Sentences with phrase «measuring small forces»

Instead of a torsion balance, they used a novel arrangement for generating and measuring small forces.

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Small measures required as Philadelphia soda tax adds up Philadelphia's soda tax came into force on Sunday, and is reportedly causing a stir in the city's check - out aisles.

The measure would establish mandatory guidelines on caloric intake at breakfast and lunch, effectively forcing smaller and healthier portions.

Average HMIC (Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary) ratings of forces improved slightly after the introduction of PCCs, but the measured improvement was too small to be statistically significant.

SARANAC LAKE U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) is proposing legislation to make it easier for small businesses to craft employee - owned stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, a measure the lawmaker says will stave off possible disruptions in local economies as older business owners begin to transition out of the labor force.

Despite this work force deficit, Welsh science overall now outperforms many other similarly small countries such as Norway, Ireland, and New Zealand, according to commonly used measures of efficiency and science quality.

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

Various forces such as surface adhesion or electrostatic charge cause the particles to adhere to each other in systems with extremely small particles measuring only a few micrometres.

«The difference in the strength of the force being measured is extraordinarily small,» said Arnold, who explained that the measured electrostatic force involved in keeping a nanoparticle in orbit was only 0.00000000000003 (3x10 - 14) pounds.

And we can measure such small forces with the relationships that are a billion times smaller.»

Finally, to measure forces acting on his skull, the researchers mounted an inch - long accelerometer and gyroscope onto a small round tin and tied it all on top of Jeff's head with a black mesh do - rag that knotted securely under his chin.

Once such a torsion balance has been calibrated, it becomes a measuring device for minuscule forces applied to one end of the crossbar: a small horizontal push results in a sizable angle of twist.

A rat must be given a more advanced version, which includes a small ledge that measures the pressure from its paws, forcing it to use its nose to select one image at a time.

Dan Rugar and his colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center announced on March 17 that they have designed a way to measure magnetic forces as small an attonewton — 500,000,000 times smaller than the tug of 20 DNA base pairs.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

The latest version of the Sensor Fish — a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience — measures more forces, costs about 80 percent less and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor, according to a paper published today in the American Institute of Physics» Review of Scientific Instruments.

The question was whether it was possible to measure something as small as the forces between two atoms.

Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christoph Gerber first proposed atomic force microscopy in 1986 as a means of measuring forces as small as 10 - 18 N.

Importantly, this greater efficiency translates to lower muscle activation (measured by EMG), as well as a smaller metabolic cost in the eccentric phase compared to the concentric phase, when using the same external force (Bigland - Ritchie & Woods, 1976; Duchateau & Enoka, 2016).

Another reason is that the frontal crash dummy IIHS uses in the small overlap test isn't good at measuring risks from lateral forces.

Your dog has small chances to become a threat to your community and won't force authorities to take severe measures against her.

Moreover, these condensed images contain a surprising élan vital ---- in no small measure because of the the tightly sprung curves of the window grillwork, radiating out from the still life like abstract signs or the inner force of the objects.

Thanks to the force of Judd's critical intelligence, this is a brick of a book — its small format notwithstanding — by many measures as heavy as any other written by any of his contemporaries.

There is a difference between peaks and valleys in noisy processes (1998 surface air temperature, 2007 record minimum ice, or shipping at a few small areas on the edges of the Arctic ocean) and CO2 forcing driven trends, especially when different measures.

Response: Solar forcing over the direct observational period (since 1979) has been measured to be small.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

With a dominant internal component having the structure of the observed warming, and with radiative restoring strong enough to keep the forced component small, how can one keep the very strong radiative restoring from producing heat loss from the oceans totally inconsistent with any measures of changes in oceanic heat content?

Sensitivity analysis indicates that uncertainty about the measure of surface temperature, anthropogenic sulfur emissions, or its conversion to radiative forcing has a small effect on the model's simulated forecast for global surface temperature (SI Appendix: Section 2.4 and Figs S3, S4).

The Moto Z is a little smaller, slimmer and lighter, measuring 153.3 x 75.3 x 5.19 mm and weighing 136g, while the original Moto Z Force is around the same size as the new model but heavier at 155.9 x 75.8 x 6.99 mm and 163g.

America's economy is dependent in no small measure on the 2 million educators who comprise the early childhood workforce.1 Without this largely female workforce, millions of working parents with no or few high - quality child care options would be unable to participate in the U.S. labor force.