having the actors flail their arms in astonishment while riding it.

A fun, eerie and artificial atmosphere and a good performance by Price, but like most Roger Corman - directed products of the era it has poor effects and drags at times.

So - so effects, little or no pacing, a drag in the middle and totally unnecessary 3D technology highlight the pointlessness of it all.

Players connect matching colored squares by dragging lines across the correct number of spaces, which in effect paints pretty pixelated pictures.

The DVD includes a making - of documentary, a featurette about the film's visual effects, and another about how Depp constructed his latest crazy character — including digitally enhancing his eyes so that he resembled Elijah Wood in drag queen makeup.

This leads, of course, to a scene from the ending of Ghost — no, not that one, the one before it where the villain gets dragged to hell by bad special effects.

The only glaring flaw of this bombastic Michael Bay spectacular is that the special - effects driven showdown between the forces of good and evil drags on for about an hour longer than necessary.

Acts two and three prove unworthy of their starry casting and ritzy but half - baked special effects, unnecessarily dragging the film past the 90 - minute mark.

Raimi has assembled his own band of technical wizards and movie magicians on the project, which includes cinematographer Peter Deming («Mulholland Dr.,» «Drag Me to Hell»), two - time Academy Award ® — winning production designer Robert Stromberg («Alice in Wonderland,» «Avatar»), Oscar ® - winning film editor Bob Murawski («The Hurt Locker,» the «Spider - Man» trilogy), veteran Oscar ® - nominated costume designer Gary Jones («Spider - Man 2,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley»), visual effects Oscar ® winner Scott Stokdyk («Spider - Man 2,» «Spider - Man») and Academy Award ® — winning special makeup artist Howard Berger («The Chronicles of Narnia» series), who will create the looks of several of the unique denizens of Oz, including creatures such as the Whimsies, the Tinkers and the Winkies, as well as the ghastly look of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Stepping in to shield her from the harsher consequences of life, she bails Maggie out of one drunken mess after another, dragging her home to sleep off the effects of the alcohol and her reckless activities.

Both of the tools follow the «drag - and - drop» function, making it easier for the user to add the desired content from the build - in library, whether it is an object or a sound effect.

Gifted with a drag coefficient of 0.31 and equipped with an active tail wing, the LFA retains this dynamic unambiguity on the autobahn, where it tracks with precision; soaks up low - frequency, big - effect pavement imperfections with aplomb; and closes the challenging 150 - to -200-mph gap with surprising vigor.

There's also the inescapable truth that, even you assume for sake of argument that the electricity you stick in your Model S is 0 % renewable and 100 % coal, you are at least keeping the poisonous side - effects of combustion away from urban centres and are not dragging a potpourri of contaminants down high streets and past schools or sitting in a fuggy 25 mile tailback of them.

In so - called Speed mode (or when the drive mode is set to Sport +), the two outer parts of the front spoilers extend to send air around the body, which has the dual effect of reducing front axle lift and pulling air beneath the rear, stabilizing the tail and enabling a low drag setting for better efficiency and higher top speeds.

The three drag races between the two cars end with the Stingray on top each time, though just barely, but the video host points out that the test was done at high altitude where the air has less oxygen, putting the oxygen - loving Corvette V8 at about a 15 percent power disadvantage but having no effect on the electric motor of the i8.