Sentences with phrase «measure as mass»

I know what we measure as mass and what gravity is.

Not exact matches

As students across the country walked out of their schools for the National Student Walkout in honor of the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, House lawmakers passed a narrow gun violence prevention measure with overwhelming bipartisan support.
On the origin of species, space, time, matter, mass, gravity, as with what we see, or can measure, we try to explain our own cause of exsistance, or for some, that «how».
When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.
At first glance, it would seem that any interpretation of mass as a measure of quantitas materiae is obliterated by its dependency on velocity.
The impetus was a physical character attributed to the mass - particle itself, and the measure of mass was used as n measure of the impetus corresponding to a given velocity.
As well as detecting physical contaminants, the x-ray system can simultaneously measure mass, count components and inspect seals and fill leveAs well as detecting physical contaminants, the x-ray system can simultaneously measure mass, count components and inspect seals and fill leveas detecting physical contaminants, the x-ray system can simultaneously measure mass, count components and inspect seals and fill levels
As the product is passed through the meter, its mass is measured and when the target weight is achieved the inlet nozzle is closed and the product is discharged.
The mass flow meter, also known as an inertial flow meter is a device that measures mass flow rate of a fluid traveling through a tube.
The mass audience will not be able to relate to him, to assemble an image of him, to measure him against his peers as they do the white player.
Nearly one out of three (31.9 %) of US youth are either obese or overweight as measured by body mass index (BMI).
Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida.
David Cameron has suggested a «critical mass» of participation in measures designed to reduce the effectiveness of offshore tax havens is close, as next month's G8 summit looms.
Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida, an official confirmed to The Post.
Smith will announce that he does not believe the measure has sufficient votes to pass — a statement that is at this point undoubtedly true, although it's unclear how long that will last if, as Democrats are hoping, the prospect of being in the minority leads to mass GOP retirements.»
«The actions of companies such as Neconde in mass sack of Nigerian workers contribute in no small measure to the unending militancy in the Niger Delta.»
In a unanimous decision, it welcomed «any measures which increase the involvement of individual trade unionists in the Labour Party» and, as had been advocated by Len McCluskey from the start, specifically agreed Miliband's proposal that «individual political levy paying members of trade unions be encouraged to «opt in'to associate membership of the Labour Party as part of the drive to build a Party of mass membership.»
Osteoporosis results from a loss of bone mass, measured as bone density, and from a change in bone structure.
Instead, the researchers used the volunteers» self - reported height and weight (combined as body mass index, or BMI), plus measurements of the women's waist - to - hip ratios, as a measure of attractiveness.
Existing PTAs should be sufficient to recover the known planets and measure their masses, but more sensitive PTAs will be required to search the outer solar system for objects such as the proposed Planet Nine.
Stellar dating involves measuring properties such as mass, chemical composition and temperature, and comparing them with models of how those properties should change over time for a particular type of star.
However, they wrote, there are accessible and validated measures of structural racism in the public health and social science literature, such as redlining, sundown towns, and mass incarceration.
They took sludge samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized in a superhot plasma.
«Each amino acid has a different weight, and as the mass spectrometer smashes (the fragments) up, it also measures the weight,» says Welker.
By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.
* This technique, known as integral field spectroscopy, allows astronomers to simultaneously study the properties of different parts of an object such as a galaxy to see how it is rotating and to measure its mass.
[1] Stars with more mass run through their lives much more quickly than lighter ones such as the Sun, which have lives measured in billions, rather than millions, of years.
Her group investigated the cancer's risk against a woman's size, as measured in body mass index (BMI).
Obesity was defined as a body mass index at or above 30, calculated from self - reported height and weight measures collected in the survey.
If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.
Obesity is commonly measured as a person's body mass index (BMI).
Touch surfaces made from solid antimicrobial copper are already used by hospitals, schools, mass transit hubs, sports facilities and offices around the world to reduce the spread of infections, supporting key infection control measures such as good hand hygiene and regular surface cleaning and disinfection.
A new technique invented at MIT can measure the relative positions of tiny particles as they flow through a fluidic channel, potentially offering an easy way to monitor the assembly of nanoparticles, or to study how mass is distributed within a cell.
One key part of follow - up observations is measuring a planet's mass, which must be found by a different method, such as detecting the back - and - forth wobble of a parent star caused by the planet's mass as it orbits.
Bishop and colleagues examined locomotion in 12 species of ground - dwelling birds, ranging in body mass from 45g to 80 kg, as the birds moved at various speeds along enclosed racetracks while cameras recorded their movements and forceplates measured the forces their feet exerted upon the ground.
That device, known as a suspended microchannel resonator (SMR), measures particles» masses as they flow through a narrow channel.
Coming as close as 5000 kilometers to the 140,000 - kilometer - diameter gas ball, Juno and it's gravity - gauging system should measure the mass of any rocky core at the center of Jupiter.
A machine called a mass spectrometer measured levels of scent molecules as far as 4.5 meters away from the flowers.
«When assessing cancer risk, body mass index (BMI) and fat percentage may not be adequate measures as they fail to assess the distribution of fat mass,» she explained.
Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.
In 2014, more than 640 million men and women were obese (measured as a body mass index of 30 or higher).
But today's mass spectrometers, which determine the molecular makeup of a sample by exactly measuring the mass of its components, are roughly 1,000 times as sensitive as those used in 1995, when sarin was released in a Tokyo subway, says Maarten Nieuwenhuizen, a senior chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear protection consultant at TNO laboratories in the Netherlands.
The authors looked at overall fitness (measured by treadmill testing), body mass index (BMI), and other measurements such as waist circumference and body - fat percentage.
These were experiments in which we brought together some masses of uranium or plutonium and measured how many neutrons came out as a function of the distance between the parts, and it was a way of getting information about the basic processes that were going on in the neutron reactions with the plutonium and other things.
«For the first time we can show how cells sense size and what aspect of size they measure, such as volume, length, mass or surface area.»
By measuring the proton's velocity as it moved in circles in the magnetic field, the team could calculate its mass.
The novel sensor created by researchers in OIST's Micro / Bio / Nanofluidics Unit, measures charge using the same technique as conventional sensors but has the additional function of measuring mass.
In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.
While the intermediate - mass black hole that the team studied is not the first one measured, it is the first one so precisely measured, Mushotzky says, «establishing it as a compelling example of this class of black holes.»
And importantly, the same trend held up when the researchers looked at body mass index (BMI)-- a measure that takes height as well as weight into account.
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