noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
escape velocity
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angular
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When considering circular motion it is often easier to work in terms of the angular velocity rather than ordinary linear velocity.
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The Lift's wide, so the angular velocity is higher on the outside.
constant
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The 109 V8 has constant velocity joints within its hubs.
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Our model requires two sites of learning so that constant head velocity can generate constant eye velocity.
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According to an experiment carried out in 1897, light always travels at the same constant velocity .
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The mass column density along a line-of-sight for a constant outflow at velocity v is therefore.
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Reciprocal motion Reciprocal motion, positive and negative at constant mean velocity , is unnerving, mechanistic and inhuman.
different
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Notice that one frame in free fall can have a very different velocity and acceleration from another such frame.
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How is it that observers moving with different uniform velocities can be equivalent with respect to Minkowskian geometry?
high
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The true velocities may be higher than the velocities measured in projection.
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There were early experiments, some of them successful, in which objects moving at high velocity were arrested by the camera.
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The smaller the proportion, the lower the demand and obviously the higher is velocity .
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He was in no hurry, and it was dangerous to move at a high velocity so near the ship.
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Very high velocities have been observed in the movement of spray rising from impacts of this type.
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This could be a direct consequence of the high internal velocity dispersion in the molecular clouds.
low
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What ever the bone type, however, Dodson found that very low water velocities were sufficient to move small mammal bones.
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Throughout the campaign troops have been issued with various flak jackets which give a degree of protection against low velocity rounds.
maximum
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A maximum velocity at the equator reduces to a theoretical nil at the poles.
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The maximum possible impact velocity for a solar system body striking Earth is a little more complicated to calculate.
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The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.
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Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script.
mean
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The mean velocity also varies vertically, and we shall confine attention to two-dimensional flow.
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Firstly, the mean velocity profile may be liable to local instability, somewhat analogous to instability of laminar flow.
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The turbulence is being kept going by the working of this against the mean velocity gradient.
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The Figure shows the mean height velocity during each year according to severity of gastrointestinal symptoms.
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No differences in mean linear growth velocities were found between males and females or among patients stratified by anatomical localisation of disease.
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Reciprocal motion Reciprocal motion, positive and negative at constant mean velocity , is unnerving, mechanistic and inhuman.
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In most turbulent flows, for example, only the mean velocity can be measured with a Pitot tube.
relative
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That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds.
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Their impact energy per gram increases with the square of their relative velocity .
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When this Doppler shift is converted to relative velocity it turns out that the velocity varies sinusoidally with time.
■ NOUN
escape
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As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.
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Some of the gases from the explosion and fireball may reach escape velocity .
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This critical speed is called the escape velocity .
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A significant fraction of their water content can emerge from the explosion at a speed below the escape velocity of Mercury.
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As the radius of the star is reduced the escape velocity increases until eventually it reaches the velocity of light.
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In fact, it is traveling well above escape velocity .
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Jupiter is a very massive planet, and its escape velocity is correspondingly high.
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Even modest-sized impactors can blast atmospheric gases off of Mars at speeds above escape velocity .
fluctuations
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The investigation of the flow past obstacles or of boundary layers requires a uniform flow with minimal velocity fluctuations .
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At large r the velocity fluctuations become independent of one another and R asymptotically approaches 0.
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Figure 21.4 shows oscillograms of the velocity fluctuations at different distances from the centre line of a wake.
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Figure 24.9 shows vertical velocity fluctuations in a different Bénard experiment.
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In principle, of course, correlations involving the pressure fluctuations as well as the velocity fluctuations may be formulated.
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The flow outside the interface, although called non-turbulent, does involve velocity fluctuations .
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This term represents the action of the velocity fluctuations on the mean flow arising from the non-linearity of the Navier-Stokes equation.
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However, these velocity fluctuations are entirely irrotational and are dynamically quite different from turbulent fluctuations.
profile
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The final technique for producing a velocity profile involves a voltage.controlled oscillator with the controlling voltage generated by an analogue circuit.
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Firstly, the mean velocity profile may be liable to local instability, somewhat analogous to instability of laminar flow.
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These changes arise from changes in the laminar velocity profile .
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It is likely that these coherent structures originate through an intermittent instability of the velocity profile .
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The look.up table entries can be calculated, using the methods described in Section 6.3 to determine the optimum velocity profile .
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Figure 21.26 shows velocity profiles at two distances downstream from the start of the heated section.
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Simultaneously, they interact with the mean flow, so that the velocity profile also has three-dimensional variations.
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Derive the velocity profile for optimum acceleration of this system.
wave
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Calculations of frequency and wave velocity of motility could be derived directly from the screen.
■ VERB
determine
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In consequence the use of sedimentation columns or tubes to determine the fall velocities of sediment particles has become very popular.
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The look.up table entries can be calculated, using the methods described in Section 6.3 to determine the optimum velocity profile.
give
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Maintaining a given velocity round a curve requires acceleration towards the centre of curvature.
increase
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A spacecraft at point A carries out a burn that increases its horizontal velocity .
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In the Jupiter fly-by, the ship had used the gravitational field of the planet to increase her velocity .
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This is exactly the case of NBFIs increasing velocity that we discussed above.
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The subsequent path it takes will depend on whether the A V increased or decreased the velocity .
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The wind had increased in velocity and was now a low, angry howl.
measure
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The more precisely you measure the position of a particle, the less precisely you can measure its velocity , and viceversa.
move
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There were early experiments, some of them successful, in which objects moving at high velocity were arrested by the camera.
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He was in no hurry, and it was dangerous to move at a high velocity so near the ship.
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How is it that observers moving with different uniform velocities can be equivalent with respect to Minkowskian geometry?
reach
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As the radius of the star is reduced the escape velocity increases until eventually it reaches the velocity of light.
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Some of the gases from the explosion and fireball may reach escape velocity .
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As the sun shrinks it rotates faster, and flings off its outer, much cooler shell when it reaches escape velocity .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a beam of high velocity electrons
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an experiment to try to predict the velocity of a moving object
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the velocity of electrons
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This instrument is used for measuring wind velocity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Figure 21.4 shows oscillograms of the velocity fluctuations at different distances from the centre line of a wake.
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In addition, there is no difference in velocity between movements which are long and those which are short.
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Jupiter is a very massive planet, and its escape velocity is correspondingly high.
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Momentum is mass times velocity , so both factors influence the size of centripetal force.
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The pressure of the expanding gas gets converted to velocity .
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This latter emission is a well-known indicator of shock activity for shock velocities of up to several hundred kilometres a second.