Sentences with phrase «like kinetic energy»

There's a stochastic component to «energy in» due to variation in solar output, wobble, orbital asymmetry, albedo and a whole host of other factors (even small things like kinetic energy that is transferred from meteorites and space dust that is constantly hitting the earth).

I'm opening up to the idea that groups of people in a room generating artistic practice together actually form something like kinetic energy.

Not exact matches

This crossbow can produce over 100 foot - pounds of kinetic energy, so you can use it to hunt big game like moose as well as whitetail deer!

At the same time, an electric field aligned along the current is responsible for converting magnetic into kinetic energy, firing out particles like a slingshot.

When neutron particles collide with hydrogen and oxygen particles, some of the kinetic energy from the neutron is transferred to the water molecule, much like a cue ball hitting another billiard ball of the same size.

This bar works your stabilizers like no other by delivering oscillating kinetic energy into the joint.

Our muscles have a spring like quality (kinetic energy).

Like a bouncing ball, sprinters constantly absorb and release kinetic energy, adding to it to compensate for energy leaks to friction, wind resistance, and inefficiency in the system (Cavagna et al. 1964).

And yet, for all its non-stop joking and jockeying, The Final Girls displays a willingness to experiment, running rampant with the absurdly witty violence, kinetic energy, and almost nihilist intemperance, like that you'd find in similarly satirical works like Deathgasm, Cabin in the Woods and The Editor.

As we've seen in prior DVD wrap - ups, there's often a sequel among the classic and not - so - classic movies, and Blade: Trinity tries hard to recapture the kinetic energy of the first Blade film, yet manages to feel more like the tenth entry in a tired franchise.

Its charms lie in the lush animation (every character and object in the film have a fabric - like quality), kinetic energy, and an abundance of giggle - inducing sight gags (the audience at the Debussy theater especially enjoyed a bit where a scared troll pooped out cupcakes).

Their ideas ranged from the Power Nap, a mattress pad - like device that captures thermal and kinetic energy while a person is sleeping, to a dome that removes methane gas generated by cows.

We're trying to teach kids both science content — the science content in the fourth grade standards that's relevant to our curriculum are energy transfers, what kinetic and potential energy are, the transfer from potential to kinetic like when a car goes down a ramp, and then the transfer of energy when objects collide.

The first energy recovery system helping to produce that power utilises heat energy from exhaust gases, whilst the second will use kinetic energy from the front brakes (like the 918 Spyder).

MGU - K (where the «K» stands for kinetic) works like an uprated version of the previous KERS, converting kinetic energy generated under braking into electricity (rather than it escaping as heat).

The E-charge mode allows the battery to be charged on the run, but it involves a firing of the petrol engine, which acts in part like a range extender by providing a small charge to the battery on top of the kinetic energy recuperated under braking and periods of trailing throttle.

The kinetic design approach uses bold vehicle designs to capture the feeling of energy in motion, so that cars look like they are moving — even when they are standing still.

Using features like intelligent start / stop technology (shuts the engine down at stoplights or when the A / C system demands are low), direct fuel injection, and smart regenerative charging that puts the vehicle's kinetic energy back into the electrical system to reduce fuel demands, the 2014 Range Rover Sport delivers economy numbers of vehicles easily half its horsepower.

Unlike other hybrids, like the Toyota Prius and even the Honda Civic Hybrid, the ILX is unable to operate on electricity alone; however it does employ a regenerative braking system that traps the kinetic energy created during braking and converts it to electricity in order to give the lithium - ion battery a little more zap.

Coupled with some form of energy recapture like a hybrid drive with regenerative braking or a kinetic energy recovery system, the vehicle might approach the efficiency that some of today's EVs offer without any range limitations.

The Mahindra - owned consultancy has joined forces with Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group with the aim of developing «clean energy vehicles,» and if this sedan concept looks like a hopeful Tesla competitor that's because it is.

He says the i3 is much like the 1 - series ActiveE in overall character, with a heavily sprung throttle, instant acceleration and aggressive recuperation mode aimed at recovering as much kinetic energy as possible.»

It's like 400,000 words of kinetic energy waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting public... well, maybe that's a little too dramatic!

The electrical energy between Alice and Lucy crackles with kinetic menace, as Mangan turn the mood and the setting of the story into a kind of composite force field that sucks the reader in almost instantly, like a wave of humid air blanketing you after emerging from an air - cooled room.

Cyberpunk Inspired Arsenal: Employ state of the art gadgets and abilities like energy shield, kinetic barrier or grid converter.

Nevertheless, there is an unmistakable and driving sense of kinetic movement and energy within all her works, especially the pointillism of her «arrow» paintings that depict schools of tiny arrows massing and converging like small fish or unseen air currents.

Spectral, semi-transparent, tree - like entities vibrate with kinetic energy, suspended somewhere between the camera's capture, the artist's process and the viewer's eye.

(PS I only know that those non-radiative fluxes are small — I would very much like to know numerically what they are (the upward kinetic energy flux and the heat flux of the thermally - indirect overturning).)

If we had a wish list, we'd add in to the Sectera Edge's features that at least the casing be made of recycled and recyclable materials, that the battery last a whole lot longer than just 5 hours, that it charge up with renewable energy like solar power - or maybe a kinetic charger during those official presidential morning jogs - and that it would be free from toxic e-waste chemicals.

It is how those gasses get that energy in the first place that is important, whether directly from insolation as the GHG's or from secondary processes like kinetic collision.

I would like to see numbers on this; it would also be interesting to see how this kind of kinetic energy project compares to those in other settings.

It looks to me like it comes from a belief that all the molecules in a volume have exactly the average kinetic energy, overlooking the variation.

Motion means kinetic energy, which can be captured, just like the energy in moving water can be captured by the turbine in a hydroelectric dam.

It's just that to me the most basic definition of temperature is indeed mean molecular translational kinetic energy; it avoids imprecise qualifications like «for ensembles large enough to apply said thermodynamics to.»

Thus the warm wire at the top of the collumn (at say +30 oc) can not «heat the air» at high altitude, because the individual molecules at altitude are already at something like +30 oc (in terms of their individual kinetic energy)..

You are wilfully taking the extreme and irrelevant sub-thermodynamic case of a minuscule total number of isolated particles — in which regime the macroscopic temperature is increasingly ill - defined and no longer simply proportional to the kinetic energy per particle — and torturing it to produce something that looks a bit like a macroscopic lapse rate, but is really nothing more than a mathematical artefact of absolutely no significance.

In my opinion, the most important of theseis is the 19th century science of Arrhenius compared with the 29th century science of James Chadwick who discovered the neutron — a particle heavy enough to change the heat absorbing powers of gases like CO2 — not just their kinetic energy, but their vibrational energy as well.

It is also interesting to note that if, the second term in vanishes (making any temperature a «low» temperature as) and gravity does indeed behave like additional degrees of freedom in the specific heat of the entire system while every small subvolume of the gas still behaves precisely like an ordinary ideal gas with kinetic energy $ \ frac -LCB- 3 -RCB--LCB- 2 -RCB- NkT $ and yes, with detailed balance across any vertical surface (although yes, Joe, my argument involving shifting the MB distribution was sloppy and imprecise — hopefully you like this one better but the result is the same either way).

Kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion, like a pool ball hitting another and transferring its kinetic Kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion, like a pool ball hitting another and transferring its kinetic kinetic energy.

The kinetic temperature is the variable needed for subjects like heat transfer, because it is the translational kinetic energy which leads to energy transfer from a hot area (larger kinetic temperature, higher molecular speeds) to a cold area (lower molecular speeds) in direct collisional transfer.»

A mercury thermometer is going to register the same reading for a highly radiative gas like CO2 as it is for a barely radiative gas like N2 when they have the same average kinetic energy in the molecules.

How efficient is our acquisition and usage of energy (and not only in terms of acquisition and / or transforming fossil fuels into kinetic forms, but also when we consider things like insulation or transmission)?

Also, like other hybrids, the Prius captures kinetic energy otherwise lost during coasting and braking and converts it into electricity, a technology called regenerative braking.

We write about piezoelectric generators from time to time, like sneakers that can power your gadgets or kinetic - energy harvesting sidewalks or wave - powered speakers that let us communicate with dolphins, all of which generate energy from movement.

I feel like the alleged link between flux and kinetic energy is «way more wrong» than identifying the right ratio of atmospheric kinetic to potential energy — if you see what I mean.

Kinetic energy, unless used to permanently do things like store energy in chemical bonds or move matter higher up in a gravitational well where it doesn't come back down anytime soon it all becomes sensible heat again through friction.

Under this approach, the FAA would consider more than just kinetic energy; the agency would also look at pertinent factors like the operator's history of safe operations, internal company safety procedures, and design features of the UAS that enhance safety.

Should the risk to people on the ground depend solely on kinetic energy at impact (i.e., how hard a drone would hit someone if it fell from the sky), or should other factors, like vehicle reliability, the operator's safety history, and ground population density also be considered?