Sentences with phrase «in elliptical»

It has an articulated suspended body, semi-submerged in the water attached to a mount structure via a rotary head, which allows it to adapt to the direction of the waves: so it oscillates in an elliptical orbit.

Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis.

Simplistic notions based on opportunistic use of an analytical solution for vibration in an elliptical drumhead — «sloshing» in a conceptual bathtub model — will not change that.

Consider on object in an elliptical orbit around a gravitational point source.

My planet rotates on its own axis every 24 hours, has an axial tilt and rotates around its star in an elliptical orbit every 365.25 days.

Today, the Earth is nearest to the sun in its elliptical orbit in January, making northern winters milder and summers cooler.

This first shot is of the two of them preparing to leave the Potting Shed early this morning, The second shot shows them at work, weeding and conversing, in the Elliptical Garden.

Then you can continue on your way to winning that Pulitzer for your literary novel without worrying about diluting your personal brand or losing your spot in the Elliptical Poets Club.

The new model also comes with a larger front grille, which is set in an elliptical shape and fitted with a metal mesh insert.

Reflection isn't a single thing, a box to check in some elliptical cycle of learning.

The opening hour unfolds in a bubble of exhilarating disorientation, laying out the harrowing aftermath of Dallas in elliptical vignette: Jackie cradling JFK's hemorrhaging head, trying to keep it intact, as the motorcade races down the highway to safety; Jackie, adamant about remaining in her drenched clothing, watching as Lyndon Johnson (John Carroll Lynch) is sworn in on Air Force One, just two hours after the shooting; Jackie, still plainly in shock, breaking the news to her children.

A turgid experiment in elliptical lyricism, William Vincent plays like a hybrid of Pickpocket, In the City of Sylvia, and The Passenger, except far more pretentious than even that description suggests.

Mood prevails over narrative momentum in this elliptical drama that's admirable for its vision even as it keeps its characters at a frustrating emotional distance.

This is a very familiar story, so familiar that he skips across the predictable beats in an elliptical fashion, focusing mostly on odd details.

The Light Between Oceans paints Tom and Isabel's romance in elliptical glances — a seductive strategy, but also one that leaves them feeling less like fully fleshed human beings than objects as symbolic as that lighthouse, the broken piano in their seaside home, or a metal rattle that becomes integral to the plot.

Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.

Glazer shares Nicolas Roeg's taste in elliptical storytelling and interplanetary tragedy, arriving at something you could almost call horror with a heart.

I go upto 128 in my elliptical.

They're in every gym, but who really wins in an elliptical vs treadmill battle?

If you're working out to burn calories it pays to know which exercise burns more in an elliptical vs treadmill comparison.

It uses an eddy - current system, one of the best resistance systems in elliptical trainers for its dependability and responsiveness.

On the other hand, the wide binary pairs Aab and Bab are separated by an «average» distance of about 21.2 AUs (of a semi-major axis of 2.533» at 27.3 ly) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.412) of 59.9 years, so that the two star pairs get as close as 12.5 AUs and as far away as 39.9 AUs (Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1996; revising earlier earlier estimates, including Mason et al, 1995).

Scientists have shown that planets in elliptical orbits are generally colder than previously believed.

Space Comet is celestial body which orbits in elliptical or parabolic around the Sun.

That's 80 astronomical units (AU), and still a long way off the furthest point in its elliptical orbit, which takes it to over 120 AU.

are separated by an «average» distance of about 21.2 AUs (of a semi-major axis of 2.533» at 27.3 ly) in a elliptical orbit (e = 0.412) of 59.9 years, so that the two star groups get as close as 12.5 AUs and as far away as 39.9 AUs (Wulff D. Heintz, 1996; revising earlier earlier estimates, including Mason et al, 1995).

It will orbit the planet in an elliptical orbit that allows it to pass through and sample the entire upper atmosphere on every orbit.

The radial distribution, when plotted as a function of distance from the galactic centre, fits a mathematical expression of a form identical to the one describing the star distribution in elliptical galaxies.

The two stars move in an elliptical (e = 0.45) orbit that takes about 14.2 years to complete and is inclined at about 93 ° from the perspective of an observer on Earth (George G. Gatewood, 1994 and Irwin et al, 1992).

It moves around Star A at an average distance of 0.35 AUs (a semi-major axis inside the orbital distance of Mercury) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.21) that takes about 75.6 days to complete.

Astronomers believe that the merger of two galaxies always results in an elliptical galaxy.

When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body, an apsis (plural apsides) is a point on the orbit at greatest or least distance from the center of attraction, which is generally the center of mass of the system.

Supermassive black holes could be quenching star formation in elliptical galaxies, forcing them to appear «red and dead,» a new study reports.

Hence, the population of stars in S0 galaxies consists mainly of aging stars, very similar to the star population in elliptical galaxies.

Astrometric analysis suggests that Star D is in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.34) around Star Aa and has roughly a fifth of Sol's mass (Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1994, pages 2341 and 2346; and Heintz, 1987, page 1080 — which Heintz referred to as Stars A and Aa versus the more typical designations Aa and Ab).

The $ 670 million MAVEN mission, which is slated to arrive in an elliptical orbit around Mars in September 2014, aims to help researchers understand how this happened and what the consquences have been for the planet's ability to support life as we know it.

The photometry is obtained from onboard aperture photometry by means of large aperture masks, with a size and shape adapted to the large psf of its exoplanet focal plane, where 50 % of the flux is contained in an elliptical area of about 35 23.

This X-ray source in the CDF - S has different properties from the as yet unexplained variable X-ray sources discovered in the elliptical galaxies NGC 5128 and NGC 4636 by Jimmy Irwin of the University of Alabama and collaboratorsUniversity of Alabama and collaborators.

For U.S. - launched CubeSats, this usually means placing them in an elliptical or low - altitude orbit from which they will drift downward and burn in the atmosphere after seven years or less.

Many physicists predicted that the gravitational bear hug Jupiter exerted on Europa as the moon drifted closer to the planet in its elliptical orbit, and the subsequent release as it drifted away, would generate friction and heat — enough heat, scientists guessed, to keep the bottom 50 or so miles of that salty water completely melted.

According to this theory, the companion would have to be in an elliptical orbit that carries it close to the red giant's puffed - up atmosphere every 8.5 years.

The outcome is that in elliptical galaxies only about 40 % of the available gas fell into that central region.

That's because the debris falling into the black hole at first overshoots it, zinging back out in an elliptical orbit and colliding with incoming pieces, study team members said.

The 5 - kilometre - wide asteroid Cruithne orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit that is locked in a complex resonance with the Earth, making periodic and predictable close approaches.

Gathering that data is the mission of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, a 4,800 - pound probe now in elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

The late Nobel - winning physicist Richard Feynman captured part of what made Newton different in a lecture about the proof that the planets must travel in elliptical orbits.

About half of the disrupted star moves in elliptical orbits around the black hole and forms an accretion disc which eventually shines brightly in optical and X-ray wavelengths.

But it's in a very elliptical orbit, and there's no way to form anything in an elliptical orbit like that.

Planets in the solar system move in elliptical orbits that gradually rotate as each planet journeys around the sun.

The Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX propelled the car out toward Mars, but the sun's gravity will bring it swinging in again some months from now in an elliptical orbit, so it will repeatedly cross the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus until it sustains a fatal accident.