Sentences with phrase «spinning ice skater»
For example, a spinning ice skater spins slower with extended arms and faster when his arms are pulled in.
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Just as a spinning ice skater can spin very fast by pulling in her arms and legs tight about the center of her body, a star will spin faster when it brings its material closer to its center.
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This influenced Earth's rotation, akin to an ice skater jutting out her arms to spin slower, contributing toward a lengthening of the day by milliseconds over the past 2,500 years.
«Think of an ice skater who is spinning,» says Felix Landerer of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.
The idea that the jets and outflows came directly from the disk and served to rid it of angular momentum seemed as absurd as a spinning ice - skater letting go of his partner and having her shoot straight up into the air.
Like an ice skater bringing her arms inward to spin faster, that overall shift of mass is speeding up Earth's rotation, Morrison says.
«This makes the black hole spin faster — a bit like an ice skater doing a pirouette.»
Particles such as atoms and electrons possess spin, or the internal angular momentum that is analogous to a skater spinning on ice.
While other skaters clearly do the difficult jumps and spins in Harding's unique style, Robbie trained for six months with Kawahara to make her on - ice performance as effective as her off ice persona.