Sentences with phrase «imposed by physics»

This extraordinarily good figure is important for fuel economy, as the losses imposed by physics when transferring the engine torque to the transmission's input shaft are kept to a minimum.

Not exact matches

So in one sense it all seems to be over; as though, having reached its final point of Noospheric Reflexion, the cosmic impulse towards consciousness has become exhausted, condemned to sink back into the state of disintegration implacably imposed on it by the laws of stellar physics.

In this case we had to meet several constraints imposed by both the physics and the technology of the experimental measurements.

The proposal may yet fizzle, however, as it did in December when Congress cut physics funding to meet a spending cap imposed by the president.

Mavalvala's more recent research focuses on minimizing, if not circumventing, barriers imposed by quantum physics on the precision of standard optical interferometers.

While the amounts and distribution of water vapor and clouds are feedbacks, the intrinsic properties are «externally - imposed» by the physics, as is the case with snow and ice, etc..

Writing in response to a report released by US NGO Oil Change International (OCI), McKibben and Monbiot echoed OCI's conclusion that no new coal mines or oil or gas wells can be opened up, lest we exceed the carbon budget imposed on us by atmospheric physics.

Of course, there will be some compromises imposed by the laws of physics and, sometimes, the market.