Sentences with phrase «on axis»

The earth spins on its axis on an ever changing wobble (over tens of thousands of years) back and forth, affecting the angle of sunlight striking the poles (by up to about eight degrees, I think) as the result.

Also, make sure it's positioned properly and placed directly on axis, relative to the primary seating position.

Lenovo just announced its latest Yoga 730 and Flex 14 laptops, which can swivel all the way on its axis for a laptop to tablet experience.

1) The Hallway fight scene... having heard of Nolan's love for live - formed visuals rather than CGI practices leads me to think that perhaps, that hallway was built on an axis that was slow rotated during the choreography.

The ship will basically stop dead while spinning hard on the axis of the anchor chain, effectively giving you a giant turn in the direction the wheel is turned.

At a recent public meeting of the Prison Reform Trust, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, delivered an eloquent and complex paper which challenged our perceptions on the axis of care between victims and perpetrators of crime.

It seems that in a blink of an eye the entire technology world is tilting on its axis with talk of distributed ledgers, cryptocurrencies, ICOs (initial coin offerings), and smart contracts.

If you want to go for the bonus points in this round, make a perceptual map with two key competitive features on the axis and place your competition within your grid.

Soon, the mathematics of the UCSB researchers will help reveal that given differences in ocean temperature, for example, in an especially a real world example of the Earth rotating on its axis with warm water at the bottom of an ocean of colder water on the top, that the cold water will sink.

The length of a day (one complete rotation of the earth on its axis and relative to the Sun [a rotation relative to the stars is about four minutes quicker]-RRB- varies, so is not well suited as a unit of time.

Because of the whole sphere on an axis thing, we should see warm places getting warmer first — there's more sun hitting the equator to the tropical lines that can be trapped by Ye Olde Greenhouse Effect.

Positive rotation in the northern hemisphere is counterclockwise and is rotation in the same direction Earth rotates on its axis.

The tilt of the Earth on its axis also favored increased solar radiation, and helped create seasonal extremes and prime conditions for fire in some parts of the world, increased monsoons (defined) in other regions, and sweeping changes in the biological makeup of the landscape.

Some of the excess «noisy» PCs are interacting with an arctic vs tropical PC in instrumental, and this gets projected on the axis tilt effect in pre-instrumental.

Meanwhile, the shifting plates could also have caused the Earth to wobble on its axis.

Harvard University researchers has found that the Earth's rotation on its axis has slowed during the past 100 years as a result of climate change.

The obliquity of the ecliptic (an angle of 23.44 ° that is the difference between the planes of the Earth's rotation on its axis and its revolution around the Sun) limits the seasonal shifting of the Pacific trade - wind belts to about 5 ° of latitude.

The March 2011, 8.9 - magnitude quake off the coast of Japan that caused a tsunami, waves that reached California within twelve hours, moved the island of Japan by about eight feet, and shifted the Earth on its axis by about four inches, this is an example of the magnitude of natural forces — mostly unappreciated by humanity — that are continuously shaping Earth's climate.

Ice ages and the inter-glacial periods between them are caused principally by predictable variations in the way the Earth orbits the Sun and tilts and wobbles on its axis.

There is a further problem here, in that the climate debate divides on another axis, between the argument about whether or not «anthropogenic climate change is happening», and what its consequences are.

When the scientists say that we are spinning at 1000 miles on our axis.

The Earth also varies its tilt on its axis having a similar result.

Again set a particle in motion on the axis.

Then observe the particle anywhere else on the axis and calculate its Lagrangian.

Read it as: «Put a particle on the axis and set it in motion (either direction, it doesn't matter).

In addition, the tilt on its axis that gives Earth its seasons results in a twice - yearly shift in the zone of maximum radiation: northward from December to June and southward from June to December.

Andrew Marr: What's interesting — I mean, so, just to be absolutely clear for all those listening, um, of all those theories about the imminent end of the Earth, and the Earth's going to change on its axis and rotate in a different direction — there is no scientific evidence for any of this, as far as you're concerned, absolutely none.

Put a few more particles in motion on the axis, or a whole bunch more particles in motion on the axis (elastic particles) and call them «gas».

Set a particle in motion on the axis and calculate its Lagrangian from its initial state.

The distribution of land and sea, the size of mountain ranges and the spinning of the Earth on its axis in 24 hours are also important influences.

A more interesting thought experiment has a spherical planet heated by a remote star, rotating on an axis roughly normal to the line to the star, with an atmosphere of non-greenhouse gases.

Put a particle on the axis and set it in motion (either direction, it doesn't matter).

And the media will wonder off to new pastures and new disasters and new yellow journalism capers and the world will continue to turn on its axis and daylight and dark shall not cease and mankind will find yet another fable of highly dubious origin to frighten the c ** p out himself with all over again.

If you manage to parry successfully, the sphere will just pivot on its axis slightly, and present another front (argument).

Tom Koutsantonis reckons that the «idea that somehow when Hazelwood closes the world will stop spinning on its axis is ridiculous».

«The idea that somehow when Hazelwood closes the world will stop spinning on its axis is ridiculous,» he said.

It's the reason people like P.Vaughan NEVER put units on their axis of the graphs they show.

I accept that there are complex weather systems bubbling away at any given point over the earth's surface but, on a planetary scale as the earth rotates on its axis, I suggest these will essentially average out, at similar angular distances as from the sub-solar point, at decadal and centennial timeframes.

I'm sure this flattening is largely a direct result of the earth rotating on its axis.

If the earth wqas not rotating on its axis at 1000 mph at the equator it would not be oblate it would be more speherical.

This is not the only factor: the planet wobbles on its axis, and its tilt relative to the sun changes over a long cycle as well, and all these things affect climate.

Alignment was achieved based on the axis.

It's reporting polarization on the axis from «regulation needed» to «individual personal responsibility» — a split that's quite typical.

«The New Geometry» (2002 — 3) is a droll instructional PowerPoint presentation — watercolor and ink drawings have been digitized and overlaid with typeface and charts — that depicts the artist's discoveries, from the entirely rational (key cities in Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan also appear on the axis) to the uncannily absurd (when Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvius Man is centered on the axis, his Achilles heel touches New York).

He returned to Amsterdam, incorporated land - art based theories into his work and began to use photography as a «dialogue between nature and cool geometrical design by rotating the camera on its axis» with his «perspective corrections».

«We move on the axis of photo, sculpture, and architecture, and these two artists are amazing examples of how today, an image can end up as an object,» said gallery co-founder Barak Bar - Am, describing his program and the work by Greek artist Hadjidjanos and Swedish artist Strömberg at his Art Brussels booth.

Graduate of Chelsea School of Art and London University, Day Bowman is a painter whose work lies on the axis of figuration and abstraction.

Day Bowman is a painter whose work lies on the axis of figuration and abstraction.

Turning on an axis centered on its back wall the room slowly spins, tumbling its contents from floor to ceiling.

«Monumental in scale and imposingly sited on axis with the entrance to Central Park, Yinka Shonibare's Wind Sculpture (SG) I assumes the aspect of a classical civic monument....