Sentences with phrase «less friction at»

If the glacier thins than there is less friction at the calving front from the fjord walls and the fjord base, leading to greater flow.

Not exact matches

Or at least, you'll find it easier and experience less confusion and friction if you try to raise funding, or work in a venture capital - backed company.

From time to time the Emperor Charles V urged the Pope to call one, but at other times his friction with a Pope made him less eager.

The new improved booms operated much better under less friction,» said Alex Few, NEA Scout sail systems mechanical designer at Marshall.

The roles are reversed — instead of the friction at the front of the curling rock is [less] than it is at the back and so therefore the friction force, the sideways component of the friction force at the back is to the right and therefore the curling rock curls to the right.

But having more melting at the front of the rock [then] at the back makes the friction at the front of the curling rock less than it is at the back and so you can understand this by looking at the drinking glass and the curling rock — lets take them both to be rotating clockwise, and lets look first at the drinking glass as it slides on a countertop.

Three years later, at the very least, there seems to be far less friction and frustration among teachers and parents.

This also limits the maximum RPM of the engine because there are increased friction losses due to increased speed of the piston at the same RPM when compared to an engine with less stroke.

It offers less friction than many rivals, but doesn't feel as though you're constantly at risk of dropping it.

The main mechanic outside of the procedural generation is that Bob tends to receive different abilities along the way, such as jetpacks, double jumps, or other additions that can be boiled down to being larger, smaller, having less friction and other similar tried and true mechanics (although the game throws a curve - ball by making you fly a spaceship at times).

If Leap Seconds were added at less frequent intervals since 1999, this implies to me that the rate at which the spin rate of the earth is slowing due to earth - moon tidal friction effects has decreased since 1999, which means there was an opposing effect that started at 1999 due to a temporary (how temporary?)