Sentences with phrase «oscillating system»

«Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable with each oscillation within an oscillating system.

It includes fully adjustable cast control and a sound S - curve oscillating system that makes it easier to reel in big catches.

That is to say, there is one unique sequence of states of X concentration (and a single definite sequence of states of Y concentration which is associated with the X sequence) which will be followed by the oscillating system.

Those pairs began to form two separate oscillating systems, analogous to a swinging pendulum or a vibrating weight on a spring.

Not exact matches

«The American political system,» he wrote in the spring of 1966, «seems to have fulfilled the intentions of its founders: it continuously oscillates between the ascendancy of the President and that of Congress and the judiciary.

These events, together with major floods in 2009, 2012 and 2014, suggest the entire Amazon system is oscillating.

Under a thermodynamic point of view, the application of the stability theory and classical statistical mechanics to the description of small systems under destabilizing external conditions reveals a constant generation of heat while the system oscillates between two structural configurations or thermodynamic phases.

In 2004, Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Centre for Health and the Global Environment, and James McCarthy of Harvard University, claimed: «We are already observing signs of instability within the climate system -LSB-...] there is no assurance that the rate of greenhouse gas build up will not force the system to oscillate erratically and yield significant and punishing surprises.»

The system comprises a small set of Min proteins whose distributions dynamically oscillate between the poles of the cell.

On page 314 of this issue, Tee et al. (3) report a Digital Tactile System («DiTact») based on a low - power flexible organic transistor circuit that transduces pressure stimuli into oscillating signals like those generated by skin mechanoreceptors.

Applying a brief voltage pulse to a control electrode allows the superconducting electron pairs to oscillate back and forth between the two locations, representing the one and zero of a digital system.

Basically, standing on an oscillating plate produces low - level vibrations that activate multiple systems in the body.

In the automotive world, Porsche made a patent application in 1959 for an Oscillating Camshaft system that would dynamically adjust lift and duration in differing engine conditions.

It is often the exact top or bottom that is showed in examples of these oscillating indicators by people who are trying to sell indicator - based trading systems.

The wall hanging works as an African grid system of mainly concentric oscillating openwork layered circles.

Operating at the intersection of film, animation, graphics, performance and sound, Amorales's work has oscillated between abstraction and figuration, reality and fantasy, with little constancy beyond the underlying notion of the «interface», or a system that connects graphic devices, often adding layers of metaphorical significance.

Merz's works on paper, with their oscillating, intersecting lines and dynamic compositions, also share affinities with futurist precedents but convey a nuanced movement that speaks to the body's internal rhythms, the pulse of arteries and nervous systems rather than the speed of technological progression.

Oscillating between loose gesture and systematic composition, each work establishes its own system of internal logic, striking a delicate balance between craft, chance, and personal sentiment (poetry?).

From the looks of the way the GCMs are set up, they appear to be formulated as autonomous systems, expected to spontaneously oscillate — which I think is not physically correct.

Rather, the ice core record shows clearly that changes in temperature precede changes in carbon dioxide throughout the glacial - interglacial cycle (Mudelsee, 2001), and that for the last half million years the climate system has oscillated in a self - limiting way between glacials and interglacials by about 6 deg.

Chaotic systems oscillate under constant forcing.

Dr. Soon: Earth's climate system dynamically oscillates between icehouse and hothouse conditions in geological time or, to a lesser degree, between the glacial and interglacial climates of the last 1 — 2 million years.

Then the answer on the mechanisms is given by the differential equations — to make a system, ANY system «oscillate» you just need an energy supply and one or several feedbacks.

Instead of seeking to discover the mean or medium point, around which oscillate, in apparent independence of forces, all the phenomena of the external world, this system delights in multiplying exceptions to the law, and seeks, amid phenomena and in organic forms, for something beyond the marvel of a regular succession, and an internal and progressive development.

The global climate system was reported to oscillate with a period of 65 - 70 years since 1850 (Schlesinger and Ramankutty 1994).

What basis would that have: We're pumping more energy (forcing) and water vapor (feedback) into a system that is already oscillating chaotically; as a result, oscillation amplitude and chaos are reduced?

So this system could oscillate, producing a slow cycle in Atlantic salinity and far - northern ice, even in warm - and - wet times like today.

Now, that's certainly true at equilibrium, or at least as a time - averaged equilibrium (as some have noted, equilibrium is a rare condition, most times systems oscillate around an equilibrium).

P.S. I should note that I don't mean the planet will literally die; merely jump to another stable state quite rapidly, which appears to be roughly +6 - 8 degrees (but won't immediately hit there, it could oscillate + / - 2 degrees) and lead to social + much ecological system collapse.

Japan pioneered wave energy in the 1970 / 80s, with a floating «Mighty Whale» Oscillating Water Column system and some harbour wall / breakwater OWCs, but did not follow it up, in part due to its economic crisis.

The entire history of Earth — especially the last several million years — indicates a system of remarkable stability, oscillating between 2 more or less fixed states regardless of wide variations in all known climate - influencing factors.

Being chaotic, the system will oscillate, as we see it do at all scales of interest, but there is literally no reason to believe that the net effect of these oscillations will be warming.

Modern research have further confirmed that: (1) the planetary orbital periods can be approximately deduced from a simple system of resonant frequencies; (2) the solar system oscillates with a specific set of gravitational frequencies, and many of them (e.g. within the range between 3 yr and 100 yr) can be approximately constructed as harmonics of a base period of ∼ 178.38 yr; (3) solar and climate records are also characterized by planetary harmonics from the monthly to the millennia time scales.

«The solar system oscillates with a 60 - year cycle due to the Jupiter / Saturn three - synodic cycle and to a Jupiter / Saturn beat tidal cycle»

To understand coral resilience in the face of the variety of onslaughts, coral reefs must be seen as dynamic systems that oscillate over decadal periods, as well as centuries and millennia.

These seem more clearly associated with the Pacific state than the AMO — but the indices are merely chaotically oscillating nodes on an underlying global system.

In 2004, Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Centre for Health and the Global Environment, and James McCarthy of Harvard University, claimed: «We are already observing signs of instability within the climate system -LSB-...] there is no assurance that the rate of greenhouse gas build up will not force the system to oscillate erratically and yield significant and punishing surprises.»

One difficulty of climate scientists in accepting the hypothesis is because they do not understand why the system should oscillate in the first place.

With that long preamble, regarding «step functions», is it really that exotic to suggest that climate system might have metastable states that it oscillates about?

Regarding «step functions», is it really that exotic to suggest that climate system might have metastable states that it oscillates about?

The system consists of a simple steel Oscillating Wave Surge Converter, or pump, fitted with double acting water pistons, deployed near - shore in depths around 10 - 12m.

However, there are already some clear winners more or less fully developed, like the UK's Pelamis wave snake, the near shore Oyster hinged wave flap and Wavegens oscillating water column (OWC) system.