Sentences with phrase «inverse square»

Gravity's inverse square law also means the reach of gravitational attraction is technically infinite.

The apple in Newton's eye led to the first inverse square law in science, F = G * (mM) / r2.

For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.

Love of God is as meaningless as love of the inverse square law.

They fall off sharply in amplitude with distance from their source in the brain (according to the inverse square law and the impedance of the medium).

This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

He proceeded to enunciate in 1687 the inverse square of universal gravitation.

Remember the inverse square law — if you double the distance between the light and the seedlings, you reduce the light by a factor of four.

The inverse square law applies here; doubling the distance between the bulbs and the plants results in only one - quarter of the amount of light reaching the foliage.

The density to which matter must be squeezed scales as the inverse square of the mass.

The experiments searched for tiny deviations in Newton's inverse square law of gravity.

A group at Purdue University has proposed testing Newton's inverse square law down to the atomic level using nanotechnology.

Newton's inverse square law has been tested with exquisite precision by space probes, but it had never been tested at the millimeter level.

It was during those two years that Newton derived the inverse square law of gravity.

«If we find objects whose brightness changes with the inverse square of distance, we won't say, «Oh, no!

It's a landscape of opinion over which, guided by experiment, clusters of dominant opinion will emerge over time, and eventually you'll have one big spike and people will agree on the inverse square laws explaining the motion of the planets, as it were.

In many methods of measuring & Ogr;, its magnitude depends on the inverse square of the Hubble constant, so the lower the Hubble constant, the bigger & Ogr; must be.

Their curse was the inverse square law, which states that the intensity of electromagnetic radiation is inversely proportional to the distance from the emitting source.

A spherical gravitational source has an external gravitational field that falls off precisely as the inverse square of the distance from the sphere's center.

The luminosity of the galaxy is found from the width of the 21 - cm emission line and the distance is then derived using the apparent brightness and the inverse square law.

In fact the brightness follows an inverse square law, so for example if it appeared 100 times fainter this means it is 10 times farther away (10 squared = 100).

The brightnesses of stars does decrease with greater distance (remember the inverse square law) BUT there are more stars further out.

The distances to very luminous objects can be derived using the inverse square law of light brightness if their luminosity is known.

For example, the inverse square law of light is a concept that appears to reach a level of mastery only well after high school, yet it is included in the ninth - grade learning sequence for the National Science Teachers Association's Scope Sequence and Coordination.

Mathematics, Physics cross-curricular task based on applying the inverse square law to Newton's laws of gravity.

This project supports Arts, Visual Media, Engineering, and Mathematics career academies and supports such mathematics topics as, Geometry, Trigonometry, Inverse Square Law, Proportions, Systems of Equations, and Quadratic Functions.

We ended up using an inverse square curve for signature detection that felt like it was balanced on a knife edge but it did eventually give us the results we wanted.

This doesn't precisely balance out because of the inverse square law.

Re 303 L. David Cooke — I was reminded by 317 Anonymous Coward that you brought up the inverse square law.

Absent emission, absorption, reflection, scattering, and refraction outside of a sphere with radius 1, and assuming steady state, the flux coming out of such a sphere is the same as the flux coming out of any closed surface enveloping that sphere; the area of a sphere is proportional the square of the radius, so the average flux per unit area going through successively larger spheres follows an inverse square law.

Debating someone who will not read and can not count is less useful than debating the inverse square law with a cat.

This shows a very poor understanding of the propagation of sound, of the inverse square law of physics and the dose - response relationship between environmental hazards and health.

Like so many of those who are outspoken in their opposition to wind power, Mr Papadopolous seems not to understand the inverse square law of physics.

As a first approximation, note that delta Tu - r in the air decreases as the inverse square root of the speed (e.g., Oke, 1973; Uno et al., 1988).

The earth intercepting solar flux behaves like a flat disc, computed as solar surface output, inverse square law for flux at 93million miles and the area of the 93million mile radius sphere intercepted by the earth.