Sentences with word «pendulum»

The author makes the case for incremental change instead of pendulum swings in education reform.

The title of the show, Rise and Fall, is also a reference to how this term is used to describe the rhythm and swinging pendulum of power and social movements throughout history.

Some of the locales are original compared to the Castlevania games that were out at the time, like the foggy London streets in the opening stage, or the wax museum that serves as a haunted house, but by the time you climb the chapel and jump on swinging pendulums in the clock tower, it's clear some folks at SIMS, the developer, desperately wanted to be working for Konami instead.

Here in the real 2001, we're still very much dealing with our own emotions, which still tend to pendulum back and forth to extremes: we embrace and destroy with equal passion.

Each «island» is a set of quantum states for particles at the same point in space but with opposite momentums, like pendulums swinging in different directions.

Are we shifting past a point of a reasonable pendulum on this issue?

Science, for the most part, studies objects such as pendulums, steel balls on inclined planes, planets and stars.

The crisp - shifting 6 - speed manual transmission on 340i models is equipped with a dual - mass flywheel with centrifugal pendulum absorbers.

Three round amethyst swing like pendulums from the sterling silver chain for a unique and sophisticated look.

This synchronization phenomenon is also evident in pendulum clocks placed near each other, and even in the flashing of fireflies.

They forage with heavylumbering movements, plowing through the drifts with pendulum swings of theirmassive heads.

Investors swing like pendulum between fear and greed, and between euphoria and depression, and between disbelief and skepticism.

Maruti says that by using pendulum engine mount system along with acoustic insulation and absorption materials around the cabin and engine compartment, NVH levels are low in the Vitara Brezza.

Another challenge saw pendulums hung from interior rearview mirrors as we lapped the track, their gyrations or lack thereof a real - time visual exposer of how smooth our inputs were or were not.

In aggressive driving, 335i drivers might notice the hybrid's additional mass in the rear — the ActiveHybrid 3's lithium - ion battery resides behind the rear axle, and the weight makes itself known in the form of a vintage Porsche 911 - like pendulum effect if you turn in very quickly.

However, that only works when the political pendulum swings back quickly.

Taking lessons from the last generation of EfficientDynamics editions at BMW, the X1's manual gearbox uses a centrifugal pendulum absorber in its dual - mass flywheel, which smooths out vibrations and lets the car cruise at exceptionally low engine speeds without discomfort.

The 352 page long «Gears of War Pendulum Wars The Battle of Aspho Fields» is written by Steven L. Kent and will be released by sci - fi and fantasy publisher Del Rey — the publisher of both Mass Effect novels — in August» 08.

That \'s why you need to create a whole strategy of climbing the heights without crashing into moving pendulums and beams.

It is paired with the Hydra - Matic 6L50 six - speed automatic transmission, which uses a unique Centrifugal Pendulum Vibration Absorber in the torque converter to reduce powertrain noise and vibration.

As with many ideas in education, there have been big pendulum shifts over the decades.

IDC's outlook is that detachables will continue to far outpace convertibles in shipments, but the market pendulum seems to be swinging back in favor of convertibles if ever so slightly.

When a double pendulum moves chaotically, its arms swing in a way that is almost impossible to predict, with seemingly no pattern whatsoever.

You don't want to put a 30 pound pendulum at the end of your handlebars.

In Meyer's lab two long pendulums hang side by side from the ceiling, nine inches apart.

A double turbine torsional damper with centrifugal pendulum which adapts to engine speed helps to minimise vibrations in four - cylinder operation and enhances the impression of comfort experienced by the vehicle occupants.

The illness can't be swept under the rug by pendulum analogies.

I find that when I'm discontent, and then pendulum swing the other direction («so fine, I'll just live with an empty house») that's not any different at the heart level than active coveting.

Sawyer spent his share of time in an Ergo while Heather was awake and in an electric pendulum made by Fisher Price when she was asleep.

Always warm up by doing stretches and pendulum movements before you start the heavy shoulder routines.

The swaying pendulums multiply the sound as each circuit is turned on and off by the magnetism that one might mistake for a current of air drifting through the gallery.

As the market pendulum swings back today and sales are more robust, we need to increase market share and transaction volume, and focus on recruiting efforts.

It's a funny thing about pendulums.

Meet... MiP (Mobile Inverted Pendulum), the latest innovation by WowWee in association with the University of California at San Diego Coordinated -LSB-...]

The exact periods of your longer and shorter pendulums may be slightly less than 1.7 seconds and 1.2 seconds, respectively, because of friction and because their lengths were less than 70 cm and 35 cm (due to strings being used to tie to attachments).

The first exercise is the simple pendulum.

An rpm - adaptive torsion damper (RTD) with a centrifugal force pendulum compensates for undesirable vibrations in the engine.

The buy low, sell high theory also has a physics counterpart, and it's called the «pendulum theory».

So that's me sorted, then, at least before a dance game manages to cater to my weirdly specific Priestess, Dropkick Murphys and Pendulum needs.

The aim of pendulum exercises is to increase mobility in the shoulder joint.

Just as in general elections, as the electoral pendulum swings so do the fortunes of councillors and would be councillors.

It will tell you if you'll be staying near a slice of Charles Babbage «s brain (London), a visible 660 - tonne stabilising pendulum suspended from the upper floors of a skyscraper (Taipei, Taiwan), the best place to buy a robotic toilet seat (Tokyo, Japan), or any of the 125 other places of scientific or technological wonder it features.

In education we have a tendency to ride pendulums from one extreme standpoint to the opposite resulting in increased workloads & diminished wellbeing for teaching staff and leadership when instead we need a degree of moderation and to find the mid-ground.

I think if we don't stop the fraudsters, there is a serious risk [of a] regulatory pendulum — the regulatory actions will be so severe that they will restrict the capacity of this new security.

From that moment on, weight - driven pendulum clocks struck the hour at the same intervals, whether in winter or summer, spring or fall, day or night.

We'll take a 2000 pound pendulum bob, draw it back, and each stand somewhere in a straight line from its swinging path.