Sentences with word «inertial»

My problems started very early on, with its very dry discussion of inertial frames in the second chapter.

Some significant activities within the group include: the MAGPIE Z - pinch experiment; the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies; the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science; major collaborations with RAL, AWE, DSTL, Sandia and LLNL.

With an electric motor, five internal microprocessors, and a quarter - size inertial measurement unit that tracks and adjusts its location in space, the PowerFoot One is a giant leap over existing prostheses.

The explanation has to due with inertial mass and a few other things that toddlers and preschoolers will not understand nor should they.

This is the stuff nuclear weapons designers deal with, as well as with inertial confinement fusion.

Atom interferometers might be used in spacecraft as inertial navigation systems that would be more accurate than current devices, which rely on laser gyroscopes.

The interest in biofeedback design is moving from the visualbiofeedback of force plate measurements to audio -(Ref: 4) and tactile - biofeedback (Ref: 5) of inertial sensors measurements, with the intent of producing new cost - effective and portable systems for functional rehabilitation.

He was chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics and Division of Particle Beams and was co-chair of the National Research Council Review Committee on Inertial Fusion in 2010.

These periods correspond to the periods of solar inertial motion.

The Livermore lab has been heavily promoting its vision of the next step, dubbed Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE).

Managed and performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on inertial navigation, compass calibration, automatic flight controls, power distribution and Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS) for 13 F / A18 F Super Hornet aircraft.

In a review of the state of the research in this field, Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti concludes the goal of realizing abundant, clean energy from inertial confinement fusion remains elusive, despite recent significant progress.

Lead subject matter expert on shipboard Inertial Navigation and GPS systems.

Optional Curve Control tilts the entire car into a turn, so that passengers are pressed into their seats rather than being pushed up against the side bolsters by inertial force.

Hirsch attached a speech he just gave at the 14th meeting of an American and Japanese working group focused on the fusion approach called inertial electrostatic confinement (some research on this method was covered in a 2007 Times article).

Those waves dominate the vertical velocity field in the mixed layer (vortex Rossby waves) and below the first hundred meters (near inertial waves) and they are responsible for the differences in the vertical transport properties under the various forcing fields as quantified by frequency spectra, vertical velocity profiles and vertical dispersion of Lagrangian tracers.

Cook, K. H., 2015: Role of inertial instability in the West African monsoon jump.

Physicists say that you are in the same inertial frame as the train, meaning that you're moving with it and your walking or jumping is relative to it.

It also uses a technology called Visual Inertial Odometry in order to track the world around your iPad or iPhone.

This advance could help spur the development of a technique known as inertial imaging, which makes use of several vibration modes to image an object as it sits on a nanomechanical resonator.

Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.

An ultra-lightweight forged chrome - molybdenum steel flywheel reduces inertial mass by 30 % compared to the previous - generation Integra, resulting in sharper response and improved acceleration performance.

Northern Ireland's Queens University Belfast (QUB) has found that battery - based energy storage can provide inertial response for system reliability much more efficiently, at a lower cost and with substantially reduced emissions than thermal generation.

Coupling data from the camera and sensor data from iPhone and iPad, the framework uses something called Visual Inertial Odometry to track what's in its view.

And then we have to see where we go from there with respect to applications like inertial fusion energy.

As a sales professional, though, what I especially love is how infomercials magically overcome a buyer's inertial resistance (i.e. propensity to sit there and do nothing) and move them to buy.

which he defines as a certain inertial thrust within the deep structure of the cold war.

I think Goldstein overstates the conservative trajectory of the Court; the judiciary's inertial momentum to the left remains strong, and the Roberts Court, as a whole, is less conservative than many claim.

When formalised in mathematical terms, the condition for inertial dragging yields an equation for calculating the amount of dark energy.

The Boeing - built Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) is here pictured at the base of a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) on an early shuttle mission.

The new system impresses with its excellent durability with low unsprung inertial masses.

The new BMW M5 includes front and side airbags, side curtain head airbags for both rows of seats, three - point inertial reel seat belts on all seats, front belt force limiters, seat belt tensioners, and ISOFIX child seat attachments in the rear all as standard equipment.

For this audience, the requirements for practical fusion power sound like they could be met by Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion.

Reducing inertial loads is accomplished by reducing vehicle weight, with improved design and greater use of lightweight materials.