The average effect of repeated and repeated mutual collisions must be to gradually convert all the translational energy into energy of shriller and shriller vibrations of the molecule.
Man himself can become a missile resulting in injuries (called translational injuries).
In the first case, ordinary mechanical or translational energy is spent as friction, an amount measurable in foot-pounds, and the factors we know, a pressure into a distance.
As the ether cannot be heated and cannot transform translational energy, it is without inertia for such a form of motion and its embodied energy.
Roughly, the Inertia or Mass of a body expresses its resistance to change of mere translational velocity, whereas, the Moment of Inertia of a body expresses its resistance to change of rotational velocity.
In the gaseous state, as we have seen, the translational motion of the molecules is relatively enormous, the molecules being widely separated.
Clausius has even estimated the relative importance of these two quantities, showing that the translational motion of a molecule of gas accounts for only three-fifths of its kinetic energy.
But it is clearly conceivable that a stage might be reached at which the molecules became absolutely quiescent, as regards either translational or vibratory motion.
The actual translational motion of the stars is termed proper motion, and has been calculated with more or less success in relation to many of the stars nearest to us.
Not only has each star a rotation on its axis, but it must also possess translational motion in an orbit, and that orbital motion must be due to exactly a similar cause as that which produces the orbital motion of the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "translational" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
