Sentences with phrase «gravity acting upon it»

The judge had fallen asleep and gravity acting upon the slack muscles, pulling on the line of his mouth, dragging on his cheeks, showed Sai exactly what he would look like if he were dead.

Posture refers to how the body is aligned and positioned in conjunction with the force of gravity acting upon it.

Not exact matches

Entropy, when acted upon by external forces, such as gravity, will allow smaller mass to coalesce into more complex and larger objects.

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

Whipple modelled the bicycle as four rigid objects — two wheels, a frame with the rider and the front fork with handlebars — all connected by two axles and a hinge that are acted upon by gravity.

Her sculptures recall the work of Eva Hesse in their pendulous, organic abstract forms, acted upon by gravity so as to be in a constant state of tension.

The air at the bottom has a higher temperature as a consequence of being compressed by the mass of air above being acted upon by gravity.

It then considers the different distributions of those different sets of molecules that have been acted upon by gravity on the way up.»