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Example sentences for "rotatory motion"

  • The game of bilboquet, or cup and ball, will show the influence of rotatory motion in steadying the rectilinear path of a spherical body, whence the theory of the rifle-gun may be deduced.

  • There were five different expedients proposed in the specification for producing a rotatory motion; but, of these five, two only were ever applied in practice.

  • The second method of producing a rotatory motion, which was subsequently continued for many years in practical operation, was that which was called the Sun-and-planet Wheels.

  • Rotatory motion, method of producing by sun and planet wheels, 187.

  • The reaction of the air on the issuing steam produces a rotatory motion in the jets, C C, attached to a centre but hollow axle.

  • It was this fact that induced Professor Jacobi, of St. Petersburg, after a large expenditure of money, to abandon arrangements of this kind, and to employ such as would at once produce a rotatory motion.

  • Clocquet, who states that the vibrations in [Page 60] this case were produced by a rotatory motion in the lumbar regions of the vertebral column.

  • The Anaxagorean Nous introduces order and symmetry into Nature, simply by stirring up rotatory motion in the inert mass, so as to release the Homoeomeries from prison.

  • It originates and maintains the great cosmical fact of rotatory motion; which variety of motion, from its perfect regularity and sameness, is declared by Plato also to be the one most consonant to Reason and Intelligence.

  • Rotatory motion, the capital fact of the Kosmos.

  • B the plan, the workman presses the wires, and turns them about with his forefinger, giving them such a rotatory motion as to make their points conical.

  • Hence, if the hollow shaft be so fixed that it will not turn, the perforated cylinder is capable of having a rotatory motion given to it round that shaft.

  • It may be vibratory motion as heat, or wave motion as light, or rotatory motion as electricity, but motion of some sort is inseparably connected with all matter.

  • While electricity, as we shall see later on, is also due to some form of rotatory motion.

  • It is a well-known law in physics, that when fluid matter collects towards, or meets in a centre, it establishes a rotatory motion.

  • This is putting a rotatory motion on a ball, causing it to spin on a horizontal axis forwards instead of backwards.

  • This is a rotatory motion put on a ball, making it spin on a perpendicular axis.

  • This is putting a rotatory motion on a ball, causing it to spin on a horizontal axis backwards.

  • It is, merely, an attempt to effect, by power and a rotatory motion, what is done by hand and a vibrating one.

  • I have insisted, often, on the propriety, mechanically speaking, of doing every thing by rotatory motion; and thus of avoiding oscillation wherever it is possible.


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