Sentences with phrase «of drag force»

At the moment of full inflation, the parachute is going 1.8 times the speed of sound or nearly 1,300 miles an hour, and generating nearly 35,000 pounds of drag force - drag that would be necessary to help slow a payload down as it was entering the Martian atmosphere.

The cyclist himself accounts for 72 per cent of the drag force, with his legs generating most of that.

Learning Outcomes: Identify when drag forces and friction occur Describe the effects of drag forces and friction Evaluate the forces of friction and drag on object and give reasons to change the forces acting.

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Terms that dictate board seats, veto rights, or drag - along rights (which may allow an investor to force the sale of a company) all relate to a company's control.

«Greece's troubles will worsen if the job of forming a new government drags out and forces another round of elections,» said Craig Erlam, an analyst at Alpari.

The re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement continues to drag on, but with elections looming in Mexico and the United States, experts expect that a new sense of urgency should force a final agreement relatively soon.

The drag - along or bring - along provision forces a stockholder to vote in favor of a sale of company if a certain threshold of stockholders and / or the board of directors approve the transaction.

He wants our love, but knowing that He can not force love, He woos us and invites us and calls us to Him, but we, being the worst of all possible lovers, slander His name, drag Him through the mud, tie Him up in a dark corner, and eventually even crucify Him on a barren hill.

I feel as though I'm being dragged along the bottom of a deep sea by some invisible force towards the inevitable.

Watching the frothy drag on the longboats as they putt between banks gives you some hint of the forces at play underneath the surface.

I was raised Catholic and dragged to Mass every Sunday, but I only really believed in a kind of Creator - force, not a personal God, and certainly not Jesus or the Trinity.

He had been forced to reset the drag to a mere four ounces of tension.

Even if they aren't dragging Mariota down more than a couple of times, every forced throw or rushed read counts.

Those were the swings and decisions of desperation and just trying to hang on, and while the Yankees might have forced him out earlier than his contract stated, it still beats another 6 - 7 weeks of futility dragging down the very end of his career.

Plan B can be generated / created by different tactics using a multitude of personnel to achieve a plan B it could be welbeck it could be apkum it could be nakitiha even ramsy can be a plan B Giroud is contracted with Arsenal he and Mr wenger have an understanding else he would have moved on in the summer so to just dismiss Giroud just like that is unfair and no good at all but if Giroud is turned on by the idea it could be done else it wont and I reckon it will drag on and the press and co such in here will have the material to fill in the empty pages as seen with the alixes henrick move it took 20 odd days for it to move we do not have 20 more days before the window shut down we only have a week to complete so time is not in our hand and if Dortmund want to keep auba they have the time in their hand all they can use delaying tactics to burn the time so the Arsenal must move swiftly if they see a need in strengthening the attacking force.

It is arguably one of football's worst kept secrets that the Portuguese tactician wants the Old Trafford post, but has been forced to bide his time as the season has dragged to its conclusion for the Red Devils.

I mostly think it should be legal because the idea of dragging women by force into a hospital is... abhorrent But I also belive women are either choosing homebirth because they have bought into a false belief about how safe it is or they are choosing an experience over safety.

Routine: In order to be ready for that first day, I would agree with the experts who suggest you should start your early - to - bed routine a few nights ahead of that first morning rush, or even a few weeks early according to Elizabeth Scott, M.S., but let's be honest, you should probably set your own alarm for 4:00 a.m. that first day if you have any chance at force - feeding your children breakfast, combing their hair, brushing teeth, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, packing lunches, arguing over footwear, dragging a comb through your own nest of hair so you look presentable in front of the other, scrambling neighbourhood parents before shooing the kids out the door.

Six Bachama ethnic communities in Adamawa State have vowed to drag the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged bombings of...

But he continued with his unruly behavior forcing producers of the show to drag him out of the station.

The Staten Island Republican said the Democrats are purposely dragging their feet — through debate or procedural motions — in hopes of running out the clock and forcing the Senate to blow the budget deadline.

In March, 2017, the hooliganism rose further to the point where another group, also associated with the NPP, Delta Force, operating dangerously, invaded the offices of no less a person, than the of the Regional Security Coordinator, had him beaten, and dragged out of the office.

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, has been threatening to force the committee clerk to read the 900 - plus page bill as a way to drag out the markup of the Democrats» climate change legislation.

Though in recent days even she has been forced into pointing out the flaws in Corbyn's campaign; accusing him of trying to drag Labour back to the 1970s.

In the narrow and rarified world of Facebook and Twitter, loyalists are convinced that Corbyn and his team have been dragged into these new positions by the dark forces of the press when, in reality, they have been responding to the concerns of the wider electorate.

It flirted with endorsing Teachout, and she and some of her supporters believe the party — and its permanent ballot line — is a strong and lasting force for dragging New York's political discourse to the left.

Weasel words, dragged out of him by force.

An Anambra indigene, Chief Okechukwu Nwaforagu, has dragged the Inspector General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force to court over allegedly infringing upon his fundamental...

The gravitational forces of these spiral arms could scatter outward the problematic boulder - sized bodies, allowing them to accumulate rapidly to form planetesimals large enough that gas drag is no longer a problem.

The main concerns of automotive aerodynamics are reducing drag, reducing wind noise, and preventing undesired lift forces at high speeds.

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers — flumes — through which water can be pumped at varying rates over a variety of carefully graded sediments while drag force and acceleration are measured.

Previous models of the dandelion fruit considered that each parachute filament acts independently, and that the total drag force supplied by the parachute can be found by adding up each of these contributions.

But there may be a way to cut drag force by almost 30 %, according to computer simulations of turbulent ocean - water flows reported in the 19 May issue of Science by mechanical engineer Yiqing Du of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and applied mathematician George Karniadakis of Brown University.

Granular resistive force theory, which considers the thrust provided by the body waves and the drag on the animals» bodies, helped model the locomotion and compare the energy efficiency of the limbless snake against that of the four - legged lizard — which doesn't use its legs to swim through the sand.

They propose that the electron spins disturbed in the layer where the current was introduced engage in a sort of «cross talk» with spins in the other layer, exerting a force that drags the spins along for the ride.

Working with colleagues from the Center for Coastal Studies and NOAA Fisheries, van der Hoop used a load cell to measure the drag forces on various types of fishing gear collected from past right whale entanglements.

The images are of punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their feet; forcibly arranging naked, hooded prisoners in piles and pyramids; forcing male prisoners to masturbate or simulate fellatio; dragging aprisoner around with a leash tied to his neck; and using unmuzzled attack dogs to frighten prisoners.

«This study significantly improves our understanding of the energetic cost of large whale entanglement drag forces.

The idea is to deploy the sail after the rocket has released its payload to amplify the drag of the last vestiges of the atmosphere, and so force the rocket out of orbit.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

That is because drag is caused by electromagnetic forces between atoms, and dark matter interacts with other matter only through the force of gravity.

The immense gravity of these black holes drags material toward them, forcing the material to heat up and release powerful X-rays.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

The mock finger was dragged across the different surfaces using multiple combinations of force and swiping velocity.

Trawling for crustaceans burns the most fuel because of the large amounts of engine force required to drag thin - meshed nets along the sea floor.

The beauty of this idea is that an atom mOving in the opposite direction will also experience a scattering force dragging it toward zero velocity.

Because the light field acts as a viscous force, we dubbed the combination of laser beams used to create the drag force «optical molasses.»

The lift and drag forces on a golf ball are very sensitive to dimple depth: a depth change of 0.001 inch can produce a radical change to the ball's trajectory and the overall distance it can fly.

As you rotate your hand in the air stream, you vary the amount and direction of the lift and drag forces acting on your hand.

Physicist Philip Kim of Columbia University began trying to flake off graphene layers in 2002 by dragging a tiny graphite rod with an atomic force microscope, which is like an exquisitely sensitive phonograph needle.