Sentences with phrase «mechanical motion»

Even if the machine was used properly, the constant mechanical motion of the parts will eventually cause damage.

To make the discovery, the researchers tapped into a concept called photostriction — where light is converted into mechanical motion.

Back then, most researchers were working on making supramolecular systems that were able to perform either linear or rotational motions — «but Jean - Marie said, when I arrived in the lab, «You know, the most important mechanical motion in the world is the coiling motion of the proteins in the biological world,»» Barboiu recalls.

Some doctors claim this will help babies train motor and balance skills naturally and that it may even help soothe colicky babies with its smoother and less mechanical motion as compared to the battery - operated bouncer.

A pair of Wisconsin researchers has come up with a novel energy - harvesting device that converts mechanical motion into electrical energy at a high enough power to recharge cell phones, cameras, and myriad other portable electronic devices.

Compressing or sliding plates sandwiching electrically conductive droplets efficiently coverts mechanical motion to electricity.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

Inspired by protein nanomotors in living organisms, synthetic molecular machines can produce mechanical motion and be cycled between states, in response to different external stimuli, such a light or pH change.

A team of physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute have developed a device, called a U-TENG, that is designed to take mechanical motion — like the waves in the ocean, the tap of a foot or the clap of a hand — and transform it into electricity.

«Being able to reproduce actual mechanical motion that can mimic real tissue would be an important future step,» Bonin says.

A particularly telling sign is a jerky (tremors), exaggerated (hypermetric), mechanical motion when the kitten is focused to some action or on moving from one location to another (intention tremors).

In Bull.Miletic's life - long project Heaven Can Wait the revolving restaurant is treated as an optical device, where the attributes of elevation, enclosure and mechanical motion evoke a unique cinematic experience ---- a cinéma trouvé.

His studio work uses mechanical motion to create kinetic works and he has taught workshops around the U.S., among others, at Penland, the Houston Metal Art Guild, and the Metal Art Society of Southern California.

The artist purposefully chose a linear mechanical motion that comes from a circular rotation, as in a locomotive, for the system activating the bellows.

The Futurists theorized about sculpture that would incorporate mechanical motion and celebrate modern life.

motor A device that converts electricity into mechanical motion.

Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.

Obviously I am not talking about the mechanical motion of the planets or the rumpus of atoms and molecules, but about the eternal beingness of intelligent, purposing, seeking life.

This idea led to the development of an entirely new notion of essential order, which was expressed in terms of a detailed description of the mechanical motions of bodies through space.

Aluminium nitride is a piezoelectric material, so the mechanical motions would generate electrical signals that could be detected by the qubits.

Teeter - totters, by their very nature, vibrate such that opposing ends have 180 - degree phase difference, so even very small phase differences in incident pressure waves force a mechanical motion that is 180 degrees out of phase with the other end.

Each can produce either mechanical motion or fluid pressure, which in turn can drive a generator.

Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.

Diderot, Tolstoy, and especially Dostoevsky are sent to the kiln in Bresson, emerging at the end as a distillation thick with the observation that human behaviour, winnowed down, is only as mysterious as the mechanical motions of insects.

JB - your argument that energy added to a free body spinning is only correct if that heat energy can be converted to mechanical motion to aid the spinning.