Sentences with phrase «like around any axis»

One of the simplest sets of symmetries is the group that comprises the symmetries of a sphere: Rotate a sphere as much as you like around any axis or flip it inside out, and it looks exactly the same.

Not exact matches

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

The idea goes like this: Two massive bodies orbiting near each other will warp space enough to disturb the central axis around which both are moving, causing them to begin wobbling just like spinning tops.

«These things grew like a tightly wound spiral staircase, and [this line is] the axis around which the staircase winds,» says McSween.

Dr Ben Elliott added: «The adze is exceptional as we traditionally associate this polished axes and adzes like this with the arrival of agriculture in Europe, around 3000 years later.

Spinning around a wheel - like axis, three of its elfin feet move slowly through the sand, while the others rotate quickly through the air to position themselves for the next step (see the video).

It wasn't the rotation axis of Mars that shifted (a process known as variation of obliquity) but rather the outer layers (mantle and crust) that rotated with respect to the inner core, rather like turning the flesh of an apricot around its stone.

These are rows of individual gold atoms twisted around a central axis — like a wire spring — which measure 0.6 nanometres wide by 5 nm long.

As pairs of black holes spiral together, heading towards a collision, they also spin on their own axes - like a pair of figure skaters spinning individually while also circling around each other.

Observed in far - infrared wavelengths, the «flattened, disk - like structure» has an orbital, semi-major axis of roughly 100 AUs around Zeta2, with a high orbital eccenticity (e ~ 0.3).

A flattened, disk - like structure with a semi-major axis of ~ 100 AU in size is detected around zeta ^ 2 Ret.

Shushumna nadi runs parallel to the spine, along the central axis of the body, with the ida and pingala nadis wrapping themselves around the staff like a DNA double - helix.

The Smart Fortwo won't shatter your spine but the dips and hops of San Diego's busy intersections still toss you around a bit like a roller coaster on the forward and backward body motions of the X axis.

Like a doofus, I watched the building for a few minutes to see if its floors spun around an axis.

There is force being represented and played with in Mason's large singularities; the forms bend around a central axis, like dancers bodies, they stand united on the plinth in silhouette, and hold a position each differently.

For more than 50 years, the work of Betty Woodman has pivoted around the subject of the vase like an axis.

Largely simpler in outline than in 2003, their coils typically spiral up around a central axis, like some kind of electrical machine working to its own ends.

The gravity of the Moon and (to a lesser extent) of the Sun makes the Earth's axis swivel around like a tilted spinning top.

If someone has good references addressing the related changes in these two rates of flow (H2O and latent heat) in our dynamic atmosphere (round Earth rotating on a tilted axis while revolving around the sun — and having a surface that is 70 % H2O, with other areas land but «not dry») I would like to see them.

The warming / cooling cycles are underlaid by a slight warming trend of around 0.5 to 0.6 °C per century, like a sine curve on a tilted axis.

I see this record and, like Girma, am hit in the face by the cyclical nature, with the periodic warming and cooling cycles with an apparent half - cycle time of ~ 30 years and an amplitude of around + / -0.25 degC, all on a tilted axis with a slope of 0.6 to 0.7 deg C per century.