Sentences with phrase «spin axis direction»

«This implies that the pulsar's spin axis direction is close to our line - of - sight direction and that the pulsar is moving nearly perpendicularly to its spin axis.»

Not exact matches

Asteroids that were spinning clockwise therefore all had their rotational axes slowly aligned in one direction, whereas those twirling counterclockwise tended to line up in another direction.

Choose some direction along which to align the magnets — say, the z - axis — and the spin of any electron will only ever be found to be up or down; no electron will ever be measured as three - quarters «up» along that direction.

One could choose to measure a particle's spin along any direction: the z - axis, the y - axis, or any angle in between.

If the black holes started out as paired stars, then they should spin in the same direction as their orbital axis.

In the Earth - moon system, Earth spins on its axis in the same direction that the moon travels in its orbit.

Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang, or the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to show that the universe is «isotropic,» or the same no matter which way you look: There is no spin axis or any other special direction in space.

Our axis of spin points, by chance, in its direction, causing Polaris to appear glued in place.

RHIC is the world's only polarized proton collider, capable of sending beams of protons around its 2.4 - mile - circumference racetrack with their internal magnetic axes (also known as spins) aligned in a chosen direction.

«When you collide an unpolarized proton beam (where the proton spins can be pointing in any direction) with a proton polarized transverse to its direction of travel (say, with its polarization axis facing up), there is a net deflection — an imbalance in the probability for a particle to go to the left versus to go to the right — just like when a ball hits a spinning fan,» said Dunlop.

«It produces the matter / antimatter asymmetry in the early universe and it aligns the direction of the spin and the charge axis in these pear - shaped nuclei.»

And as we redistribute the mass, the spin axis tends to find a new direction.

Losses of water from Eurasia, for example, correspond to eastward swing in the general direction of the spin axis (top), and Eurasian gains push the spin axis westward (bottom).

In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving.

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

If you can have a helper spin the bolt (ideally with an impact wrench) while you hold the nut with a wrench and pry on the tip of the bolt (toward the bolt axis in the direction to remove it), perhaps the area of intact threads will bite into the nut.

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.