Nature, Volume 95Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1915 - Electronic journals |
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... direction in which the wheel is spinning is shown by the arrow on the upper side . I now carry the tray round in azimuth in the direction of spin nothing happens ; the gyrostat spins on 8 Abridged from the Sixth Kelvin Lecture ...
... direction in which the wheel is spinning is shown by the arrow on the upper side . I now carry the tray round in azimuth in the direction of spin nothing happens ; the gyrostat spins on 8 Abridged from the Sixth Kelvin Lecture ...
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... direction at 45 ° to the warp and woof , this web is equally stretchable in all directions . If the web is strained slightly by a small change of each flexible square into a rhombus , or into a not - square rectangle , the areas are to ...
... direction at 45 ° to the warp and woof , this web is equally stretchable in all directions . If the web is strained slightly by a small change of each flexible square into a rhombus , or into a not - square rectangle , the areas are to ...
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... direction I please , and , when I turn the supporting stand round , a friction couple of some little magnitude is applied to the vertical rod . You see that I do not alter the direction of the spin - axis perceptibly . Yet the friction ...
... direction I please , and , when I turn the supporting stand round , a friction couple of some little magnitude is applied to the vertical rod . You see that I do not alter the direction of the spin - axis perceptibly . Yet the friction ...
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... direction . The rotation of the earth about the vertical carries the north end of the axis round towards the west , and therefore angular momentum is being produced about a horizontal axis drawn westward , at a rate equal to Cno sin l ...
... direction . The rotation of the earth about the vertical carries the north end of the axis round towards the west , and therefore angular momentum is being produced about a horizontal axis drawn westward , at a rate equal to Cno sin l ...
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... direction shows considerable originality ; the maps are generally clear , though sometimes injudiciously reduced , and occasionally rather severely generalised . The descriptive and explanatory writing could not well be clearer , and ...
... direction shows considerable originality ; the maps are generally clear , though sometimes injudiciously reduced , and occasionally rather severely generalised . The descriptive and explanatory writing could not well be clearer , and ...
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